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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (306065)	10/11/2024 4:48:47 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 354798

What we’re witnessing online during and in the aftermath of these hurricanes is a group of people desperate to protect the dark, fictitious world they’ve built. Rather than deal with the realities of a warming planet hurling once-in-a-generation storms at them every few weeks, they’d rather malign and threaten meteorologists, who, in their minds, are “nothing but a trained subversive liar programmed to spew stupid shit to support the global warming bullshit,” as one X user put it. It is a strategy designed to silence voices of reason, because those voices threaten to expose the cracks in their current worldview. But their efforts are doomed, futile. As one dispirited meteorologist wrote on X this week, “Murdering meteorologists won’t stop hurricanes.” She followed with: “I can’t believe I just had to type that.” The one thing about climate change that is clear, is that if it exists at all, there is simply no clear proof of it, and that there is no proof of any immediate threat from it. Hurricanes have always happened, sometimes big, sometimes small. Just like 20 years ago when one hit New Orleans and did lots of damage, and one followed a short time later and did lots of damage on the Gulf coast. It is the nature of randomness. These two happened to be close together and big. We are in less danger today than we were 50 years ago, because of advancing technology. It is important to be cautious about what is true versus what is deemed to be true by partisans who don't know much but how to entertain.

To: Lane3 who wrote (306065)	10/12/2024 9:45:50 AM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 354798

There has always been a thread of cult behavior running through the warp and weft of American society. While Australia was settled by petty criminals, the American colonies were settled by extreme entrepreneurs and fringe cultists. Petty criminality is often because of circumstances and changes with them, fringe cultists are just crazy and is often the gift that keeps on giving across generations. I won't argue over where the extreme entrepreneurship weighs in on that spectrum. Periodically, mass psychosis breaks out and the crazies grab the wheel for a while. People with agendas and not the slightest shreds of ethics, use the psychoses to enrich themselves and increase their power. When the general population gets sick of the violence and insanity, they get driven back to the margins and the cycle starts over again. Often there is a strong, fundamentalist religious element. Like during the first and latest Great Awakening(s). But not always, the Red Scare come to mind. Regardless, mindless violence, scapegoating and other ways to destroy and upend innocent lives are exploited with vigor. With mass amnesia following and the eventual whitewashing of what exactly happened. It really isn't that interesting of a story. Not only is the plot predictable and the resolutions unoriginal, the characters are two dimensional cutouts with unrelatable motivations. A negative rating on the Freshness Meter.