Strong enough to start an engine, mang.
So yeah hurricane Helene has pretty much rampaged several states, most notably North Carolina. Unsurprisingly the FEMA response has been abysmal as per usual. The right is saying democrats spent all the disaster funds on importing undocumented folks into the states... presumably to allow these people to illegally vote democrat? That's a narrative that I hear a lot over there on crypto twitter amongst the religious-right and libertarians.
And now reports of the hurricane have gotten even more spicy with conspiracy theorists moving in and claiming that this horrific event is actually a black-flag attack on the American people. While the hurricane itself may have been natural, these people are claiming that the clouds were seeded with chemicals to intensify the storm while also being able to somewhat direct where it would go.
This 'crazy' narrative is easy for some people to believe for a couple of different reasons:
Many still think that climate change is a complete hoax fabricated by the left to increase carbon taxes, impose regulations, and seize control in various other ways. With this 'fact' in mind there must be another reason for this type of environmental escalation. Back in olden days the reason would be due to "God working in mysterious ways" but humans have become so powerful since then that we can simply blame the most powerful among us now.
The FEMA response has been so abysmal that people need a reason for why they are so purposefully incompetent to the point of preventing citizens from helping in the rescue effort. The reason is that there is a financial incentive to purposefully cause this suffering.
Apparently there is a huge lithium and quartz deposit and conspiracy theorists are claiming the government will claim imminent domain to start mining these resources for sustainable energy or whatever. It's being pointed out that the primary owners of these deposits are Blackrock and other institutions considered to be objectively evil.
With billions of dollars going to foreign nations in the form of "defense" contracts many are framing the situation as USA having infinite resources to go to other countries but only $750 for Americans that just lost everything. On top of this entire towns have been lost and are being bulldozed, with apparently no one caring about collecting all the corpses and giving them proper burials.
My timeline yesterday was just filled with outrage.
This is one of the less unhinged more reasonable explanations of why FEMA responses are such dogshit and the people in charge refuse to collaborate with local communities. Bureaucrats don't care about results; they care about procedure and doing things by the book so that all those tax dollars flow into the "correct" areas.
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This was the main event that sparked the most outrage.
A helicopter piolet was told to abandon his own son on the mountain after rescuing one person. He had plans to rescue everyone but had to do it one at a time due to weight concerns. The fire marshal in charge, Chris Melton, threatened him with imprisonment if he didn't leave the area immediately. The next day these private helo pilots were begged to come back and help with rescue operations. The blowback from this blowhard has been nothing short of visceral.
More reports are making claims that the government is constantly trying to steal the resources from private citizens trying to help. Whether this action is justified or not remains to be seen, but I'm guessing not.
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Onto the conspiracy posts
Do I think it's worth seeding a hurricane because of a $90M contract?
No, no I do not.
This is reaching but still interesting and worth following up on next year.
After all when conspiracy theories like this are real they tend to get confirmed over time.
BLUE BALLS!
Blue jelly balls raining from the sky is some pretty weird shit.
Was this hurricane seeded and manipulated with artificial chemicals that don't biodegrade?
¯\(ツ)/¯
Here's one showing a corkscrew spiral energy pattern being pumped into the center of the storm.
Can this be believed?
Ah well it is the Internet after all.
There are no good sources of information; least of all "experts".
Yeah I'm not like a hurricane expert or anything but this one looks extremely weird compared to all the others I've seen. Again, much easier to believe when climate volatility isn't real.
I have no idea wtf this is.
Manipulating the path with frequency repellant?
Yeah I'll have to look into that more one of these days I guess.
Conclusion
Well if election season in a battleground state wasn't crazy enough this hurricane is becoming a real wildcard. The current administration looks absolutely incompetent once again, not that I think the other team would handle things any better. Nothing stops this train. Imperialism will continue unabated.
Is there a legitimate conspiracy here? Personally I don't think the stakes are high enough to justify wiping out a couple states for some lithium right before an election, but who knows. It should be obvious that not every natural disaster is a man-made event, but it seems like every natural disaster for the past few years has been labeled as such by conspiracy theorists. Then again they only have to be right one out of ten times to have an unacceptably high win-rate.
Stay safe out there.
They way politics is always done with human lives as bait is always disgusting. Why would the government stop citizen to citizen help at such emergent times. You know sometimes you just read the news and hope it's not true because this is humanly unexplainable.
I think you're right, it's about power and the chain of command and bureaucracy. They need permission.
They'd rather have a bunch of incompetents with the proper paperwork than one Batman.
I do think the criticism for the money sent to other countries for bombs and bullets when they can't properly help at home is valid though. But I'm sure they can find some money to help at home if they funnel it through defense contractors.
We shouldn't be isolationists but we should help the American people.
It's extremely disturbing how they're handling the chemical fire with chlorine gas.
There's something strangely symmetrical and also ironic about a society that's allegedly founded on the idea of freedom and a sort of "cultural DNA" that seems to make everyone believe that "someone/something is out to GET them."
We should probably toss a little narcissism in there, too... in the sense that so many basically invisible people believe they are actually important enough that anyone cares to be watching them.
You know Obama is responsible for global warming, right?
=^..^=
I chalk it up to mental illness.
The government is so corrupt they are literally making people crazy.
And it's obviously getting worse.
We can see it in real time.
Like I said before: there are no trusted sources of information anymore.
So everyone just has to pick a lane and extrapolate from there.
I would not be surprised to find out that every source of information is wrong in some way.
Purposefully or by accident.
The most annoying thing about all of this is that the ones who blindly trust the government no matter what are the most wrong with the most severe case of the mental illness out of everyone while oozing a disgusting amount superiority complex while they lick boots and employ zero critical thinking ability. Yeah, the government might get accused of a bunch of shit they didn't ever do, but the reason they are being accused in the first place is pretty fucking solid. Clown World is cooked; burnt to a crisp.
Oddly, the people making this claim seem to be mostly MAGA types whose members of Congress voted against funding FEMA. Go figure.
shocking lol
same as when they say mass shooting are a mental health issue
so what are you doing about mental health then? Oh right, nothing.
At this point we would be grateful if FEMA just went back to the hell from which they came rather than getting in the way of people who have been doing the real work. Samaritan's Purse, Baptists on Mission, Cajun Navy, etc. When the chips are down, it's the rednecks and church ladies who show up with chainsaws and rafts and diapers and food. Not a socialist in an electric car.
The FEMA website:
Also the FEMA website:
Seriously no matter how you slice it they are incompetent and siphoning tax dollars away to the war machine and making sure the current party gets reelected.
The SSP is funded separately and was approved by the Republican House. Pretty hard to assume that helping Democrats get reelected was part of their plan.
Funded separately with the exact same tax dollars/debt that fund everything?
That's a stretch; nobody cares.
The entire government is a slush fund.
They do not raise the debt cap separately; it's all the same.
People in power use their power to stay in power.
It's not up for debate.
There are plenty of turncoat RINOs in the House that constantly flip democrat.
Government is not a trustworthy source of information.
That is a fact.
Every agency that has ever investigated themselves has concluded they did no wrongdoing.
It does not matter who wins the election.
You think it matters.
It does not matter.
Nothing stops this train.
I'm so glad I don't spend time on twitter anymore! I need to keep all the remaining brain cells I have!
Are you not entertained? 😁
Haha, I can't handle some of this stuff anymore!
I was born in Belize City in 1961, five weeks later Hurricane Hattie hit a category five monster, over one thousand dead in Belize City, I passed that hurricane in a dresser drawer, safest place around. In 1974 I was living in Utila a small island off the coast of Honduras, hurricane Fifi hit, category two, killed over ten thousand people. 1998 Mitch hit Honduras, category five monster, destroyed half the country, at least twenty thousand dead.2020, ETA hit us, category four another monster flooded the whole north coast, I have no idea how many died, a week later Iota hit, another category four, worse flooding, again I don't know how many died, but we were sure thrown from quite poor to very poor as a country. The one thing on my mind is a few cows on the porch of a two story building, bet they were glad they got there. Now the question is, were these hurricanes seeded and sent to get us? I feel like they are out to get me. I just have to know who they is. No, hurricanes are natural phenomena, and shit does happen.
There are some crazy conspiracy theories out there, but in clown world, anything is possible.
i have become rather careful with the readily presented "conspiracy theory" narratives. they seldom go far enough.
as the dude probably never said - if he even existed for real:
"the best way to lead the opposition is to create it ourselves." lenin
the wuhan lab story is the mainstream narrative of the counter culture. why? because it keeps alive certain myths that are needed to keep the mind prison intact.
noone knows what's up on earth.