• andyburke
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      104 months ago

      Do your neighbors? I am genuinely curious how things like this that seem so often to so negatively affect their constituents continue to be the GOP platform.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        A lot of this stuff is so awful that if you tell people about it, they don’t believe it because nobody could be that evil

        • @[email protected]
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          84 months ago

          “It’s really the Democrats that want to do that! You know how I know? Because the media says Republicans are doing that!”

        • Billiam
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          They don’t believe it because they’re goddamned morons.

          These asshats have no fucking clue what good a government for the people has done. They take roads, electricity, water, mail, weather predictions, communications, etc. for granted. There are no libertarians when the road right outside your house is privatized and the owner doesn’t want you to use it.

    • Riskable
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      94 months ago

      All ya need to track a hurricane is a sharpie!

      Trump used a sharpie on a printed hurricane prediction map to pretend like he knew what he was talking about

    • memfree
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      Tell people 2025 would do this. No federal weather means local counties would have to pay Big Business for tornado/hurricane warnings. We’d pay more for fish because fishermen can’t get data unless they pay. Plane schedules become even less reliable AND cost more because the government stops tracking upper level wind speeds.

      Look: we want people who get a salary for doing accurate work rather than people who get paid to say whatever the bossman want to hear. Ask people to imagine how it would work if Google, NBC, Amazon, and Fox each sunk the money for trying to replicate the existing infrastructure and then sold pieces of it to paying customers – such as Allstate, CBS, and Delta Airlines. Everyone else would have to HOPE they were getting complete data and have to wonder what was missing. Noticing record highs and lows would become proprietary and forbidden from broadcast in a way akin to being disallowed from referencing “The Superbowl” unless you pay for a license. How’s any of that going to make things better?

      P.S. This article is posted to several communities, so I’m reiterating this post repeatedly.