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‘It’s mindblowing’: US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2024
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This is a just a preview of what is coming when trump loses.
Possibly also what's coming if Trump wins.
No, only if he loses.
If he wins, America is done.
Which America? It’s a huge country, only parts would be done , only some groups would be persecuted, and the background death rate would only go up by 2 or 3 times elsewhere due to collapse of services and medicine. People as a whole would get poorer, but many are already poor
Vast amounts of people will never notice
And what if he wins? NOAA is fucking gone, given away to corporations.
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Already sorta sold, some records aren't public because of some agreement with a private companies proprietary code.
Like weather records?
As I understand it yes, there were a couple articles about it maybe a month ago.
What jerks. I suspected something was up but I thought it was just govt being cheap with memory. Turns out nope it's corps.
Oh I am very, very much betting on Jan 6th Round 2: Electric Boogaloo.
I will honestly be fucking amazed if there are not widespread conspiracy insanity and terrorism if Trump loses.
We've already got democratic political offices being shot up in drive bys, fucktons of open attempts at taking over election boards and changing all the rules last minute to intentionally sow chaos, militias saying they are out hunting FEMA responders, mass bomb threats called in based on made up stories about Haitians eating cats...