Storms Helene and Milton have triggered rise of misinformation stoked by Trump and fellow Republicans
        • actually@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          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

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
      16·
      2 months ago

      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…

  • Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    35·
    2 months ago

    It sure does show the state of things.

    Then again I was stuck in a decent amount of traffic today and the sheer amount of people who attempt to “beat the system” of driving in an orderly manner is also insanely high.

    I’d love to think that we’re better than this as a society, but the reality of the situation is that we’re one or two small steps from pure anarchy and it really wouldn’t take all that much to get there from where we are.

      • perestroika@slrpnk.net
        8·
        2 months ago

        Also relevant: “Always shoot the messenger first.” :)

        If news unsettles a person, and there’s a cognitive dissonance upon processing their world model (“everything OK with climate”) and sensory input (“another big freaking hurricane”) then if the person isn’t a model of rational thought and already has a fad for conspiracies…

        …one might find it easier to add another conspiracy theory to one’s collection, as opposed to harder steps like refreshing one’s model of how the world functions. :o

  • Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 months ago

    In his official statement, president Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho said “The people are right to not trust a science they can’t pronounce”

        • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.vgEnglish
          5·
          2 months ago

          I wish food labels came with the full binomial nomenclature including the variety and subspecies.

          Here’s your sandwich:

          • Triticum aestivum L. ssp aestivum
          • Lactuca sativa L. var. crispa
          • Solanum lycopersicum L. var. esculentum
          • Glycine max (L.) Merr.
          • Piper nigrum L.
  • SoylentBlake@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    It’s a fallacy that law enforcement needs 30 secs of someone on the line to trace a call. Any call can be traced, almost immediately. I doubt the largest cell providers even require a warrant . we know for a fact that Amazon hands over video from ring cameras with or without owners permission. I bet if someone were inclined to try, they could probably call up Amazon, say they’re a cop and just “here you go, hero”. Smh. Regardless, it’s not like there are judges that effectively give autographed rubber stamps to the police chiefs, right?

    Every death threat that isn’t followed up upon is a choice made by LE. They allow this to continue. It could be shut down, right fucking now, if they would just do their fucking jobs and not leverage domestic terrorism because it benefits them.

    • Che Banana@beehaw.org
      4·
      2 months ago

      This sounds like a tin foil hat conspiracy but not.

      Schrodinger’s Law Enforcement.

      TBF it does take a hot minute to get an investigation going/done and this article has been circulating all weekend (very click baity and viralesque) so there hasn’t been and follow up articles posted yet…so we’ll see.