Weird context to see Geoff Thew.
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Meanwhile he's paying a literal Nazi monthly for a blue checkmark on his fascist platform...
Nah, the actual problem is all the wind mills and solar panels. They're screwing up the weather!!!
(I seriously had a chud tell me this.)
I was waiting to be seated at a restaurant Friday when I overheard the same sentiment but then took a hard right turn....
"It never used to be like this" 'i know' "All the liberals stopped the logging in Canada and now look at them burn and here we are dealing with it."
When the point is barreling straight for their nose and somehow misses them
The most important thing to them is their pride. They will literally prefer the world to be burnt down then give that up.
Its just propaganda. The most effective of which seems to be false explanations and distraction conspiracies. Anything but allow people to see whats going on and who's doing it.
Has anyone heard someone blame Canada as if the nation of Canada was personally attacking them?
Had a relative do that yesterday and it was a reminder in a moment that should have been a low stress, loving moment with family a rage inducing reminder that we're fucked.
I grew up in Northern MI. 1989-2011. I do not recall any summer of wildfires smoke coming across the lake.
A dumbass on dumbass-platform X calls another dumbass "dumbass". What a dumbass.
it's those guddam lazy Canajians refusing to rake those leaves!
Tariffs will fix this!
Wildfires hitting a specific area is also just rare. I grew up in a wildfire-prone area and we only got significant smoke once. So not remembering any doesn't really say anything meaningful necessarily.
We're in the 'FIND OUT' phase of what happens when you clear cut an entire continent and replant our forests on a massive scale while thinking that 'oh all that sequestered carbon will just be recaptured in the new trees we plant'. No - whats happening instead is - the trees we mass replanted don't capture that carbon back at a rate we expect - I am pretty sure the forestry industry knows this - but hey profits right?
Also I reckon if we have retained our old growth forests, it wouldn't be this bad. It would still be bad, but at least our forests would be more resilient. As for those that have no idea what a old growth forest is - think massive trees that are wider than 2 cars at the base and that are over a thousand years old each at minimum. Go visit one when you have a chance - they are increasingly rare because governments are still fucking allowing logging companies to cut them down. Also, you'll find they're a lot more humid than young forests (~200 year old ones). It's a travesty. In BC, for example, 97% of the province have been clear-cutted and our forestry industry likes to tout themselves as 'sustainable'. It's bullshit. What's even crazier is that we got barely any industry other than shipping out raw lumber for processing elsewhere while we lose jobs and taxes on value added industries.
People spent decades preventing wildfires. Fires are a natural part of ecological systems. Overgrowth and a build up of litter cause more intense fires and increase their ability to spread. In northern regions, people were also preventing beavers from doing their thing that helps reduce wildfire spread. At least in Florida we pioneered controlled burns to simulate nature and save lives.
Lmao Florida didn’t pioneer controlled burns
Australian Aboriginals have been doing it for centuries. Their methods are still used here by the state fire departments.
Edit: sorry, millenniums.
You have no idea what you are talking about, the forest in Ontario is bigger than Texas.
I don't know what you are talking about. I was just saying interesting things about ecosystems. Do you have questions?
I don't think many Americans understand how much of the Country is forests. In Quebec everything past the river plains north of A40 or 138 is forests.
Controlled burns in North America predate Florida.
Here's Ontario's page on it:
She is an anchor for a Michigan news channel, their legal page has a donate ad for reelecting trimp. https://www.michigannewssource.com/legal/

Vote for Trimp!
You have misspelled trumo
I can't see that ad?
You left out the part at the bottom that says they are unbiased. Which is rich when the re-elect trump ad is to the right.
Super tangent time!
The wild fire smoke filled the plant I work at until Friday night. They did not offer any sort of face coverings. One of the guys found a stash of N95’s that the guys at the paint booth used, so we had at least something.
I went to the hardware store the next day and got some 3M Aura 9205+ N95 masks. I work 8-12 hours on the shop floor, and wanted to have at least something that might help. Bought a 20 pack, offered them to everyone in my department. A couple people took some, but no one wore them. I wanted to make sure that the team at least had the opportunity to wear PPE. The smoke in the plant was way worse than it was outside.
They looked at me as if I were some paranoid nut. My lungs felt fine all night. I took the mask off a couple of times to have some water, and it was crazy how bad it smelled in the plant. With the mask on, it was just another Thursday night.
Fuckin’ libtards though, right? Got ‘em! Whatev, I felt quite comfortable knowing I did at least something to protect myself.
I don't remember all these heat waves either but I do remember climate scientists saying we would have them.
Nothing like a solid roast from Geoff Thew, "professional shitbag" (his words, not mine) and five golden-flaming-dumpster owner of Chéz Garbáge!
Didn't think I'd see the guy who tells me about "trashy" anime on YouTube on this page!
Unless this person is a paid disinformation agent I think we should react to ignorance with a bit more grace than this.
She a reporter from a local right leaning news org in Michigan
Right leaning? Oh hello Overton, have you shifted yet again today?
What are you on about?
I’m familiar with the concept of the shifting window, and how most Americans on the liberal side would be considered right wing in more progressive countries.
But in the common speech of America politics, this is the way we express it
There is an ocean of difference between incidental ignorance to be gently corrected, and paid, institutional ignorance driven by cult mentality and intentional shoving of one's head in the sand.
Handing these people gently and with a respect they frankly don't deserve is EXACTLY what got us here.
As a society we used to motivate the ignorant fucks by singling them out and making sure they felt humiliated. At some point people felt we needed to coddle them with participation trophies and listening to their nonsensical beliefs about reality.
Now look where we are in the world.
Social stigma can be a powerful force, certainly, but mainly when you are in community with someone. In today's fractured political landscape I don't believe insulting people online really achieves anything.
This is mainly a result of the disintegration of real-world social networks that used to hold people accountable. You aren't going to rebuild that by being a reply guy on Twitter.
One of the only things that changed minds (and behavior) is peer pressure. But as you said, it has to be peer pressure. Pressure from your in-group.
One of the big changes in our society is idiots and assholes can run off to Fox or 4chan or whatever slimy gutter appeals to them, and find their fellow idiots. Fellow idiots and people manipulating them for their own reasons.
It sucks that reasonable people need to spend all this effort to babysit large children, but if we don't then they go shit themselves and vote for trump.
If you, a ~40 yo person, spent the last 20 years managing to either learn nothing about climate change, or somehow get convinced it isn't a problem...
You are fundamentally too stupid to be trusted to make any decisions that have any impact on anyone other than yourself. You are an invalid, you're useless for anything other than manual labor, bullshit jobs, and being some kind of a public facing clown.
It takes such a staggering combination of ignorance, privelege and arrogance to be in that position, that you can be extremely confident that attempting to 'rehabilitate' such a person is a lost cause, a waste of time.
Yeah, you're not gonna fix anything being snarky on Twitter.
Also, you're not gonna fix anything, period.
Its too late. We are fucked. It is not possible to stop or really even meaningfully mitigate what is coming now, basically unless you are China, maybe.
Maybe, maybe you can make yourself a bit more resistant to the coming disasters, maybe you can relocate to comparitively less fucked areas.
So I think its totally fine to clown on a greedy selfish dipshit who has done her part to doom billions of humans to unneccessary avoidable suffering, and early, painful deaths... and thats to say nothing of the rest of the ecosphere.
I literally do not care to try to change the mind of such a rube. You shouldn't either, if you value your own lifespan going further than the next 10 years.
The high road leads nowhere against these kinds of willfully ignorant fucks. But have fun being needlessly polite to Nazi sympathizers and the dangerously stupid.





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