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‘Your heart races a bit’: US weather man threatened with death for mentioning climate crisis
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023
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You could say the same for many Americans, not just republicans in my experience. Its like a stew of immaturity and ignorance.
Except climate change IS real, and if you say its fake, you are wrong. Lol. Its not an opinion. What you're positing here has nothing to do with the reality.
And a right wing person can take that sentence and turn it around. They have a whole lore to back up the claim too.
When you dig deep enough into the claims, it becomes clear which is fact. Most people don't have the time to do that so they stick to what's in their beliefsystem or fits within it.
They think people who believe in climate change are brainwashed zombies, in an ironic backward twist. This also seems to be the case with many things and it's probably intentionally done by the propagandists.
Yes, one side is pretty much full evil, but how many politicians in congress on both sides come to a halt on progress when their pocket liners are threatened. This is a game to all of them. Corporations run this country using every politician in our 2 party system as their puppets. How much insider trading goes on, who's being paid by who? Our entire system needs to be burnt down and rebuilt for anything to function as it should.
That's not gonna end well without a viable and executable alternative. Usually you'll end up with a lot of chaos, some party promising to ease it, followed by that party turning out to be a dictatorship.
Frankly, it's amazing we have something close to a democracy at all.