• humorlessrepost@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Yup, when they built a cell phone tower next to the water tower down the street, it was obviously a government mind-control and weather-control device called Harp.

      I enjoyed it when his y2k canned goods got repo’d by the storage facility.

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        Yeahhh, one of them is a narcissist. So it comes with the territory. Plus no critical thinking skills at all.

  • Steve@communick.news
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    2 years ago

    In a way they are.
    You see, the weather radar stations collect data.
    Data used in the manufacture of… Knowledge Bombs

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    Meh, let them weaken their country so a good invader can take over and correct the bullshit

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        2 years ago

        Based on USA slipping in to Nazi dictatorship, what could be a “bad” invader?

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        There have been a few. The Allies in WWII leap immediately to mind.

        But in this case I don’t see why anyone would do this for America.

        • Oxysis/Oxy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          In the European theater? Maybe on the western front you could argue that was true but absolutely not on the eastern front. The Red Army was the cause of so many rapes and warcrimes on their way to Berlin. Not to mention their occupation of Eastern Europe, setting up on puppet states and later genocide in Eastern Europe. The western front also had plenty of rape cases caused by an army passing through. Definitely better than the eastern front but still heavily impacted the regions they passed through.

          The Pacific theater is a bit of a question mark. The Japanese were absolutely awful, worse than the Nazis in quite a few ways. But from the sheer intensity of the fighting over here it is not a pleasant experience for anyone involved. Especially if you were a Japanese citizen during the island hopping campaign. There are plenty of reports of mass suicides being committed out of fear of what the US could do to them, to the US’ credit they did send interpreters to try to talk them out of it. Then there is the ethical question of the usage of the nuclear bombs, I am not going to give my opinion, this is one you must decide for yourself. The Chinese front is another complicated topic, there’s the Japanese with their brutality in things like the Rape of Nanking and there is what would be Maoist China, the Republic of China (who I don’t know enough about to make an argument on) and the USSR who is also here to complete the shit sandwich.

          The North African front I know the least about so I am not even going to discuss it.

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          I don’t count those as invasions because the goal wasn’t the seizure of any resource. WWII kicked off from the Nazi invasion of Poland, and the Allies fought them all the way back to Berlin, then gave Germany back (mostly, except the partitioning and the permanent military bases).

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          I dont see anyone that could. Even a weakened US is likely to have nukes, and a fair few of them, a hypothetical invader that is not Canada or Mexico (which would have to deal with having a smaller population and a much worse economy, or a much smaller population) has to deal with crossing an ocean and therefore building an extremely large naval capability. And finally, whoever it is would have to occupy a huge area with a population of over 300 million.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    I mean, I can envision how plausible this sounds.

    Much of this tech is hand-me-down military radar. There are adjacent tiny grains of truth, like energy weapons allegedly used to target diplomats, very slight correlations in studies on the dangers of radio/microwave-range radiation to humans, scary-sounding geoengineering papers, really scary military projects and so on.

    Now, picture yourself in these people’s shoes. You have virtually no background in science. You’re in an information environment, immersed on Facebook and your neighbors and pastors and online influencers everything, where climate change is a hoax, where FEMA is corrupt and hostile, as is much of the government. Maybe chemtrail or cloud seeding theories are on your, err, radar.

    …Thousands, if not millions of people live in this state.

    Now the NWS is politicized and liberal. People make the connection with them and climate science.

    …This is not a big jump. It’s a really tiny one.

    The US has been at the edge of many similar thresholds, and we’re gonna cross a ton of them very soon.

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      I’ll one up you and say MAGAts, mainly because I know ONE guy who was hardcore conservative, and still is, but is as anti-Trump as I am.

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        Lucky you.

        I have a whole family tree, some very religious, some not, almost all invested in Trump. The rest are hard Democrats.

        The Trumpers are very into Facebook.

        Actually, there is one kinda libertarian, and I’m not sure who they voted for… but it was not Harris or any Democrats for sure. And they kinda dismiss Trump as “noise” that will eventually go away.

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    The group Veterans on Patrol, which the Southern Poverty Law Center defines as an anti-government militia organization

    Aww. You guys were this close to a meaningful 2A and then Doppler radars 🤣 Roll again.

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    Jesus Christ. There’s an actual takeover of your government that you guys can use your guns on. Cosplaying losers.

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    Omgawd these freaks are scared of Doppler radar. It’s our own fault. We allowed our country to get this stupid. Let a sleeping dog lie or let a sleeping dog get too big for its britches and run a muck in Religious superstition STUPER… Not only is it important for the revolution to educate the masses, but just for the stable state of things. We’re all going to be grasping as if we’re drowning in water for things to blame, but this is just a collection of things. Via the intensity of the here and now. Expect only bad things from this point on until we stop these wars and start taxing the rich or even better eating the rich …nothing will improve. This is a bourgeois democracy, which is NOT a democracy. And so voting Democrat is not going to make things better. Plus, we have a long road ahead of us. Since when did we ever actually impeach a president? It’s all for show. It’s ritualistic public shaming that means nothing.

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      To be fair, the conspiracy nuts are probably being targeted by a Russian psyop, with the goal of sabotaging infrastructure, increase costs etc etc

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    Some sort of group sponsored by shareholders that want to privatize noaa but still get socialisms funding from actual working Americans. So all is profit and paying the larping group through foreign dark money?