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    Geoengineering definitely did play a role in any flooding of urban areas in Florida. It’s why there’s urban areas in what’s supposed to be a swamp.

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      Geoengineering

      I’d point out we’ve been geoengineering the atmosphere relentlessly for over 200 years, first with coal and then oil combustion. We’re living in an age of deliberate geoengineering, our children will have worse quality of life than any of us because of our short sighted and selfish ways.

      It’s not the weather control bullshit these MORONS suspect, they’re literally leading the charge to do it to themselves and can’t be convinced that less pollution would be preferable.

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        The first time I heard about the “democratic weather machine” conspiracy I thought it funny. But looking at it again as it spreads I do believe it is a tactic to keep voters while climate change escalates.

        If we get new candidates that run on climate promises we now got a seed set to diffame and more importantly mock them. They can play the victim and point fingers. A long standing and well proven tactic.

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          I do believe it is a tactic to keep voters while climate change escalates.

          yup. pay no attention to our petrol-fueled base and the crumbling biosphere, nah, it’s them libs that are, uh, CONTROLLING THE WEATHER, yeah, yeah…

          could you imagine the smoking ruin that would be mar-a-lago if libs could control storms? jfc

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      Dangerous angle. That’d mean giving back Tampa and Miami to the swamps, two leftist strongholds.

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          As someone with deep attachment to the state, I welcome the reversal of destruction. I just hope people don’t catch on to this can of worms before big damage to infrastructure is done. Burn it all down!

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    The spectacular level of cognitive dissonance required to simultaneously not believe in man-made climate change but also believe in evil scientists changing the weather.

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    Isn’t the constant ignorance of global warming and funnelling money into fossil fuels basically “weather modification”?

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      That’s right. If they were serious about banning weather modification, internal combustion engines would be illegal in Florida.

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    I mean, he’s kind of right. Humanity is geo-engineering catastrophic weather events. By driving climate change. Morons.

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    Shh, just play dumb. Let them think they are so smart for figuring it out. Feed them climate change data and tell them there’s something suspicious about it all. I don’t care if they take credit for fixing it, just as long as it gets done.

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    it requires monthly mandatory reports for any airplane that can modify weather.

    perfect for malicious compliance, report every single aircraft that passes through the airport because their exhaust modifies the weather.

    clog those idiots with their own bureaucracy

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    a weather modification company

    An entire company? Conveniently and lawfully registered in Florida?

    (it can be a Simpsons reference if you dream hard enough)

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    These people have law degrees, and some of them are partially educated. It’s amazing to me someone could type this up and send it to other people without the embarrassment of looking like a fucking moron stopping them.

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      My sister is highly educated, and started her career doing medical research and got in to crime scene investigation. She ultimately left when she discovered the job she wanted working for the FBI was not nearly scientifically rigorous enough and didn’t really hold water scientifically.

      She now sees a psychic, is entirely convinced it’s real, and eats up and parrots every single Republican talking point. Biden too old and dimented, Trump is literally the greatest man alive with decades to live. She even accused our mother of cognitive decline when she didn’t buy the bullshit my sister was spewing. My mother is sharp as a tack and there’s no family history of dementia.

      On top of this, my sister’s idiot husband is was an executive in charge of international sales and literally lost his job because of the orange man. Still, God’s gift to the US in their eyes.

      We don’t talk anymore but I’m curious how they feel now, they also suckled on Musk’s taint.

      Their ideology started with money. They only cared about taxes. Now they agree with anything anyone says as long as they start with lowering their, already generously low, tax rate.

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      They know what they’re doing. Their constituents may be stupid enough to believe it, but all those people at the top are completely aware of the grift they’re running.

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        I waffle back and forth with that thought. Every time I think they’re aware, I see another thing that makes me wonder.

        Either way, I’m old enough to remember that saying stupid shit, even once, would kill your campaign. FFS, Howard Dean lost for yelling boisterously, once.

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          howard dean was already losing when he BYAAAH’d. dan quayle was famous for the idiotic things he’d say, and he became vice president under HW bush - a strategy that bush’s son mimicked to his advantage a decade later.

          gaffes didn’t end political careers, negative media coverage did. and they decide before the story happens how they’re going to spin it, no matter the actual content of the interview or speech.

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          That has changed with the systematic dismantling of our education system and the push against critical thinking that started in the Reagan Era. Nowadays people are for the most part, too darn stupid to hold these people accountable.

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        A lot of them aren’t aware. They belong to a certain peer group that believes different things and any fact that contradict this is an attack on their identity.

        There by is a simple experiment about this. Ask a very simple math problem about shampoo and everybody gets the answer right. Ask the same math problem but say it’s about gun control and see basic logic twisted into pretzels.

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      I followed the #2 link he linked about cloud seeding. From the article:

      Veteran Houston meteorologist Travis Herzog weighed in this week, calling the theory scientifically unfounded.

      “Cloud seeding cannot create a storm of this magnitude or size. In fact, cloud seeding cannot even create a single cloud,” Herzog said. “All it can do is take an existing cloud and enhance the rainfall by up to 20% — and even that is on the high end.”

      He compared the theory to blowing out a candle and assuming one could extinguish a wildfire. “It is a matter of scale,” he said.

      It’s pretty ballsy to provide a link with someone calling out your bullshit while acting as if that link proves your point.

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          My mother once handed me the manual to a dishwasher to prove that I was loading mine “wrong.” Turns out I was doing it the way the manual recommended. She had never actually opened said manual.

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      Specialization can breed a narrow limit of scope when it come to general knowledge. Sometimes the best lawyers and surgeons are complete idiots when it comes to falling for things like, say, internet scams. I am not sure if that’s what’s happening here, but I have known enough assistants of big skilled people that they always say “This guy is a brilliant surgeon, but doesn’t know how to cook or even how to shop for his own groceries.”