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‘It’s mindblowing’: US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 45 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This is a just a preview of what is coming when trump loses.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 43 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Possibly also what's coming if Trump wins.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, only if he loses.

If he wins, America is done.

[–] actually@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks 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

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And what if he wins? NOAA is fucking gone, given away to corporations.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Subscribe for weather!

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Already sorta sold, some records aren't public because of some agreement with a private companies proprietary code.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Like weather records?

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As I understand it yes, there were a couple articles about it maybe a month ago.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

What jerks. I suspected something was up but I thought it was just govt being cheap with memory. Turns out nope it's corps.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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...