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Except that time when they poisoned all of their farmland

@cjd @teto that was woke rage against maga in general not really amish specifically. ohio river valley got targeted for voting red

@cjd @teto remember when they had the hurricane or something and they just left people for like a week because it was a red state? DC really is super fuckin petty over their fake election bullshit

Yeah indeed, then there was one coming toward Florida and suddenly Something Happened and it just disappeared. Someone must have made a phone call...

@cjd @teto they got weather machines for sure. they can hit any place they want with storms. and then they prevent people from helping. that's all they use their power for is to attack us.

@cjd @teto some of the tsunamis that have hit the east are also potentially caused by under water nukes. that one that hit the nuclear plant in japan comes to mind - would you be able to tell if contamination came from the plant on land or deeper at sea?

Contamination from a bomb is minimal. Also remember the blue flash earthquake in Turkey?

@cjd @teto We don't get any fun scifi stuff anymore. The moon thing feels like a psyop because you don't have to go into space to do technomagic.

@cjd @teto @Mammal
Where is this ??

Turkey during the major earthquake like 4 or 5 years ago

@spinneria @cjd @Mammal ... Turkey

Americans outnumber them in populace and in arms. So do something to stop it or quit complaining.

It takes a really long time for a bad government to actually be overthrown because most people have SOMETHING to lose, and they would rather live in a fairly shitty existence than accept the uncertainty of starting a revolution - in which you might just end up dead... But then when it becomes obviously inevitable, they go from 0 to 10 like a light switch.

The sentiment is correct but the meme makes me cringe.

Yea. It's like THIS 👉 👈 CLOSE to the old I'm A Navy Seal copypasta.

@cjd @teto @JeffGrimesArt @matty @Mammal this one may be slightly less cringe, but only slightly. but it's right, just look at how fast trump had to back off of minnesota because they were actually about to foment a revolution there

More light-hearted...

@cjd @teto @JeffGrimesArt @matty history is more like group a moves to point b. We're gonna get you peasant sentiment never goes anywhere without higher level leadership.

@cjd @JeffGrimesArt @matty @teto military officers who became the confederacy were supported by the regional southern nobility.

Yea, most people require leaders - BUT, when popular resentment is there, a Napoleon will emerge because lots of people want to be Napoleon.

@cjd @teto @JeffGrimesArt @matty Napoleon was not just a random organic people's hero. The rich people in the government already had a plan to transition away from monarchy and into republicanism before napoleon rose to prominence. He was in the perfect place at the perfect time defending one of france's harbors when the english tried to attack it after the revolution.

Of course, but the elite is not unified and doesn't have a single plan. When people get angry enough, some cousin of the emperor always pops up to seize on the opportunity and snatch the throne.

@cjd @teto @JeffGrimesArt @matty that's why game of thrones or walking dead was popular, because those power games are the same in real life. Anybody who thinks they can make a play can change the game.

@vic @teto @cjd I remember they had a clip of this helicopter guy flipping people off or something like that. He was like doing fly-bys to flex on some charity group

I also remember Lindsey Graham's deebly goncerned response to Helene.

Another strange thing about Helene...It was supposed to go straight over Atlanta. All the forecasts predicted Atlanta was going to be hit, and the city was bracing for impact. But overnight the hurricane veered hard eastward, missing Atlanta and western Tennessee almost entirely and instead hitting east Georgia and the Carolinas out of nowhere.

Ah, well. Probably just happenstance.