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2·4 hours agoThey’re actually a small group who have a history of accepting money from the fossil fuels industry
262·1 day agoThe problem is that civil unrest can also serve as an excuse for massive violence against the people. Hence the decision to repel them using rotting fruit instead of firearms
They’re the people who want to harass and beat people up but who couldn’t get hired by any other law enforcement
7·2 days agoProblem is that what we dont need is beat cops who go around harassing people because their skin is too dark. What we actually need is detectives capable of catching killers and fences, but the incentives are to go harass minorities
Well, we know that the NWS produced the warnings about an hour in advance, that the staff who communicate with local officials had been fired, that Texas abused their emergency alerts on phones so people largely disabled them, and that local politicians were unwilling to invest in a local alert system because of anti-tax sentiment.
So its pretty clear the key problem was getting the warning to people. And that requires investing in systems to do that and having the discipline to limit their use when not life-critical
I suggest checking.
No, but its better to understand what happened instead of some fiction being pushed by local officials.
When you do frequent midnight alerts for missing elderly, people disable the alerts on their phone entirely. Then when disaster hits, they don’t know its coming. And because no planning was done for it, they can’t evacuate a camp full of kids quickly enough even if they know what’s about to happen.
Actually preventing this kind of thing means maintaining preparedness for decades when nothing happens.
35·4 days agoHe has, however, read a collection of Hitler’s speeches:
Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.
“Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.
Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”
“I don’t remember,” I said.
“Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)
Later, Trump returned to this subject. “If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.”
He’s been spewing antisemitism like this since at least 2015. (I didn’t pay much attention to him before then)
It’s not just ignorance when it’s pointed out repeatedly over the years and you keep doing it.
Happens every day already. Just not organized
Of Americans who have a clue about it. Problem is that lot didn’t hear before it passed
They tried. Problem is that most of the press is billionaire-owned and they’re literally settling frivolous lawsuits Trump has filed in order to bribe him.
The fact that a LOT of people are doing this seems to be affecting at least some Republicans.. It only takes flipping a few votes to kill this bill.
For most US citizens, losing citizenship means being stateless. Nobody will advocate for us when we’re in CECOT
Don’t hope…call your congress critter
This bill is closed and likely to see a final vote within a couple hours
Im not sure, but its common for canyons like they were in to simply not have cell service, and Texas has a history of doing statewide alerts for local issues, so a lot of people simply disabled the alerts.
Local polticans also repurposed federal money for a local siren-based warning system because they didn’t want Biden to be credited for funding it