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[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 138 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don't tell me; MAGAt who thought it was part of the Democrat Weather Control Machine?

[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

100% this asshole voted for TACO.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago

100% this asshole didn't vote at all.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Likely from the side school of thought that was damaging the 5g towers during covid.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ROFL, I had a feeling when I saw that picture of him staring straight into the camera. These idiots won't be happy until we're all living in caves again.

Edit to add:

So he's a veteran, apparently. That should make him easier to find. So might the sign he posted. I wonder if printing on yellow paper will impair the reading of the hidden code containing the serial number of the printer they used.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Americans are so fucking stupid.

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, Ill have you know the US is 30th in average IQ score.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

are you sure the average US IQ isn't 30?

[–] rimmedalpha@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Camacho is among the best presidents in US history. definitely better than all those I've lived through

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

We really are

[–] QuantumTickle@lemmy.zip 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fucking A, they had to blur his balls as he crawled over the fence. We'll never identify him now!

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

I laughed at that blurring out, feels like a Reno911 bit until that point.. The rest is horrendous.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It feels like a corrective beating might be helpful here.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The actual weather weapon:

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Rolling coal should be considered a symptom of mental illness.

Like, why?

The Venn diagram of people who do that shit and think that NOAA has evil HAARP weather weapons is probably a circle.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Rolling coal and complaining about fuel prices should get you deemed mentally incompetent.

[–] PleaseLetMeOut@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's because Steve bought a Toyota Prius, so he has to counter Steve by spending $4,000 to make his truck blow smoke everywhere. Because fuck Steve! He's a free thinker! Steve isn't gonna tell him what to do!

They're literally that easy to manipulate. At this point, we should just organize so-called "leftist actions" that are just bait for them to waste their time/money trying to counter. Because they will, they absolutely fucking will. See the picture above and the videos of morons burning sports jerseys or shooting 24-packs of Bud Lite.

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I fucking love cars and bikes and things that go fast and loud! Have I laid down rubber while doing massive burnouts? Yes. Have I modified exhaust systems to run straight pipes? Also yes. (But I've also adjusy my engine tune to realize the gains that running straight pipes gets you... But that's another subject altogether)

... All that being said, rolling coal is fucking stupid, even by my standards. It makes zero sense other than to be obnoxious.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Rolling coal is like walking up to the company picnic and shitting in the potato salad and shouting "does that make you mad, libtard?!" when people complain.

You're just ruining someone else's time because you tied your personality to being a dick to get reactions.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

TK577WKA

Can't see the state, maybe Alaska?

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[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Idiocracy is no longer a cute meme, stupidity is how civilizations collapse

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not just stupid. Back in the 90s i knew plenty of 'im a dumbfuck' hippies and mountain-people who knew it, and said things like "i don't vote. I don't know what the hell any of this is, and my voice wont improve your government" or "i don't understand that geopolitics shit. I vote for the guy id trust around my daughter. So.... I think carter? I voted for carter.". They would be, like juggalos or something today. Politically speaking. In fact im certain some are.

Theres also the 'hood politics' approach-a podcast explaining politics in terms of high school drama and growing up in a rough neighborhood, with the central vibe being 'the difference is the distances involved and the outfits. If you understand that, you understand all of politics.'

The problem is malevolent anti intellectualism. The problem is engineered blindness. The problrm isn't stupid stupid, it's weaponized stupid. Its autodehumanization. It's tribalism and fear and... Things too complex to explain here, but involving a fear or mistrust of understanding and those who do it, and a kind of relentless self loathing you couldnt really do when a dumb guy could just fuck off to his wood shop and make something useful and beautiful given enough time.

[–] evenglow@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's ok for people to be stupid. It's not ok for stupid people to be dangerous.

Wilful ignorance is dangerous. It's not a difference of political opinion.

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the actual fuck is going on

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We are living in a period of anti-science irrationality, tied with the rise of global fascism.

A significant portion of the US’s population (roughly 1 in 5) believes in Q-anon, Wayfair child trafficking conspiracies, “Frazzledrip” (a supposed video where Hillary Clinton murders a child and drinks their blood for ‘adrenochrome’), etc etc.

I believe Lauren Boebart posted shit about the weather weapons on her Twitter. A good chunk of our elected officials believe this insanity too (remember how fluoridation programs just got nixed). The Oklahoma state GOP platform literally includes a desire to shut down 5G.

[–] Soulg@ani.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the exact kind of shit that makes me question my previous belief of free speech absolutism. Letting these people do this has zero societal benefits.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Absolute free speech has never been viable. That has ALWAYS just been a weapon from the worst people imaginable to justify their shitty beliefs.

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 3 points 1 year ago

Correct it?

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This dip shit has never hopped a fence before 😂

[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly my thoughts. Where the fuck does murica find all these chucklefucks?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I guess that's why they're all just a little bit wonky.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any tips for properly hopping a fence? I may want to use that information for good.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 year ago

Leather gloves, jeans, try and get some height above the fence before moving your hips over so you're not getting stabbed in the genitals. A welcome mat or small rug can also solve most hostile fence tops

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

$5 says this asshole is an accellerationist racist piece of shit hoping to spark a race war.

[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's much more stupid than that:

https://www.news9.com/story/686de418f023bda6c04ff4e5/-anti-government-militia-says-it-s-targeting-oklahoma-weather-radars

TL;DR - Far right militias are targeting Doppler radar arrays because they think they control the weather

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I was expecting it to be stupid but I still wasn’t prepared for it to be that stupid.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Omg, it is stupider. Space lazers! Chem trails! Sasquatch!

(I apologize for affiliating the noble Squatch with these other batshit ideas.)

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hindsight is 20/20 I should have named myself Sasquatch

[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I hope he neutered himself on the climb back over.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

A cat person would never do such a thing.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago

Hmm copper!