• Nobody@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’m not sure if gay marriage causes hurricanes, but it looks an awful lot like hate and fascism cause floods.

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        Why? I have it on good authority from every bank hired economists and neoliberal on earth that if you have a student loan it is because you are a privileged multimillionaire who just doesn’t feel like paying them, also if we give you a break the inflation will be so bad we will be BBQing human babies for food.

        CATO’s main funding sources are banks that service student loans and CATO sued the federal government to not give debt relief. Their argument was, and I shit you not, that if student debt relief is given they will have to pay interns more.

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      Remember reading about the starving that went on in the early USSR. How their mismanagement led to crop failures while their neighbors had great years of food production.

      I kinda want to get out of infrastructure work. I see how cost disease is ripping it all apart, and I keep thinking that if I stay in the field I am going to be dealing with disasters that are coming. With all the tools I need to fix things but not legally allowed to do anything as the floods kill us all.

      I am on a liferaft trying to get us to safety while people are cutting holes and all voted to ban my patch kit.

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        I think the difference here is that floridians at local and state level want to cut funding, so they’re welcome to do that. The issue is, if that’s what you vote for and enact, don’t then turn around and ask for government money and/or turn down other states when they ask for federal money (like after Sandy).

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    6 months ago

    Well maybe all the police and gun owners of florida can shoot the water away with guns since they nixed building pipes and ponds to deal with it.

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    So now the Democrats will use the ignorance, evil and hypocrisy of these clown to highlight what happens when you elect GOP, right? Right?

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      I mean yes, but Republicans literally do not care. They will still vote for Rhonda Santis just because he pisses off Dems. Not because they like his policies or think he’s a good candidate.

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      Now Democrats will assert that this is Ralph Nader’s fault, because he stole all those Green votes from the other big in-bed-with-fossil-fuels party. Meanwhile, it will still be incredibly important to reach across the aisle and work with Ron DeSantis on bipartisan solutions.

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          I’m old enough to remember when Chuck and Nancy took Congress in 2018 and tried to have a bipartisan negotiation with Donald Trump.

          I fully believe the liberal dorks in Florida would do the same if they had any chance of taking one of the comically gerrymandered legislative houses.

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    Yo get what you vote for.

    Maybe tell him the stormwater projects will “wash the gay away” and Desantis and his followers will be all over it.

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    Oh, here we are again in the hands out, crying for help and funds portion of the “no guv’ment!!!” and “we’re gonna sucede!!!” crowd.

    Is your raised truck not high enough for you to take shelter from the floods in? Can’t you hang your wet clothes to dry from the “rolling coal” pipe you have? Can you use those 27 trump flags made of asbestos as a blanket to warm you?

    Maybe as you’re waiting for the “guv’ment” to come rescue you like a frightened fairytale princess, feed you with taxpayer dollars and repair your uninsurable without “guv’ment” help homes… Maybe you could just float on your back in the water while you wait and think about your stance on climate change?

    And remember, as your elderly neighbor’s dead body floats by next to you, you can always use all your left over “Joe Brandon, I DID THAT!!!” gas pump stickers to put over their eyes and mouth to keep them closed.

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    I look forward to seeing the cost of insurance in flood prone areas go up and up and up. No way to get people to move preemptively due to climate change other than to make them go bankrupt first. STOP fucking bailing them out, STOP making US citizens pay for the shitty decisions of red states.

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      fyi it isn’t “just” houses. I am waiting for the annual calls from local governments about what got trashed this year.

      Water-proofing stuff makes it run hotter and often makes it, counterintuitive I know, more likely to have fire/explosion issues. Hotter stuff doesn’t last as long or work as well. Organic matter releases methane both in the ground and above it. Add this to total fucking inability of civil engineers to do a site visit and acknowledge that the former non-flood zone is a flood zone now and you get yearly problems.

      Not doing it this time but I almost got sent across the US to deal with a single pumping system that is browning out and dying this week. Local person is handling for me and I will be on the phone. So there is my Monday.

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    I’m so glad his focus for the last two years was on terrorizing queer people instead actually fixing anything. /s

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    It’s fine, the peasants will just suffer and die, there’s always more peasants.- ol’ Meatball Ron.

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      In the press conference he said that this was a typical storm that just happens. You could just feel him lying.

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        “Nothing to see here!”

        All this christofascist virtue signaling backfires.

        Ban books? Bible gets banned. “No, not like that!”

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        If a typical storm causes rampant flooding, maybe it would behoove you to invest in infrastructure and tighten building codes.

        You know, the job of local government.

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          No meaningful infrastructure project in the US is solely funded by local government.