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Just 20 years ago a similar hurricane by the name of Katrina rocked the nation and was part of the 24 he news cycle for months. Katrina was (and rightfully so) a huge deal in America, and recognized as a mega traumatizing event.
It’s amazing to me how jaded the American public and media have become in that time, to where this disaster hardly even makes the news and is forgotten before it’s even joever.
I’m honestly not quite sure what to think of it. Have we become so calloused to the idea of climate change that this isn’t newsworthy? Is this more reflective of the corporate capture of media, and insurers not wanting to pay out for destroyed homes and lives? Or is this just secondary to the overriding effort to further a new war in the Middle East?
I think people no longer have the same expectations for the government to help them. The US government has told the public to go fuck themselves at every possible opportunity.
we may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror
Did the hurricane victims even bother to hire lobbyists? How primitive.
Like fuck the death toll, it’s horrendous but regardless of how many people died, these are towns and cities that have literally been scoured off the fucking map. People need help, fuck
These stories are so sad to me, but also very interesting. A lot of people I think go through life thinking that if something like this happens, the system will work-- insurance will cover the losses, and if nothing else the government has their backs, when nothing could be further from the truth. These are honestly golden radicalization opportunities.
It’s pretty bleak to see though, when people have to realize they have been thrown to the wolves
Better to make more death in the world than to try to stop death, apparently. At least according to both parties in the US government
i thought i saw some estimate that they thought it could be up to 600, was that misinformation or?
I’ve seen bigger numbers as well, but I guess 200 is the official tally so far.
Whatever they’re telling us you know it’s gotta be way, way worse. They had to canvas all the houses in NOLA before they could get an accurate count. Not sure if that’s been done yet, or being undergone
It’s currently ongoing. Same as Katrina they spray paint an X on the house with the number of dead and survivors they find.
how is that even going to be possible in this case entire fucking towns are just gone
It doesn’t, and notably there are a decent number of people who are still classified as “Missing” from Katrina. We’ll probably never know the exact number of people killed by this, it’ll be a range
depressing, they keep more data on us than they could even know what to do with and we’ll just have a range of missing people, it shouldnt be that hard to figure out who is missing in this day and age
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Whelp, I’m definitely predicting a Trump victory now. Time to place a bet and win some easy money.
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Israel is just an arm of American military, not some independent actor.
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Both things can true at the same time. The system ear marks groups like this, arms them, and cultivates these beliefs.
The beauty of this particular scheme is that there’s a whole history of doing this with these particular people in the west. A dynamic that has shaped both that culture by magnifying it’s features as an ethnoreligion, and the surrounding culture by providing a release valve for internal contradictions without completely implicating the ruling class structure. As such, the reality is blended with “tropes” that can be used as an instrument in whichever way is convenient.
When this geopolitical blunder becomes too much to deny, expect them to tell you to hate Jews.
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Ok, so what do you mean by the US is cucked then? Your contempt is justified, I am not implying you’re antisemitic.
Doubling down doesn’t make your bullshit antisemtic trope look any better
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“Just following orders” is not an acceptable defense. And people who make those orders should be shot too.
This is antisemitic trash. The power dynamic is the other way. Don’t fall into this shit
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I don’t think the power dynamic is the other way. Netanyahu, Biden and every other American politician are just conjoined in their principled zionism and genocidal tendencies. The US has some interest in keeping the entire region destabilized, yeah. But that’s hardly the point.
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You have it backwards though, the US does this because it finds the destabilization of the middle east convenient to its strategic interests. Israel is the US’s rabid attack dog that the US has given a very slack leash. Materially there’s no way for Israel to control the US’s actions. BurgerPunk is correct.
Congress has made no efforts to secure more disaster relief funding… Congress is now in recess until November 12, and while Biden had considered calling Congress back into session early to approve more FEMA funding, there has been no progress.
I love how both parties are like “Sure, there’s an election in a month. But fuck anybody who needs help. What the fuck do we care? People will vote for us just because they hate the other party.”
In Ireland, before every election, we have what’s called a “giveaway budget”, where whoever is in government will give a bunch of random discounts and supports on stuff like electricity and college fees. They’re supposed to make the government more popular before the election. They don’t do anything to make economic conditions better and they’re a pathetic attempt to make people like the government.
It’s pure cynical politics, where for a month the government pretends to care. The USA can’t even do that. They just let people in their country die, because they’re spending all their money and time killing people abroad
Congress is now in recess until November 12
Is this effectively a 6 week paid vacation?
Yes. They work so hard getting bribed, I mean wined and dined by lobbyists, until then.
They hardly work at all. It’s amazing how powerful simple propaganda can be - phrasing for example. They call their paid vacations “recesses” and Americans don’t even pay attention.
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I did a little googling.
How Many Days Congress Is in Session
According to federal records, the House works about two days a week and the Senate works a little more than that.
Well duh, when are they supposed to go on extravagant outings with all their lobbiests
As If legal insider trading isn’t enough of a perk - they can have a working dinner and chomp on a $300 meal on the lobbyists dime. And they travel to Paris or London or wherever for free. They pretend they actually go to lectures on climate change when they sightsee. Meanwhile Evil Corp is greenwashing and their execs are laughing.
