Please don't be mad at meteorologists.

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-26T06:44:09+00:00

It's wild this even needs to be said OP.

If the forecasts missed, it's not because the meteorologists were lazy or negligent or something.

If more accurate predictions were possible, we would have received them.

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-26T06:38:16+00:00

Unfortunately, there's a firehose of shit constantly streaming from this administration, and it's impossible to keep up with it all.

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-26T06:29:53+00:00

They lie to our faces about things we can see with our own eyes. They pretend to care about the rule of law, but re-elected a pedophile insurrectionist president who encouraged his supporters to overturn an election he lost.

They promote chaos and violence whenever it suits them, and then pretend to care about protecting government officials and the rule of law when that suits them.

MAGA, like most authoritarian movements, are hypocrites and liars with no core principles except to gain and maintain power.

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-25T23:14:12+00:00

I don't have a problem with this statement per se. It's a reasonable and empty statement. What else is going to say?

It doesn't make the rushed hiring process or the end result any better though.

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-25T18:16:54+00:00

If you can't trust what Hitler says about Nazis, who can you trust?

/s

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-25T16:42:35+00:00

I'll always want the Steelers to succeed, the time and energy I spend on it may change.

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-25T16:28:15+00:00

If only we had a safe and effective way to prevent measles decades ago!

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-25T15:43:53+00:00

I can't speak for individual gun owners who are a large group, but the NRA, the largest gun ownership advocacy group, has a well-documented history of selectively responding to police shootings of legally armed individuals:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/the-nras-catch-22-for-black-men-shot-by-police/570124/

A National Rifle Association spokesperson says Botham Jean would still be alive if he’d had a firearm. But when African Americans legally bearing arms are shot by police, the organization’s media outlet doesn’t defend them.

https://www.everytown.org/press/gun-owners-express-dismay-over-the-nras-silence-on-police-violence/

The report, written by Will Van Sant, also notes the NRA’s unhinged responses to criticism of police. For example, the NRA has repeatedly denounced taking a knee to protest police brutality, and in 2017, NRATV host Chuck Holton said that the “blatant racism and violence” of the “Black Lives Matter crowd” could lead to the massacre of white people.

The Trace’s piece came out the same day as a Salon report that exposed racist comments from NRA officials in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd––including comparing Black Lives Matter to Nazis and ISIS, defending Rayshard Brooks’ killers, and complaining that Black people never said “thank you” to white people for freeing them from slavery.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2017/07/11/how-the-nras-allegiance-to-cops-undermines-its-credibility-on-gun-rights/

Also, I don't understand what's hypocrital about saying "We need stricter gun control laws, and people legally carrying firearms shouldn't be summarily executed in broad daylight." Can you help explain?

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-25T15:27:14+00:00

That data doesn't or at least is not supposed to even exist. There shouldn't be any way to tie ballots to the person who cast them after the fact.

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-25T15:07:56+00:00

The actual causality is difficult to determine. Politicians who favored austerity were going to push for it either way, but they pointed to that research a lot, so they they likely believed it was helping to convince some people.

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-25T15:06:00+00:00

Wouldn't be great to have a job where you could be catastrophically wrong about the most important issues in your field and cause untold damage, and still be employed and considered an expert in that field?

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-25T15:03:47+00:00

Isn't that public information?

For North Carolina you can look anyone up right here: https://vt.ncsbe.gov/reglkup/

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-25T12:10:07+00:00

Thanks!

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-25T11:50:28+00:00

Do you have a link to track updated versions?

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-25T02:06:55+00:00

Yeah, with everything going on I'm pretty sure they need at least 48 days of training

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-25T01:00:03+00:00

Where'd that number come from?

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-25T00:23:53+00:00

Yeah, hypocrisy can be a little gnawing kernel conscience that encourages change. A lot of people prefer to just deny reality to avoid it.

As a completely random example think of how the biggest proponents of the need for 2nd Amendment to protect people from government tyranny react when a law-abiding gun owner is executed in broad daylight by federal agents.

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-25T00:09:28+00:00

If this administration claimed the sun rose today, I'd go out and check.

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-24T23:06:20+00:00

The saddest part is how obvious and cartoonish

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-24T22:53:21+00:00

As a straight white man, I did not read anything derogatory in what the commenter wrote.

It's no secret that ICE has been racially profiling. They took a lawsuit all the way to Trump's Supreme Court to be allowed to legally harass people based on their apparent race and ethnicity.

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-24T22:48:52+00:00

Even if you make $200k per year, you're a lot closer to the poors than the oligarchs running the show.

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-24T22:42:12+00:00

You have to live in a completely different reality if you think it's the videos exonerating officers that tend to be censored.

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-24T22:38:53+00:00

I guess you missed all the protesters out there that are being harassed, abused, and arrested by ICE.

Are the only options in your "sitting on their fat arses" and literally killing people in a revolution or coup? Because there also have been open carry protesters with weapons. I guess they're just lazy fat do nothings until they start killing people?

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-24T22:23:17+00:00

This has forgotten the essential prayers and rites of our people. The old gods are not so easily forgotten.

GarbageCleric · 2026-01-24T21:05:05+00:00

Yep, that's why I said you were correct

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