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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 22 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours 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 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours 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 2 points 5 hours 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 1 points 47 minutes ago

Hindsight is 20/2/0 I should have named myself Sasquatch

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 72 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Americans are so fucking stupid.

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

As an American I'll have you know that I resemble that remark!

[–] rimmedalpha@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 9 hours 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 11 points 1 day ago

We really are

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 138 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours 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.

[–] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago

I don’t know what News9 is or where this weather thing is, but I know 100% this guy is a Trump voting MAGAt who thinks that this is part of your Democratic Parties commie plan to keep USAians poor.

[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago (1 children)

100% this asshole voted for TACO.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 6 points 20 hours ago

100% this asshole didn't vote at all.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

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

[–] QuantumTickle@lemmy.zip 50 points 1 day 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 20 points 1 day ago

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

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This dip shit has never hopped a fence before 😂

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 15 points 22 hours 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

[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 21 hours ago

Hmm copper!

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It feels like a corrective beating might be helpful here.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 81 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 62 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The actual weather weapon:

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

TK577WKA

Can't see the state, maybe Alaska?

[–] sauce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago
[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours 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.

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

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

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

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If nothing else, they should consider that they are just wasting their money, money spent on the mod, and money spent on wasting fuel / engine / exhaust damage. Money they could use to buy more beer.

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[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day 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.

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

What the actual fuck is going on

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours 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.

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

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

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours 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 3 points 1 day 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.

[–] Soulg@ani.social 9 points 1 day 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 2 points 1 day 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.

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

I hope he neutered himself on the climb back over.

[–] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

We did it! We stopped the weather!

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

A cat person would never do such a thing.

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