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State Sen. Kevin Corbin calls out “conspiracy theory junk” about unburied bodies and FEMA stealing money.

A Republican senator in the North Carolina legislature has issued a public plea for people to stop spreading conspiracy theories about the disaster recovery efforts in areas ravaged by flooding from Hurricane Helene. 

In a Thursday afternoon Facebook post, state Sen. Kevin Corbin, who represents the state’s westernmost area, asked his followers for a favor: “Will you all help STOP this conspiracy theory junk that is floating all over Facebook and the internet about the floods in WNC.”

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[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 130 points 1 day ago

Breaking news: Republican voters don’t want to sleep in the bed they’ve made.

[-] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

While the politician can go screw himself, the effect of these crazy conspiracy theories is felt far and wide by regular people. It’s not just Republicans that are affected by this.

We should all keep that in mind.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

Hopefully this time people will learn that baseball bats are the only solution for neighbors who spout Republican lies since their own personal safety is at stake.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

Look, I’m all for accountability. But right now, with respect to Helene and recovery/rescue efforts, is not the time. It’s a Good Thing (TM) that Republicans come out and denounce these falsehoods, because hopefully their base will listen. It’s important that in this, among other things, we learn to work together as a country.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

So does that mean it’s finally the time to talk about gun control? What about the failed violent insurrection at the Capitol?

Is it at least the right time to point out that Republicans want to dismantle the weather monitoring system?

[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 18 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

my wife and I visited my parents yesterday.

The base isn't listening.

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 day ago

Republicans come out and denounce these falsehoods

lol don't you know that once you go against the established hive-mind republican narrative, you're officially a RINO

this guy will be voted out immediately

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

But right now, …, is not the time.

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 day ago

other misguided quotes:

hopefully their base will listen

learn to work together as a country

the entire republican ideology is about NOT working together, but blaming problems on people they don't like and punishing them for it. this has been going on for years and years. we have republicans in the US congress saying democrats control the weather and intentionally wrecked WNC because it would hurt the republican vote

there IS NO "working together" with these people, i hate to tell you

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago

The majority Republican NC congress is the antithesis of the idea of working together for the public good.

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

indeed. the NC house and senate are both full-blown republican, and they can't even agree with each other on a state budget

absolutely fucking useless

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 22 hours ago

Yeah.......it's good that they denounce these falsehoods...... Once it affects them!

It's convenient isn't it? Spread falsehoods about Haitians, or just saying nothing, but when those falsehoods start affecting them, suddenly it's time for restraint.

I'm sorry but Republicans have, at best, enabled the alt right monster. Biden is helping them. If he wants people to stop spreading falsehoods, he should have started with things that didn't affect him.

But then again if he did that, he'd be a Democrat.

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