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Harris accuses Trump of ‘playing politics’ with hurricane disaster relief (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 34 points 2 days ago

Saw a video with a clip from a podcast last night where a guy called in because his father-in-law wouldn't apply for the FEMA money in NC because he believed Trump and his conspiracy theories and thought if he applied they would take his house. The son-in-law lives across the country and didn't know what to do, as his father-in-law is sending messages to family stating that he has no food or supplies and doesn't know what to do. But this same man said he believes Trump and would not under any circumstances except any aid from the government. They tried send him articles from FEMA and fact checkers debunking Trump's lies, but the man is part of Trump's cult and is waiting on Trump to save him.

Emotional North Carolina Man Blames Trump for MAGA Father-in-Law Refusing Hurricane Help Over FEMA Conspiracy: ‘It’s A Cult!’

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 27 points 2 days ago

I don't have much sympathy or effort left for these people. They lived through the 90s and the golden age of internet scams, pop-ups, viruses/malware, they saw all the mega church pastors hit with lawsuits for scamming their followers, if they can't learn from that, there's not much else I can do.

[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 19 points 2 days ago

The thing you have to remember about a cult is that nobody seeks them out, and nobody knows they are in a cult until it is to late. These are people that got caught up in something they saw someplace online likely, and once they started down the rabbit hole it was to late to go back. And the like most all cults, Trump actively reinforces that everyone outside of the cult is a danger to those inside the cult, and that leaving is to dangerous to themselves, loved ones, America. And from the outside it's easy to see they are being fed lies non-stop and nothing Trump says is true, but inside the cult bubble the lies and conspiracies are reinforced constantly, and the "threat" is always increasing.

... if they can’t learn from that, there’s not much else I can do.

Correct, it's going to take a mass therapist program to help bring these people back to reality because they have been conditioned against looking outside the cult for almost 9 years now. Trump isn't going to go away and they just deprogram overnight, this is going to be a long term issue for the US going forward.

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

"Don't look up."

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago

Well, now his kids are going to get his land when he dies of starvation.

Life is hard.

It's even harder when you are stupid.

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It's not hard enough for stupid people.

[-] jhymesba@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Well, Trump has already killed millions of people with his stupidity. What's a few more?

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

Harris accuses water of being wet.

[-] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Water is, in fact, not wet. Like any liquid, it can only make wet what it touches/soaks. Wetness is a property bestowed upon other things (primarily solid objects) which come into contact with a liquid, but not the liquid itself.

And, no, adding water to water doesn’t result in “wet” water— just more water.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 30 points 2 days ago

Stop playing politics with water

[-] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Lmao

[-] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I'm focused on the future of water, not water from 2020.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 14 points 2 days ago

Wetness is a property bestowed upon other things (primarily solid objects)

Wrong!

Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty

[-] finley@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

❤️👍

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago

This is the stupidest "umm ackchyually" bullshit meme. Please stop.

[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Why doesn't "wet" count if the liquid is in contact with other liquid molecules?

Sounds like special pleading to me.

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[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Also, dirt isn't dirty.

[-] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Correct.

This might make for a good allegory for how water isn’t wet. Strange that I hadn’t considered this before, but thanks for bringing it up!

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