@Copacetic_vibe
Trump tells them the funding would have gone to illegal immigrants, and they believe it.

A Facebook friend of mine is a liberal in W. Va, and his friends who comment on his posts are a piece of work. They keep making assertions of how terrible/incompetent Biden's government is, and the links to rebut what they say are LITERALLY the first hit on Google when you search. The lack of curiosity in people who clearly are not stupid is astounding.

@Beanc @JanetZumba_FalPals @corlin
I've heard emergency management agencies placed gas at intervals along the highways for exactly this reason. Don't know how long it will last.

@stueytheround @th3j35t3r

At least they are leaving. Usually it's like pulling teeth getting people to leave their mobile homes, 'cause they're afraid of looters.

@redenigma

He's home now, they report, so no matter.

His daughter is head of diagnostic medical sonography at Hopkins, and FB friends commenting check out with people the real person would have gone to school with, so I don't think it was a scam.

@Cosmichomicide @DavidSalo

Actually, given the amount of square miles of devastation, most of it with access blocked by trees and only accessible by foot due to mud/washed out roads, random volunteers with chainsaws are a lot of what's going on. He might hook up with one of the Christian volunteer groups, who will give him some direction for where he's most needed. He can sleep in his truck.

@Tarnagh

If it's just to sign a petition, they can spend their money as they wish, but the petition can be dismissed as meaningless as it's just a collection of people who wanted $47.

@Bliss
Weird, works for me, and supposedly it's a public post.

Philadelphia folks - father of a friend of a friend of a friend, missing since 10/4/2024
nosanitize
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02LCwj2Bm8GzCGmEW3fKAqmgZRGmidYXa4Kuqv8N6hcoJLptVv1f4opxbizD8WKsFol&id=100014514138258

@danielbsmith @GNious
So, it's about the Dunning-Kruger Effect?

@Sr0bi @dauphin87

Yeah, today's democrats are much more like the republicans of the 1970s. Today's republicans are like the LaRouchies.

@Sr0bi @dauphin87

The system is designed to prevent it. Representatives in gerrymandered districts will never allow ranked choice voting. Voters seem unwilling to get their information anywhere but TV commercials and algorithm-driven social media silos.

@joycereynoldsward @redenigma

Antivaxxers, people torturing their autistic kids with shit that supposed to expel parasites, those who fear chemtrails -- there are right and left wing people deep in that rabbit hole.

@BLuOXide
Not so strange -- "walking your bird" and letting it socialize with other birds is typical in China

https://www.audubon.org/news/the-social-lives-chinese-songbirds

@dauphin87
We're not as far apart as media might make you think. It's the lunatic fringe of every political group that gets coverage. People who have reasonable points of view don't get clicks and don't sell ads.

@VylaMundi

If Trump can lie about Starlink not being available. when Musk standing right next to him, the US needs to stop relying on Starlink.

I've been looking for some data outlining the rise of US televangelism vs the increase of Americans who consider themselves atheist. I suspect it's a linear relationship.