Officials in Texas are casting blame on the National Weather Service (NWS) for failing to forecast catastrophic flooding that has killed at least 27 people. NWS was among the government agencies targeted by the Department of Government Efficiency in its effort to gut the federal bureaucracy, losing approximately 600 staffers. After the cuts, the agency—which was already understaffed—began to prepare to offer “degraded” forecasting services, facing “severe shortages” of meteorologists, according
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It’s getting harder and harder to show empathy for these people. The Shitgibbon is delivering everything he promised to deliver. He doesn’t care about anyone, his voters included. The leopards are feasting, and these idiots have no one to blame but themselves. But man…those girls? They didn’t vote for anyone. And now they’re dead or wish they were dead. And that ain’t great.
Save the attempt at guilt for the tears of the living, not the potential of the lost. The focus should be on those accountable, not the people who bear a burden no longer.
I don’t have guilt for the girls who were killed in this. Thought I made it clear in what I typed. They’re dead, or suffering waiting for rescue (I lean towards dead now, given the time that’s elapsed). And that’s not great. Brought on by the adults in their lives who they trusted had their best intentions in mind. I believe it’s clear they never did. It is all about Winning the Political Football Game, and they approach their choices and heroes with about as much introspection and forethought as they do their chosen college or even high school football team. “Me team good! Other team bad! Ungh!” And now dozens of young women, with a potentially bright life ahead of them, are dead. And all to own the libs. What a fucking waste.
Hopefully that makes it clearer what I’m saying.
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I love it. Here’s the full expression of distaste from the people of Scottland for that jerk: “Tiny fingered, Cheeto-faced, ferret wearing shitgibbon.”
Texas treats voter registration like a criminal offense and makes it as difficult as possible to do
Yeah! Those children had it coming! How dare they be born in a state you don’t like!
You don’t know their parents’ politics. You just know you hate them.
Yeah? Those young girls at that summer camp voted for this?
GTFO. Dick.
TIL flash floods selectively target Trump voters. Or are we doing collective guilt now? Fuck them dead kids, am I right?
Well, the dismantling of the NOAA, the lack of local regulations on construction and zoning, the lack of land management policies, the lack of education and preparedness all seem to disproportionately affect Republican voting communities. This is a failure of the blueprint.
Sure, go ahead and put words in my mouth. Ad hominem is always in fashion. Those kids would be alive if their parents and communities did their job as part of a society or civilization.
An ad hominem would be if I said something like ‘nobody should listen to this guy because he’s a sociopath,’ it’s not just a retort for when anyone makes any uncharitable characterization of your argument. (It’s also not even evidence that an argument is invalid, that’s called the fallacy fallacy)
Which, if you want to accuse me of committing an ad hominem by characterizing your argument as ‘fuck them kids,’ you might not want to immediately go straight to how they deserved it for living in a red state.
“Compassion is reserved for the people who think like I do.”