• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 months ago

    It’s so insane that so much crazy shit is coming from this administration that this was last week and it seems to be barely covered.

    This guy references Alex Jones level stuff, and he’s the HHS Secretary.

    I mean…what even the fuck is happening.

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      If you think about it, the best way to stop a momentous beast isn’t to focus on the momentum, it’s to focus on the head and where it’s going and then the momentum fizzles out on its own. Republican mantra has always been to make government as ineffective as possible so they can look at government and correctly assess that it’s ineffective. Previously they worked to starve departments of resources, and they’ve already done that to the extent that it wasn’t even legal. New strategy in Trump and beyond is just to appoint clowns and make the world’s biggest clown show in each of their respective agencies. The anti-government shit writes itself when you’ve got the likes of Malory McMorrow saying, “Medicare for all means someone like Trump would control it, do you really want that?”

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      It’s called a firehose of falsehoods, and is designed to flood people with so much bullshit that they give up and stop paying attention to everything.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caBanned
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      I mean…what even the fuck is happening.

      Chemical combustion?

      How many US states have banned water vapor?

      And is the earth really a sphere? really?

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      If we get through this administration as a country, I just wanna stay alive long enough to see all the documentaries making fun of this bat shit crazy stuff. My fear is this is now the baseline as we hurl to the more prophetic future of Idiocracy.

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      I put things like this in the same category as renaming Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico, something absurd to keep the attention off the real harm being done. Even if they made a declaration that planes are all dumping stuff to turn the frogs gay or whatever tommorow, the burocratic effort to do anything with it would take well beyond any of these loon’s tenure and then be dumped directly after.

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    Chem-trails are like space-lasers, they’re so stupid, they wouldn’t even work if they were real.

    If you’ve ever noticed that industrial buildings use tall smoke stacks, you know why. It’s because that smoke dispersed into the atmosphere @ 50m will be diluted to safe(er/ish) levels by the time it reaches ground level.

    Now if you’re trying to release a pathogen or a drug, doing so at 19,000m is the kind of stupid that wears a helmet to watch TV.

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        To my understanding, (I’m not a physicist) It’s not so much that they wouldn’t work in space as they’d be severely weakened upon entering our atmosphere. It would be both cheaper and more effective to simply use a conventional explosive than it would be to invent a sci-fi super weapon.

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            My understanding is that the space lasers of conspiracy theory fame are supposed to be used to control the weather. Got a hurricane in Alabama? It’s because the “globalists” pointed the space laser at a cloud or something. Yeah. These people are fucking nuts.

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    There are chemicals in chemtrails.

    Most of what you see in a chemtrail is hydrogen hydroxide. (CAS 7732-18-5)

    Hydrogen Hydroxide is a solvent that will dissolve a great many things, including some rocks. It causes corrosion, especially when mixed with sodium chloride. (CAS 7647-14-5) Gaseous HH will cause disfuguring burns upon skin contact. HH has been found in tumors, and brain worms. It’s used as a coolant in industrial applications. Breathing hydrogen hydroxide can cause death.

    I think if you’re worried about chemtrails, you should avoid all exposure to hydrogen hydroxide for the forseeable future.

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    Did we get the final results on what causes Autism? Shouldn’t he finish that conspiracy theory before moving onto chemtrails, or did he just move on when it turned out that thing he heard on facebook that one time wasn’t really the cause?

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      To be fair, there’s only so much a brain worm pulling some puppet strings can really be expected to understand.

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    I’m waiting on his legislation limiting Bigfoot to the Pacific Northwest

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    Reminder that “”“chemtrails”“” behind planes in the sky are water condensation trails (also called contrails) which forms due to the air pressure drop over the top of the wing. It is the same phenomenon as the small cloud produced by the pressure drop when quickly opening a can of a carbonated beverage

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      Most of it is just engine exhaust, which has a lot of water vapor, mixing into the very cold air.

      What you’re talking about happens as well, but that’s not what you’re seeing in the sky for the most part.

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    Once you give up on the principle of evidence-based reasoning, everything is on the table. You can speculate about whatever insane bullshit you want and it doesn’t have to make sense.