Conspiracy theories
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Disaster-Related Misinformation Isn’t Unique to Helene and Milton
The conspiracy playbook focuses on undermining confidence in government and dividing Americans.
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Meteorologists getting death threats.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man and charged him with going armed to the terror of the public after security threats prompted a pause in some FEMA operations around western North Carolina.
William Jacob Parsons, 44, from Bostic was arrested after dispatchers were told a white male holding an assault rifle and making comments about harming FEMA employees.
Parsons has been released on a $10,000 secured bond; deputies said he was armed with a handgun and arifle.
An inspection agency that works as a contractor for the Federal Emergency Management Agency ordered its employees in western North Carolina to cease inspections over the weekend and return to hotels, WBTV confirmed late Sunday night.
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Wow. I totally disagree.
It's not that important but I watched a great video from one of my former members of Congress about this topic.
I'll definitely post it if I find it.
Let's say for the sake of argument FEMA has done what it has done and not done what it has not done.
Let's further stipulate that people on the ground who were hit by the storms and outside observers witnessed both.
You can't say the above without being accused of, "misinformation," (a good Orwellian concept if ever there was one), and, of "being a conspiracy theorist" (a mid-century smear that never gets old).
FEMA has performed the way it has in every natural disaster in my lifetime going back to Katrina and including Lahaina.
Maligning its citizens for free speech is not the behavior of a government in a free society.
And, specifically, it is one one the reasons why the Democratic Party is not only not, "populist,"; it is not popular.
Anyone can write anything on the internet. AI can do it. The reporting about "death threats" does not evoke its intended emotions in me.
FEMA is completely ineffectual in natural disasters and wasteful to an extent that beggars belief.
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Link to video
Who can do anything about this, anyway?
God?
I learned today many homes in my neighborhood of 400 no longer exist.
I'm tired.
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https://www.npr.org/2024/10/16/g-s1-28472/maui-wildfire-survivors-housing-fema?
Is FEMA doing enough for them?
Big Al
