Originally published at: Marjorie Taylor Greene says "They" control the weather and caused Hurricane Helene - Boing Boing
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It takes a profound level of cognitive dissonance to take it as a given that humans have technology to control individual weather events but to simultaneously believe that human activity is not capable of impacting the global climate.
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… article posted by Allan Rose Hill
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“They” meaning the petroleum and automobile industry over the past 100 years. I wouldn’t say they have very granular control over the weather, however.
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Well it global warming that heats the atmosphere which makes the storms so much more devastating and global warming is for the most part human caused and we can control further carbon emissions to slow or reverse global warming so yes we can control the weather
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who or what is they??
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Empty Gee is catastrophically gullible.
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I suggest she would be:
Common conspiracists—the attention-getters
You don’t have to be a profiteer to like some attention. Plenty of regular people share content where they doubt the veracity or know it is false.
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I think there is also a strong dose of Combative conspiracists – the disinformants. Just not on behalf of governments like that article mentions, but on behalf of oligarchs. There is a long tradition of right-wing assholes saying anything that allows them to reject climate change, so that oil companies can keep making money at the expense of everyone on earth…and if we’ve reached the point where it’s ridiculous to claim it’s not real, well, here is Greene being ridiculous.
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Oh, I doubt there are any trolls that are exclusive to one category. More like building a D&D character, with different strengths to different attributes. Although this would be more “levels of assholery.”
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In any given situation, you can always count on ol’ Marge to go there.
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…or, given such ostensible, & nearly unthinkabke, technical prowess, that they wouldn’t just directly flip the election.
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Oh, no, by “they” she means Joe Biden and the Democrat party, who are controlled by George Soros… the oil and car industries are merely innocent victims of this conspiracy…
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You are right marjorie, we do control the weather and more. So just give up before it gets worse.
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I think she’s trying out for a position with the Ghostbusters:
Janine Melnitz : Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?
Winston Zeddemore : Ah, if there’s a steady paycheck in it, I’ll believe anything you say.
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Weird that Trump was president for four years and privy to all US secrets but never figured out that the US had weather control. If only he paid attention during security briefings.
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She can’t blame climate change on the Jews (because then they’d be responsible for global the oil industry, car driving, etc. that she thinks are good), so…
I was trying to figure out if she thinks the weather control power resides in the hands of the president, but Trump didn’t get access (because “deep state”), or it’s a non-governmental cabal that possesses the technology (and is enacting it to benefit the Democrats), but then I realized I was giving her too much credit for this being an actual belief and not a disingenuous claim intended to appeal to conspiracy theorists in bad faith.
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She can’t acknowledge the reality of global climate change at all, because that would mean conceding it’s a problem that the government should address in some way.
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