Heard a pretty harrowing story from my family there that a group of about 20 people came in for funeral, rented a big house in a rural area, and then the house was destroyed with them in it, killing them. Hearing all sorts of other things too, people being found dead in mud, under debris, etc. Everyone knows the death count must be much higher than just 200
Over 220 dead as of an hour ago
Very real Tweets I have received:
Why is the government responsible for an act of God? Call your insurance company. Get what youre owed. Why is this confusing?
I’ll take an imperfect democracy over a dictarship [SIC] every time and call it a win
Stein? Man, if I wanted a MAGA putin puppet I’d just vote for trump
Explain to me how student debt is somehow different from car debt, mortgage debt, and medical debt (!!!) such that borrowers should just be allowed to not pay it? Why is student debt special—especially when having a degree makes you MORE financially mobile.
So funny that a Trumptard is talking about being duped. The MAGAt cult is a sight to behold. [Response to a suggested 3rd party vote]
Why is the government responsible for an act of God? Call your insurance company. Get what youre owed. Why is this confusing?
Why is the insurance company responsible for an act of God? Call the government. Get what youre owed. Why is this confusing?
what do you mean? people living in the mountains of NC definitely had flood insurance.
I was pointing out how stupid the argument of the highlighted tweet was.
It’s a non argument and the opposite can also be said about the government.
In this case, both insurance and the government have the duty to help their customers and citizens.
Just 20 years ago a similar hurricane by the name of Katrina rocked the nation and was part of the 24 he news cycle for months. Katrina was (and rightfully so) a huge deal in America, and recognized as a mega traumatizing event.
It’s amazing to me how jaded the American public and media have become in that time, to where this disaster hardly even makes the news and is forgotten before it’s even joever.
I’m honestly not quite sure what to think of it. Have we become so calloused to the idea of climate change that this isn’t newsworthy? Is this more reflective of the corporate capture of media, and insurers not wanting to pay out for destroyed homes and lives? Or is this just secondary to the overriding effort to further a new war in the Middle East?
I think investors and the US government got a lot better at controlling the news during the Bush administration, and in the intervening 16-20 years, media people have built their entire careers in that environment. The state department gives the juiciest war news to people who parrot their press releases, so those people advance. The news companies are owned by billionaires with other more profitable investments than the news, who can block advancement for anyone who pushes a story that’d hurt one of those, including talking about climate change. People who do well in this sort of environment have had 20 years to float to the top, and don’t need any special coercion to keep pushing the latest war and ignoring something that might be inconvenient to an investor.
we may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror
