Weatherdammerung 2024: I didn't expect it to get this weird and bad this soon

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Epic High Five: Jun 5, 2004

lol, didn't take long for the extremely normal and extremely racist framing of natural disaster victims trying to survive in the aftermath to come out in full force

# ? Sep 10, 2019 16:55

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# ? May 31, 2024 00:38

The Saucer Hovers: May 16, 2005

i blame the media

# ? Sep 10, 2019 17:25

Main Paineframe: Oct 27, 2010

Epic High Five posted:

lol, didn't take long for the extremely normal and extremely racist framing of natural disaster victims trying to survive in the aftermath to come out in full force

it's extra bad this time because all the recent TRUMP stuff is playing into it

the gun chuds saying "see, this is why people need AR-15s so they can shoot the scary looters" and the Trump chuds saying "see, this is why Trump needed to block the evacuations, wouldn't want those Haitian criminal gangs getting into the US"

# ? Sep 10, 2019 17:26

Addamere: Jan 3, 2010; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

The Painted World of Ariamis is starting to look like a documentary.

# ? Sep 10, 2019 17:32

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Bip Roberts posted:

it must be true

https://mobile.twitter.com/ginaC777/status/1170811789040185344

Pirates on planes! What can we do!

This is right up there with such accurate observations as:

quote:

Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me!

# ? Sep 10, 2019 18:15

Epic High Five: Jun 5, 2004

pirates locking the police up? pirates? wtf?

# ? Sep 10, 2019 18:40

Shima Honnou: Dec 1, 2010; The Once And Future King Of Dicetroit; College Slice

Turns out they would download a car if given the chance.

# ? Sep 10, 2019 18:43

Addamere: Jan 3, 2010; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Shima Honnou posted:

Turns out they would download a car if given the chance.

i would download so many trains and bulldoze so much private property to make room for them

# ? Sep 10, 2019 18:53

Segata Sanshiro: Sep 10, 2011; we can live for nothing
baby i don't care

lose me like the ocean
feel the motion

Epic High Five posted:

pirates locking the police up? pirates? wtf?

shame it takes a monster storm dealing magnum death for this to happen

everyone should become pirates and lock the police up regardless of their local weather or death conditions

# ? Sep 10, 2019 18:57

Main Paineframe: Oct 27, 2010

remember Maria? and how there totally wasn't any corruption at all in the rebuilding?

https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1171450782018760708

# ? Sep 10, 2019 19:27

Gunshow Poophole: Sep 14, 2008; OMBUDSMAN
POSTERS LOCAL 42069; Clapping Larry

Main Paineframe posted:

remember Maria? and how there totally wasn't any corruption at all in the rebuilding?

https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1171450782018760708

sorry

i only remember sailor

# ? Sep 10, 2019 19:33

Segata Sanshiro: Sep 10, 2011; we can live for nothing
baby i don't care

lose me like the ocean
feel the motion

"cobra energy" really love how openly dystopian the corporate names are getting. it's right up there with "dyncorp"

just go balls out and give us yoyodyne and shinra and weyland-yutani at this point

# ? Sep 10, 2019 19:45

Polo-Rican: Jul 4, 2004; emptyquote my posts or die

This is the only Bahamas-related story on the front page of cnn right now lol

these people are going to get 0 support from the US.

# ? Sep 10, 2019 19:50

Taintrunner: Apr 10, 2017; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Main Paineframe posted:

remember Maria? and how there totally wasn't any corruption at all in the rebuilding?

https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1171450782018760708

they can burn in piss with that woman who was scamming the government with her packed lunches made up of the cheapest inedible poo poo possible

# ? Sep 10, 2019 19:50

Taintrunner: Apr 10, 2017; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Polo-Rican posted:

This is the only Bahamas-related story on the front page of cnn right now lol

these people are going to get 0 support from the US.

the real news ladies and gentlemen

# ? Sep 10, 2019 19:50

Addamere: Jan 3, 2010; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Polo-Rican posted:

This is the only Bahamas-related story on the front page of cnn right now lol

these people are going to get 0 support from the US.

What do you expect us to do, just give them money? Tsk, tsk. If they want money, they can extract it from our tourists, one trafficked child sex worker and pi�a colada at a time!

# ? Sep 10, 2019 19:54

the bitcoin of weed: Nov 1, 2014

Main Paineframe posted:

remember Maria? and how there totally wasn't any corruption at all in the rebuilding?

https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1171450782018760708

the official white house position is that all of the corruption was from & by the elected politicians of puerto rico, rather than tump and all his friends and the people they hired

# ? Sep 10, 2019 19:57

Addamere: Jan 3, 2010; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

the bitcoin of weed posted:

the official white house position is that all of the corruption was from & by the elected politicians of puerto rico, rather than tump and all his friends and the people they hired

well trump only hires the best people so

# ? Sep 10, 2019 20:01

Goatse James Bond: Mar 28, 2010; If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Main Paineframe posted:

remember Maria? and how there totally wasn't any corruption at all in the rebuilding?

https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1171450782018760708

i know some dudes who contracted for cobra energy for this

this is my surprised face at the news :geno:

# ? Sep 10, 2019 20:20

Bro Dad: Mar 26, 2010

Feranon posted:

"cobra energy" really love how openly dystopian the corporate names are getting. it's right up there with "dyncorp"

just go balls out and give us yoyodyne and shinra and weyland-yutani at this point

Wikipedia posted:

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On March 6, 2014, Cerberus announced a Definitive Merger Agreement with already owned Albertsons and Safeway.[39]
On November 13, 2015, Cerberus Capital Management agreed a deal to buy �13 billion ($16.5 billion) of sub prime mortgages from UK Asset Resolution (UKAR).[40]
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On May 27, 2016, Cerberus Capital Management sold its 57% stake in Blue Bird Corporation, the independent designer and manufacturer of school buses, to an affiliate of American Securities.[43]
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 20:36

Addamere: Jan 3, 2010; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

lol

# ? Sep 10, 2019 20:37

mike12345: Jul 14, 2008; "Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."

Looking forward to the first press realease from Global Armaggedon Hedge Funds

# ? Sep 10, 2019 20:45

Rated PG-34: Jul 1, 2004

Polo-Rican posted:

This is the only Bahamas-related story on the front page of cnn right now lol

these people are going to get 0 support from the US.

the bahamas should let plebs open offshore accounts there so i can support them by opening one

# ? Sep 10, 2019 21:10

Doktor Avalanche: Dec 30, 2008

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Pirates on planes! What can we do!

Look at me! I'm the pilot now.

# ? Sep 10, 2019 22:39

Lastgirl: Sep 7, 1997; Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Polo-Rican posted:

This is the only Bahamas-related story on the front page of cnn right now lol

these people are going to get 0 support from the US.

have you considered going right into the heart of Nassau? Forget the yucky island with all the dead bodies, here's where you can still have fun.

Reminder that the Fyre Festival fraud destroyed local businesses and unpaid construction workers and has never been compensated, legally. They literally stole from natives.

# ? Sep 10, 2019 22:59

Segata Sanshiro: Sep 10, 2011; we can live for nothing
baby i don't care

lose me like the ocean
feel the motion

colonialism never died it just got privatized

# ? Sep 10, 2019 23:38

HugeGrossBurrito: Mar 20, 2018

why isn�t the queen of the Bahamas doing anything to help?

# ? Sep 11, 2019 00:23

Niton: Oct 21, 2010; Your Lord and Savior has finally arrived!

..got any kibble?

HugeGrossBurrito posted:

why isn�t the queen of the Bahamas doing anything to help?

she shut down the govt bc bojo asked her to

# ? Sep 11, 2019 00:53

Ayin: Jan 6, 2010; Have a great day.

Lastgirl posted:

Deliberate Negligence in lieu of zero accountability is the new genocide.

Put them in miserable life or death situations and let them all sort it out on their own. Concentration camps, Puerto Rico, Bahamas.

"It's not genocide if their pleas are just being actively ignored while we fan ourselves with stacks of money!"

"Let them eat antibiotics :shrug:

# ? Sep 11, 2019 01:25

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Lastgirl posted:

have you considered going right into the heart of Nassau? Forget the yucky island with all the dead bodies, here's where you can still have fun.

Reminder that the Fyre Festival fraud destroyed local businesses and unpaid construction workers and has never been compensated, legally. They literally stole from natives.

was that fundraising effort after the documentaries came out also a scam?

# ? Sep 11, 2019 01:36

Agean90: Jun 28, 2008

Feranon posted:

colonialism never died it just got privatized

I'm the case of missionaries it never even died, just got ignored.

# ? Sep 11, 2019 05:28

Agean90: Jun 28, 2008

just remembered about that one idiot who tried to do missionary poo poo on North sentinal island and immediatly got killed by the locals lmaooooooooooo

# ? Sep 11, 2019 05:34

PostNouveau: Sep 3, 2011; VY till I die; Grimey Drawer

Agean90 posted:

just remembered about that one idiot who tried to do missionary poo poo on North sentinal island and immediatly got killed by the locals lmaooooooooooo

# ? Sep 11, 2019 07:16

Shyrka: Feb 10, 2005; Small Boss likes to spin!

If any humans deserve to survive the climate hellworld to come, it's the Sentinelese.

# ? Sep 11, 2019 10:35

Rogue Copter Pilot: Apr 12, 2005; a dead whale or a stove boat

Shyrka posted:

If any humans deserve to survive the climate hellworld to come, it's the Sentinelese.

they're probably as garbage as the rest of us, they've just got less technology. none of us are without sin

# ? Sep 11, 2019 11:42

Epic High Five: Jun 5, 2004

Agean90 posted:

just remembered about that one idiot who tried to do missionary poo poo on North sentinal island and immediatly got killed by the locals lmaooooooooooo

the body just lay rotting on the beach because nobody could get to the island to recover it lol

# ? Sep 11, 2019 18:04

Woof Blitzer: Dec 29, 2012; [-]

Rogue Copter Pilot posted:

they're probably as garbage as the rest of us, they've just got less technology. none of us are without sin

Get a load of John Calvin over here!

# ? Sep 11, 2019 18:22

Stairmaster: Jun 8, 2012

Rogue Copter Pilot posted:

they're probably as garbage as the rest of us, they've just got less technology. none of us are without sin

Capitalism is not the natural state of being friend

# ? Sep 11, 2019 18:26

Addamere: Jan 3, 2010; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Stairmaster posted:

Capitalism is not the natural state of being friend

humans are naturally socialistic tribesfolk who will pack bond with almost anything

# ? Sep 11, 2019 18:27

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# ? May 31, 2024 00:38

Epic High Five: Jun 5, 2004

tribal societies have something like a 10% year on year rate of death from warfare, just because it'd be wrong to exploit and destroy something doesn't mean it'd be best to emulate it

# ? Sep 11, 2019 18:31

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