None of this addresses any of my arguments. As I said, if cloud seeding is implemented in such a way that depends on public support, then it will fail, and if it fails, it’ll do more harm than good. It’s like saying, “What we’re doing now isn’t working and we need to do something, so I’m going to burn down a forest.” If it’s not going to work, then we shouldn’t do it, no matter how desperate we are.

One of the big problems with environmental issues is the delay between cause and effect. Even in the best case scenario, all you’d be doing is increasing that disconnect. People are going to have to see and the consequences if we’re ever going to change. You’re just buying time for us to keep fucking around, but the more time we have to fuck around without finding out, the worse the problem will get.

I’m not inherently opposed to cloud seeding - but only once we’re on the right track. If we have a solid plan towards recovery and just need a bit more time to make it through a tight spot, then sure. But if we’re just spiraling, then it’s just enabling us the make the problem worse. Even in the worst-case scenario you describe, it’s still more of a problem of having the willpower to direct effort and resources at the problem than it being physically impossible to address.

We’re talking about a project that would require long-term, generational buy in or it’ll blow up in our faces, and apparently the only way to do it, even now, is apparently to lie about it and go behind everyone’s backs. That’s not how science is done, it’s highly unethical and erodes public trust in science, and there will be backlash. Every time there’s been a news article about a state “banning chemtrails,” the headline is lying and what they’re actually banning are these sorts of experiments, with that political will already present at the state level, I don’t see a program like this lasting even a decade, let alone a century. And that’s assuming there are no unexpected side effects, imagine running on, “Chemtrails are real and giving you cancer but we have to keep doing them, for the environment,” and that platform has to win every election forever. And you’re lecturing the skeptics about “hubris?”

Even if you ignore the political problems, it’s a temporary, stopgap solution. You’ve got this all backwards, if we do this without addressing the root problem of emissions, things will keep getting worse until we’re in the exact same boat down the road but also we have to keep doing cloud seeding forever. And if your plan is to just increase the intensity of cloud seeding indefinitely to address that, then congrats on finding the closest real thing to the Futurama solution of “dropping ever larger ice cubes into the ocean.”

You obviously don’t know the history of voting tests. In the US, tests were designed to be virtually impossible for anyone to pass, but white voters didn’t have to take them, because the rule was you didn’t have to take the test if your grandparents could vote. They were implemented in a racist way.

You want to trust the government to design and implement tests, that sort of thing is what it could easily lead to, whether you want it or not.

Number 11 says, “cross out the number,” as in, only one number. Pretty sure you have to cross out “1” so that it’s just a bunch of zeros.

I don’t understand why gun control people want taxes on gun-related stuff. If someone’s going to go do a mass shooting, you really think another $200 on an attachment is gonna stop them. It’s mainly going to penalize collectors like this guy, and there’s zero difference in public safety between someone owning 26 vs 27 suppressors.

You don’t want people to have suppressors, ban them. If you’re not banning them, leave them be. Taxes and fees are just the worst of both worlds.

How and when did Tennessee become worse than Texas and Florida?

When Haslam retired. Which he did because he saw the writing on the wall that there was no longer a place for him.

Haslam wasn’t good, but as a corporate lackey, he just wanted to keep the machine running, he wasn’t ideologically committed to all the christofascist culture war bullshit, and would push back on it when it would rock the boat too much. For a few years, he held back the rising tide of fascism and the state was less bad than most of its neighbors. But as soon as he left, there was a massive wave of legislation making up for lost time. The people running things now are fascist idiots, whether ideologues or opportunists, unrestrained by conscience or reason. If Fox News runs a story about something, there will be legislation about it within a week.

How did things get this bad? Because the corporate lackies created the material conditions for it. They were happy to work with and spur on the christofascists because it gets them voting Republican. And now they’ve created a beast they can no longer control or restrain.

When you put it that way, it is pretty unbelievable that a US politician would follow through on a promise 🤔

You mentioned that I may want to deflect the responsibility from Biden. -> I don’t have such interests.

Again, why did you feel the need to say that you don’t care about internal US politics when I didn’t say shit about internal US politics?

Whoever did it

Yeah, could be Russia’s biggest geopolitical rival that directly benefited both politically and economically by forcing Europe to buy their gas instead and which said that it would do that exact thing under those exact conditions and easily have the means to do it, or it could’ve been anyone, really.

No, I’m not. I just said that this post was likely Russian propaganda. That’s it.

Because the post criticized the fact that American citizens get zero say over foreign policy, you assumed it was “likely Russian propaganda.”

Maybe you should engage in some critical reflection instead of repeating whatever imperialist genocidal powers tell you to think.

I do, you should try it yourself sometime, bootlicker.

Yes, because you’re claiming that anyone who doesn’t fall in line with your Orwellian “five minutes hate” is a traitor. That’s the definition of bootlicking.

I never denied that Russia has propaganda. I do deny your assumption that anyone who isn’t slobbering over US boots must automatically be licking Russian boots, that anyone who doesn’t do like you do and fall in lockstep behind hating whoever the people in power tell us to hate must be a traitor or spy.

Keep denouncing anyone who’s antiwar for their lack of patriotism, you’re making Goering proud.

Why would I want to deflect blame from Biden? I’m telling you that I’m a European and I don’t care who’s in charge in the US or which president did what.

Why did you feel the need to say that you don’t care about internal US politics when I didn’t say shit about internal US politics?

All I did was post a clip of the US president promising that he’ll stop NordStream if Russia invaded Ukraine, despite not having the legal authority to do so. Then, of course, Russia invaded Ukraine, and the NordStream pipeline mysteriously got stopped (could be anyone, really!)

because that sabotage was very convenient for every party

It certainly wasn’t convenient for Russia or Germany.

Ok? The significance of the clip I posted was not that it was Biden saying it but what he said he would do (and very likely did). Why did that prompt you say, “FYI: in the EU we don’t play the “it was Biden vs it was Trump” game. We stop at “it was the US?””

The reason I posted that clip was to establish the reason why I believe the US blew up the pipeline. Yes, it happens to be Biden in that clip, but you’re the one who started talking about distinguishing between Trump and Biden and then about not distinguishing between Trump and Biden. I’m just talking about the US.

The only thing I can think of is that you’re trying to preemptively shift the NordStream thing away from Biden and onto the US in general as a way of deflecting blame from Biden. But again, I just brought it up to establish US policy on NordStream, not specifically to bash Biden. If it’s not that, then I just straight up don’t understand you at all.

You literally just said that it was because of Republicans that the EU soured on the US and now you’re telling me that in the EU you don’t look at which party is in charge but at the US as a whole. Do you not see how these statements are contradictory?

Republicans just convinced Europe that the USA cannot be trusted anymore

FYI: in the EU we don’t play the “it was Biden vs it was Trump” game. We stop at “it was the US”.

What?

Naturally, the common people don’t want war. . . but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

Fucking bootlicker.

https://youtube.com/shorts/FVbEoZXhCrM

Personally, I sub out the chlorine for hydrogen and oxygen, which I know are safe because that’s what’s in water. It also helps keep my soup nice and warm whenever I sprinkle it in.

Eating sodium chloride is kind of insane. It would be like if you took my stuff and poured a bunch of hydrochloric acid on it and then sprinkled that all over your food. Yeah, no thanks.

More or less agree with your take, but:

I am reasonably confident this would not have happened in a Dem regime.

I’m fairly confident in my memory that Israel attacked Syria under Biden, taking advantage of the instability to expand it’s illegal settlements in the Golan Heights. Am I wrong?

As opposed to Biden merely calling their decisions “outrageous” and strongly condemning them while supporting Netanyahu after they issued a warrant for his arrest.

I’m not sure how that’s connected to Syria, tbh.