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Erwin TN after Helene Storm (lemmy.world)
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[+] 126 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)
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  • [–] [S] 57 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I live here and I am not voting that way. I am hoping this wakes some of my ignorant neighbors up.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I assure you they will find a way to blame the blue team that is easily defeated with logic and facts but they will have already made up their mind.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I kid you not, on Xitter they already argued that the increase in flooding is due to the clearing of forests for wind turbines. Also that wind turbines slow down cloud drift so much that much more rain falls in an area. So, wind turbines are the evil cause for all that.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ugh these motherfuckers get literally every grain of truth wrong. Trees do prevent flooding(studied to be an arborist and utilizing trees in urban environments for cooling and flood control), BUT the amount of trees cleared for wind turbines is negligible compared to what we've cut down for parking lots and industrial complexes(pavement increases flooding).

    Besides, no amount of trees is going to take care of that amount of rainfall in that period of time. Even if everything was forest there's only so much they can absorb. Some of them would uproot and tip over from the ground becoming so water logged. I've seen it happening in our forests from an unusually wet summer. Entire portions of forest where the trees just fell over from too much water in the soil after 3 years of drought.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    See how many words and how much energy it takes to properly explain the situation thoughtfully? The morons spreading those falsehoods don't need to expend nearly as much time/energy because they're just lying.

    It's at the point now that conservatives are willing to accept anything in place of the truth as long as it suits their agenda. Guess they could be called "Not-Sees" given their tendency to embrace blatant lies while ignoring obvious and clear truths.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How can you believe in this? The degree of brainwash is incredibly high.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Repeat a lie often enough and people believe it. Especially if you get then angry first so critical thinking is shut down. Help that along with social media echo chambers and 24/7 "news" broadcasts. Add cult of personality around it and you get this.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Tennessee and Kentucky are far more purple than conventional thought gives them credit for.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fr not only do they lose the popular vote.. even the red states aren't all 80/20.. there are miserable intelligent Americans everywhere and nobody gives a shit. I've lived in blue bubbles my whole life and spent a ton of time in red places with red people (stop, you know what I mean), and there are always normal blue people. And most red people are only a disinformation or two away from being with it. Unfortunately that's all it takes in a two party system and they game it well. Take away angels and abortion and before the hell cult, most Americans are half decent and not Nazis.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    That was the thing about Arizona it took the Democrats realizing it was a purple state and they should vote. That's why these states seem to flip so suddenly. Then of course it's a decade or two wait to get a state legislature that's not gerrymandered to hell and back.

    With the abortion issue there's new organizing going on in a bunch of previously locked down red states.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Take away Memphis and see how much the hue of Tennessee shifts towards 0°.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Take away New York, or Baltimore, or Detroit, or any city really. It has long since ceased to be a state level thing. The system however is still running like it's the 1840's.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Tennessee is somewhat of an outlier, as its other major cities skew red, though at least in part artificially so. Nashville, for example, is part of three different districts now, the 5th, 6th, and 7th. It's been lost to gerrymandering. Knoxville, in the 2nd, and Chattanooga in the 3rd are heavily Republican cities.

    The 4th contains conservative-leaning private universities and suburbs of Nashville and Chattanooga.

    The 9th District, colloquially "Memphis" in my previous statement, is the only district in the state that currently has a significantly strong Democratic voter base. If anything, it became even more blue after the 2023 re-districting moved part of East Memphis to the already conservative 8th district.

    Of the districts other than Memphis, the 5th, which can be thought of as the ghost of Nashville, is the closest to even resembling purple; even so, it has a CVPI of R+9.

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  • [+] 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 68 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    Sorry for the losses but shit like this is caused by ignorance for and/or denial of climate change and its causes.

    Don't use the victims to silence the solution which indeed is better policies to avoid or at least dampen the impacts of climate change. And it is a political problem that can only be solved by voting for those who take care of the problem and don't deny it.

    I wish you and all the people there all the best. And as soon as you're all safe please make sure you all go and fucking vote.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Unicoi county went for Bernie in the 2016 primaries. It's a very small town that has gone through a lot of shit trying to claw it's way out of horrendously bad politics in the 80s and prior. Bumpass cove, where I'm sure some of worst damage was, was the site of nuclear waste dumping, and has been the nucleus of a major swing to the left for a lot of people in the area. Right down the road is Johnson City, a very progressive college town. Dumping on the victims of a disaster because their neighbors, or even they, have shitty politics is a shitty thing to do. Maybe those school kids deserve to get shot because their grandpappy is a Republican? Yes, moments like this should be catalysts for change, but victim blaming isn't the route to take to that.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Bumpass cove is not a nuclear waste dump site. However, there is a chemical dump site there.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm not the most familiar with the story, so many I'm remembering wrong. But I googled it to make sure before I posted that.

    PDF the screen shot is from

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Yes, the lawsuits by the community collations belived nuclear waste was being dumped from the nearby NFS, but the NRC would have been all over their ass for doing so.

    The NRC clearly states there is no nuclear waste there. https://web.archive.org/web/20170325023938/https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0930/ML093010711.pdf

    Now there may be chemical dumped from the deenrichment processing, but when I researched into this topic a while back, all my sources lead all the chemicals was coming from the chem plants in Kingsport, mainly eastman.

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    NO. I watched rural Republicans laughing that my state was on fire. I saw them saying we deserve it because of "something something heathens". Nobody deserves it. This is a national spotlight and I'm going to be as clear as day. We have one party who flat out denies climate change, which is directly causing all of this. We have another party who is not doing nearly enough, but at least have some plans. This is absolutely a political problem, because voting for the party who actively denied this is happening is slapping you in the face. You should absolutely be angry at them. People's houses floated away and that party is shrugging and sending thoughts and prayers. Being active now is the empathetic approach.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Northerners just assume everyone in the South are ignorant conservatives. There’s no such thing as a red or blue state, it’s all shades of purple.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean, northerners assume that bc on average it's mostly true. Southern states are absolutely full of ignorant people that prefer to stay ignorant and ignore the world around them. Roll coal baby! Let's get rid of the dept of ed fuck yeah. Get rid of NOAA what's it do for me?

    I live in a deep red southern state, with a purplish metro area 150 miles away. 99% of my state will continue to vote for stupid policies that are bad for the state and the world at large. Red states exist bc the constituents vote that way.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It’s the same in the North though. The divide is rural vs metropolitan.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    This is true. My extended family leans conservative but is from the far north(think border of Canada north.) It's honestly really weird how the more rural you get, the more republican people are.

    However, my cousins and the younger members are far more left than the older members(are lgtbq friendly, support BLM, acknowledge climate change is real ect) some of them left the area and some stayed, but in general the difference in generations has given me some hope.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    At a national level, I think some of it just comes down to resentment at popular policies being blocked, largely because of lawmakers from southern and midwestern states. I'd also wager context plays a part in this. Sure, NY has its share of rural Republican voters, but our dumbfuck GOP voters mostly manage to just mess things up for our own urban areas, appropriating funds from the MTA budget to build bridges to nowhere in their home districts so they can point and cry about those god-damned socialists in NYC not even being able to manage the budget for a single agency (that they actively work to undermine) so they can further gut public services.

    Sure, it's not ideal, but at least we're (mostly) only hurting ourselves. GOP Congress-men and -women from southern and midwestern states collectively hold the rest of the nation hostage through their disproportionate impact on the Senate. Whether it's climate change, student loan forgiveness, universal healthcare, packing the Supreme Court, or any of numerous other issues, these states hold others with vastly larger populations hostage, impeding broadly popular policies in a profoundly anti-democratic fashion.

    It may not be fair to the non-GOP voters in those states, it may be misdirected resentment, but I don't think it's all that difficult to understand why people from majority Democrat, northern states might be kind of tired of the south and midwest's collective shit at this point. If the GOP-leaning demographics in those states could either be dropped into a volcano, or, failing this, soundly beaten at the ballot, it would go a long way towards addressing this stereotype

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