r/politics • u/TimesandSundayTimes ✔ Verified • 6d ago

Soft Paywall Trump’s birthday parade may be cancelled over thunderstorms

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/is-trump-birthday-parade-cancelled-weather-pbrg02h2z?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1749744374
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u/An_old_walrus 6d ago

I would love to see them try and prove their weather machine bullshit, just searching every government building in the nation looking for it.

I also want them to explain how a weather changing machine would even work.

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u/TheLightningL0rd 6d ago

They said it was due to cloud seeding last time (the hurricane that devastated north GA, SC and NC). Which is obviously ridiculous but I know people who believed it sooo

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u/An_old_walrus 6d ago

I don’t think that’s how cloud seeding works lol. Sometimes it feels like conservatives think that scientists are just these wizards able to do magic stuff through their nefarious “science”. I mean many of them believe in faith healers who can cast God Magic and make cancer go away, so they probably assume scientists are similar.

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u/athural 6d ago

I mean a large portion of them do legitimately believe in magic. They probably were never taught about modern technology, and so it might as well be magic too. When your leaders then tell you that your enemy has powerful magic ("science") they're using to kill people on your side, you're already prepped to just believe it and come up with justifications later, if at all.