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Horrible flooding has struck Texas. Over 100 people are dead and about 20 or 40 are still missing. Here's how the Economic Times is covering this from London:
And this is a reminder that government cannot be run like a business.
Government is to provide safety services for its citizens. We all know that climate change is absolutely real. And if you don't think it's real, capitalism thinks it's real. The oil and gas industry had reports in the 1970s that proved it was real, and they covered it up, just like the tobacco industry covered up cancer and death. This is a country that has always valued, in times like these, deference to corporations and profit over ways to insert preventable measures to make sure this doesn't happen again.
There are stories everywhere that this has to do with the DOGE cuts from Elon Musk to the National Weather Service. They're understaffed, and whenever you see a preventable tragedy, you would think your government would do everything in their power to try to prevent a future one.
But in the United States, we've been primed to say our government doesn't care.
Our government supports the lobbyists and, billionaires. Look at the gun industry. We still continue to have shootings every single day in the United States of America. Nobody does anything about it.
And I just want to flag that while this is going on. While there is a direct link between defunding the NOAA and the National Weather Service, there is a direct link that the defunding of that led to improper and incomplete weather reporting that could have saved the lives of people in Texas. They always go back to race-baiting. One of which is Trump's top advisor, Laura Loomer:
Okay, the racism - just they are so proud of it now.
And this is something that so many people have tried to fight the good fight for social justice, and reckoning this horrific racist past that we have.
Laura Loomer is the same person that identified that alligators could kill 65 million immigrants. Ironically, there are 65 million Latinos in this country.
If that isn't Hitler Nazi shit, then I don't know what is.
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