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That’s always the problem with these sort of conspiracy theories, if the government or big media could control the weather, why isn’t it optimized for maximum growth? Why would they be throwing tornados and other natural disasters out that wreck productivity? This is why these things always end up falling back on anti-Semitic cabals to explain their delusions.
Persecution complex, as well. They so, so, so badly want to be in an action movie where they're the hero who fights against the Deep State. And the Deep State does evil things for the sake of being evil. It's what happens when you believe the British hated liberty and freedom, which is why the American Revolution took place.
The cognitive dissonance of defending the status quo while also dressing up in the aesthetics of the revolutionary founding of the country goes a long way to explain why American conservatives are so unhinged.
Well, they very much did/do. Just turns out the founding fuhrers weren’t very big on it either.
americans view the world like they live in a comic book movie, there's always some cartoonish villain cackling in a lair doing eeeevil for some reason
If we had the ability to control the weather, do we use the tech to guarantee ample rainfall and stable temperatures in agricultural regions to ensure successful crops? Maybe bring rain to drought and fire stricken areas? Nah, let's use it to send floods and tornadoes against ourselves.
Most Americans fundamentally do not believe the government can help you.
They think It can only hurt you.
Except for the military and police which magically get a pass from being part of the state.
well the military and police are hurting the right people (foreign, brown, commie, etc), so that's completely different
Thinking the US can create extreme weather but there's never been a series of tornadoes preceding a US military action. Some people have way more faith in the restraint of capital than I do.
If you look at all the graft and externalized costs that the state enables for business owners, I don't think it's a stretch to say that if private businesses were building weather control machines then local governments would probably be giving cushy contracts to local tornado-generating-machine magnates to just do whatever in exchange for a lifted pickup truck or whatever. We do live in a world where the government is currently shooting itself in the dick over and over for private profits while chortling about how owned we all are.
No, the fatal flaw with the idea is that they'd be bragging about all the "jobs" the tornado factories were producing, because even though the world runs on the dumbest graft possible they also can't keep a secret to save their lives and know that no matter how awful the truth is no one will actually care enough to stop them.