Worth pointing out whenever a story about these “militia” occurs:
Anti-government militia
Evil criminal gang
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
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every time there’s a tornado that siren goes off! destroy the siren! clearly the siren is causing this!
truly middle ages villager level of brain power
Middle ages peasantry is much more sophisticated in thinking than these people
My cat has a more comprehensive and accurate understanding of how the clicker relates to treats than these people.
This is actually very unfair to villagers.
Atleast they have the excuse of not knowing any better.
Nowadays between public libraries and the internet, there is no excuse other than malice.
The thing about American Chud ignorance is it's largely willful. This kind of shit isn't due to some lack of opportunity robbing these people of knowledge, they do this shit as a demonstration of their reactionary anti-materialism. They're so reactionary they want to return to feudal mysticism, they are just lashing out against modern science. Deep down they know it's BS but it's BS they hope will lead them back to the dark ages.
So they DO believe in climate change. Just not the one with empirical evidence and all that
It is the logical next step if you think of it. Until now they've been able to ignore climate change but as the crisis increases the consequences of climate change becomes more and more noticeable they have to explain it somehow. The actual explanation is out if the question but blaming climate change on the woke trans Jews or whatever fits perfectly into their preexisting worldviiew.
Maybe there's a good reason to keep the state beyond just class contradictions
No way man, I'm tired of living under the tyranny of being told it's going to rain today! 
An anti-government group
says it is targeting oklahoma weather radars,
lol, these people saw the Weather Underground and their Weathermen mentioned once somewhere and just RAN with it 
A global cabal is changing the weather, resulting in catastrophic heat and storms!
You mean through greenhouse gasses and habitat destruction, right?
No. It's local TV weathermen with their doppler radars!
Think about it, if the weather didn’t change all the time, the weathermen would be out of a job - that’s why Big Weather uses their radar to control the weather 
The Weather Girls said it's raining men! We have to put a stop to this!
[Chief meteorologist David] Payne added that he wishes it were that easy.
“I wish we could turn it on and say, 'oh, let's make that tornado go away,' but our weather radar and all of the weather radars in the U.S. are built strictly to inform and warn the public, and to keep the public safe -- and that's exactly why we have our live radar."
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.
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
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
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 British hated liberty and freedom
Well, they very much did/do. Just turns out the founding fuhrers weren’t very big on it either.
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.
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 the government or big media could control the weather, why isn’t it optimized for maximum growth?
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.
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 cooked society on earth
As a weather nerd, this kind of shit infuriates me most.
On my city's local doppler radar, there's a hilltop some distance away that shows up as red or yellow blotches on the raw radar feed. This has been like this ever since the radar was first put online in 1995. It's literally unavoidable unless they move the dish somewhere else.
Most weather apps have algorithms that filter out this kind of ground clutter, but every now and then the algorithms miss it, and the spots become visible.
Literally every time it would happen, people on the local Facebook communities ask what it is and most of the responses range from wrong to conspiratorial, while the correct answers are met with "laugh" reactions (Facebook's unofficial "down vote" button).
if I was the Weather Chairwoman I would have the density of doppler radars doubled or tripled. there are so many areas where the beams only show 8000ft+ reflectivity or velocity
I like when there’s some kind of radar artefact that shows up as a straight line of “cloud” or whatever emanating out from the radar dish(?), the cookers love theorising around that lol.
(I have no idea about weather radar I hope this comment makes sense).
I swear I have seen this exact scenario in some absurd cartoon or some shit. "How do the meteorologists know when and where a storm is hit? Because they are causing them and controlling them with their demonic satellite dishes! That's how!"
Like we are back to fucking witch burning levels of hysterical superstition. We are so cooked lmao.
And they’re all the same people who would say “don’t be silly, billionaires would never willingly hurt us!”
America never abandoned superstition.
They were shooting at power stations a couple of years ago. Because climate change is woke or something.
I think the ones who like to shoot at the grid are doing it because they think if the power is out for extended periods across the US then a race war will suddenly begin
all you gotta do is press the right buttons and then race war happens or something
They also think they legally become the government if they stand inside an official building for long enough
Oklahoma gets nasty fucking tornadoes
If another EF-5 hits the OKC metro area and radars offline then fuck are they cooked. Especially if it's rain-wrapped.
..... finger of god
i mean, let them fuck themselves for a change.
They're fucking everyone, including people whose lives are already emiserated and precarious, and have nothing to do with these superstitions.
How's that post-truth treating you these days, America?
America is really racing to the lowest common denominator
imperial collapse into dark ages speedrun
The fear of HAARP being applied to Doppler7 at the WTMJ station was the logical end goal here