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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was predicted - through 1. long term climate models as an inevitable eventuality, with increasing statistical frequency due to human-caused climate change, as well as 2. immediate storm risk from the weather service, in the days and hours ahead of the actual storm event.

They were given every opportunity to prepare, through FEMA flood maps that told them the area was risky, which they shrugged off and dismissed as dumb liberal red tape, what's the harm, it's just a summer camp for kids - EXACTLY the issue, that it is a summer camp for kids - kids who would have a hard time being able to evacuate themselves from a flood.

They were offered funding to improve notification systems, but declined to spend it, because warning sirens are woke, or pansy nanny state crap for gays, or commie big government meant to control us, or whatever other inane garbage that rattles through the heads of Texas MAGAs.

Stop defending them.  Stop shrugging this off.  This was not "god's will" or "nobody could have forseen this" or "nobody could have prevented it" - it was totally preventable and is entirely the fault of irresponsible people making irresponsible decisions.  And that needs to be made known, and it needs to change.  Not just in Texas Hill Country, but all of America.[/quote]

I may agree with you to some extent but that area of Texas and the folks making those decisions are actually politically balanced and far from what we refer to as MAGA country and that fact makes your entire statement feel icky and gross. [/quote]

No, they are not politically balanced.  Kerr County where the tragedy and most of the deaths happened voted 77.71% Trump.   I find it truly weird and perhaps icky in itself that your idea of "politically balanced" is nearly 80% MAGA.  [/quote]

But you're okay with a nearly 80% very very liberal area? Is that kind of "politically balanced" area just fine with you, and you only [b]politicize tragedies[/b] that occur in conservative voting areas?[/quote]

That's the problem with the right wing.  They somehow think their political ideology somehow supersedes the laws of physics.  They think they can talk about "states rights" when it comes to issues like air or water pollution, as if the wind will suddenly stop blowing at the man-made state border and not carry pollutants across it, or that somehow water borne pollutants will somehow magically stop at the state line.  They think they can magically make climate change into a hoax by decree, or legislation, or by defiantly holding up a snowball on the floor of Congress on a February morning.  Sorry but that's not how the laws of physics work.  They heed no man.  And here Republicans think that if they ignore the forces of nature and it ends up wreaking havoc on them that it must be because of evil liberal politics because heaven forbid it could have been that they ignored the forces of nature.[/quote]

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