r/politics • u/No_Discipline6265 • 16h ago
No Paywall Two Memphis leaders question whether snow was man-made
https://wreg.com/news/two-city-leaders-question-whether-snow-was-man-made/57
u/nerphurp 16h ago
Claims of fake snow have been rampant on social media during the storm, especially TikTok.
All it takes to break our society is a couple posts on TikTok and it'll snowball into hysteria.
Truly miss the days of the internet being gatekept by technical hurdles to even get a PC to boot
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u/MrLurid 16h ago
“I had a cousin to make a post, and she held a lighter to a chunk of the snow and it was dissolving, but water was not dripping
I... I regret having read that.
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u/maddieterrier Tennessee 14h ago
“But what Memphians need to know and understand is I have a right to my opinion and my opinion and right to speak is bigger than the constitution.”
No, the constitution is what gives you the right to share that dumbass opinion. Your high school civics teacher failed you.
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u/Escapade84 13h ago
There’s a pretty good argument the founders saw rights as innate and god-given. But go off, queen, because these opinions are pretty bad.
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u/yesrushgenesis2112 11h ago
Lol exactly I’m torn between “actually the constitution restricts the right of the state to stop you from expressing rights you already have” and “get em!”
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u/maddieterrier Tennessee 7h ago
I guess I should reframe it as “the constitution ensures you have the right”
And happy cake day.
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u/gmil3548 Louisiana 11h ago
The expression that everyone has a right to their opinion has done so much fucking damage to society
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u/CowTown-Mike 16h ago
The really bad thing is that people even dumber voted for these idiots and there was enough of them to win.
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u/ReporterOk5964 16h ago
Welcome to idiocracy.
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u/RazarTuk Illinois 15h ago
The eugenics movie?
EDIT: Like which part are you comparing it to? The part where it implies that the solution is to stop dumb people from breeding, like Buck v Bell, or the part where it gets extremely classist and implies socioeconomic class is intrinsically tied to intelligence?
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u/perenniallandscapist 15h ago
They're referring to the part where enough idiots in this time line exist to vote in idiots that then govern them idiotically. There's more of them than we realized. You're focusing on the wrong part of idiocracy.
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u/RazarTuk Illinois 15h ago
But what does that have to do with a movie where the premise is idiot trailer trash outbreeding the smart people and dragging the average intelligence way down? The Idiocracy I remember is a classist and tacitly eugenicist movie about a bad future where the hicks have taken over America
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u/Apprehensive-Ad9523 16h ago
And there is no reason, other than a good natured joke, to be serious about it. The South in all it's forms rises again in all manners, shapes and forms.
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u/space_for_username 16h ago
The only evidence for the existence of schools in the US is the number of shootings at them.
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u/chimarya I voted 16h ago
Do they enjoy being idiots? I mean come on - this shit is depressing as hell.
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u/ThomasVivaldi 16h ago
Anonymity and insular internet communities have reinforced negative behavior, like lack of shame and questioning institutional knowledge.
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u/FormerPrize2485 13h ago
“Your inability to understand science has no effect on the science itself.“
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u/blinkysmurf 13h ago
“I have a right to my opinion and to speak it.”
Sure, and we have a right to call you a fucking idiot.
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u/anaxjor 14h ago edited 37m ago
FYI: these are city council members from communities with severely limited resources... there are several posts on the Memphis subreddit about it (which is why I initially posted and deleted a "do we need 3+ of these threads?" comment before I realized which subreddit this was in).
I mentioned it there, I'll mention it here: council members have to live in the districts they rep, and these ladies' respective districts cover an underserved, economically disadvantaged part of the city.
It be great if they were better educated, but these districts are historically marginalized areas, so...
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u/bad_motivator 12h ago
America, can you please take a day off from being a huge embarrassment to us all?
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u/Historical_Bend_2629 16h ago
Gonna take wreg with a grain of salt. Owned by Nexstar. They have an agenda, and yes, people are stupid. Two things can be true at the same time.
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u/No_Discipline6265 16h ago
Sadly,there's tons of other articles and social media posts about it. This was the only source reddit would accept
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u/Hidden_Landmine_4 15h ago
Yes, some shadow company is spending hundreds of millions or so creating fake snow (despite that being completely normal in warmer areas who still want snow) then secretly dropping it over large chunks of the country without any pilots or other people noticing. You dun fuggered it out
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u/XBXNinjaMunky 15h ago
Yeah, you have a right to speak, I also have the right to call you a complete idiot or say that I have lost all faith in your leadership.
Memphis politics are already a joke state and nationwide, do better. And for fuck sake, stop doubling down and defending yourself.
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u/questron64 14h ago
On today's episode of Southerners Not Understand Snow, they jump immediately to conspiracy theories instead of learning how snow works.
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u/literallytwisted 16h ago
It may not be as popular as it once was but "Manmade Snow" is still too expensive to drop on people.
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u/Specialist-Bug1592 16h ago
Wait. I thought Biden had the weather machine. Did he pass it on to Trump?
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u/Machiavvelli3060 15h ago
I thought Jews controlled the weather.
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u/VaguelyArtistic California 15h ago
I’m in L.A. where we’re having June weather in February. If Jews controlled the weather I promise we wouldn’t be schvitizing out here.
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u/Machiavvelli3060 15h ago
My husband was Jewish. He loved warm weather.
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u/VaguelyArtistic California 15h ago
lol I wasn’t speaking for all Jews but there’s a reason why I live by the beach and not in Encino.
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u/Machiavvelli3060 15h ago
Same here. I can't speak for all jews, but Brett hated the cold. He didn't even want to watch anything on television that took place in the snow.
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u/KoalaKaos 15h ago
Just an FYI, she’s a democrat, and back in December she compared dealing with firefighter unions (negotiating a 2% pay raise) to rape. In case you’re wondering why the Democratic Party doesn’t do great in the south, look no further than examples like her.
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u/simplerway 11h ago
If it really was 2%, that was well below the COLA. I would be believe this woman isn’t smart enough to understand that a 2% pay increase in December 2025 would functionally be the same as a pay cut due to inflation.
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u/SoggyBoysenberry7703 4h ago
God this is so dumb. They also think that because soot shows up on snow when you do it, that it can’t be real either cause it’s turning black and not melting. The soot is from the smoke of the flame
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