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Because the government can’t afford a book of matches?

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Not in this economy

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Like the “Jewish space lasers” bullshit that Margarine Traitor Greed mentioned.

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If we had space lasers, we’d use them in Ukraine.

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Jews won’t use their space lasers to help Ukraine because Ukraine is full of Nazis. /s

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Flawless logic.

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But that would put the US into direct conflict with Russia. Military lasers are definitely a thing

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They don’t exist at the magnitude you think. We don’t have space lasers that can attack ground targets yet and probably never will. At best they can jam certain systems like drones.

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But if it’s the same space lasers they are using on Maui that nobody seems to be able to detect it’s source, then wouldn’t the same thing apply if they used it on Russia?

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Hey, those are real! /s

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I know this will fall on deaf ears, but the best thing we can do is stop amplifying these people by posting these stories and upvoting them.

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Everything is a conspiracy since the internet became a “news” source

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I think the same people would think the same stuff. Just now they travel faster and wider.

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I think bouncing ideas off of each other on social media does drive them further into the rabbit hole, and leads them to ideas they might not have gotten to otherwise.

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One person starts saying things as a joke or as a griefer and people run with it.

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And posting on the internet is like shouting into the void, except more people can hear idiots online than on their shitty AM broadcast.

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Yeah, just because they’re posting it on Twitter instead of ranting on street corners doesn’t make it a news story.

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And when they finally do determine the cause, nobody will ever believe them.

Edit I want to say too, that photo is heartbreaking. It’s NOT a black and white photo. I zoomed in on a little spot of red… it was a stop sign.

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The wall of flame was reaching speeds of 80 mph.

That’s unfathomable to me.

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There are reports that it was downed power lines. It was super windy which is what also caused it to move so rapidly and with such ferocity.

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Yeah, I saw that video tonight, would not be surprising!

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I hate to make the comparison with this photo, but all I can think of with the stop sign in the middle is the scene with the little girl in the red coat in Schindler’s List.

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oh shit, man that just messed with my head so bad

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