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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBwaaaaaaaaaaaaah -OMFG Obama sent fake snow to the South
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/conspiracy-theorists-think-government-planted-fake/nc9cW/<snip>
This week's wild weather across the south of the U.S. has raised a controversial question online: was it just a light snow, or a nefarious government conspiracy?
It was definitely just snow. But the last few days have seen scores of videos like this from skeptics who claim the snowflakes aren't the real deal.
"I have a sample of 'snow' ... leaving the snow unmelted." (Via YouTube / sugar magnolia)
The conspiracy reasoning goes like this: the snow is unusual in Georgia and other southeast areas and doesn't melt when burned. Therefore, it must be fake snow, distributed by the government, as a diversion from big government tyranny:
Phentex
(16,338 posts)Within 2 days!
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,953 posts)Throw the snow in the water
Cha
(298,498 posts)Obama's fault!!
thanks C!
malaise
(269,713 posts)Volaris
(10,294 posts)malaise
(269,713 posts)Volaris
(10,294 posts)"No, really, do you?"
absolutely hilarious. Love her.
Iggo
(47,644 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)some of her lingo seems more like what I've seen here when we go after woo on and conservative conspiracy theories.
Well done, Rachel!
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)USDA Prime debunkery there!
Historic NY
(37,472 posts)lets tell them its artificial.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Hell, if they make the snow from that water coming out of the taps in the Olympic Village, it'll be the color of Tang!
malaise
(269,713 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)LibertyLover
(4,788 posts)inserting logic into a right-wing conspiracy theory.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)and it would just be too obvious if he helped them out, duh.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)His powers can only be used for evil. Thanks, Obama.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Since he has the "flexibility" to bow to Putin now that the election is over.
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)because what the conservatives won't admit is they truly believe he is the Messiah.
Putin got on Obama's bad side and now this is what he gets. Putin is now killing stray dogs and packing dog meat into dry ice so he can send to Obama as a practical joke.
Isn't this all just like the ancients who thought there were demigods and gods controlling every little aspect of their lives. Their locus of control is external which is why many of the "rugged individualist" white conservatives are actually perfect examples of learned helplessness.
MADem
(135,425 posts)And we KNOW there are people out there who would buy it, hook, line and sinker!!!
And on the "learned helplessness" angle!
pacalo
(24,722 posts)when the media said it would protect us from 'nukular' exposure.
taterguy
(29,582 posts)No snow down here
malaise
(269,713 posts)wandy
(3,539 posts)Why its just more proof that climate change is a farce. Global warming is such a liberal ripoff scam that the government is creation fake snow to prove it!
Why its so fake that it doesn't even burn!
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/chemically-nucleated-snow-what-is-it/
I warn you two times.......
Watch out where the gubbernment go. Don't you eat that chemical snow.
And my momma laughed her butt off.
malaise
(269,713 posts)progressoid
(50,061 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)Where are our chem friends at to chime in?
Chemtrail + cold = Fake snow
Springslips
(533 posts)The government can control the weather with their magic machine in Alaska.
mstinamotorcity2
(1,451 posts)The World is Round, The World is Round
2naSalit
(87,209 posts)many I hear and see in the news these days. Have you noticed how people have started saying, "...across the world" lately? It's like the world is now flat and those who think it's round, well...
Aristus
(66,647 posts)"Is there something in the water down there?"
But of course, we know that there is.
Lots of stuff.
Nasty stuff.
Brain-cell-killing stuff...
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... in that bottle of 130 proof
Javaman
(62,561 posts)RexDart
(188 posts)Phil Plait, who does the Bad Astronomy blog did it up nicely.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/02/03/conspiracy_debunked_atlanta_snow_doesn_t_melt.html
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I'm literally left speechless. my jaw actually dropped. Ye gods.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)good anti-government CT to keep one's adrenaline flowing.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)today. LMAO. I guess they didn't get the memo that when it goes below freezing, even if it is this far South, precipitation turns to ice and chunks of it fall from the sky.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I bet Obama is manufacturing that cold air, too.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I criticize him for some policy decisions, but this is loon-ville.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)if he keeps this up.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I heard the pukes at work discussing it at work. I left the room to have a cigarette- it is better for my health than listening to them.
woodsprite
(11,951 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)malaise
(269,713 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Blue Owl
(50,752 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)VWolf
(3,944 posts)tclambert
(11,089 posts)or Freedom Industries or some such RIGHT WING company. Obviously some sort of plastic/petrochemical derivative. It's not government. It's clearly a corporate conspiracy to distract from the environmental disasters in West Virginia and the Alberta Tar Sands. Oh, and to make the local simpletons question global warming. Because if it snows in Atlanta, it must mean the entire worlds is colder. Forget the fact that it rained in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska (on the Arctic Ocean) in December for the first time in recorded history.
That, or the Chinese butterflies that stir up hurricanes. The Chinese have launched a butterfly training program, don'tchaknow.
clarice
(5,504 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)That Obama sent a fish to steal it!
sheshe2
(84,219 posts)yellowcanine
(35,716 posts)Scientific literacy just hit an all time low in the South. If you heat snow directly with an open flame it goes directly from solid to gas. Throw the snow into a sauce pan and put it on the stove, geniuses.
malaise
(269,713 posts)Ignorance is bliss.
yellowcanine
(35,716 posts)Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)yellowcanine
(35,716 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)He can do everything!!!111!1!!
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)I can't think of anything to say, any smilies, any snark, anything to express adequately how stupid this is.
But it certainly is a demonstration of the apocalyptic perils that menace conservatives, everywhere they look. Wow.
Which leads me to ask, again, why haven't they taken up their arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them? Seriously. Isn't that what all their fucking guns are for?
SurfingScientist
(256 posts)... after a good ol' Nor'Easter. Find someone who's busy clearing the driveway of 3 ft of that white stuff (hint: that's what everybody will be doing). Tell them the white stuff was put there by a government conspiracy.
See how long you can go before being wheeled off in a straight jacket...
tularetom
(23,664 posts)They might want to think twice before they fuck with him.
Volaris
(10,294 posts)either hes all powerful and their idiots, or hes not...and their idiots.
Oh wait...ok NOW this all makes sense
steve2470
(37,457 posts)and that's a SATIRE site. Unbelievable stupidity. Boggles the mind.
nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)Tree-Hugger
(3,373 posts)That's mind control from the gays to subvert traditional marriage and kill baby Jesus.
Dear God, we need science in schools now more than ever.
uppityperson
(115,683 posts)xocet
(3,877 posts)tanyev
(42,771 posts)It might explode.
malaise
(269,713 posts)to bathe their children - they're correctly terrified of the water.
get the red out
(13,468 posts)And I was in Tennessee last weekend and their snow was real too.
Deeper south.....my guess is that the President enlisted the help of the Pleiadians in spreading a snow-like substance with their scout ships traveling inter-deminsionally through the star gate on the dark side of the moon (you know, the side we aren't allowed on).
malaise
(269,713 posts)jmowreader
(50,630 posts)malaise
(269,713 posts)Acorn and anything else.
frylock
(34,825 posts)we are woefully behind on our seasonal fake snowfall.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Ignorance is ignorance.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)bluestate10
(10,942 posts)amateur incompetent. Then they whiplash sane people by claiming that the President does things that could only mean the President has all knowing, God-like powers. The President simply can't be both.
AC_Mem
(1,979 posts)My friend called me the other night and told me about this - I figured it was another republican conspiracy theory.
Shine on,
Annette
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)There is a finite amount of intelligence available on Earth, and with the ever expanding population.....
I also speculate; There are some, in a completely unselfish grassroots movement, who refuse to use their dwindling allotment of intelligence to save it for the future (I guess). It is worth noting that, as their public use of intelligence goes down, commonly their volume increases.
sinkingfeeling
(51,542 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)Now I wish I hadn't.
Demenace
(213 posts)...we should realize we ourselves have in recent times developed the capacity with regards to buying into the nonsense peddled by certain people that we have chosen to trust without any doubts!
I know a few here will ask the question, 'what in the world are you talking about?' My answer in advance of this question is simply that you look in the mirror and say, some of us around have not bought into the same mindset that the government is out to get us!
JoeyT
(6,785 posts)At this rate, if he doesn't step up his game, the chemtrails and fluoride are going to be too dilute to do anything and the FEMA camps won't even have fences. I am disappoint.
DireStrike
(6,452 posts)mdbl
(4,976 posts)It seems every bipolar thought makes it on the front page.
Loaded Liberal Dem
(230 posts)They think global warming is a hoax, and the cold weather and snow is a hoax!
malaise
(269,713 posts)is the real hoax.
Welcome to DU
Loaded Liberal Dem
(230 posts)Incitatus
(5,317 posts)of fake snow across the south?
malaise
(269,713 posts)Do you think one of them has a fugging clue about the notion of a theory?
They have blind faith and obsessive hatred - the only two sources of fuel to keep their fire of ignorance aglow.
sinkingfeeling
(51,542 posts)iandhr
(6,852 posts)demwing
(16,916 posts)but the sun won't melt them and now we have a snowman army and we can't get rid of them!
THANKS, OBAMA!
malaise
(269,713 posts)It is so freaking cute
demwing
(16,916 posts)It was just a joke
I live in Florida, where it won't snow, ever (till the climate changes again...)
pkdu
(3,977 posts)You win the Internets!
Snowghazi... awesome
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)I'm going to tell them he's their Messiah. They think he can change the weather and make it storm. Sounds kinda god-like to me. Bunch of nutbars.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,592 posts)That seems like a rather paltry achievement, compared to causing a massive temperature drop over thousands of square miles.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)It couldn't be climate change, aka global warming, could it?
Gotta' blame somebody. Why not Obama?