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Most of the fund was built up by withholding funding for public schools so Abbott could force through his school voucher bull tbh.
Trump and elon killed over 300,000 children after cutting off usaid
trump and musk dismantling federal agencies like noaa killed these texas children
trumps nazis had people tortured in concentration camps because theeir skin is brown
due process is gone
alligator concentration camps in florida
masked nazi kunts are disappearing people off of streets in the usa
trump bombed a country that never attacked us and didnt even seek congress approval because dip s like the asshole that clutched his pearls in this thread are ok with a dictator doing whatever the he wants
and when any disaster struck a year or two ago…kunt magats could not wait to label it a
biden inflation
biden border
biden egg prices
biden afghanistan blah blah blah
so spare me the in pearl clutching
trump killed these texas kids and he was out golfing to celebrate
you
Most of the fund was built up by withholding funding for public schools so Abbott could force through his school voucher bull tbh.
What the do we even pay taxes for if there is no FEMA and food stamps and Medicaid are getting gutted? So we can subsidize Elon and go bomb brown people?
I can see and understand the logic behind organizations like the Spurs, etc., needing to communicate to the public about donations made, as Chinook, FkLA, and others have mentioned. Good on the Spurs, Mavs, Rockets and others for donating generously as they have.
Me entering this thread and then reading the first page
Unironically, yes.
Is trump going to ins ute a work requirement for these deadbeats receiving flood welfare? Can’t work because of a little water? Excuses, excuses
I'm sure the very red part of a red state will get all the money it needs, if this area had voted blue the Dump admin would probably drag their feet like they did in California.
I live not far from this horrific devastation. My wife and I will keep our distance as the rescue teams continue to work. Of course it's insane to think deep cuts to the staff at the National Weather Service and the defunding of FEMA haven't impacted this tragedy. Anyone saying this is not the time to 'say this' is partly the cause for this horrific situation. Now is not the time to be silent. Donald Trump is a curse on the human race and his new Billionaire Bill will kill many Americans. His legacy is killing hundreds of thousands with cuts to USAID. Cuts to SNAP, Meals on Wheels, Medicaid, on top of NWS is depraved and sick.
Last edited by spurs10; 07-07-2025 at 11:39 PM.
Well said. Right-wingers are blaming the camp. Question, if they had inadequate alarms then why couldn't the police and emergency services go tell them? Were they also in the dark? No one was alerted because there was no staff working. They had been fired.
- Blatten, Switzerland, mudslide, 90% of village destroyed. The emergency services had predicted the collapse, no casualties. May 2025
- Valencia, Spain, flood and flooding. 232 dead. October 2024
- Africa: more than a thousand deaths from climate catastrophe in 2024 (according to the UN).
- Asia, thousands of deaths following monsoons in 2020.
These catastrophic episodes will only become more pronounced with global warming and rising ocean levels. We know that, and some (most countries in the world) are choosing to dismantle government and intergovernmental agencies responsible for preventing and helping disaster victims. The vast majority of the population lives in at-risk areas, particularly next to rivers or oceans.
Political leaders (especially in America and specifically in Texas) therefore praise every man for himself. Then, when a catastrophe occurs (necessarily divine), it is in the individualist culture (so consistent with the American way of life), we release money which we describe as “charitable donations”. In Roman times too, wealthy citizens engaged in politics and patronage. It was not a democratic model. Trump's America today is a model, but a model of autocracy. Europe takes a lot of inspiration from it. The most skillful in this area is Macron who, with his air of a respectable man, uses strictly the same anti-democratic policy as Trump.
Today more than yesterday, however, we will need agencies to help the victims of our past excesses.
In this context, we must be able to propose a new model in the face of the fascist and individualist model now in the majority. A few months ago, I pleaded for the creation of an international agency: The Red Helmets. All over the world, we are dismantling national resources and agencies, where on the contrary, we should have joined forces. These organizations, when they still exist, are not specific and cannot intervene in disasters without calling on other organizations. Each country has its own way of doing things. Developing countries often do not have the means to deploy sufficient forces and resources in the areas for which they are responsible. When international aid is put in place, it is often too late and chaotic.
The Red Helmets would be deployed to camps all over the planet equally. First aid could be delivered from camps closest to a disaster. Above all, they would be able to serve as a hub for the delivery of international aid and as a logistics center. Apart from disaster management, specialists would be in charge of assessing the risks in the surrounding areas and would inform the authorities and populations (meteorologists, architects, urbanists, hydrologists, seismologists, etc.).
This intergovernmental organization would function like insurance. Or at least, how insurance should work. Insurance companies today are capitalist companies whose interest is to serve citizens as little as possible. Insurance, whether for housing, health, job, divorce, death, weather or criminal risks, should be compulsory. But they should also be managed by and for the people. In the time of the new oligarchies, they capture capital, for capital, through the capital of citizens. Before throwing away crumbs to advertise their magnanimity through one-off donations which will always be lower than “contributions” (the rich will talk about “taxes”, even Agent Orange likes to talk about “tariffs” without understanding who will pay).
Faced with this fascist and individualist model, it is therefore this model of mutual aid that must be put in place. The natural elements will not stop being unleashed. So we have to adapt. A large part of the planet's wealth must be used to slow down the effects of global warming, adapt, but also put in place solutions to help victims or displaced people (which implies a change in mentality regarding the reception of refugees).
We must not let a fascistic narrative be dictated to us. The rich own the power of the press. Citizens must come together to propose a contrary vision and an inclusive, egalitarian and humanist narrative. Death the patrons, long live the contributors.
Disasters will only get worse. The rich benefit from the misfortune of the most vulnerable. Disasters serve their profits. It is these profits that must dry up to cushion the effects of their indifference.
It is not up to the Spurs to respond to a catastrophe that is far beyond their control. Demand the return of funding from dismantled government agencies.
Donation = Good
Taxation = Bad
GTFO with your government bootlicking. "Tax me harder, daddy."
FEMA's work at this stage of the disaster is mostly coordinating efforts behind the scenes for the first responders. FEMA only becomes directly involved by giving money to affected residents/communities after the fact.
That being said Trump's enabling of DOGE to illegally cut funds for the NWS is a colossal up that needs to be called out. As is the county only sending an emergency alert through Facebook.
So if no one donates to a flood victim, that victim, eh?
This same moron when the disaster affects him or his family: "Where was the warning???? Where is the relief????"
Or… “Bill Gates did it! He controls the weather!”
of course the same kunts that go along with
"news caused the l.a. fires because he didn't rake the forests!"
are the same kunts clutching their pearls after trump/musk defunded and dismantled the national weather service, NOAA, researchers and scientists, cancer researchers, fired intel professionals and stopped the fbi from their cyber programs to investigate russia's cyber ery, installed a loon who promptly caused a resurgence into once-dead measles- and more -
these kunts want to defend trump when he directly killed those kids and directly killed a million people with his criminal negligence of covid
If only we had a Forum on SpursTalk that is specifically designed for Political discussion...
We could call it something like...the Political Forum...
Hm.
Agree.If only we had a Forum on SpursTalk that is specifically designed for Political discussion...
We could call it something like...the Political Forum...
Hm.
7-Eleven is giving 20 cents off per gallon of gas through their app for central Texas customers. I'd check and see if Speedway and Stripes are doing something similar since it's all the same company. With all their stacked discounts and card cashback I paid like $2.01 per gallon this time around.
Thanks Japan! I have a loose fence board. We will rebuild.
It is an OK discount for those who need it. If you don't, buy something in the store to even out the cost for them.
You don't get to decide what other people want to do you ing authoritarian.
Are you personally going to stop FEMA from spending your tax dollars to help people?
I encourage your doing so. Get to it. Use your gun to get your money back from them.
Update:
HEB - $5 million
HEB = GOATed
HEB controls 47% of the grocery store market in San Antonio. This is nothing to them.
H‑E‑B is good store
No doubt about that
Publix is the only other I recall coming close
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