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    Gotcha, that comment makes more sense now.

    I suppose I was being a bit cynical. However, I think many people supported the bill to ban “Chem trails,” and were ignorant to actual weather manipulation techniques it was prohibiting.

    Bottom line is that this bill is a good thing. It doesn’t really matter what reasons people had for supporting it.

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      -18 months ago

      I get your point, but we also need to change this behaviour of treating all conspiracy theories as being full of crazy people. Is every plane spreading chem trails? Absolutely not. But some absolutely are and the people who try to bring attention to it get lumped in with the Flat Earthers. It’s very hard to talk about the legit programs going on without being dismissed as crazy or “ignorant”. It’s long been a tactic to paint the other side as dumb or crazy and thus stifle actual discussion. We as a society need to rise above this.

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        I hear ya, there’s definitely nuance. There are certainly crazy people that supported this for crazy reasons, and there are rational people who supported this for rational reasons. I’m not trying to dismiss the whole thing as a crazy conspiracy theory.

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          -58 months ago

          Bruh, you’re still doing it in your edit to your OP. Chem trails are real. They release the chemicals via rockets or planes.

          Are all trails chem trails, NO. Are chem trails how they get the chemicals up there? Well yeah.

          Seriously, go look up the history of cloud seeding.

          You keep trying to say “well the people who support this are ignorant because it’s not 100% the crazy conspiracy theory, only 95%”.

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            We’re clearly talking past each other here. When I say “chem trails” I’m referring to the stereotypical 1990s conspiracy of the government covertly and nefariously spraying mystery chemicals across the country to experiment/harm citizens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory?wprov=sfla1

            I’m not talking about real weather manipulation, cloud seeding, etc. Which are real, but not covertly and nefariously done by the government and corporations.