This is Not Helping Anyone

There is quite a lot of stupidity on the internet, these days and there's just something about a human tragedy--like a hurricane, to bring out both the best--and the goddamn worst in some people. I guess pictures like the above might seem harmless enough (this was apparently made in response to some AI slop accompanying plaintive disinformation trying to outrage farm folks into believing and possibly acting on the idea that no one is getting assistance after Hurricane Helene). 

It would be great if people had any common sense and just--didn't do that. The same goes for pick-me pygmies who insist that their wife's cousin's ex-husband, a retired brigadier general from the Idaho Coast Guard, went down in his crop duster to deliver a pallet of Diet Mountain Dew but was called a racist and sent home--who knows what motivates people like this?

But when agencies like FEMA, local officials, and the American Red Cross have to fight misinformation as well as do their jobs--that isn't helping anybody.

When elected officials share this kind of thing--it's embarrassing for them, for the most part. When absolute weirdoes like Marjorie Taylor Greene insist there's a mysterious "them" with a weather machine attempting a land grab or election interference, or whatever she's on about, it is dangerous and unfit. It certainly doesn't help that the billionaire owner of a certain social media outfit is happy to distribute false talking points. 

And them there is what Trump's little friend, Laura Loomer seems to be up to:

"A matter of survival"? She seems to be trying to get someone hurt by sowing mistrust in government--and this is the same kind of mistrust you see a lot of on the right, which is why they've devolved into anti-science, anti-vax ninnies in the wake of COVID. (I will never forget or forgive Fox News pushing hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin on their audience--knowing their own audience could be harmed. Which seems like an apt analogy for their "news product.") Someone will read "do not comply" as "resist" and that will be taken to mean "resist with force". 

And these are people trying to help. 

Of course, Loomer is an attention whore of little brain. Speaking of which, Trump has had to be fact-checked too. It's not because it's an election year, folks--he's pretty much always dangerous, bad and wrong. 

Anyway, for the sensible people who read this blog, I guess the question to ask yourself is--"Is this helping?' and "WHO is this helping?"  And while it is true that the Lord helps those who help themselves, I see some people helping themselves to a lot of lies out there, at other people's expense.