Natural disasters happen and people will die. How often and how many people will die is something we can influence, this is exactly why we have agencies measuring things and issueing warnings.

Don't let your politians off the hook that easily, making sure they do everything they reasonably can to protect their constituents (aka you) is one of their main jobs.

This post was edited by SkySwallower on Jul 7 2025 07:16am

What's that an electric bike? Do you realize you just prove my point that people aren't prepared to give up the things I mentioned and in fact people are only burning up more electricity by putting electric motors in everything including bicycles (!) which would otherwise be great for getting around an getting some exercise at the same time.

Not even talking about your car, mobile and all the other shit, it's completely clear you'd never be prepared to give it up and you're just here to talk smack in this topic while people in Texas are grieving their drowned kids.

Disgusting

I broke him

I do not have a car, I have an electric bike which I use for >100kms each week, mostly but not exclusively for the >10km drive to my sports club 4 times a week. A bike without a motor would be even better for the environment, but I would also not be able to get home in reasonable time after sport due to fatigue.

To the people more interested in floods than my personal vehicles, we had a very deadly flood in germany and the "consequences" part includes:
- politicians losing their position
- arguably laschet losing the race for chancellor
- improved early warnings systems
- new legislation
- and even criminal prosecution of some people responsible for the delayed disaster response

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochwasser_in_West-_und_Mitteleuropa_2021

The point of blame is misplaced. Not everything is a Republican or Democratic mistake. All of this pointing fingers at either president/party for 100% of the issues that happen is a very silly and exhausting thing to do. It's nothing but pointless and blind hate.

Besides, this topic was not posted by the OP to have an open discussion, but rather again, shove a stupid political statement down everyone's throats when this tragedy should have a different approach. It's never a civil and open ended discussion, at least not on the majority of this website.

This post was edited by D_urRRR on Jul 7 2025 07:35am

ANYONE making this natural disaster political is a PoS and I truly hope karma gets them in the worst, most vile way.

Jesus while the thread could be stupid the amount of people here crying because death is being weponized as a political topic when it is time and time again here is pretty humorous. But it's a natural disaster!!!

Attention gets attention. No one here has kids apparently.

This post was edited by SBD on Jul 7 2025 07:43am

Have a 13 and 6 year old.

My kids are 5 & 2 but my Sister’s god daughter Blakely is still missing. Our family and friends have been directly impacted by this.

Then you know that if they toss their shit and you hand it back to them without doing anything they will just toss it on the floor again.