In a better world, the cops would have given a shit and tracked down the assholes threatening a TV meteorologist.
“It was ‘I am going to kill you’ written in a very deliberate way in a long letter and followed by obsessive emails,” said Gloninger. His critic demanded that he “go the hell back to where you came from DOUCHEBAG!!!” and demanded “what’s your home address, we conservative Iowans would like to give you an Iowan welcome you will never forget.” The emails attacked Gloninger for pushing a “liberal conspiracy theory on the weather”, calling climate change a “Biden hoax”.
I think a lot of the current wave of cop hate in the US is driven by state actors on social media. The Kremlin and CCP want to exacerbate tensions in the US and Europe, so they develop extremism on social media in order to divide people.
Wow he got a death threat in an email, which also asked for his address lmao.
Poor guy. First day on the internet must be tough.
If you receive a death threat that you think is real, you contact the police and the FBI. But considering that the man who was threatening him didn’t even know his address, I struggle to think how he thought it was an actionable threat.
I’ve gotten death threats and stalked before. I still am stalked. It’s pretty weird. Definitely have PTSD from it. The whole ordeal has been pointless. Cops don’t even care when I ask for help.
Hey I think they’re basically supporting what you’re saying with a kind of rueful sarcasm. As in “not only are you correct that the we’re in a shitty state of things, but worse still it’s been that way for a long time.”
Welcome to Iowa, a backwards shithole run by fascists. You know it’s bad because Desantis said he would consider Reynolds for running mate. An endorsement like that speaks volumes.
Shouldn’t the older people be more educated if it was only gutted in the 1980s? My impression is that they are even less educated than the younger generations.
Only for the majority, not for those who had existing money and power. For those people it just solidified their positions in the ruling class.
No matter how short-sighted that is.
How do you figure? We have millions of ignorant voters reliant on politicians to tell them how to feel. Without this, there would be no Republican Party.
Unfortunately, there probably would be. Hopefully it would be less popular, but some people just non-ironically think that way. Disturbing, but reality.
Conservatives may not believe in climate change, but climate change definitely believes in them, we’re all fucked and these idiots are an anchor around our necks.
As someone with family from Iowa, there really is a point we have to realize you can't fix stupid and do something about it before we find out Idiocracy was a documentary.
it’s not hard to stalk someone enough to find their address and then beat the shit out of them. it doesn’t take intelligence it just takes obsession. police (as well as anyone else) should take this seriously
I think it's news, but maybe not worldnews? Like an Iowa meteorologist getting death threats is notable, but I worry worldnews is going to end up just being American internal politics along with all the other news communities.
The most horrible thing about it is that it makes the political ideologies where some elites rule over the rest instead of allowing everyone a vote suddenly easier to understand even knowing how horrible those ended up in the past.
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