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Super long form article on the politics of water, housing, development, farming and immigration in Arizona where the legislature is almost fully captured by MAGA nihilists and where the kinda-hero of the story is a Mormon zealot who believes in the divine inspiration of the Constitution

We’re fucking doomed y'all

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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago (4 children)

This map is on a percentile scale, but it does illustrate how screwed the southwest is compared to the rest of the country. In 20-30 years, the desert southwest - and removedpa in particular - is going to be uninhabitable. People know this; politicians get briefed, scientific papers are getting increasingly blunt. And yet the insanity continues.

What's it going to take?

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

What's it going to take?

everything

[–] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

To be fair people used to say that about a future global plague and then.......

This country's appetite for death is endless until it hits the suburbs

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

jon-yell Why do people act like they're under an obligation to actually experience negative consequences before taking steps to mitigate them?!

[–] booty@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Evidently the name of the county where Phoenix is located contains a slur.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ahhh, I see. I remember now that we've run into this specific sremovedhorpe before, apparently it's like an obscure spanish slur. I guess it doesn't come up enough for the admins to have added an exception for it lol

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

How unfair to our Arizonan comrades!

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

Yet another reason I hate slur filters. If you need a filter to not make slurs then you're probably a piece of shit.

Context means a lot and this is another example of it