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Apalled at the comments here, can we please just have some empathy for a second and put politics aside?

mrguyorama 4y ago
If you build on the florida coast, surely you should expect a Cat 4 hurricane every couple of years right? Like, why is that an incredible ask? I have empathy for the loss of life, I always do, but I do NOT have empathy for the same people coming hat in hand to the federal treasury asking for more public funds for the same thing that happens every few years and for the same thing they have openly fought. Build better, plan better, or leave.
MonkeyMalarky 4y ago
People aren't overflowing vessels of infinite empathy and sympathy. They can't be faulted for running dry once in a while.
- tpmoney 4y ago
  Seems like then the old adage of not saying anything at all if you have nothing nice to say might apply?
- systemvoltage 4y ago
  That seems like a low cop-out and an excuse to be an asshole.
  - lovich 4y ago
    Personally speaking being from a state that they recently tried to attack using migrants as human pawns, I don’t see a reason to have sympathy for the state. Individuals who didn’t support those attacks and want to work together, sure. The state as an aggregate entity? Absolutely not.
user982 4y ago
"I sympathize with the victims of Hurricane Sandy and believe that those who purchased flood insurance should have their claims paid. At the same time, allowing the program to increase its debt by another $9.7 billion with no plan to offset the spending with cuts elsewhere is not fiscally responsible," DeSantis said in a statement. https://www.tampabay.com/content/new-reps-ron-desantis-ted-yoho-vote-against-hurricane-sandy-aid/2104196/ https://www.tampabay.com/content/new-reps-ron-desantis-ted-y...
dougmwne 4y ago
I mean, I live there and the average costal Floridian in my area is completely deaf to the risks and what’s coming with climate change. The whole thing is a raging party on the Timucua native burial grounds. I watched dozens of new million dollar houses built in obvious flood zones over the past few years near me. They are all waist deep in floodwater. It’s not an “I told you so” moment at all. It’s like the inevitability of rain coming right on schedule. Everyone kept asking me when I was going to buy a house and telling me how much money I was going to make on the appreciation and it was all so preposterous, like a bitcoin moon fantasy. In all likelihood, within my lifetime my part of Florida will return to the sea from whence it came. I have always seen the floodwaters because they have always been there. Now everyone else can see them too.
chasd00 4y ago
Florida, as a state, doesn't vote the correct, HN/tech crowd, way. Therefore, they should be ostracized and ridiculed with every chance given. Every Floridian is sub-human.

If you build on the florida coast, surely you should expect a Cat 4 hurricane every couple of years right? Like, why is that an incredible ask? I have empathy for the loss of life, I always do, but I do NOT have empathy for the same people coming hat in hand to the federal treasury asking for more public funds for the same thing that happens every few years and for the same thing they have openly fought. Build better, plan better, or leave.

MonkeyMalarky 4y ago

People aren't overflowing vessels of infinite empathy and sympathy. They can't be faulted for running dry once in a while.

tpmoney 4y ago
Seems like then the old adage of not saying anything at all if you have nothing nice to say might apply?
systemvoltage 4y ago
That seems like a low cop-out and an excuse to be an asshole.
- lovich 4y ago
  Personally speaking being from a state that they recently tried to attack using migrants as human pawns, I don’t see a reason to have sympathy for the state. Individuals who didn’t support those attacks and want to work together, sure. The state as an aggregate entity? Absolutely not.

user982 4y ago

"I sympathize with the victims of Hurricane Sandy and believe that those who purchased flood insurance should have their claims paid. At the same time, allowing the program to increase its debt by another $9.7 billion with no plan to offset the spending with cuts elsewhere is not fiscally responsible," DeSantis said in a statement. https://www.tampabay.com/content/new-reps-ron-desantis-ted-yoho-vote-against-hurricane-sandy-aid/2104196/ https://www.tampabay.com/content/new-reps-ron-desantis-ted-y...

dougmwne 4y ago

I mean, I live there and the average costal Floridian in my area is completely deaf to the risks and what’s coming with climate change. The whole thing is a raging party on the Timucua native burial grounds. I watched dozens of new million dollar houses built in obvious flood zones over the past few years near me. They are all waist deep in floodwater. It’s not an “I told you so” moment at all. It’s like the inevitability of rain coming right on schedule. Everyone kept asking me when I was going to buy a house and telling me how much money I was going to make on the appreciation and it was all so preposterous, like a bitcoin moon fantasy. In all likelihood, within my lifetime my part of Florida will return to the sea from whence it came. I have always seen the floodwaters because they have always been there. Now everyone else can see them too.

chasd00 4y ago

Florida, as a state, doesn't vote the correct, HN/tech crowd, way. Therefore, they should be ostracized and ridiculed with every chance given. Every Floridian is sub-human.