I am frustrated at people's seemingly indiscriminate aversion to "chemicals."
I wonder if they make a drug for that...
Reminds me of the "chem trail" argument. For those who haven't run into one of these people yet, imagine having a conversation at work with a newly employed individual. You chit chat, they seem boring but fairly normal, when suddenly they ask: "So do you know what the government is doing to our air?"
I'd imagine you'd answer like I did, with a short no and a curious brow-furrowing. They will go on to explain that "con trails" (the short term for condensation trails that come from jet engines burning hot in the atmosphere, basically steaming the water right out) are actually
chem trails, or chemicals streamed through the air DELIBERATELY. Why, you might ask this gent or lady who seems increasingly less normal than you'd hoped.
To poison us and CONTROL THE WEATHER.
This is not limited to a few nutty right-wingers claiming Obama's gonna kill us. This has been going on for years and years. I find it simply laughable that anyone would ever think the government
could have the resources and actual ability to "control the weather" and one can't debate with the people who have the belief ingrained in their head. So here's my argument, you normal people, feel free to use it on a conspiracy-theorist: The government runs both the IRS and the postal system, and both keep messing up, sending me envelopes with IRS and some other guy's name on them, no matter how many times I try to send it back and let them know he doesn't live here. Do you (does anyone) think the American government is even
competent enough to even remotely consider controlling the weather? And what does "controlling weather" mean? If we had the ability, it could have been used to raise a thick fog during 9-11 (assuming you don't think the government set that up deliberately as well)for example.
The usage of the word "government" as though it's a catch-all phrase is for another time.