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re: Oprah Winfrey faces potential backlash after being accused of starting Maui Wild Fires
Posted on 9/1/23 at 2:50 pm to Puddenn32
Posted on 9/1/23 at 2:50 pm to Puddenn32
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It's spreading like wild fire (pun intended) on Tiktok, and I tell you some of the evidence is crazy convincing
Pretty sure there be no trace of evidence, just lots of innuendo and conspiracy theories.
Unless all the employees of the water works and phone company keep their hush money and stfu, which is about as possible as winning back to back Powerball.
In other words this is just another load of crackpot bullshite.
Pro tip: If your conspiracy involves over 5 people it is horseshite, somebody always talks.
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Posted on 9/1/23 at 3:03 pm to deathvalleyfreak43
Well it'll be a whole lot easier to believe this version of the various conspiracy theories about which billionaire is benefitting from the fires when we see who acquires the land or if housing is rebuilt....
Posted on 9/1/23 at 3:16 pm to WhereisAtlanta
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Unless all the employees of the water works and phone company keep their hush money and stfu, which is about as possible as winning back to back Powerball.
In other words this is just another load of crackpot bullshite.
Pro tip: If your conspiracy involves over 5 people it is horseshite, somebody always talks
We live in a day in age where people do all kinds of shite for social media clout and to be social media famous. They woulda had to pay some serious cheddar to make sure they didn't involve one of those clout chasers in their conspiracy, because to some people social media likes are more important than money, and being the one to out this conspiracy would equal millions of likes
Posted on 9/1/23 at 3:23 pm to WhereisAtlanta
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Pro tip: If your conspiracy involves over 5 people it is horseshite, somebody always talks.
This is always my response to these things.
Posted on 9/1/23 at 3:33 pm to blueboy
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I wonder how many divorces she's directly responsible for.
Zero.
Posted on 9/1/23 at 3:51 pm to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
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You received a lot of downvotes from the cult, but from what I've seen her homes are not near Lahaina. I don't know exactly where her 1000 acres are located. Central Park is around 850 acres in comparison
First I have no clue if the witch was involved.
I find it rather strange that those here defending her think the fact that her property wasn't near the fires is some sort of proof she wasn't involved. I guess y'all think if she was involved, she would set property next to hers on fire.
That would be the ultimate in retard moves.
Posted on 9/1/23 at 4:14 pm to Corinthians420
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The emergency systems not going off is terrible, but I doubt it was someone purposely going "im not gonna press the alert button so that we get the Maximum amount of people dead so they can't fight Oprah buying up their property"
Couldve been due to power being out and backup generator not kicking in/failing/burning up as well
Herman Andaya, who was in charge of the Maui Emergency Management Agency, defended not sounding off the sirens because he thought people would think it was a tsunami and run mauka (to the mountain) instead of makai. Nevermind this was a tnight and people could obviously see fricking orange glow, but he was real defensive to the reporter who asked and said he didn't regret it. He resigned the next day. It's a complete failure of HECO and govt.
Posted on 9/1/23 at 4:15 pm to omegaman66
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I guess y'all think if she was involved, she would set property next to hers on fire. That would be the ultimate in retard moves.
It's not any more retarded than thinking since she owns 1000 acres on Maui that she hired someone to set the fires.
Posted on 9/1/23 at 4:25 pm to BRgetthenet
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FAA is keeping drones from flying over as well by having made it a no fly zone.
Posted on 9/1/23 at 4:40 pm to MoarKilometers
Wonder why they didn't just let the fire in the same general area last November burn? Practice run?
Posted on 9/1/23 at 11:30 pm to Sho Nuff
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It's a complete failure of HECO and govt.
They could’ve sent an emergency alert text. But didn’t.
They could’ve sent an announcement via television explaining the situation and where they wanted people to go. But they didn’t.
They could’ve put out an alert on the radio telling people to leave and what to do. But… they didn’t.
They could’ve had the police going door to door telling people to evacuate… but they didn’t.
Instead they blocked off the roads west to safety, gave the public virtually no warning that the fires were out of control and headed to town and then in an act of incompetency that is completely inexplicable, they setup checkpoints and sent people back into town towards the fire knowing it was unchecked and rapidly heading towards them.
It was an utter failure in disaster response unprecedented in modern American times outside of Vivalde, TX and hundreds are dead as a result.
Posted on 9/2/23 at 9:49 am to tide06
They need to go to prison for what they did
Posted on 9/2/23 at 10:23 am to tide06
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They could’ve sent an emergency alert text. But didn’t.
They did.
ETA: And like I've already covered in this thread and elsewhere, they also had a free state of the art public messaging/warning app/system that was available to everyone. It was an opt-in free app. It worked during the fire. It had abysmal use by the general public.
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They could’ve sent an announcement via television explaining the situation and where they wanted people to go. But they didn’t.
They did. News covered it.
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They could’ve put out an alert on the radio telling people to leave and what to do. But… they didn’t.
They did. Radio covered it. They also had NOAA giving regular updates on the weather radios.
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They could’ve had the police going door to door telling people to evacuate… but they didn’t.
I don't know if this was done or not.
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It was an utter failure in disaster response unprecedented in modern American times outside of Vivalde, TX and hundreds are dead as a result.
Yeah, some things could have been done better, but making up shite doesn't do anything but make you look like a conspiracy theorist.
This post was edited on 9/2/23 at 10:33 am
Posted on 9/2/23 at 10:30 am to Coldcushcush
But … people are skeptical not because of one fire. They are skeptical because of the number of fires the last few years in different places is so far above normal that it has them wary.
Posted on 9/2/23 at 10:32 am to deathvalleyfreak43
From what i understand her house wasn’t close to the fires. I hate conspiracy theorists
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