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How Burning Man Turned Into a Nightmare, Though Organizers Disagree(follow up. Exodus has begun)
townhall.com ^ | 9/5/2023 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 09/05/2023 7:52:12 AM PDT by rktman

The Burning Man festival, which attracts 70-80,000 people annually, is over, but not before stranding scores of attendees due to torrential rains that made it impossible to leave the venue. The situation even caught the attention of the Biden White House. Organizers assured the outside world that all was well and appreciated everyone’s concern (via NBC News):

Crazy weather and the inability of those to leave or enter the venue are not uncommon. If it’s not rain, then it’s a dust storm. The COVID pandemic also canceled the event twice. And then, there were these far-left climate protesters who blocked the roads leading to Burning Man, which Nevada Rangers wrecked. They plowed through their makeshift barricades, exiting their trucks, guns drawn to arrest the green warriors. So, yeah, there’s no shortage of entertainment.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: burningman; debauchery; nevada; nonprofit
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To: 1Old Pro

>> This has been all over the news for 3 days now, who cares?

Hey, I care! Because schadenfreude. :-)


21 posted on 09/05/2023 8:45:04 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Jesus is LORD and Savior! And Donald Trump is President of the United States of America.)
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To: Nervous Tick

Yup. I spent hours reading about the Fyre Festival. There’s a fine line between schadenfreude and sadism...


22 posted on 09/05/2023 8:46:45 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: DeplorablePaul

>> Burning Man is a free love, drug fueled orgy... The eco hippie stuff is just a cover story.

I believe it. How is trampling the desert ecology and burning stuff “eco”, anyway? Bunch of narcissistic pagans.


23 posted on 09/05/2023 8:48:19 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Jesus is LORD and Savior! And Donald Trump is President of the United States of America.)
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To: rktman

someone needs to find some endangered desert worm or something and force them to end this!


24 posted on 09/05/2023 8:50:53 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: DeplorablePaul

True. I watched a documentary. They have different tents set-up with different “happenings.” One tent was all female. You can imagine what was going on in there. Another tent was group masturbation. Not kidding. It is anything but family oriented. I thought it disgusting. Anything goes there.


25 posted on 09/05/2023 9:28:28 AM PDT by NeverTyranny
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To: DeplorablePaul

That is pretty much it.


26 posted on 09/05/2023 9:29:11 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Fairy shrimp?


27 posted on 09/05/2023 9:36:50 AM PDT by null and void (I always love a good argument, even when you’re wrong };^P>)
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To: Melinda in TN

By accident, or luck, I was one of those “smelly hippies!”
(long story)😏

Looking back, would I do it over again knowing what I know now at my age?

Most definitely yes!🙂

It was messy yes.
It was muddy and trashy yes.

It was also a memory of one of the greatest days of my life!👍

The majority didn’t go to protest or to support communism as was being said at the time.

Nope, most of us came for the music, the bands and boy did we get those, rain or shine!😁

Somehow this burning man get together doesn’t feel the same!

Looks more like a Communist gathering.

Of course I am OLD now and I just might have turned into my father!😮


28 posted on 09/05/2023 9:37:53 AM PDT by justme4now (Our Right's are God given and I don't need permission from politicians or courts to exercise them!)
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To: rktman

MANY are walking out to the road & seeking rides from others——LEAVING VEHICLES IN THE PLAYA

I wonder WHAT FEES will be charged on THOSE rental cars????

I HOPE it is THOUSANDS.

IF I ran a towing service-—I would NOT accept attempting to tow them out-—wouldn’t RISK my equipment


29 posted on 09/05/2023 9:51:01 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: old-ager

The “Rangers” are the Paiute TRIBAL POLICE.

They do NOT SUFFER THE FOOLS.


30 posted on 09/05/2023 9:53:37 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: stevio

Looks like a job for Czarina Harris. Stop the getaways.


31 posted on 09/05/2023 9:54:50 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: FlingWingFlyer

On the positive side, it was not dusty.


32 posted on 09/05/2023 9:56:45 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob
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To: Phoenix8

Pics on local Reno TV last night showed mud flooded Porta Potty & stated that the “PORTA POTTY’S WERE NOT USABLE”

Imagine the ecological damage from the 60,000 people still there for days who had NO PORTA POTTY===

That alone is beyond disgusting

I hope this shuts it all down FOREVER.


33 posted on 09/05/2023 9:57:06 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Melinda in TN

Cronkite’s voice was soft and I remember laying on the rug in the middle of the floor when he came on and being happy to listen to him knowing it would lull me to sleep.

Of course maybe this is not how Cronkite saw his on air presence...


34 posted on 09/05/2023 9:57:28 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Nervous Tick

HOW much damage is happening to the Ecology???

RUTS everywhere & NO WORKING PORTA POTTYS.

CONTAMINATION


35 posted on 09/05/2023 9:58:18 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: justme4now

The Porta Potty’s have been flooded with mud & rendered UNUSABLE.

STILL WANNA GO AGAIN???


36 posted on 09/05/2023 9:59:52 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Melinda in TN
"...We weren’t allowed to bother Dad while the news was on..."

.

Yeah. That's the way it was for me when my parents and I were moving
to our new house and had to stay with Grandpop & Grandmom
for that one month during the move.

Our TV was packed up / being moved, and Granddad had only
one TV to watch - and of course Wall Street Week took precedence
over Mr Roger's Neighborhood - so the poor little tyke (me)
had to learn about self-denial early...

But of course, had I learned all about investing starting at age 4, instead of
watching Mr. Rogers, things would probably have turned out differently, eh? (LOL)

.


37 posted on 09/05/2023 10:03:27 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: ridesthemiles

A few days, a backhoe or 3, a couple flat beds........ The towing charges should be pretty large. But, after seeing some of the rigs headed out there, they obviously have more disposable income than I have. 😳👍. Oh, leave no trace. Right?


38 posted on 09/05/2023 10:05:34 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: rktman

I betcha those “Counter-Culturists” will be glad to get back to civilization where they can get dry, warm and clean again! Modern civilization is suddenly not so bad after spending a week cut off from civilization.


39 posted on 09/05/2023 10:17:23 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: GaltAdonis

Woodstock?

I was “vacationing” in SE Asia. Courtesy of the US military.


40 posted on 09/05/2023 10:19:44 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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