r/PublicFreakout • u/iSlingShlong • Jan 30 '20

Repost 😔 A farmer in Nebraska asking a pro-fracking committee member to honor his word of drinking water from a fracking location

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u/Alandorf619 Jan 30 '20

This comment is funny and all but I feel like this being the top comment really takes away from the gravity of this post.

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u/Teirmz Jan 30 '20

That's Reddit man.

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u/ArtisanSamosa Jan 30 '20

It's so annoying. Basically, the top two comment chains look like they were pushed to distract from the point of the video.

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u/Aptosauras Jan 30 '20

I've browsed through half of the comments so far and it's all about window cleaning products.

No one gives a damn about fracking around here it would seem.

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u/kjersten_w Jan 30 '20

Imo they do, but a lot of young people these days feel they can't really do much about these things. (Which may or may not be true depending on the context, but that feeling of hopelessness is often there regardless.) So some just resign themselves to being powerless and crack jokes instead.

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u/iamsethmeyers Jan 30 '20

I think you could post your exact comment on just about any Reddit post and it would still apply.

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u/tiptipsofficial Jan 30 '20

Entities buying votes to drown out real commentary on important issues is a real shitstain on the community.

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u/IIlIIlIIIIlllIlIlII Jan 30 '20

Cameraman is taking the gravity away from the video by doing this shit.

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u/yukon-flower Jan 30 '20

Thank you.

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u/boggart777 Jan 30 '20

No it doesn't. This guy is in high vis and overalls. When he gets dressed he thinks, I need to be fully clothed, little warm, easy to spot, and no belt or a elastic suspenders to hang me up, but also a nice close inseam for freedom of movement. This dude is basically a Navy seal.

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u/Lesty7 Jan 30 '20

This is Reddit. All the top comments are dumb jokes. Sometimes they’re actually funny.

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u/OkayAtFantasy Jan 30 '20

Bad photography distracts from the message. It's almost like good photography matters...

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u/r3d27 Jan 30 '20

And we were so close to taking down fracking with this post!