Berkley Crime Report

On Monday June 8th, to the surprise of no adult who understands that elections have consequences, the Berkley Town Clerk announced new operating hours for the transfer station beginning July 1st.

Anyone who has been paying even a dirt speck worth of attention knew that as part of the proposed override not passing, all departments would absorb a significant cut.

Why is that?

Because the Highway Department, Board of Selectmen, Town Administrator, and Save Task Force repeated what the consequences of budget cuts would be for months. At the time, cynics and various Cult members decried these as scare tactics.

Well now the chips have fallen and most of the same people who were cackling about scare tactics are now deciding that they are being punished for voting for the consequences they were told would occur. It’s not right goddammit. And they’re mad about it and they’re not going to take it! Someone needs to recall these factually accurate Town Administrators.

Give me trash over literacy!!

(Or you could just pay for affordable private pickup)

So what’s the solution to living within our means and abiding by the consequences of our votes?

Oust Them!

So now it’s back to being the Town’s fault that a vote that would cause the transfer station to close on Saturdays means that in the new budget year the transfer station…will be closed on Saturdays! WTF?

Luckily a few people were kind enough to point out the hypocrisy of the Cult’s thinking, although they made little headway.

Correct! Consequences are the result of choices.

No, clearly they weren’t.

Alas, that doesn’t stop the crazy train from rolling down the tracks.

Sad is a good word for it.

This brings us back to the root cause of the issue: The logical fallacies of herd behavior combined with the amplification of village idiots across social media feeds. And Berkley has more than it’s share of village idiots.

Try to follow this logic pattern and ask yourself what you’re really consuming on Facebook:

Today’s conspiracy is the Town acting out revenge on taxpayers who voted down the override by implementing cuts that were disclosed in dozens of public meetings and through social media for 3 months. But before this current conspiracy, the Town’s previous conspiracy was using scare tactics to threaten implementation of cuts that are now being implemented if the proposed override was not successful.

Make those two sentences make sense.

These are what are called logical fallacies. Here’s an infographic that attempts to explain it(caution: bumps are smaller than they appear in the mirror):