I appreciate your analysis so much. It’s been keeping me grounded, eyes wide open, and deliberately hopeful for years now.

Ah yes, please equate the entire population of western North Carolina with the 15 or so bozos who did this. NC is gerrymandered & voter suppressed to shit. The south is not a monolith. Real people who lived through Helene are on this app reading your ignorant takes that cheer on our abandonment.

Also things that have stuck with me from both handmaids tale and the parables are that both Atwood and Butler thoroughly rooted their fiction in historical precedent and reality 🥴🫠

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents would like a word.