Political Memes

I've lived in tornado alley for much of my life. During tornado season everyone watches the weather, and has a plan on what they are going to do. I would find it VERY strange if my neighbor suddenly started banging on my door telling me a storm was coming. I would absolutely already know from the same sources they know. Most of us are hyperaware of our dangerous weather. I imagine that point is the same for those that live in hurricane areas.

Because you said the "got out" then it sounds like it was a hurricane. If a tornado is closing in, the worst thing you could do would be try and "get out". So what's even more confusing if this was a hurricane, those have days worth of notice. Everyone in that trailer park would have known a hurricane was coming days before and could either choose to leave, go to a hurricane shelter, or decide to stay put. The reality is that trailers are the worst form of protection during bad weather, tornadoes or hurricanes.

What exact action you would expect from the middle-class family that wouldn't make them racist/elitists from you post? Physically knocking on doors of dozens of trailers saying "a storm is coming" days before they leave?

I am not the first person to point this out and I won't be the last.. but this is really the only way the system can work. If people aren't turned against each other in this multi-dimensional shit show of empathy strangling twists of stereotypes and lived experiences than it will inveitably collapse into a giant "Why the fuck are we doing this?" and people will stand up together and put a stop to it.

It is NECESSARY for the middle-class white family to leave abruptly without telling their poor neighbors in order to rationalize the hate the middle-class white person has for poor whites (I wouldn't do this awful of a thing unless I was right because I AM a good person) and vice versa to rationalize the hate the poor white person has for middle-class white people or black people or whatever.. all that matters is an unaddressed trauma is created and then denied any resolution for the victims. Rinse Repeat.

Personally I think a better alternative would be free quality healthcare for everybody but what the hell do I know shrugs

I honestly think it is as simple as the elite white class of easterners wanted desperately in some way to be like mindfuckingly rich european elites and so why the hell would they go west when their parents already in their minds went farther west then they the children wanted to and were now having to commit genocide and other attrocities to drag a fabrication of that fantasy into reality here in the US?

You have to look at the cowboy trope and interpret it quite literally as the US collective psyche, racism, stereotypes of westerns and all because it really does explain the behavior of the US right now.

The west was not built by blonde hair blue eyed european descent cowboys taming the savage wilds, it was built despite them trying to kill the very soul of the landscape and despite the fact that retroactively cowboy imagery was violently whitewashed and plastered over a vibrant if brutal tapestry of history in order to simplify problematic questions about the "american project" into easy answers.

Edit John Company the board game explains this exhaustively in that the game is meant to express a similar process that went on with the Colonial elite of India under occupation by the British empire.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/332686/john-company-second-edition

It’s interesting because virtually none of that anti-Irish sentiment exists on the West Coast.

I'll echo this from the midwest. Thats why this post about discrimination against the Irish was so surprising to me. Chicago in particular goes all out on St Patrick's day, and having any sort of Irish heritage is celebrated and cache that day.