Those southern conservatives sure won't be laughing anymore when the climate catastrophe forces them to leave their beloved red state echo chambers
Ever notice how the reddest states are also the southernmost?
Well, they better start prepping for the climate crisis now, cause this new normal ain't no joke. You're literally melting in your ignorant echo chambers, yet you deny the sobering reality in front of all your faces. In between retweeting Fox News lies and drooling over Trump photos, do try to notice how the A/C can't keep up anymore, crops are failing, and local stores are running out of bottled water. Climate migrants will soon be knocking on the door of your car-dependent cookie-cutter suburban single family (read: nuclear family model-reinforcing) house, but no worries, I'm sure y'all still got plenty of racism, saturated fat, and Confederate flags left to make them "feel at home."
As we face this new normal of record temperatures, megadroughts, devastating storms and wildfires, "thoughts and prayers" won't cut it anymore. Those lobbing snowballs on the Senate floor are slipping into full-blown climate denial, sticking their heads in the sand as Florida and Louisiana face ever worsening hurricanes and sea level rise.
And sadly, it's not just the South. It's the whole damn country. Remember the Northeast wildfire smoke? This is every summer from now on.
We simply cannot afford four more years of climate criminal Trumpism. Our generations have inherited this mess left by fossil-fueled capitalism and inaction. If capitalism runs its course according to current models and projections, there will be no more country for us.
I grew up in the south Louisiana to be specific. The confederate flag was not as ubiquitous as some seem to believe. Sure you would some times see a redneck driving a lifted truck with a confederate bumper sticker but it wasn’t the norm. Truck nuts and american flags were way more popular. But rednecks don’t make up a majority of the south.
Hell I saw a confederate flag sticker on the back window of a truck in California recently, sure its in the rural parts but its the first time I had seen one in real life in a long while. And we visit family in two Louisiana cities every year.
The south doesn’t own racism as a concept its a stereotype.
Have you read Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson? Really nice depiction of what climate migration within the US might look like.
They'll just blame Jewish space lasers or say it's God's will or whatever - cognitive dissonance is no problem when you're a cultist
I read that as "Jewish spice lasers" and was like, "Spices? As in flavor? Jewish food has flavor? When did that happen?"
I have a feeling they're gonna get even more racist when masses of climate refugees flee south America and central Mexico right into the rust belt
They're not going to leave. They'll just burn up thinking that climate change isn't happening.
What about us red state leftists?
I prefer the term "red state reds" myself
Fuckin conservatives taking the best color smdh
The color red has symbolic significance of good fortune in China. Incidentally, it is also a symbol of communism.
But have you ever heard the term "red scare"? Many people from the US almost seem like bulls with the way they freak out at anything remotely resembling communism (read: any progressive policies in general), like UBI, raising the minimum wage, improving the healthcare system, especially anti-hate speech regulations (I wonder why!), high-speed rail, protection against infectious diseases, and so on.
Red is one of my favorite colors too! And it's very harrowing to observe how the conservative racists in the US have appropriated and completely shitted on it.
Yep I live in Missouri, albeit a very blue section (St. Louis) and I know the hicks in the rural parts want people like me to leave, but fuck them, not gonna, just gonna stay here and fight it out.
Desantis is playing 1D chess. Make it inhospitable to those you would otherwise kick out.
Less people = less weight = slower sinking
Right?
Even better: why don't we do everything we can to prevent Florida from sinking in the first place?
Defeatism will get us nowhere. We need to act, and we need to act now!
They'll migrate North and they'll bring their racism & bigotry & 'bless your hearts' with them.
Hookworm.
Literal red states. Like glowing red.
Many stories of COVID deniers taking their last breath yet denying COVID even exists. If you expects these people will have a moment of realization you’re going to be disappointed.