If you're in the U.S., you're probably getting wall-to-wall coverage on Hurricane Florence. On the other side of the world, Typhoon Mangkhut is moving to tear the hell out of Luzon in the Philippines and then into mainland Asia.
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One funny thing about the Right: You can find no shortage of calls from them to "let drug addicts die", instead of saving their lives by using Narcan. Yet when people refuse to heed evacuation orders and then need rescuing, you don't see or hear conservatives calling to "let them drown".[1] Why is that?
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[1] Other than when Katrina hit New Orleans and Maria tore the shit out of Puerto Rico.
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Let’s see:
North Carolina: “As of the 2015 vintage year of the U.S. Census series starting in 2010, the U.S. Census estimated that the racial distribution of North Carolina's population was 71.2% White American, 22.1% African American, 1.6% American Indian, 2.8% Asian, and 9.1% Hispanic or Latino (of any race”
Louisiana and Mississippi: “Louisiana's population has the second largest proportion of black Americans (32% according to 2010 census) in the United States, after Mississippi, at 37%” and lCreoles of color, multiracial Americans in Louisiana with French, African, and/or Native American ancestry, predominate in the southeast, central, and northern parts of the state, particularly those parishes along the Mississippi River valley.”
Puerto Rico: 75.8% White or Hispanic, with only 25,000 of 6,000,000 checking White, non-Hispanic.
So the storm hits an U.S. Commonwealth that’s heavily Hispanic or the most heavily Black populated section of two States, and the R’s yell that the people took their chances. It hits North Carolina, the areas hit are more affluent (coastal, seasonal communities) and located outside the urban areas with higher minority populations, except for the Costal Plain, where the poor Black population is already thinned out by the toxic pig farms...R’s want to help these people that stayed. Draw your own conclusions.
A lot of Temperance movement supporters were not sad when people died from Bathtub Gin.
What I find interesting the the Cajun Navy folks, who all ran (well, drove) towards the sound of crashing surf.
They wanted to make methanol even more toxic in order to kill more people.
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