Thread by @feelsdesperate

Hard not to view events through the lens that empire has turned inward with the federal government playing the role of increasingly paranoid colonial administrators alienated from and hostile to the local population.

Helene cuts a swath through a regressive imperial backwater,…

…and the main concern seems to be that this is an inconvenience that has to somehow be worked into the stage sets of the presidential campaign.

Don’t these people understand there are more important extra territorial matters (Ukraine, the Middle East) that are of…

…priority?

Are they not being impertinent by complaining too loudly? Don’t they know their place? Don’t they know democracy is on the ballot? Don’t they know we’re defending the freedom of Europe? That ‘no human is illegal’ and that the federal disaster response agencies…

…have been repurposed to do NGO humanitarian aid work for non citizens? Don’t they understand all that is at stake? Because if they did and were decent people they would be less noisy and stop complaining on social media, and stop publicizing inconvenient facts, and stop…

…insulting and embarrassing important bureaucrats, and anyway they pay less taxes than what they receive and so they should be grateful for what they already get and these are the same people who gave us Trump, so now they’re asking for our help?? And we’re going to help them…

…of course (we are Good People) but it would be a basic decency on their part to appraise themselves of the bigger picture and know their place.