i will never understand the impulse to wish ill upon people suffering through a climate disaster. i don’t give a fuck if you’re in oklahoma or california because all flesh burns the same. you’re not exempt from caring, nor are you immune.
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Every time there's a hurricane and people act like Florida "deserves it" I get so incredibly angry because my family lives there. My friends are there. This is not some sort of targeted divine judgement on half the people who live there and voted for DeSantis but not the rest.
I think part of it’s trying to cope with cognitive dissonance—they’re trying to reassure themselves that a natural disaster could never happen to them because they’re Good People who Don’t Deserve Bad Things.
So OBVIOUSLY the people suffering are only suffering because they’re Bad and did something to deserve being burned alive. No such thing as luck, chance, or climate change. Only those who Deserve It and those who are Perfectly Safe.
You’ve described why people routinely use religious belief to justify hate—“I am eternally safe, unlike that race/gender/sexuality/status/nationality person because I follow ’s rules. Clearly, they didn’t follow those rules and thus deserve to suffer for being so irresponsible.”
Recent identity politics have changed the narrative to where people that they don't agree with or have different skin tones have been dehumanized as monsters...which makes it easier to root against them
Natural disasters are going to increase in frequency and severity. We have known this would happen for so many years. If they hit rich people in America more often maybe they will begin to care? I mean probably not and it's too late anyway but there are plenty of places I'd be ok with getting hit.
Here in FL I often wonder why we rebuild in some of these flood prone and coastal areas but these fires in LA seem to jump from house to house because of those winds. How do you even prevent that? I’ve always thought those wildfires were in heavily wooded areas but this doesn’t seem to be the case.
agree. whether it’s hurricanes or fires…natural disasters don’t choose some political party to harm. it’s nature. the lack of empathy is really something right now…
I still read the NYPost online after being in LA for 5+ years,
(stupid me) -- the comments on the fire stories are beyond disgusting. It's a bizarre tribalism, like they can't recognize other people's humanity.
Pointing out that CA is full of Republicans *does* seem to get them rattled at least
Hurricane Harvey really taught us Texans how little the rest of the world cares regarding environmental disasters. Our home flooded, the 1st & 2nd emergency places flooded. No hotel or motel was open. Our cars floated away. All of us are subject to climate change.
It’s a psychological thing—
if you can blame someone, even the victims, you feel safer because the disaster could have been prevented
and you are too smart to be helplessly swept away by a catastrophe.
They're sad individuals. Some are simply trolls, many of them are sadistic. Indeed, America has an epidemic resistant to all known treatments—we have an epidemic of sadism that has spread from coast to coast. Often nihilistic & narcissistic, it is all about & for them. Do not succumb to it. #Ignore.
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It's not Karma.
I don't wish this situation on anyone.
(stupid me) -- the comments on the fire stories are beyond disgusting. It's a bizarre tribalism, like they can't recognize other people's humanity.
Pointing out that CA is full of Republicans *does* seem to get them rattled at least
if you can blame someone, even the victims, you feel safer because the disaster could have been prevented
and you are too smart to be helplessly swept away by a catastrophe.