🧵I've been thinking a lot about the impact to western NC from Helene. I want to be careful with comparisons, but given the magnitude of damage, and the expanse of the higher end damage, I feel like the mountains just had their version of Katrina.
i have seen the most beautiful women of my generation have their dignity and sanity shredded by a SEC business management major with a 2.3 who pisses the bed every time he gets drunk and thinks nike polos are dress clothes
JD Vance should not be held up as a representative of Appalachia or working class people, as his book displayed a contempt for both. His reprehensible rhetoric about LGBTQ people, women, immigrants, and people of color has solidified the dog whistles he used in that book. 1/2