Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

April 12, 2026 - 17:47 UTC

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Lisa would most definitely approve!
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Read Earthseed last year for the first time. She must have had a crystal ball to look into the future of now . . .
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IMHO...it wasn't tough to see, if one had a talent for pattern recognition and the drive the actually look ahead. That's probably asking a lot of the average person.
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Wow we found us a president who can do all five 💪
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Wise prophetic woman.
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Why are we discussing Dump without his presence!
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When I first read those books, the enmity then war with Canada seemed like more fictionalization than futurism at the time. Imagine my surprise when the Greenland and Canada-as-51st-state came up irl. Think we should learn as much about Butler’s process and science as possible, she knew stuff early
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The key ability for this is pattern recognition. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately...one never knows with unintended consequences) less than 5% of the population possesses this type of primary cognition.
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Prescient
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All of the above
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God is Change.
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And we’ve got five for five in the United States! Good on us 😏
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The US is 5 for 5.
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He really checks all the boxes, doesn’t he?
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So ‘all of the above’ is bad ….
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Those 2 books are so prescient.
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All in one man…fucking unbelievable!

But too true!
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Sounds like she was a psych and predicted Trump before he tried to clean up his act with lies to start in politics. The other thing to note is he never ran for any office other than President. That was also dire warning about who he was.
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This should have been posted outside the polling locations before the last election, but it is still worth thinking about as the mid terms approach.
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And the US leaders hit each and everyone of those
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Truth we are living.
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Repost please
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Octavia E. Butler looked into our future when she wrote. Such insight and sadly gone too soon. Thank you for sharing this.
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That about sums it up.
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She's brilliant isn't she?
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I’m currently reading Parable of the Sower :)
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We're being lead by someone who is all those things.
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We were warned.

But Kamala had an annoying laugh.
And Biden was maybe 40% as hostile to Palestinian interests as Trump.
And Hillary...
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was completely tone-deaf to the legitimate concerns of ordinary people screwed over in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis (whereas Trump at least acknowledged at the time that the system is broken).
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Seems like there's a pretty perfect Dem political ad here just waiting for some spectacular lighting, footage of America and Amanda Gorman reading the lines.
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All of the above. Oof.
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We've got the hat trick.
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I like this. And it’s so very true.
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Awesome… ALT-Text appreciated !
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What if all in one !??
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A parable that says it all
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We got all of those!
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To be lead by a rapist is to get screwed over royally.
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One of the best quotes of all time. Thank you.
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And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll
-LZ
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How did we manage to miss every point?
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Wow. Checked every box. That should have been very difficult.
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The USA lucked out on all these!
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Let's keep this in mind every two years, because character matters greatly in leadership positions: mayor, governor, president.
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Little did she know we‘d end up with all 5 in 1
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To vote for and be led by those who commit atrocities and look the other or provide money, weapons and support for atrocities , is to be the monster yourself
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That book changed the way I see everything. Everything.
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Love, love, love Octavia E. Butler. Have read all her books.
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👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Better yet, don't rely on 'leaders'.
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2016 and 2024!
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😳
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While sadly America is currently being led by a man-child that's all of the above & also an 🍊 paedophilic, raping, murderous, insurrectionist, Russian shill & spy, rancid, vagina-necked, bullying, pederastic, cuckold, syphilitic, senile, bankruptcy expert, draft dodging & cowardly professional loser
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Got-damn. Trump is all of those and even worse
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Telling
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Such a great writer.
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Wow. I know a 'leader' who ticks all those boxes.
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#TruthMatters
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Checks all the boxes. 😠
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This. Wisdom from the Ancestors. RIP Octavia E Butler
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Trump checks all the boxes.
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Ah The Parable of the Talents, or is it the Parable of the Sower, books for our times.
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Bit difficult when it's all of the above 😬
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To be led by someone who encompasses all these things is lunacy.
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Yeah,,, Trump pretty much checks all those boxes.
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This guy doesn't need any leaders, because he successfully removed all of the assholes out of his way.
All he needs is a mission, and missions don't always come down from leaders, or those delusional idiots who think they are leaders.
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Loved that series. Butler is a new favorite.
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America has the full set.
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To be “led” by Trump means to be led by all six.
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One of the biggest losses ever. 😭
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That should be printed on flyers and handed out at polling places nationwide.
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Yeah, remember when we felt privileged enough to complain about Clinton??

(He had an AFFAIR, he’s a threat to all women!…)
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[Turns page]

But to be lead by all five at once?
Wow. Just wow.
You must really suck.
How would that even...?
You know what?
Don't tell me.
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Loved her books!
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Excellent post
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To be led by all of the above is to be an American in the year 2026
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Trump ticks all the boxes.
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I gotta wonder...did Octavia Butler somehow...nahhhh.

Maybe.
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WOW
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Lucky us! We have them all rolled up into one!
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Grabbed!
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Butler was a brilliant writer and prophetic by way of observation.
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And if your leader is all of those things...
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So just elect good leaders got it
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How prescient
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oh, geez! we’ve had it all in one felon loser!
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Any questions?
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She also had a pseudo-Christian nationalist who ran for President on a campaign of "Make America Great Again", blaming all problems on immigrants, with semi-government paramilitary groups setting up camps to collect people who disagree and abuse/kill them.
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Somehow we got ALL of wrapped in a spray tan with a yak hair combover.
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One of the best science fiction writers.
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Bammm.

That's hitting home hard.

Man.
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Yikes!! Trump is ALL of those!!
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It’s almost like she knew trump
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Such a brilliant writer gone too soon. I’m a huge fan.
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Royal Flush. smdh
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So what does it mean when our President is all of these?
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And here we are.
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Boy are we screwed!
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5/5
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Wow, all characteristics of the orange clown
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How perfect Is this! Wish it could be shown on all buildings that have posted photos of the little potus
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The Parable of the Sower is brilliant.
She truly was a treasure. So I have this to commemorate the series.
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#GreatAltText
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In Trump the US got all of these in the one person!
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Well, Trump is all of those except a leader. We are totally fucked.
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Deep in shit are we....
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How can it be all of them?
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www.westernjournal.com/nypd-leader-made-mistake-bragging-anti-gang-operation-now-dems-claiming-racist-will-likely-shut/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=top-news-alert&utm_campaign=news-alert&utm_content=2026-04-12 who votes for more gangs- liberals
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And to be led by ALL of the mentioned means we are not led at all. Merely bullied.
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Wow.
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This reads like a top5 list of Trumps most prominent traits
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Brilliant summary of why we are where we are today ... we have elected a 'coward' twice to lead our nation

I am going to read her books now 🙏🏼
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Ppl bring up fear to make ppl afraid. Ppl call ppl cowards to make them play a game of chicken.

All this fear and cowards stuff was used during covid etc and it was not a winning formula. Did it attract the best candidates and bring the best out of them? They say fatigue makes a cowards of all.
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Great book by a wonderful and visionary writer.

And the slogan of Christian fundamentalist President Andrew Steele Jarret was "Make America Great Again."

She nailed it.
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He was more like Vance than Trump though.
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And the guy we have now is all of the above.
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I’m right in the middle of reading Parable of the Sower. It’s amazing how she was able to predict 30 years into the future like that from the 1990s.
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If you flip the page, is there a bit that says, ‘unfortunately, there’s a bloke that’s all of these - followed by a drawing of someone sadly letting off a party popper?
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I've got this passage/verses highlighted in my copy. The evidence of this truth is all around us.
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To be led by all the above
would be stupid
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PREACH!
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We did all of it. It's amazing we are not all dead yet.
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All 5 categories = you know who.
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Coward?
Fool?
Thief?
Liar?
Tyrant?

DJT checks all the boxes!
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...plus
scumbag
rapist
pedophile
sociopath
malignant narcissist
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Wow and we got them all wrapped into one!

What's the word for five like a trifecta?
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Shoot, we got the 5 in 1 combo plate....
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no clue who said it first but if you elect a rapist, expect to get _ucked. how very true
PROTEST MAY 1st, it matters, be there
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Very powerful. Thanks for the post.
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Yep. He's all of those things.
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Amen.
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Pretty impressive the US got 5 in 1
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Woo hoo, batting a thousand 🤘🤘
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Came here to say that.
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