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Trumps budget would cut funding for Appalachia allies in coal country are livid
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Just choosed to be even more poorer.
SatelliteOfLove
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Put it on a commercial for the 2018 elections. Cold hard reality is roaring back with vengeance and its only gonna get colder and harder so the sooner people get it the sooner it can be fixed.
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Professional Enthusiast
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Sure the allies are furious, but what about the voters? I'm sure they'll keep voting repub as long as they keep trumpeting the whole 'brown people = bad' bullshit.. Fuckit, let them suffer.
I think we need to keep in mind that these cuts will still negatively affect people who didn't vote for Trump in those areas, though. Certainly gloating as many in this thread are doesn't do anything to help our cause politically... Turning the rust belt into the new South, politically, probably only creates further ideological entrenchment.
I say this as someone who grew up in Carbon County, PA, one of the areas affected by the ARC, so maybe I am more sympathetic than many (even though I did a massive purge of Facebook "friends" from High School during this last election cycle, so I understand the impulse to write off small-minded, uneducated, or blatantly racist people).
Forceatowulf
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Where is this gif from? It's absolute perfection.
Must be nice to be able to judge people so surely from a place of privilege. Have you spent any time in Appalachia? Talked with these people you are so quick to condemn? Maybe that should be the minimum level of effort instead of just reading think pieces in the atlantic before gleefully condemning millions
We seen the rallies, they were shouting "Build the wall" the loudest
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Maybe you should be there right now easing their suffering instead of trying to assert your moral superiority on a message board
Thanks i spent two years there after college with Americorps. I think the country and the left would be better if more people did the same.
Those poor ignorant people.
Taking joy? No. Lacking sympathy? Yes. I save that for those in these areas that didn't vote for Trump, and tried to convince their fellow man. Though we will always keep reaching out for their vote anyway.
nah, they're dumb ass cunts and they deserve what's coming their way.
As far as people who didn't vote for the shit-storm those racist cunts in Appalachia voted in and for, they'll get my sympathy and support.
Besides, you're doing a good enough job coddling those assholes so keep it up for the rest of us who don't give two fucks for their self-inflicted plight.
OriginofHysteria
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I have to admit, you have a point. This is an area which blamed Democrats for the fall of the coal industry. The Dems never gave them a reason to believe or hope things would get better for them and Trump comes along telling them the coal business will be booming again. They voted for Trump because they had hope that he would deliver on his promise. False hope, but it was still hope any way.
I'd say I'm not gleefully condemning millions. I live in Tennessee, so I have a bit of experience with the reality and struggles of these people.
That being said, this is the group that votes for reduced funding, for "right to work" laws, for reduction of rights for women and LGBT+ groups, and consistently supports policies that directly lead to more struggle for them.
They had this coming. This is their reality now. They were warned, showed the info, rejected it for god or country or freedom or founding fathers or glory of the south or whatever, and now they elected somebody who's going to make water and air worse for all of us, has a literal Nazi as a head strategist, and is directly making life more dangerous for friends of mine in the military. I can empathize with their pain, but they will get no sympathy from me.
Cool, join back up and go help them, oh wait Trumps budget wants to destroy the Americorps program those dumbasses you helped, utilized before. whoopsie daisy.
Exactly, this is a silver lining for me. No empathy whatsoever for these people at all.
exmachina64
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Yes, I have.
They blame Democrats for everything that's wrong and credit Republicans for everything going well.
Here's a recent example:
Source.
Trying to persuade other people isn't fruitful, we're too polarized for that now.
If only the president wasn't trying to destroy that program.
Or people literally wasn't killing themselves by voting in a mad man
I don't take joy in their suffering, but they're not receiving any sympathy from me. They're adults who have to take responsibility for their own actions. Maybe they shouldn't have taken the word of a known con-man, and habitual liar.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Your assertion that you're better or somehow more clued in than people who aren't crying for these people kind of hobbles your point
You're right about privilege-I have the privilege of not having racism blind me to reality. I have the privilege of melanin and and a non traditional name to show me how much of a perceived threat I am.
These are grown men and women who are responsible for their own actions. Voting is a right to be exercised responsibly.
I'm sure when coal was booming, and things were good in Appalachia, they had the utmost empathy for other places in the U.S.A that had social ills.
Same about how they cared about the drug epidemic before it hit their doors.
Their votes now condemn millions, but also themselves too.
I didn't vote just to make my life better, but others. They voted just for them. And it's looking to backfire on them. They should have been more conscious with their vote, and they were not.
Soldiussnaku
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No, they made their (death) beds. Now it's the time to lie in them.
In the age of computers in pockets, they could have easily educated themselves with better people to vote for. They didn't.
No society need to tolerate such self destructive, toxic, dangerous stupidity.
In the age of computers in pockets, they could have easily educated themselves with better people to vote for. They didn't.
No society need to tolerate such self destructive, toxic, dangerous stupidity.
gross. bootstraps meant for minorities? c'mon, don't be too harsh on them.
I thought those were only for minorities!
Sunster
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They're still blowing up entire mountains and destroying rivers though.
I've lived in WV for practically my whole life. Between the dying coal industry and the drug problem, it's been getting worse all the time. But no matter what anyone says, they keep thinking coal jobs would come back to be like they used to be.
It's pretty depressing.
I really love WV, but it's chocking the life out of itself.
It's pretty depressing.
I really love WV, but it's chocking the life out of itself.
I love this post! It sums up how much joy this all brings me.
Yekshemesh
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And soon thanks to Trump, will be dumping coal waste into the rivers.
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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Why? Why the fuck is it the liberals job to worry about these fucking people? No matter how much liberals try to help these people, they always fuck it up.
Seriously, fuck that sentiment. It's a total fucking copout. Hur hur, "thought you were the tolerant left" bullshit argument racist/bigots spew online.
Sorry for not giving a shit about people that won't give a shit about how their voting affects my family or friends. Actually no, I'm not sorry.
These people DESERVE everything coming to them.
poppedcollar69
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maybe he can start a federal program that pays them $7 an hour to mine bitcoin instead
I guess the only one privaleged enough to make assumptions about people they don't know dick about is you, right?
Dash_Riprock
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Please, since you're so superior to everyone here on a gaming forum, explain to us why these idiots deserve more sympathy from me than the black men getting murdered by police and the Muslims worried that if they ever leave the country they might not be allowed back in.
Edit: Banned. Well, I'm sure he'll be on Reddit bitching about GAF. I just hope he remembered to have a different username there, unlike the last dude.
Thelonelykoopa
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Fuck I wouldn't mind that I would be making more money than my computer would be mining bitcoin.
BrutishMrFish
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Liberalism is not defined by forgiveness or love. You're thinking of the hippie movement, which ended in the 1970s.
poppedcollar69
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those bitcoin would go to pay down the federal debt of course
Ryzaki009
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lmao
Maybe they could've done the same? Alas they were too eager too and that boomerang came around and hit them in the face. They played themselves.
Oh just realized bannhamer. Welp point still stands.
Smiles and Cries
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they will find a way to blame Obama for this
He isn't even a particularly good or devious liar either. That's the really sad part of it. They were swindled, and it wasn't a particularly complicated or clever con.
Maybe point your ire at the GOP and media machine that gleefully encouraged these already depleted communities to seal their fatees. Instead of ridiculously insisting that judgment requires some sort of literal reenactment of an entire life.
You think he did NOT consider that poverty and ignorance played a part?
And why do you assume he's speaking from a place of privilege? What's that poster's income and background?
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If obama didn't make you needy in the first place you would be fine
This mythical sympathy that trump voters somehow deserve for fucking everyone over is puzzling. Especially to those who claim personal responsibility to be a cornerstone.
And don't hit me with that bullshit "You don't even know them". I live in kansas for 21 years, I have a pretty fucking good idea of the people who would vote for trump.
And don't hit me with that bullshit "You don't even know them". I live in kansas for 21 years, I have a pretty fucking good idea of the people who would vote for trump.
Yeah, I think we are about to go through the Kansas experiment on a national scale.
Dash_Riprock
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They won't. They'll just blame liberals. Best we can hope for is for some of them to stay home on November, but most will fall in line.
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