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Scrivener7

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4. Civics and basic economics should be required high school courses. Because that's some screaming ignorance there.
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 07:30 AM
Apr 20

Also: "Coal went out and opioids came in." Uh, no. Coal went out and PEOPLE TOOK opioids.

I am so sick of hearing about how terrible life is for West Virginia coal country. Coal employs fewer people than Wendy's. How about we hear about how difficult life is for retail workers, where we lost 800,000 jobs in about 5 years? I'll tell you why we don't: because those WOMEN (because retail is mostly women) DIDN'T as a culture decide that Oxy was the way to go. They went out and looked for other jobs.

Hillary had hundreds of companies lined up and pledging to move offices and plants into coal country, including a lot of companies in clean energy. Coal country could have been the new clean energy region, and it would have transformed those areas.

Instead they voted for trump. And no. It's not because his "plan is impeccable," like the moron in the article said. It was because he told them their racism and sexism are just fine.

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