Minutes before seeing this post, I made the mistake of looking at comments on an NPR post about people in the Mississippi Delta fearing loss of access to benefits. The number of people who seem to think the Delta is a Trump voter stronghold because it's in Mississippi...

And from the collective perception of our media and their audiences (no matter their ideology), what the Jays have done to the Yanks to date is likely perceived as an assault on American exceptionalism.

As a U.S. Jays fan who now feels anxious about both sports *and* encroaching fascism, I can also add that too many of us belligerently insist on ignorance of anything "foreign" until it impinges on a cultural icon.

Even Seneca County was "only" 56-44 Trump, and Ontario was basically 50-50 (w/Canandaigua and Geneva being pretty substantially Harris). To extend Pitchbot's point, most of Western NY and Finger Lakes (even Southern Tier) is a lot less Trumpy than comparable areas in most of the U.S.

There were the leaks about even the Obama team mocking Biden as "safety school Joe" back when he was VP.

I'd argue was a different crowd in the media who hated him but not a bad point. Bill also greased palms and smooth talked them in a way Biden didn't.

Joe Biden: U of Delaware, Syracuse; Kamala Harris: Howard, UC school that isn't LA or Berkeley. I honestly think that's at least half of it.

Biden and Harris did not possess what they view as pedigree educational credentials. That's at least half of it.

Of course liberals/progressives aren't immune from racism. No argument. Plus, there are MAGA types everywhere. But I too often have to argue w people who insist my 73-26 Harris community near Pittsburgh is "MAGA country" bc it voted for Reagan in the 80s, so I'm a bit sensitive about timely data.

She had a 33% margin of victory, as per Monroe County's certification. I sympathize that having to quibble with someone whose hot takes are 20+ years out of date cuts into the joke a bit, but a roughly 2-1 margin absolutely counts as deep blue.

There's even a model for this! Chris Deluzio (my rep) is no progressive, but he's young and gives a shit about having a country in the future.

www.wesa.fm/politics-gov...

This is a fantastic initiative. I'd encourage you to also consider federal contractors, esp. those in social policy/service roles being hit by senseless cuts. Many of these folks, like myself, serve(d) similar roles and are also motivated by a sense of public service. @alleghenycounty.bsky.social

Much of what I know of him comes from Meet You In Hell, but I'll look up that essay. Probably also didn't hurt that he waited until his 50s to marry to avoid offending mommy, and then only had one kid!

One thing that shines through here is that Carnegie, in his considerable good *and* bad contributions to the world, cuts a much more complicated figure than most modern corporate titans (AHEM). As you observe, there's a reason we haven't seen generations of monstrously wealthy Carnegie failsons.

Exactly. The logical extension to this attitude is that the marginalized people in states that voted for Trump also deserve to suffer because of where they live.

Yeah, fuck the 49% of Pennsylvanians (and 80% of us in the immediate Pittsburgh area, and over 90% of voters in the precincts around Pitt) who voted against this, right? Fuck the lifesaving interventions developed at academic institutions like Pitt. Good job being progressive!