Because the alternative is to believe that when they wonder if you hate them enough and what they stand for enough that you'd destroy America to get at them...

Maybe you do.

Please don't. It matters.

(I'm off to smaller ponds and building different bridges. I'm sad and I'm scared but I'm ok. 🙏❤️)

don't make it worse. Turn it around if you can.

Swallow the bile, pass on the dunking opportunities, don't bite on bait like "all lives matter" by realizing fighting it directly sounds like "all lives don't matter, starting with yours."

Be nice enough to your fellow citizens to win an election

vs a terrifying assembly of career fraudsters with an overt plan to destroy American civic life and rebuild it in their image. It's between vesting that power into people they think hate them or people they think don't.

Whoever sees this, with whatever time their is until the 2024 election: please

stand for" and you say "you're right," we don't care how based your dunk was or how many layers of ironypilled you're on.

We just...believe you.

And in a year, if nothing changes, they're going to vote like they believe you.

To them, it's not about "aww shucks, what're you gonna do?" Dems vs

released by it.

We're not all bad people. I promise. I mean it when I say the average West Virginian is an affirming communist who doesn't know what those words actually mean.

But we've been ground down and mocked and mocked and ground down so much that when we say "you hate us and everything we

Yes, we're confused. Yes, we're behind the times. Yes, we've been traumatized by going from being ground up in the mines we didn't own for generations only to have the benefits that did accrue to us yanked out from under us with a "learn to code" and an expectaition that we apologize for the carbon

need guns.

I've watched people on this site claim that it's wrong to hate the southern states solely because there are Democratic voters in them and call it discourse. I've watched you quote Mother Jones, Dorothy Day, and Rev. Dr MLK Jr. to us, as if those quotes weren't said on our soil to us.

children. You mock their whole understanding of the world as steeped as its been in violence, terror, and opression and you mock what that's done to them. You mock what they do to stop the cycle.

I went to High School with Sid Hatfield's grandson. Ask me if I know why West Virginians think they

the state. You mock their love of the flag and their military service. You mock the thousands that died and were crippled pulling coal out of their own ground for crap money to keep the lights on now that you don't think you need it anymore.

You mock their fear for the future, their fear for their

education, you mock their employment history, you mock their history.

You mock their family histories. You mock their skin color.

You mock their generational trauma about what happens when college-educated people from out of state start coming in with government-sponsored plans for how to "fix"

You can state you don't hate them, but there's a lot of evidence to the contrary.

You mock their faith, you mock their confusion, you mock their music, you mock their vehicles, you mock their understanding that something Obama signed meant they can't buy two-door trucks anymore, you mock their

into Donald Trump even though they know what that's going to look like. Because to them, the choice is simple: either business as usual with people that hate them in charge, or something new and bizarre with people who don't actively and openly hate them at the wheel. Not saints, just not enemies.

We're literally waiting for the political cost of preventing widespread alternative energy to become more expensive than the political cost of encouraging alternative energy.

"But my property values" and "it will spoil the view" won't be the moneyed interest forever.

May his passing cleanse the world.

1) make less carbon
2) plant more trees
3) make stuff out of wood to make room for even more trees

Truly, we are all connected in strange and terrible ways

They Americanized it and adapted it make more sense as a movie. And they did an amazing job at both.

The first service I watched, the one and only rabbi in my community publicly stated Palestinians need Israelis to grow food for them because they "have death in their blood" and "even the ground wants them to die."

I am no longer interested in exploring that side of my family's history at this time

Considered it. Still not too late