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I’ve said this until I was blue in the face. The closure of NIOSH in Morgantown, the place that arguably led the charge for discovering black lung’s cause and combatting it, and continually working on particulate science, was the absolute biggest slap in the face to this state that could have happened. The biggest ally miners had in the the twilights of their careers is gone, and in it’s place, you get a “good job, bro” and kicked out the door by the mine barons. Any shot you have at recompense dies when they declare bankruptcy with yet another shell company; the holding ponds they’re responsible for? Not their problem. The recovery costs of the natural environment? State’s cost now. Yet all those profits go right into ol’ Jimothy Justice’s pockets. Probably amped as fuck that he gets to continue his racket, and ALSO vote on the policies that regulate the industry. How fun that is!

Fucks sake.

It’s been bleak since about 2008, Obama just was popular enough to stave this wave off. Heavy swing back the other way, with the temporary gap for Biden off of short term anger and easier voting with COVID.

Quid pro crowd killing in the pit

Dibs on Ruinious Litigation for a band name

I’m not a details man, I’m a big picture guy. Bill it as “realistic response technology”?

Someone needs to make an app where it’s people AI dating, but instead it just matches you with an IRL person. Like ethically it’s not cool, but…

Part of it is there was some very real backstabbing done by the Dems with Bernie and Hillary in 2016. He won literally every county in the state in 2016 and they sent super delegates to the Convention and gave the state to Hillary, 19-18. It doesn’t excuse selling out the country for spite, but there is a very real thing perpetrated on WV voters by Democratic supporters. And we used to be a sorta blue state, up until that time.