i'm not a liberal

i am an ass though

anyway, like i said, the average well adjusted person can admit to the existence of douchebags in the place they live, because there's douchebags everywhere

meanwhile, someone dealing with some weird emotional denial and pride about the obvious, on the other hand, is working through some sort of cringe immaturity

but whatever

you do you dude

nobody really care that much. you're upset about nothing. you could try chilling out

currently i'm snacking so i'm unable to fuck myself

everywhere i've lived i've encountered bigots. it doesn't offend me as a matter of place where i am from if someone holds a negative opinion of that place, because all places have negative qualities

what is a tell though is how offended you get

why?

just admit wyoming has some douchebags. and good people, of course

then use your energy to convert the wyoming douchebags

rather than getting so upset people notice them

i get you now

yeah i can agree we don't want ai slop or just sloppy charts and graphs

Paul indicates they know of "Northern Colorado and Southern Wyoming"

so i don't know why you are objecting to their observations

i'm from connecticut but now live in western new york for many years. i think i can speak to life in western new york well enough. if someone would to be greatly offended at some of my observations this would indicate to me less that i don't know enough of the area, and more that i hit a nerve: the person doesn't like an uncomfortable truth

NM is just an outlier

like north dakota is an outlier because of the bakken oilfields

the outliers don't disprove the general and truthful trend that blue states take care of the poor in red states, mostly

why do you feel the need to object to the generally truthful trend? why not just acknowledge it?

thing is, republicans are the party of cruelty

they would be fine with people starving next to vast bountiful farmland. it's the "i got mine, fuck you" culture

that states run by democrats take care of the poor in states run by republicans (mostly) is still a valid observation

It's always fun to tease right-wingers, of course, but the truth is that analyses like this make no sense - and note they are used by the right too, for example in the UK to show that poorer places are 'dependent' on the City of London.

The problem is that they don't tell you where income or wealth are actually generated - only where the taxes are paid. If an area has lots of corporate headquarters full of very highly paid people, or lots of rich landlords, it will collect more tax - but it might well have taken the income being taxed from plants or properties in areas that collect less tax.

The 'starvation' thing is also obviously absurd - people don't eat tax. You'd probably get a very different map if you looked at where food actually comes from.

I'd congratulate you, but I don't congratulate shitlibs. I mute them. Bye-bye!

I'm basing what I said on encountering people like this (this church was just a few miles from the house where I grew up):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaPorte_Church_of_Christ

Maybe that brand of more already-MAGA-flavored conservatism was more Colorado Springs centered, and attenuated the further you got into Wyoming? Maybe it's just about what each of us happened to encounter by chance, born roughly the same time and not too far apart but having different experiences? Who knows. I can only speak from my own experience; both of us can. In any case:

> So you can shut your fucking mouth, mm’kay. I knew Coloradoans were self-righteous but fuck.

That’s really not necessary.

And while you are being "practical" and "respecting POC", tens and hundreds of thousands of brown children will continue to be murdered by the DNC, which receives bountiful funding from APAC and J Street. But I guess those kids don't really matter to you. We just need to keep voting Blue no matter who, right? What's a little genocide between friends?

While you are "ending the system", or "seizing the means of production", Black and Brown people will be working in the trenches actually making lives better. But please, do go on.

What we need is to end the system altogether and replace it with something that answers to the needs of the people. And we the people are the only ones who are going to do THAT.

#GeneralStrike