Bwahaha!

  • GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social
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    11 hours ago

    West Virginia boasts the highest coal production per capita in the United States. Living as a descendant of Italian immigrants that moved to the US midwest to mine coal, I’m pissed but this is what a majority of modern miners voted for. We may as well go back to the days of coal miners being the exploited labor of millionaires(billionaires).

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      8 hours ago

      I don’t know if you can claim that map represents miners. I wouldn’t be surprised, but also there are essentially no mining jobs in WV anymore. They’re sold propaganda of coal jobs helping people, because a lot of people used to make a living from it (however horrible it was). I have a lot of family in WV and I know zero coal miners. Now it’s just machines working Joe Manchin’s mines, so 100% of them could have voted D and it wouldn’t make a dent in that data.