• Michal@programming.dev
    10·
    6 months ago

    Let me guess, they are also more religious?

    Poor people are easier to manipulate. The correlation may be there, but not necessarily for the reason you think.

  • pachrist@lemmy.world
    81·
    6 months ago

    Because Democrats are persecuting these right wing utopias. If it wasn’t for Democrat meddling, Podunk, West Virginia would rival LA or Silicon Valley.

    Probably someone on Joe Rogan claiming this today, just about Detroit.

    • lseif@sopuli.xyz
      5·
      6 months ago

      basically anything one agrees with. often something that an authority or majority disagree with, or are unaware of.

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      I went to see a comedian, Jay Medicine Hat, who told a story about pissing on George Washington’s head at Mt Rushmore. A sentiment at the time I didn’t understand but could at least respect.

      Then I went to the pine ridge reservation with a charity drive.

      Fuck this country. Fuck every politician who says they can make it better.

      There is absolutely no excuse for one of the most economically powerful countries on the planet to have anybody living in that kind of poverty.