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Clearly racism and misogyny plays some role in it, but Harris/SomeGuyIForgot was short something like 6 million votes of Biden/Harris. This liberal talking point is one of the most frustrating because it is also exactly what trump says when shit is obviously not perfect.
Even 2012 Obama only lost ~4M votes compared to 2008 Obama. Dems are becoming more and more disillusioned as time goes on, which should be a good thing except in the Burgereich it means they get more fascist because one time a communist corrected them on twitter about some historical fact
Worked for a major insurance company in rural Alabama. Had customers who couldn’t even write their own name, all of them were black people living in an incredibly poor area. None of them seemed particularly dumb or something, they just didn’t have access to education because of segregation. This wasn’t that long ago (2010ish), but a 70 year old today was school aged before desegregation in Alabama. Especially in rural areas that didn’t enforce it for a while.
I think a lot of people ignore the effect this has on stats like this.
The Bentonville, Ark., chain founded by billionaire Sam Walton got its start 28 years ago by opening stores in rural towns like the 5,600-population Hearne. The 1,485-store, 32-state chain is the fastest growing retailer in the USA. K mart is its chief rival.
But it also has a reputation for hurting small-town businesses that can’t match the lower prices the chain can offer due to volume buying.
The Wal-Mart effect has been so huge it’s spawned the formation of consulting firms that specialize in advising small-town businesses on handling the arrival of a Wal-Mart.
—Julie Morris, “Store shuts doors on Texas town,” USA Today, October 11, 1990
I work on an app that’s pretty complex and requires a lot of back and forth between devs, customers, and the people who do all the training/sales. I’ve had A LOT of success using numbered bullet points instead of writing normal sentences and paragraphs.
Something about the numbers makes them want to read it in order instead of skimming and it being broken down and labeled lets me respond with things like, “great, what about the 3rd bullet point?” Instead of having to repeat things. Plus most of my coworkers are in Texas so they love bullets.
The base they were both at was Fort Bragg, which is where a lot of the training for special forces happens. At least it did a long time ago, figure it’s probably the same now. Basically they all spend a lot of time there and they also go to language school there, so it’s really likely that any SF who was in the army at the same time was probably at Fort Bragg at the same time.
My secret is living in the woods, working from home, and finally making enough money to at least not worry about basic survival. I have a lot of sensory issues I wasn’t entirely aware of until recently, so living in a city was horrible for me. Sometimes I miss it being easy to go to a store (30+ miles away now), but being able to walk outside and see a forest, wildlife, and not have to hear my neighbors fucking or fighting is worth it.
However, this existence is almost impossible under normal circumstances. We got an incredible deal on rent because the landlady is kinda okay and we live in an old detached garage that’s been converted into a cabin, so it’s not exactly up to code. But our rent now is the same as it was in a smallish west coast city for a cheap 1br apartment, except we get access to 50+ acres of forest, a creek, etc.
I still exist in a constant state of depression because I know what the world is like outside of this bubble my partner and I have managed to create for ourselves.