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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 147 points 5 days ago (1 children)

People voting for disease got what they voted for.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 43 points 5 days ago (4 children)

We voted for PLAGUE, y'all, not disease..

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm sure they voted for the Ni...Black plague.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"it's pronouned ni-JEAR, mister president."

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 points 5 days ago

Follow-on EO to rename somebody else’s country.

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I voted for Darth Plagueis. I hope that wasn’t misrepresented.

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You got both + the added bonus of rape. Enjoy.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

if you were TRULY horrible, you'd have posted this on truth social and the last part would have been "ENJOY!"

[–] ragas@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A good few plagues are diseases, so ... Why not both?

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

i love the image in my head when i think about a locust plague. i've been in tennessee during cicada season, so i can only imagine how much worse it would be. and cicadas are fucking gross. or maybe the raining frogs thing. ribbit, plop. ribbit, plop.

[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 73 points 5 days ago (4 children)

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).

[–] Washedupcynic@lemm.ee 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Classic leopards ate my face. May they have the lives they voted for.

[–] NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

They earned every lungful.

[–] GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

TO THE PLAAcough hack

I BELOOOOwheeze

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Wyoming also mines a ton of coal, and they voted 71% for Trump.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

West Virgina is still the leading coal-mining state in the entire US with over 14,000 employees, most of them working underground. It's not a vast number but yeah, the "vibes" are there and that's what people will always connect with.

[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 69 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 9 points 5 days ago

friend of coal

[–] ChristmasApe@discuss.online 52 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just wait until they stop enforcing safety measures and mines start collapsing.

Think Trump’s going to send feds to dig you out??

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 5 days ago

Obviously, it's the states' right to clean up after the federal government.

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 43 points 5 days ago

Why help sick miners when we can give tax breaks to billionaires and free money playing stock market games?

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago

Wait until he brings back company scrip and company towns.

[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 37 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Don't they know, trump did CLEAN COAL , all the coal is clean because of CLEAN COAL and you can't get black lung from CLEAN COAL

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 days ago

Beautiful clean coal*

(Kill me)

[–] NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 days ago

This is too funny. What percentage of them do you think voted for him, 80?

[–] Spezi@feddit.org 18 points 5 days ago

Black Lungs Matter

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He also shut down the department of education and is pushing for the return of child labor.

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Live action reboot of the industrial revolution.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Excuse me I think you meant to say FREEDOM LUNG.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

From another thread DEI lung

And of course that's why it was cancelled.

[–] don@lemm.ee 22 points 5 days ago

When you get infected by the broke mind virus, the rest of your body goes down the sewer along with it, too, unsurprisingly.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

But they yearn for the mines...they wouldn't even want a free penthouse if you gave it to them. Their lungs love the coal.

[–] Opi@lemm.ee 10 points 5 days ago

Make Coal Great Again !

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

According to donnie dumbass, these people would rather be mining (and have black lung) than have a penthouse on Fifth Avenue.

I have a great-grandfather that died from black lung. Fuck donvict. I wonder how many of the coal miners that were used as stage props for the asshat Felon-in-Chief had any choice in the matter.

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