Nope, just plain ol' hateful people here. Every single county went Trump in 2020, even the ones with large college and educated populations. Closest it got was Monongalia county were he only had 50-60% of the votes. If any county would be blue, it would have been Mon, but they couldn't win there either.
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I'll fight em. Despite being in WV, there aren't too many confrontational people here. And I'm in arguably the most liberal part, so I'm decently insulated from the crazies. People always say "liberals don't have guns", but it's more "liberals don't cosplay with their guns when they go to the store"...
Malarkey is a hell of a thing
When Manchin goes, he isn't getting replaced by a more left Dem. He is as left as the state is gonna go for some time. Trump had ~70% of the vote; even the most liberal county, Monongalia, still broke for Trump, and that's where WVU is.
Anyone who thinks the citizens here will vote for another Dem are delusional. He's staying in power because he was already there, simple as. He was an agreeable Dem because he would talk about coal lovingly and bitch about things people wanted him to bitch about. If/when he swaps to R, he's going further right or the people here will vote a better conservative in.
The problem is, not doing so is tantamount to treason to them. The election was stolen, this isn't the USA anymore. This is some deep state globalist conspiracy. They're so far gone that the only path forward is to threaten war and physical harm to others.
Imagine. Some deep state conspiracy and the best person they could put in power was Joe fuckin Biden...lmao
It's a systemic problem they helped setup. The amount of public support they had while going through education and young adult life was wild. Unions were popular, housing was relatively cheap and affordable, same with education. Things didn't start blowing up til the 80s, 90s, 00s, when they were firmly of voting age and able to exert their numbers politically.
When did corporate and private tax policy change drasrically? The 80s. When did college costs start to increase? 1980 referencing a graph here.. When did housing start to increase (the first time)? In the 2000s, cause banks and the fed (led by boomers; all 5 of the largest financial institution crashes were headed by boomers; Lehman, Merrill, Citi, AIG, and Goldman Sachs), the fed was led By Greenspan prior to '06, but Bernanke afterwards (and he was the one who bailed those fuckers out, same with the GM and Chrysler with Bush, Boomer). Additionally, boomers are the generation most opposed to any climate change policy (along with Gen X, but that's a different conversation), referencing this article.
I do think it's a systemic issue. I just think boomers have played a large role in it's construction. Their parents before them had strong public works projects for infrastructure strong social safety nets, strong employee protections through growing unionization, lengthy fights for workers rights and de-segregation in many places. Boomers have wanted less of that and have actively worked to get rid of them.
The system wasn't built by no one, and changed pretty dramatically during a specific time frame.
I play a LOT of ESO; I have three nights a week that I group with others to do PvP in Cyrodiil. Beyond that, I help out with a large trials Discord that runs ~3-5 trials a week, depending on schedules. I can sign up for those as needed.
Even with only doing PvP 3 nights a week, we generally only run ~2-3 hours, and there are enough people that if someone misses, it isn't a big deal, and a sub can usually be pulled into the role. If not? We just deal with it. People have lives, they're gonna miss. I routinely take breaks from the scheduled stuff, because I don't like having things planned out. With football and basketball season coming up, I'll likely step away for a bit to do other things I like.
ESO is nice, in that once you're at level cap, you're done doing that grind. New sets aren't too hard to get once you get sorted, and non-meta builds are viable through most end-game content. Being in the large trials discords makes it really easy to slot in when I want. Additionally, the Discords themselves makes it easy to stay connected without the commitment of the game required.
As for friends that don't play, anytime I'm playing Rocket League or CoD or whatever other games, I'll send something in the group chat to see if others wanna join. Most the time I don't get any takers, but putting the invite out there is enough. It's hard to stay connected through the years, an invite at least let's friends know you are thinking of them in the moment.
That only accounts for physician labor, not other labor involved. Nurses, administrators, other operational labor that isn't a Dr.
But the point of contention was Dr salary, not overall labor costs with healthcare, so it shouldn't necessarily be relevant to this particular conversation. I'm sure there are plenty of people who also take issue with the legion of administrators insurance companies pay to handle visits and services, as well as the number of people hospitals pay to try to claw money out of them as well. They provide nothing to the healthcare service, and exist only to try to keep/gain as much funding as possible. You don't have less cancer because Tom at BCBS was able to deny the Tylenol they gave you two months ago.
They didn't. If you go to the hospital, and are charged $12k for a 3 day stay, $20k for an MRI, and $1.5k for general medicine, Dr's working for free would reduce your costs from $33.5k to just under $31k.
This is like having a massive bleed from an artery on your leg, but you put a bandaid on a scrape on your arm instead.
Was going to be BG3 on PS5 until I had the horrible realization it isn't out until September.
So I guess it's still ESO with some Rocket League mashed in sometimes. I did finally clear vCR+3 on Saturday. Only hardmodes I'm missing now is Dreadsail, Rock Grove, and the new one, Sanity's Edge, but that's more just cause I haven't tried much.
Cause 343 is a bad studio. Lmao
Both things are true tho.
I have no turtle in this race, but the absolute tribalism exhibited by users regarding other instances is wild to me.