Who's gloating? I oppose it. I think it's bad. I just gotta be totally honest I don't really care that much anymore after rural voters fucked over people like me literally my entire life bsky.app/profile/trol... - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

mtsw.bsky.social • 75 days ago

Who's gloating? I oppose it. I think it's bad. I just gotta be totally honest I don't really care that much anymore after rural voters fucked over people like me literally my entire life https://bsky.app/profile/trollyman.bsky.social/post/3ldh3yom3ds2h

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joyouspanther.bsky.social•75 days ago

Conservatives in this country constantly shit on cities and the people that live in them while making their lives demonstrably worse and the media loves to act like Dems are elitists who hate them because they are "real Americans"

josephinecreepy.bsky.social•75 days ago

It's like there's something about 'urban' people that made them less american to conservatives, can't imagine what.

mtsw.bsky.social•75 days ago

I don't really expect anyone to learn anything fwiw, Americans in rural areas are gonna be told that their packages got expensive because of woke and the only way to fix it is another round of tax cuts for Jeff Bezos and then they'll vote for that too https://bsky.app/profile/fakeninjitsu.bsky.social/post/3ldh4j3kbdk2e

fakeninjitsu.bsky.social•75 days ago

*Sees that the Amazon smile logo is black*

“My god they are right it was the woke”

Average Trump voter

mtsw.bsky.social•75 days ago

The Democrats ran loudly on fixing the USPS in 2020, then in 2022 passed the Postal Service Reform Act which restored billions of dollars a year to the USPS by repealing the pre-funding requirement and restored $57B to the USPS's books. Didn't do them much good! https://bsky.app/profile/alxlndomountain.bsky.social/post/3ldh4mwnd5c2j

happysnappy808.bsky.social•75 days ago

Remember only democrats have agency and are solely responsible for everything bad Trump and Republicans do. Why get mad at them when we can kick ourselves in the dick. Cities can be called hell holes but pull out the fainting couches if you say something be seen as even lightly mean to rural America

yakopov.me•74 days ago

Hi I am a rural voter and therefore my vote is always right and can't be criticised because I am left behind and overlooked! At the same time I must never face consequences of my vote, because I don't know any better and just want to be heard. Do not call me stupid btw, and I also need your money.

mtsw.bsky.social•75 days ago

oh no you caught me this post was part of my devious scheme to farm viral engagement on this niche microblogging site and not because i genuinely think these things. each heart i receive from a dastardly rural-hating lib pays me $0.001 https://bsky.app/profile/trollyman.bsky.social/post/3ldh4tmanmc2h

mtsw.bsky.social•75 days ago

yes. like does the material reality matter? to you, as a left-wing person, does it matter? and if it doesn't matter, what does that mean? https://bsky.app/profile/midatlantica.bsky.social/post/3ldh5mfdues2c

midatlantica.bsky.social•75 days ago

I grew up in the era where it was possible for the news media to bury a story. Today however we’re two decades into Google letting you search for anything. Where politicians publicly post their accomplishments regularly. Eventually we got to take responsibility ourselves for keeping up to date

mtsw.bsky.social•75 days ago

Oh no you figured me out. You uncovered that I think that most voters who live in places that overwhelmingly support Donald Trump and Republicans have bad, even objectionable, political views. This is centrism, to me. https://bsky.app/profile/lapsedcanadian.bsky.social/post/3ldh6moq3xs2x

boomies-n-zoomies.bsky.social•75 days ago

I guess "you can never criticize rural areas, ever" has spread from the pundit class to the general populace.

Elections have consequences, and they deserve to get what they voted for. C’est la vie.

mtsw.bsky.social•75 days ago

This conceptualization of rural residents who might get charged more for Amazon deliveries (because those deliveries cost more to perform) as "the lowest people on the totem pole" is pretty gross and is part of the thing I'm complaining about. https://bsky.app/profile/trollyman.bsky.social/post/3ldh6rfgkdc2b

donferrari.bsky.social•75 days ago

Guess I'm a bad person but I've run out of empathy for the people who have been gleefully fucking up the country for 40 years getting a taste of their own medicine 🤷‍♂️

wadeblack.bsky.social•75 days ago

TIL u are a centrist

mightycw.bsky.social•74 days ago

it's very funny how many people think doing politics means random blue state liberals should be patting hypothetical rural minorities on the head and reassuring them it's not their fault their neighbors hate them. Just useless patronizing gestures.

uckema.com•75 days ago

I joke Tom lean is going to get nasty grams if they close every post office but the county seat ones

ansel.tv•75 days ago

"because you get pleasure hurting us?" is a real doozy

mtsw.bsky.social•75 days ago

like, i'm not hurting them! i'm not in charge. if i were i'd do something different. alas!

mconcagh.bsky.social•75 days ago

These posts are going to do real damage to your Senate re-election campaign

doomscroll.bsky.social•75 days ago

They really need to advertise these things better, cuz I forgot all about that.

redletter.bsky.social•75 days ago

yeah wild they didn't just clockwork orange the population instead of loudly pushing it through congress in an election year

doomscroll.bsky.social•75 days ago

Clockwork oranging the population is one quintillion times more effective, though

redletter.bsky.social•75 days ago

and yet when you actually do it people seem to hate it

warpedhorizon.bsky.social•75 days ago

They probably should have told people about it then!

aih.bsky.social•74 days ago

honestly it's adorable that in December 2024 you still think voters care about substance and policy and facts and reality

by and large they don't, they care about vibes and image and flash and snazz, and they aren't interested in learning anything new

and now they're going to find the fuck out

aih.bsky.social•74 days ago

Voters who care about things put forth the effort to find out without having to be spoon-fed. Those who won't put forth the effort themselves don't care one way or the other.

andybohne.bsky.social•75 days ago

They also failed to remove Louis DeJoy as postmaster general

crashcityrocker.bsky.social•75 days ago

Against all odds, DeJoy actually championed a good number of the positive changes that took place under the Biden administration

kptrease.bsky.social•75 days ago

There was a great profile of DeJoy recently that made it pretty clear that while he might vote R, first and foremost he's a guy who is determined to make systems work, and it sounded like he had won the rank and file at USPS over.

darylsng.com•75 days ago

Arguably DeJoy (because he had the reputation he had) was the only head of the USPS who could get the Republicans on board the Postal Reform Act, which is a major accomplishment in USPS sustainability

alxlndomountain.bsky.social•75 days ago

how much did we hear about this? nobody will know about the good shit you do if you don't keep telling them and don't have trusted messengers doing the telling

aih.bsky.social•74 days ago

That's horseshit, voters are adults and the vast majority of them these days have the Internet. If they cared enough they could find out for themselves, and it's their own fault for being lazy bastards if they choose not to.

alxlndomountain.bsky.social•74 days ago

great way to keep winning

aih.bsky.social•74 days ago

If the horse won't drink no matter how much you bring it to water, you're better off using your limited resources going after a different horse.

The people who will pay attention to what we're telling them, don't need us to tell them in the first place.

jerald.bsky.social•75 days ago

Worked the 2024 campaign in a region including a rural Pennsylvania county. The word “postal” appeared zero times in any of our campaign lit, ads, or canvassing scripts. 🤷🏻‍♂️

gbaji.bsky.social•75 days ago

Voters don't care about policy.

fdqr.dev•75 days ago

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hiphiphoratio.bsky.social•74 days ago

I think this is the best skeet I've seent

ilove.computer•75 days ago

This is merely a continuation of drained pool politics. White folks would happily gut public amenities if it means Black and Native people don’t get them and a higher quality of life is only accessible to those willing to pay a premium for it.

asherd.xyz•75 days ago

People close to me are going to get shitcanned from their government jobs and other people close to me are absolutely, 100000% going to say it happened because of affirmative action.

wavdl.bsky.social•75 days ago

That's fine, but posting "I don't care that bad things are happening" just makes you an asshole 🤷‍♂️

I share your frustration, and sometimes I also throw up my hands, but being a jerk is gonna piss people off and I'm not really interested in reading your clap-backs. Probably gonna unfollow

mexxxitwunk.bsky.social•74 days ago

The name may say "sky" in it but this is still not an airport 🤷🏻‍♂️

watchlady.bsky.social•75 days ago

No one is touching the USPS. It's the only Federal entity, besides congress itself, that is mandated by the Constitution of the United States.

mexxxitwunk.bsky.social•74 days ago

That hasn't stopped them from hamstringing it to hell

watchlady.bsky.social•74 days ago

Very true. I think DeJoy was trying to make it less efficient on purpose.

aih.bsky.social•74 days ago

it's not mandated

the Postal Clause merely *empowers* Congress to establish a postal system, it does not obligate it to do so

watchlady.bsky.social•74 days ago

Oh, good to know, thanks! I seem to remember Ben Franklin wanting a reliable mail service. (Maybe I'm misremembering some book or something.)

It's still a terrible idea to privatize the mail

bluememe.bsky.social•75 days ago

2025: the year of leopards eating people’s faces.

mrfox.bsky.social•75 days ago

you should listen to what everyone is saying to you right now, Michael

checkwithscience.com•74 days ago

no he shouldn't, this entire thing is fucking stupid

mrfox.bsky.social•74 days ago

Dividing the country into rural and urban and saying "fuck everyone in rural areas" is defintiely stupid

lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com•75 days ago

michael, no! only people in rural areas get to express their resentment!! that is the price city dwellers must pay for the privilege of also paying for everything else

buchman.bsky.social•74 days ago

I can't wait for another 4 years of Republicans blocking aid to blue states and then people preemptively telling me how I have to feel when something happens in a red state.

dennisramen.bsky.social•74 days ago

My favorite thing was knowing that Trump/Kushner were on board with deliberately withholding PPE/supplies from blue states during Covid for no real reason, but nobody caring…and then a total bullshit narrative about rural counties being abandoned/raided by FEMA taking hold four years later.