Dear newspapers: when you write stories about small America towns and why they vote for Trump, can you put more pictures of some unemployed factory worker staring glumly into the distance? Bonus for stark black and white instead of color, I'm looking at you, Guardian. - ThreadSky

jzellis.bsky.social • 51 days ago

Dear newspapers: when you write stories about small America towns and why they vote for Trump, can you put more pictures of some unemployed factory worker staring glumly into the distance? Bonus for stark black and white instead of color, I'm looking at you, Guardian.

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jzellis.bsky.social•51 days ago

It's like their arr directors literally can't help themselves. Bonus if they're sitting at their kitchen table with a pack of Marlboros and a cuppa joe in front of them, because that's how you know they're real American peasants - they still smoke and drink drip coffee instead of espresso.

jzellis.bsky.social•51 days ago

You never show their Dixie flags (even in the Midwest/Rust Belt) or racist bumper stickers, though, or ask them what they think of LGBTQ people, or to explain the crucial difference between a black man and a "n****r", which they absolutely will earnestly tell you if you ask them.

Ask me how I know.

jzellis.bsky.social•51 days ago

"Yep, town ain't been the same since the factory shut down. I blame Obama."

"Man, that's tough. When did it close?"

"1981."

You think I'm kidding, man, go out to one of those dying towns and get a haircut at the local barbershop and wait ten minutes, somebody will tell you whose fault it all is.

jzellis.bsky.social•51 days ago

And it's never the capitalists who moved the factories to China to save on labor costs, or their own fault for not seeing coming what literally everyone in the world but them saw decades ago. It's Obama and Clinton and Biden.

Which is true, but only partially.

jzellis.bsky.social•51 days ago

Every American president since Carter has had two main jobs: to get oil cheaper and do what corporations want them to do. Everything else is secondary if it's even a concern. Democrat or Republican, the only difference is whether they're also openly pushing the Jesus freak or bigot agenda.

jzellis.bsky.social•51 days ago

So if your only choices are two parties who both fuck you over, but one also fucks lots of people who never did a damn thing to you like migrant workers who pick your food or trans people, and you pick that party... what does that make you?

It makes you an asshole.

doccactusjalapeno.bsky.social•41 days ago

Makes me crazy how bad most reporting is.

bbickford.bsky.social•51 days ago

I’m from a small town in northern NH and it’s so true here as well. They want to talk about why Harris lost and never mention racism and misogyny. They fly their Dixie flags here too

zolahh.bsky.social•50 days ago

Been waiting for you to get here!

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