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https://bsky.app/profile/livingpuppet.bsky.social/post/3mkti4pdkz22d
Published: May 2, 2026 01:21
A detail about the WV Coal War/Blair Mountain people *aren't* aware of is the link between the WV coal industry and later McCartyism. McCarthy delivered his infamous "Enemies Within" speech to donors at Wheeling, WV in 1950. Many of these same donors had…
https://bsky.app/profile/livingpuppet.bsky.social/post/3mkmkq6azzs2k
Published: April 29, 2026 07:19
cis people have not considered that trans people face employment discrimination, but californians have not considered that not everyone is a computer programmer
https://bsky.app/profile/livingpuppet.bsky.social/post/3mkgyjapodk2d
Published: April 27, 2026 02:10
It's weird knowing actual Appalachian folklore and witnessing the internet just ... completely make things up instead! lol
https://bsky.app/profile/livingpuppet.bsky.social/post/3mkepjzjewc2b
Published: April 26, 2026 04:24
Suddenly realizing how few people are aware of what we call "rural bias." That is, the belief that rural communities are exceptionally anti-progressive, anti-modern and "backwards." They're portrayed in most media as uneducated, worthless or primitive. …
https://bsky.app/profile/livingpuppet.bsky.social/post/3mkeam47vxk2i
Published: April 25, 2026 23:57
there's principled radicalism and then there's personal excuses for blatantly anti-social behaviour disguised as principled radicalism. very important to disentangle these.
https://bsky.app/profile/livingpuppet.bsky.social/post/3mk4s5y2ark2v
Published: April 23, 2026 00:50
Although "rural America" has become synonymous with "white, working-class and conservative," in the national imaginary - the reality of rural life, community and politics is complex and (in my experience) poorly understood.
https://bsky.app/profile/livingpuppet.bsky.social/post/3mk2lufjhm324
Published: April 22, 2026 03:52
Y'all will preach about ecological collapse but continue to have exactly zero engagement with the communities most affected by climate change other than paternalistic preaching about how we - people who literally work with the environment daily - don't…
https://bsky.app/profile/livingpuppet.bsky.social/post/3mk2klxaoos24
Published: April 22, 2026 03:29
The company town never went away - they just shifted to paying people in "real" currency. Walmart and Dollar General are the new general store. But we're all still debt peons for white suburbanites. You still own our lives, and you use our local…
https://bsky.app/profile/livingpuppet.bsky.social/post/3mk2k3ez3sc2m
Published: April 22, 2026 03:20
I've had to live my whole life watching city queers act like white urbanites from Seattle and LA are the most oppressed people ever - as if you're literally being genocided - when half my goddamn graduate class is dying from the rural opioid epidemic and…
https://bsky.app/profile/livingpuppet.bsky.social/post/3mk2e2kzblc2m
Published: April 22, 2026 01:32
One of many grievances I have about mainstream liberals is the lack of effort on their behalf to understand the problems faced by rural communities.