Because I have the displeasure of actually living among these people, if we ignore the racist reasons that tend to dominate the discussion, it's very similar to common arguments for the electoral college which essentially boils down to accusing city people of being both classist and lacking in empathy. The basic understanding is that people in cities will have oppositional ideals to rural communities and vice versa. But while city people are working office and service jobs, rural communities are the people working farms and essential production jobs. Therefore, they say, rural communities should have proportionally more power so city people who have "never known a day of hard work" can't throw them under the bus. It's deeply ironic that it's rural americans voting to throw themselves under the bus by voting for a city person who has never known a day of hard labor.
I like how they made Alaska tiny and all red, when neither is true. Alaska's basically the reverse of this map since the rural areas are mostly populated by Indigenous people. It's also 20% the size of the contiguous US, so it would add a lot of blue to the equation if they were being honest about it.
Unfortunately, the link goes to Twitter. Fortunately, even twitters' AI is fact checking this, saying that the red counties are more rural and less densely populated and the maps are not accurate be cause of this.
Every. Time.
“I know there are millions of you but my yard is really big.”
-MAGA “logic”
I would like them to express their thought cleary. Should the value of a vote be proportional to the length of the persons driveway?
They’d probably say yes even the poor ones, more land more opinion.
They yearn to be serfs
I guess their “good ol days” is 1856
Because I have the displeasure of actually living among these people, if we ignore the racist reasons that tend to dominate the discussion, it's very similar to common arguments for the electoral college which essentially boils down to accusing city people of being both classist and lacking in empathy. The basic understanding is that people in cities will have oppositional ideals to rural communities and vice versa. But while city people are working office and service jobs, rural communities are the people working farms and essential production jobs. Therefore, they say, rural communities should have proportionally more power so city people who have "never known a day of hard work" can't throw them under the bus. It's deeply ironic that it's rural americans voting to throw themselves under the bus by voting for a city person who has never known a day of hard labor.
May have something to do with the terrible education you get living in rural America
I like how they made Alaska tiny and all red, when neither is true. Alaska's basically the reverse of this map since the rural areas are mostly populated by Indigenous people. It's also 20% the size of the contiguous US, so it would add a lot of blue to the equation if they were being honest about it.
Ugh, link made me go to Twitter.
Yeah, why is that not banned?
Exactly. Fucking criminal.
Could've been a screenshot
They can't wait to publicly announce their stupidity. They have the cognitive ability of grub worms.
The right has this irresistible combination of ignorance and arrogance that makes them impervious to the truth.
Unfortunately, the link goes to Twitter. Fortunately, even twitters' AI is fact checking this, saying that the red counties are more rural and less densely populated and the maps are not accurate be cause of this.
That’s not AI, it’s a user-added note.
I’ve seen this picture before and people were saying the top map is of a phone carriers coverage anyway
Nice picture, Jethro. Are you gonna get the fucken cows protesting?
"more square miles love Romney more than Obama." -one Twitter user after the 2012 election
Don't click on twitter links: https://xcancel.com/Sadie_NC/status/1908833435591852138
Tumbleweeds don’t care which way the wind blows. They just tumble right along.
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