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appalachian here: blame the petrostate for brainwashing my brothers in west virginia that licking boot is the way forward
As someone who grew up and still has family in Appalachia, it is absurd the level of coal-fetishism that goes on even on a casual visit home.
"The coal in West Virginia could power the whole country, I don't know why we don't just use that instead of renewables" - an actual statement from a family friend
I bit my tongue hard because it was a holiday and I wasn't there to start a fight.
Even if I wanted to.
"you know how our region was exploited to the absolute brink of destruction and our grandparents lived in conditions so horrifically bad that the rest of the world considered them slaves? we should get back to that"