I grew up in coal country and live in a slight north of there now (I’m guessing you’re in WV too?). If coal miners could get the same money doing something else, pretty much every one of them would do so. Yes, coal mining because an identity, certainly over time. I’ve yet to meet a coal miner that didn’t want their…

Coal mining jobs peaked around World War I. They’re not coming back.

Mmm, I’m not sure that’s entirely true. About coal miners choosing something else if they had the option, I mean. Speaking as someone who lives in coal country (and whose idiotic state government passed a budget based on unrealistic coal gains and taxes and now we’re all fucked as every state department has to make up…

I decommission these plants and have not been to one yet where every single employee was offered a job within the company at another location. The only ones that “lose” their jobs are the ones that don’t want to relocate.

The “War on Coal” is indeed over... because Solar Power has won.

It’s tricky, right? On the one hand, I support their right to organize, but I also want to shake them and tell them, “YOUR INDUSTRY IS DYING! AND THANKFULLY, BECAUSE IF IT DOESN’T IT WILL KILL US!” Is it just pride, or do they truly not see this undeniable truth?

Before the EPA:

Stupidity is taught.

I hear crazy shit like that on a regular basis from my redneck neighbors, who are all too quick to blame their limited financial opportunities on everyone and everything but their own lack of education/vocational training and their willingness to tolerate Red State right-to-work laws that keep low-skilled slobs like…

What a dumb fuck.

Congratulations coal country Trump voters!

These fucking coal miners who helped get Trump get elected, and who have held the country hostage for the past few years because they won’t accept the fact their shitty fossil fuel is rapidly becoming economically obsolete, are going to be for one hell of a shock when the last coal plant in the US closes. Especially…

We have to end the War on White People first. Priorities.

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Don Jr thinks he so fucking smart. I can barely tell what he’s trying to say, but he’s that kid in your intro psych class who is the biggest douchecanoe and thinks he’s constantly outwitting the professor. Bonus points if that professor is a woman.

It’s funny- because these days it’s hard to say that the NY Times, CNN etc DON’T have a liberal bias- their coverage of the president and congress is so overwhelmingly negative- it’s like, with Trump, Fox and Brietbart have actually created the Liberal media they’ve been complaining about all these years.

This was shocking to me too- and then I remembered that the “liberal media” doesn’t really exist and never did.

Gavin McInnes is literally a professional white supremacist these days.

There’s an outbreak going on in Madagascar right now.

Not to minimize this significant victory for these communities, I think it’s likely that economic forces (glut of oil from increased production and decreased demand) are the primary reason these projects were canceled