cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42771338
I could not stop thinking about how expensive it is for us to maintain these tiny towns, and how much better the outcomes would be and for how much less money, if instead of rebuilding their tiny town, we moved them all to cities.
I later learned that Buchanan County Sheriff Allen Boyd, a regular customer, ate dinner here about two weeks before my visit, and then assisted ICE in setting up a late-night checkpoint that nabbed two El Sombrero employees. One was known as Little Lupe. The other was Alejandro Martinez, a waiter who’d been a fixture in Grundy for more than 15 years. Lupe was released, but Martinez was quickly deported to Mexico.
One Facebook poster wrote, “They can get the one illegal immigrant in Buchanan County, but the 4000 meth-heads are fine. ok.” Another chimed in: “Did I vote for TRUMP??? YES, I DID but that didn’t mean my friend had to be done this way.”
Martinez himself was a Trump supporter, as were the restaurant’s owners.
Wow there’s is no recovery from this level of stupid. Just gotta keep these idiots contained in their area and wait for them to die out drowning in problems of their own making.
Coal country. Where the bridges, mines and your lungs collapse.
Also the IQ of the population
To be fair that was happening long before him.
True
Seems like “Leopards Ate My Face” is becoming obsolete.
But nobody sane could have anticipated these morons to devolve even further and now even keep cheering while getting their faces gnawed off.
He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
It was a documentary all along…
It should be “I love leopards eating my face” from now on.
I never had a face. The Leopard didn’t eat it. I love the Leopard so what if it ate my face. My face was probably pretty tasty anyway.
Genuinely horrified at so many things in that article.
“Once folks buy into your blarney, it becomes the thing they’ll most hold onto. Once they’ve swallowed sham and hokum, facts and logic won’t unchoke 'em. They’ll go on believing what they want to”.
- Michael Scott
-Wayne Gretzky
From coal country, can confirm
I initially thought about posting it here, but then changed my mind because I was like “doesn’t the subject have to regret their choice?” I’m glad you had the courage I lacked, OP 🫡
It’s implied but not necessary. Some leopards eat their own face and come back for seconds.
