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Have the great day you voted for West Virginians!

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 45 points 3 days ago (17 children)

No help for you. Enjoy the benefits of your vote.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 46 points 3 days ago (16 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDowell_County,_West_Virginia

In 2024, Republican Donald Trump won the largest share of the vote ever for a Republican presidential nominee in the county, garnering 79.4% of the vote.

While it sucks for the 20% who voted against this, odds are damn high that anyone featured in a story is probably in the 80% that voted exactly for this.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (11 children)

I don't really revel in the suffering of others, even when they voted against their own interests. There are billions of dollars spent manipulating these people.

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Would say this would be a great moment to do some community outreach and help however I don't know how many resources the democratic party in WV would have to spare and the Democrat who introduced legislation to help fund relief was voted down.

[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

FFS! Republicans that were voted in to WV are “Public Servants”!! THEY should be helping their constituents!

The constituents for most US politicians are their donors, not the people in their district.

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Being not Democrats is enough public service for most of these counties

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