http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1326038
I really, really hate the saying 'And this is why the liberals lost!' but...this is why we lost. Maybe I'm just dumb but having empathy for people in shitty situations is like, a cornerstone of progressive thought. I don't care who they voted for 
I was gonna post this there, but fuck it: I don't have mod protection (AFAIK) so I know I'd get banned for calling them out.
Do you have any idea how much money these guys make? Did they start out in coal because they had no choice? Absolutely, but underground these dudes are making $25~ an hour and he was working OT every single week. You don't get to shift blame back on your lack of choices in life when you're bringing home $80K a year in eastern Kentucky. Now he's going to go on the transplant list and ruin another pair of lungs armed with the knowledge of what's coming. Call me immature but I'm not going to absolve people of culpability in their shitty actions because they had a rough go of it. I'm not over here pretending to be Jesus, I save my tears for people who weren't given such an opportunity.
How do you know he's going to take those transplanted lungs back into the coal mine? Show me your fucking crystal ball, because I'd love to know the future. Also, yes: You're immature as fuck if you think these folks are choosing to go into coal simply because it "pays good." Do they get a "comfortable life" working overtime for their kids?
Sure, but like the industrial revolution: It's at the cost of their health. These folks know it, they do it because there's nothing better in their area and 1) doesn't put them into debt [like college] and 2) only requires a high-school degree.
Yo damn...y'all going hard in here.
If by "hard" you mean "smug liberal mocking poor working classes from behind their computer screen after losing an election doing that," then yes. Ya'll are going "hard" in here.
Maybe take a drive out to "why would I want to live there</Adam Orth>"-villes sometime and realize that these "retail jobs" some of you guys are suggestion 1) pay jackshit (go look at how Walmart treats it's workers AND farmers that give them fruits/veggies AND the companies they "always low prices... ALWAYS [Walmart]!") and 2) STEM jobs aren't available in these rural places so "degree up!" isn't going to happen.
Seriously and from the bottom of my heart: Fuck each and every one of you mocking these people for getting black lung and going "OH WELL THEY DESERVE IT FOR VOTING TRUMP LOLOLOLOLOL"
I hope Stump comes in here and cleans up some of you for a four-year break. When Trump is elected a second time, maybe ya'll will look in the mirror see how shitty a personality ya'll have, and promptly change that attitude toward having empathy and sympathy and trying to help these folks even if they don't know better.