Own the libs:

[applegrove]

Please, leopards, eat my face!

— Techweenie (@techweenie.bsky.social) 2025-08-01T20:11:17.933Z

[SheltieLover]

1. Yup, red states are "taker" states, not income producers

I wonder if my instscart delivery folks will need armed guards in the future?

[erronis]

2. Owsley County - population 4,000.

I'd like to see this in some larger populated areas. Lexington, Frankfurt, Louisville.

[BlueKentuckyGirl]

11. Not sure what you are wanting to see.

Do you mean the statistics that are displayed here for Owsley County? Being from Lexington, although I no longer live there, I would bet that Lexington and Louisville and maybe, Frankfort have a MUCH higher employment rate, education level, higher income levels, lower number of food stamp recipients, more liberals or people who vote Democrat, and definitely, a higher racial diversity. I believe this to be true of most states. The poorly informed, bigoted "takers" who consistently vote against their own interests(otherwise known as Republican) can be found in all states and mostly in the rural areas. The larger cities and towns nearly everywhere tend to vote blue.

[erronis]

14. Well, yes. The small N and selective choice of one county makes this non-usable in a statistical model.

It is good for anecdotal evidence such as this report.

I just want us not to get caught up in the "Many good people told me they love/hate..." mode.

I lived in Louisville, worked in Frankfort, traveled quite a bit throughout Kentucky. I love the people and the country but not the insularity - especially that comes from being a "border state".

[ShazzieB]

17. Yes, this is not very useful information.

An entire county with a population that tiny is highly unlikely to be representative of the state as a whole. Or anything other than counties with similarly tiny populations.

[Upthevibe]

3. Kick. N/T

[Codifer]

4. IIRC

Owsley had something to do with LSD.

Could not have been from here.

Maybe meth

[mokeyz]

5. i wonder

who the 4% are that don’t need food stamps?

[BidenRocks]

9. Probably lost them for fraud!

[multigraincracker]

12. Clergy

[erronis]

15. That's the last refuge of losers.

[multigraincracker]

18. The best song ever is "The Preach and the Slave"

Joe Hill, 1911.

[erronis]

20. So much information about this - thanks! Includes reference to Wallace Stegner - a great writer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Preacher_and_the_Slave

[Gimpyknee]

6. Home sweet home.

At least it’s not a double-wide.

[BidenRocks]

10. Careful

I live in a double.

[Scrivener7]

13. I've seen some georgeous double wides.

DU tends to be very snobby about housing. I live in a beautiful apartment and was once told here that living out of a shopping cart is better than living in an apartment.

[erronis]

21. I live in a 3rd floor walkup room. Figure climbing stairs will help my creaking knees?

I can't afford to look up or look down on anyone. I am who I am and I will live with that.

[multigraincracker]

16. Just moved in. Loving it so far.

Had 2 acres and 950 sq ft house. Now my double wide is 1,350 sq ft and the yard is less than that. Perfect.

[BidenRocks]

22. We lost the house in the recession of 2009.

I lost my union job and we ended up living with my wife's daughter and granddaughter. I had to move.
I cannot afford another house or even an apartment in So. Cal. I am a roommate at 70.
It fits my SS and pension. Pretty bad when you can't afford a place for two retired people.

Why would I want a house so big that 2 rooms are just storage?

[ClaudetteCC]

7. Perhaps these are old numbers

as I see at https://www.city-data.com/county/Owsley_County-KY.html just under 92% 'white' and about 88% 'republican.' I do see that income is about half the rest of the state but don't see any better proxies for 'food stamp' use. There are some federal expediture numbers but I'd have to to a deeper dive than I can muster on a friday evening after a long week.

[a kennedy]

8. Oh, and so sorry, FAWK EM ALL!!!!

and I’M NOT SORRY. 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬

[brakester]

19. Spot on!

Thanks, Mitch is right 👍

[GenThePerservering]

23. I wouldn't look down on these people

Grew up in an area where there were a number of communities like this. There's no hope, no jobs, young people leave, and no one cares. They actually feel like everyone has abandoned them, and they don't have the resources to get back on their feet. But they're not bad people and they're not trying to 'own the libs' by living under awful conditions.

Nowadays, those little communities are gone (I moved from the shit little town I spent the latter half of my childhood in) and everything is sold off and gentrified.

If you're going to punch down, punch down on the billionaires.

[applegrove]

24. Just the facts Mack. No punching down. Their faces have been

eaten for 45 years. So much so they get their self esteem and their face from association with Trump. Hopefully one person sees what was a factual account of a small town by the numbers and goes "oh my! That is me".

[Aristus]

25. Nope. I'm gonna. Fuck 'em.

These people vote against their own best interests. They are willing participants in their own economic repression. Although getting up off their lazy redneck asses and working for a living sure couldn’t hurt.

No matter how wretched or hopeless their lives may be, no matter what Democrats do to reach out to them, show them a successful black person or mention the word ‘abortion’, and they’ll skitter right back to the people making their lives so miserable.

If they derive even transient joy from “ownin’ the libs”, then they can kiss my liberal Democratic, Blue State living, six-figure salary-earning ass.

[Norrrm]

27. vote against their own best interests

[Aristus]

28. Yep.

Fuck ‘em, I say…

[Keepthesoulalive]

26. Perhaps they should stop hating

And vote for who will help the entire country. There is no other reason for voting for leopards.