Tech billionaires are making plans to bail on California ahead a possible ballot measure that would tax their assets to help pay for healthcare.
Sources told the New York Times that venture capitalist Peter Thiel has explored spending more time outside California and opening an office for his Los Angeles-based personal investment firm, Thiel Capital, in another state.
kentucky and nebraska and alabama are incredibly different from each other, if you’ve ever been to those places as a lefty
in fact, red ky and blue maine are more similar than ky and nebraska
From Maine and Nebraska and agree mostly. but you could certainly put the 3 in a venn diagram and come up with some interesting overlaps and contrasts. I find that Nebraska was dishing out way better educational outcomes than the other two, just anecdotally ;)
And yet, they all share the quality of “red hellhole”.
Blue maine is doing just about as good as red kentucky, no? A bunch of poor, drug-addled white people barely scraping by. A good economy lifts up the poor, and the poor in both of those states, despite glaringly different politics, have a lot of the same outcomes. Honestly, the people of Kentucky are way more diverse and I’m happy for that. So many white people in Maine it isn’t even funny as a non white person. Every person I know up in Maine has some family member that was in the Free Mason cult, which is like the cult for rural religious and affluent white people
I know a guy who’s a Mason. I got him to talk when he was drunk. Sounds to me like it’s a way for rich white people to make business connections and enrich themselves further, with a dose of silly mysticism on top. They’re all Christians.
Yeah that cult :p I’m being a snarky ex-christian though. I still pray to… something, but it ain’t white jesus that’s for sure
Yeah I get it. I’m atheist, formerly militant atheist.
Median income in Maine is 14% higher than in Kentucky. Maine’s the poorest state in New England, but that would land it somewhere in the middle of southern states.
Median income may be higher but cost of living is too, probably making that increase negligible.
Yeah, kentucky is a very poor state, its pretty sad but at least its just easy to blame on mitch, which isnt wrong. No idea whats going on up in Maine though. Someone should look into that. Im only getting familiar with the place because I got people up there and I love it, but man the parallels to kentucky are incredible despite me hoping it would be a lot… better since its consistently bluer than KY.