went there and intentionally avoided the haunted stuff, it sounded touristy. Didn't go to the wax museum either, just drove around the battlefield. Listened to this guy (with a California accent - blech!!!) narration loaded with artsy attempts to make it dramatic, after specifically asking for a boring and bookish version.
that is incredibly depressing. If I want gambling and I'm not up to drive to Reno or wherever, I'll head down to the Ohio River in Indiana, not abandoned mills in PA that will just remind me that the bosses are counting their cash from their docile Asian workers.
I can already buy those at the store though.
The bottom of the river is where they hide the passports stolen from migrant workers that were promised an opportunity to immigrate to America. Instead, once the labor contract expires, they get to leave. All these jobs really belong to the local population of the area, not to foreigners, and if foreigners are to come - if there really is a shortage of labor not created by wage stagnation (tbh there probably isn't) - then any incoming foreigners ought to be treated like people.
I already live in the mother of all swing states. It's going to keep being a swing state unless those evil neoliberal rich city slickers take over and kick out all the economic populists in favor of
"woke" nutjobs who want to abolish gender from the census or whatever they're up to. If that happens, and I wanted to live in a swing state, I wouldn't choose Pennsylvania because our politics would become South African and PA would be Likely R at least.
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