#cooperstown

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S Main Street, Cooperstown, Pennsylvania.

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FIRST YEAR ON THE BALLOT AND HE'S IN COOPERSTOWN, BABY ❤️💙🤍✨⚾✨🤍💙❤️

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On January 29, 1936, the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects its first members in Cooperstown, New York: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson. #Baseball #MLB

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Cooperstown

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Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays "All-Time Home Run Leaders", 1973 Topps.

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As promised photos of baseball stuff

Pt 1. National Baseball Hall of Fame

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Friday, April 19, 2024 - Vacation Day 5

I took a drive out to Cooperstown today to have lunch with a friend. It was a very nice visit and I got to meet the Farmers’ Museum’s brand new three-day-old baby cow.

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Cooperstown is gorgeous! We visited the Secret Caverns, which was a delightful tourist spot with a 100 ft waterfall!

The first day of the convention was so fun! Met a lot of old school Nancy Drew nerds and bought some original text copies, and a french version out of the back of someone's car!

This morning is the Sleuth Survivor Games and an Escape room, and a Ghost tour lf Cooperstown tonight!

[unteriors]

Lenham Avenue S, Cooperstown, North Dakota.

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Happy birthday to Pete Rose--come on, he did his time, just let him in the hall of fame already

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I took a drive out to Cooperstown today and did a little bit of thinking.

For those of you who don't know, Cooperstown, NY is famous for one thing: the Baseball Hall of Fame. It is also in the middle of absolutely fucking nowhere. Like, I am not kidding when I say that there's no direct route into the town-- it's not off directly off of any highway, interstate, or US route. So, if like me, you're heading there from the east, you've got about an hour of driving on rural roads, through small unincorporated towns and a LOT of fucking farm land. About half the drive has no cellphone reception. The people are blindingly white and much of it is stunningly, desperately poor.

And it is also deep red Trump country.

Since I am the rural voter whisperer to my urban/suburban friends and family, they always want to know why? Why do these poor rural folks in upstate NY vote against "their self interest"?

And for the longest time I didn't know how to answer them in a way that makes sense-- rural voters aren't actually voting against their interests because no one is out here helping them.

What does it matter if abortion is made illegal to someone that has no access to abortion services in the first place? What does it matter to them if Social Security is cut when they have no hope of retirement in the first place? SNAP, food stamps, whatever? Doesn't stretch the entire month. Never has, never will.

Instead of taking this anger at being failed by the entire apparatus and working towards something better, these voters want to spread their pain as far and wide as possible. There is no point hoping for the best, so they're going to make sure that there's a class suffering worse than they are-- people of color, queer people, immigrants don't deserve help, but they very truly believe that the government coddles them while throwing Good, White, Christian folks to the wolves.

It's deeply nihilistic and completely devoid of empathy and, whoops!, ripe for fascism.

To be perfectly clear: I am ABsOLUTELY NOT asking that we have any sympathy for these people. What I want liberals (and plenty of leftists) to understand is that the motivations that poor Republicans have in supporting Trump (or DeSantis or whatever fascist pops up next) aren't nonsensical or irrational. They're not voting that way because they're dumb, they're going to vote that way because their life sucks and they're bullies.

Anyway, look at this cute mug I bought at the Cooperstown Diner. I wish more diners would sell mugs; I would buy them all.

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Cooperstown, New York

I wrote about my trip to Cooperstown over here.