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Jul 22, 2022Liked by Stuart Winchester

Always appreciate the longer form writing that fills in the blanks. So much around this and other issues that instantly put people in one of two camps, it’s awful. Everyone puts up a click bait headline and filler, no filler detected here.

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Honestly surprised the ad angle didn't come up sooner. The Buffalo Bill's apparently had similar problems on Facebook for a while -- the site would de-rank posts because they thought "bills" meant dollar bills, in conjunction with some kind of scam.

Interesting to see the process they went through for the new name!

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Stuart, What an interesting story on the former Suicide Six and its name change. Of course they could rekindle debate by renaming their base lodge The Beaver Box.

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A. It's not a standing mountain, more of a squatting hill.

B. Pure pc nonsense. My education, history, and work experience convince me that no person in the entire universe ever killed themselves because of the name of a ski area. Nobody was "triggered" to think about something they weren't already thinking about. Period. Nonsense to suggest otherwise.

C. Classic example of pc virtue signalling. Natives didn't ski. Few ski nowadays. So woke.

D. Otherwise, I couldn't give a shit. If I ever decide to travel back east to ski, figure that I am feeling suicidal. Been there, done that, didn't pull the trigger but came damn close. If these frauds had simply called it a straight up marketing decision, I'd have no criticism, but woke bullshit annoys me.

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