Rural Americans Are Bad People

[Joe in PNG]

There's always been people with pretensions of aristocracy badmouthing those they believe to be beneath them.

Whereas those of a few generations ago would base their snobbery on the presumption of noble blood (or ape those who did), the modern version gets his unearned superiority based on a pretty piece of paper.

And typically, it is the ones who are the least secure in their status who are the most sensitive to degrees of status.

[HCM]

Where do these dumb asses think all their food comes from.

[JAD]

There are urban snivelers on the right (allegedly).

Read some of David Brooks or Tom Nichols whineyass bleatings .

David Brooks is to the right of AOC, maybe, but he’s not right. If you want a right wing urban sniveler I recommend WFB — and I don’t believe he was ever dumb enough to say something like this.

[Maple Syrup Actual]

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PS: Also guys stop paying attention to Twits. It's laughable, folks on the Twitters seem to think that Twitter actually has some bearing on the real world. People were losing their shit the other day the hashtag "HotGirlsForBernie" was trending and I saw tweets like, "This is the future! We're seeing change happen live." - Really?

I am fairly convinced that the continued success of twitter is just a matter of journalistic laziness... you can either research the shit out of something, know a bunch of stuff, and explain it for everyone else, or, for the same money, you can look up the tweet of someone famous and screen cap it.

I don't use it myself and now that I have completely stopped listening to Canadian state radio, I find that unless I search this stuff out, basically everyone I meet thinks that the SJW phenomenon is bizarre and limited to a tiny group of annoying spoiled rich kids.

I was looking at numbers the other day and the news hour broadcast from Canadian state television has around 350,000 viewers nationwide; it's always positioned as the main news broadcast in Canada and it's very left.

Turns out that the popular News hour in Toronto, for example, has 1.4 million viewers in Toronto alone.

Nationwide it's reasonable to say that the CBC reaches less than a tenth of news viewers that mainstream private broadcasts do.

Anyway I'm not saying nothing is wrong but twitter is a joke and the opinions of its twits seem fairly insignificant to me.

[JAD]

Incidentally David Byrne did a similar riff in “The Big Country,” which is a great song on one of my desert island albums. It’s his ‘Southern Man,’ though he isn’t nearly as vitriolic or talented as Neil.

I disagree with him, but I disagree with a lot of music and film I really like.


https://youtu.be/0ws46DuJABs

[Joe in PNG]

However, I am getting pretty damn sick and tired of people who know bugger all wanting to micromanage my life via government regulations, red tape, bans, more regulations, and on and on.

Especially those miserable rat bastards running for President on the Democratic ticket, who have spent the last year saying how they are going to ban this and that and give me more regulations and more red tape and more bans and take more of my taxes in exchange for a crumb of some government services I don't want, don't need, and would rather not have, thank you very much.

And the funny thing is that those who are demanding the right to micromanage my live are not exactly demonstrating that they can actually run their own lives. Most of them are miserable disasters, unhappy and unhealthy, people who get a faint glimmer of something from spreading the misery around.

I didn't like the Moral Majority Puritans back in the 80's. This lot is far, far worse.

[SeriousStudent]

On the one hand, the ideal efficiency metric, would dictate that ~95% of the population would live in urban environments. In fact, most of us should be living in high-rise apartment complexes, where we also work, there should be no cars and the need for public transit infrastructure would be very minimal - and caloric needs could be met in the form a 2,000 calorie/day vegan paste.

On the other hand - Reality is different than ideal. And in reality, I'd no sooner live in an apartment complex with Kernion, and eat a 2,000 calorie/day vegan paste than I would gouge my own eyeballs out with an lobster fork.

And since we live in the United States of America - I do not have to do those things. And if Kernion wants to make me, he's welcome to come give it a try.

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Yeah, I read that book a while back: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...t_bibl_vppi_i2

[Yung]

That individual's tweet was made November of last year.

But if you guys really want something fresher to chew on, they did retweet something from a Culver City councilman, Alex Fisch, earlier this month:

Interesting how nobody worries that $28 billion in farm subsidies might create a culture of dependency in predominantly white areas, or that the US public is supporting welfare kings driving F-350s.

[RevolverRob]

Anyway I'm not saying nothing is wrong but twitter is a joke and the opinions of its twits seem fairly insignificant to me.

Written like someone who practices radical self reliance and individuality. What are you, some kind of anti-socialist?!

Besides doing work I spent half of my day today looking up gear and travel routes for the new truck. I gotta get the fuck outta the city a bit more. See some places without the Twits.

A 4WD truck, a tent, my wife, my dog, a cooler full of meat, veggies, beer, and a 1911 on my hip. Seems like something that would make this Philosophy Dweeb shit his pants.

[txdpd]

Man I’d love to round up all the meth heads and degenerates out in the country where I grew up and move them to a city. Tremendous opportunities abound for stealing every damn thing in sight that isn’t bolted down.

There’s a huge swath of rural America that you couldn’t make life tougher on if you tried. They’d love for someone to come along and break them out of the cycle poverty.

I grew up in rural America and I couldn’t get away from that shit fast enough. If you have a good life in rural America,good for you, and I really mean that. It’s a miserable existence for a lot of folks too. I don’t see how it’s any different than saying that blacks living in the projects make poor life choices and we should make there life as miserable as possible until they move somewhere else.