bonus points if you get banned for sharing it

i'll start: most "vote blue no matter who" liberals are actually good people (not including terminally online liberals as anyone who is terminally online is a bad person)

  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    That gets balanced out by the certain anti-anyone who lives in a rural area streak that sometimes comes out.

    • NewLeaf
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      1 year ago

      I live in a rural area, and part of my turn away from being a leftist that voted for democrats was their elitism about "flyover country". Some of us like it out in the boonies, and we aren't all bad.

      • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, and we still get that shit from some people here on hexbear whenever the countryside gets brought up.

        And I'll even extend that to any mention of manual labor in general. Apparently anyone who works with a screwdriver rather than a keyboard is an irredemable reactionary according to some people on here.

        • NewLeaf
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          1 year ago

          Manual labor workers in rural areas usually need the lefts help the most! That's why democrats never gain any ground there. They're too busy calling our home "flyover country" and calling our jobs archaic. Meanwhile, we have trump visiting my state this week in a cynical play to cut the legs out from under Biden because they knew he would be sleeping on a beach somewhere while the biggest labor strike in generations takes place. And liberals will still say "Joe Biden is the most union friendly president possibly ever!" and "what good would it do to go there? Republicans will just say he did it for a photo op". Motherfucker, it's not about owning the cons! It's about showing up for the workers you claim to support!

        • American_Badass [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          I've lived in the sticks basically my entire life. I think there are some criticisms here that are valid concerning the subsidies and environmental aspect of sustaining rural life, but there is definitely some idealist takes about about reactionary opinions here that I think could do with some more nuance.

          Maybe I'm too close to it. I've seen "main street" crumble for years, and seen this lil mining community poisoned with opioids. Everything closed, but the county jail got expanded.