Thats a pretty good read. I often think about a lot of that. But I never come up with a way to help the rural population much. Thier way of life is dying, has been for a few hundred years. But it is still essential. They don’t like handouts or even assistance. So how do you help them?
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shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This explains the rural/city divide and why conservatives view blue cities as hell holes:
How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind
Having lived both sides, the whole thing not only resonates with me, it rings my fucking bell. If there was one article I could force all Americans to read, this is it.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 day ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’d start by taking to top off Fox News and see them dance the hemp fandango. I cannot overstate how they’ve poisoned America. Had some education in journalism so I’m better tooled than most to spot media manipulation. Sure they come out with in-your-face lies now and again, but they’re mostly subtle, which is far more evil. Next, I’d go after our social media overlords. These snakes have to be decapitated, literally.
Lately I’ve thought that the best way to heal America’s rural/urban divide is to point out that the rich are fucking us. It’s not the farmer or the blue-haired girl, not the LGBT folks or gun nuts, certainly not the immigrants. If I could hammer a single message into the American zeitgeist it would be this, “The wealthy are hurting all of us. Fight them every step of the way.”
I know Bane’s the bad guy and straight psychotic, but his speech in The Dark Knight Rises makes we want to fucking cheer.
We take Gotham from the corrupt! The rich! The oppressors of generations who have kept you down with myths of opportunity, and we give it back to you… the people. Gotham is yours. None shall interfere. Do as you please. Start by storming Blackgate, and freeing the oppressed! Step forward those who would serve. For and army will be raised. The powerful will be ripped from their decadent nests, and cast out into the cold world that we know and endure. Courts will be convened. Spoils will be enjoyed. Blood will be shed. The police will survive, as they learn to serve true justice. This great city… it will endure. Gotham will survive!
There is no hope until the rich live in fear of the masses.
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
To people from small towns, everyone in a city is ‘wealthy’, they must be to afford the insane cost of living right? But thats part of the problem. They don’t realize the people spending $2500 a month on rent are spending 80% of their paycheck, or that they can’t build any savings or eger hope to own a house or even a car because of it. They make no distinction between the actual rich people who live in cities and everyone else, and the state of America right now IS them fighting back against the ‘rich’. Until these people understand the orders of magnitude the people actually fucking us are over the rest of us i don’t know what can be done. To them anyone with a college degree is a wealthy elite.
SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This in mind, why isn’t Trump a wealthy elite to them? How did he become their savior??
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This post hits in a way I hadn’t quite figured out to myself. No wonder they still buy into the welfare queen thing. I’ve got to think on this a bit, woke me to a thing I hadn’t considered.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I know Bane’s the bad guy and straight psychotic, but his speech in The Dark Knight Rises makes we want to fucking cheer.
Wft… Bane is a working class hero, and this gives you power over me
I’d also like to point out that the joker burned a pyramid of money. A deflationary move that helps ordinary Americans. What did he get for his efforts? A billionaire takes it upon himself to beat him up.
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
remmeber than bane trapped everyone in gotham regardless of their financial status and was going to blow them all up with a nuclear explosion
shalafi@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Well, I did note that he was psychotic.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Nation founded by genocidal enslavers never had a mind to lose.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Unpopular things for Republicans to hear:
lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org 15 hours ago
No need to bring libertarians into this.