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Revealed: far-right figures try to create white nationalist ‘haven’ in Kentucky
(www.theguardian.com)
They must’ve gotten lost on their way to Oregon.
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Wow that article pointed out a lot I didn’t know about Oregon. Thanks history classes that skip this!
Thanks for sharing it.
Sun Tzu: "Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake."
But the underlying finances of land offerings associated with the “Highland Rim Project” (HRP) in Kentucky suggest that buyers will pay a steep premium for living in a remote ideological enclave, while the scheme’s promoters are set to collect tidy profits after making few apparent improvements to the land.
It's ALWAYS a grift lmao
I've been saying for a while that they need their own specially reserved land out in the middle of nowhere, with its own rules that the US government can have a treaty for. I feel like there's a word for that but for the life of me I can't remember it.
Can we throw in some smallpox covered blankets like they did for the Native Americans back in the day?
Maybe it could be set asided or reserved for them?
Florida?
Like a camp or compound of some sort? /s
Idaho. And build a wall. For us.
I mean, conservatives are trying to turn the entire nation into Conservatopia. If they can all be coralled into little racist towns instead of being allowed to walk amongst the normal people, I'm all for it.
Maybe put walls around it and make them wear little symbols so good people know what they're looking at /s
Make them? Slap a $3.99 sticker on it and they'll line up around the block to purchase their little symbols.
Seriously. Of all the things I associate with conservatives, normal isn't one of them amirite??
Bring back segregation!
Wait no not like that!
I think they're just going to call it "Kentucky"
Pensabamatucky.
Maybe they should take a name from the Bible for their haven. Maybe Gilead?
Please build a wall, and don't bother with gates or bridges.
Build a dome and don't bother with ventilation.
Oh that's even better, love it.
We will need some catapults too. We’ll need to make sure we can get people in, after all
Just put a high fence around it with the razor wire on the inside, and be done with it.
This pro slavery comment brought to you by someone on the highest of horses 😂
Invite Alex Jones to be your leader. Name the town after him and then wait for history to circle back around...
Jonestown 2, the electric kool-aid Boogaloo?
The sequel we'd all be hoping for.
"Alex...Alex...we all have to drink this Kool-Aid or this inner city rec center is gonna be destroyed!"
"following in the footsteps of movements like the so-called “American Redoubt”, which encourages rightwingers to engage in “political migration” to areas in the interior of the Pacific north-west."
if they come fuck with my PNW, i'm going to start making bombs.
Are you not aware of Idaho?
Where they are building will not make it any different from what is already around there. Trust me. A bit of a marketing scheme that could potentially get them sued, but mostly another setup for a boring subdivision development.
Are they gonna call it "Northern Florida"?
Like a Village with a no flyovers??
Didn't they already do something similar with the state of Kansas. How did that work out? Oh yeah, they drove that state into the ground.
From what I have seen while driving through, Kentucky is naturally beautiful. I wish it was someone other than the worst people in the country trying to settle in there.
"Abbotoy offered few details on how the community would be run beyond saying: 'Most of the leadership is going to be led by Protestant christians.'"
The leadership is being led by someone else. Got it.
Anyone else remember when the lolitarians tried this and they got attacked by bears?
Shouldn't everyone be celebrating this? Take all the 'undesirables' and plunk them in the middle of nowhere. Then, when they fail, they'll have to REALLY do some gymnastics to blame the left.
Meh. Mental gymnastics and blaming the Left are basic requirements.
If you had a ton of money, this seems like a great way to make more. Buy a bunch of land, sell it at a premium to the "right" people, profit, and then leave.
Bonus: you've just concentrated a bunch of rich assholes into one known, ideally remote, location.
you've just concentrated a bunch of rich assholes into one known, ideally remote, location.
Why else would I be fully supportive of Musky-boy’s initiative to colonize Mars?
- Get all the hyper-wealthy parasites off of the planet and onto Mars, get things going so it appears attractive and compelling.
- Have their spacecraft remotely scuttled once they are all on the planet.
- Let the hyper-wealthy discover what “hard work” really is for once in their supremely privileged lives, especially with their basic survival on the line.
- Leave Earth for all the working-class people.
It's brilliant really. They're already in a rocket.
The true American religion.
Honestly, I've got some property that I'm thinking would be great to start building really modern tiny homes on. I was thinking if I can get enough people together, it could basically be self sustaining.
The tiny homes would be about 200sq/ft, but really clean lines, very Scandinavian with lots of glass and metal but very sustainable wood exteriors. The glass would keep people reminded that they're on the land and in a community.
We'd make sure there was fiber so the internet would be great at all times, so it would be a very wired community. All naturescaping, spaces for community gardens, outdoor firewood saunas for the community space, and a community firepit for outdoor meetings and events.
There's a river and a lake nearby, so we make it all walking and bike paths within the community. We just build the warmth and community and seamlessly integrate technology in a green way to serve what I call the "Intellect Workers" -- programmers, writers, artists and engineers; people that do the actual work of making society and culture grow. We can reflect that sensibility in our shared gardens.
It really could be something beatiful, and we can subsidize a part of the cost of ownership across the community members, so that it's affordable to the young innovator as much as it is to the less young creators.
Obviously science and rational thinking will dominate, and we will seek to grow the community to SUSTAINABLE levels, so that it can remain a space of innovative creation.
I really think we could get this done. How many can I put you down for?