This dystopia is starting to heat up 😬
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So he's gonna do what Biden shouldve done about the fucking MAGAts. It's our patriotic duty to kill every goddamn one of those Nazi pieces of shit and yes that means your trump-loving mother
Hey, anybody remember 12ish years ago when Alex Jones' worst fear was that Obama was going to use executive power to order the military to be deployed on American soil, violating Posse Comitatus, to massively round up and inter a bunch of Americans in FEMA reducation / death camps?
Anyone?
No one?
Whoo boy, growing up in a fundamentalist Christian household where I was the only one to go to college and everyone else became a Q Anon zombie sure was fuuuunnnnn!
Damn. I feel you. I wrote mine a cease and desist and moved 700mi.
Undocumented Immigrants Contribute Nearly $100 Billion in Taxes a Year
If he actually succeeds in doing this, guess who’s going to be made to fill in that hole.
The funny part is that that is still likely less that a bus load of billionairs actually paying their taxes like the rest of us do.
Kids that aren’t even born yet (debt spending).
where are those loud mouthed lefties bemoaning, "both parties are the same!"?
cmon folks, don't get mad this is what you wanted when you gave up your right to vote.
we're just getting started on the find out part! stick around, it's gonna be a doozy!
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"Well, what have you to say now, strawman I've been ranting about for the entire election cycle? Isn't it odd that person I made up in my head to he mad at suddenly has nothing to say?"
What are you talking about, we had Jill Stein zombies up the ass who are oddly gone missing
This place was rife with bots spreading Jill Stein and Claudia de La Cruz propaganda and all of them have completely vanished.
Yeah, but was it, though? Or was it full of people making legitimate criticisms of the Democratic Party only to get accused of being bots or told they thought, "both sides," were the same? Because I know which of these two things I've seen more of in the last year.
Maybe they were humans who've realized how dumb they were and ceased posting? One can hope, anyway...
Trump thinks that the best way to avoid the last of the NY state trial is to create chaos and violence until we cry uncle.
How are people going to be selected for deportation? This feels eerily like what Hitler started doing with Jews.
This feels eerily like what Hitler started doing with Jews.
We tried to tell folks, but "Haris supports genocide!" won.
Well there's this handy color wheel...
The NAZIs made Germany a slave labor nation-state.
That is what is happening here.
Drive through rural America and see how many underpopulated small towns there are. Shuttered businesses for lack of customers. Abandoned buildings. These places need people.
The east coast is densely populated. California and large areas of the west coast is densely populated.
But Ohio to the Rockies? Uhhhh......there's corn. We got corn. Do you like corn?
Yeah. There's a reason nobody can name anything in Nebraska. Nobodys ever been there. Not even sure they have corn there.
The east coast has more big cities than those other places, but there are still. HUGE number of teeny-tiny dying towns all up and down the eastern seaboard.
Funny thing is that even the immigrants are smart enough to know the shouldn’t settle in these places because they’re going down the toilet. But the locals? We’re being ignored! Save our useless town with no economic prospects, no educated workforce, and no infrastructure to support anything worthwhile! No, of course we won’t move!. ..while they proceed to vote against any social policy that might help them or their future generations out of their trap.
No, of course we won’t move
Try "Can't"
I don't know why you city slickers think packing up all your shit and moving into a new house in a new town is free, but it isn't. We ARE being ignored, worse than that, we're being left to die.
Tack on the attempts to maintain high/high quality amenities in sparsely populated, low tax revenue areas, and you have a nice fat deficit for your small town compounding that problem.
Yeah but they don’t want those people. Now who are those people they don’t want? Brown people, black people, queer people, woke people, educated people, different people…
Don't worry. This isn't the only Trump plan that will tank the economy. I just wish the rest of us didn't have to suffer because of all those idiots not paying attention.
It's kind of wild to me how many really small towns there are in the US. About 32% of towns in the U.S. have less than 500 residents.
For comparison, here in Brazil I lived most of my life in a town with ~35K residents and it was already considered a small rural town. Some of my family lives in a neighboring town with ~11K residents, and even in my hometown people joke about how small it is, and that there's basically nothing going on there. 1288 of towns in Brazil have less than 5K residents, or about 23.1%, and there are no towns with less than 500 residents. Meanwhile in the US 76% of towns have less than 5K residents.
Again, it's just kind of wild to me. I remember playing (reading?) the Echo VN and thinking "Man, a dying town with only 50 people? That doesn't sound realistic," but apparently that's way more common than I thought.
My slightly educated guess would be that's a consequence of America's race westward in the 1800's, only stopping long enough to annihilate the indigenous population and set up a rest stop for the next batch.
Railroads played big role. Trains needed more water or coal to run the engine. So every 15 to 20 miles or so, depending on terrain, a water depot was erected, and there a new town popped up. Some survived. Some didnt. Few are thriving. Just pull up a map and follow a rail line in the great plains region of the usa. Then just measure it out. Its impossible to miss once you notice it.
It’s more modern than that. I don’t have time to look for stats, but I believe there’s been general migration to cities for like half a century or more
Of course, but I'm talking about why all these little towns existed in the first place. It's not like they were all bustling metropolises before everyone left. ;)
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