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https://www.wsj.com/articles/rural-america-is-the-new-inner-city-1495817008 Basically once again red state rural america is screwed and demographically is due for a long term die off Another fun fact from the article is even lovely jobs like amazon warehouse worker aren't even available since Amazon decided to move all their warehouses closer to to main metro areas over the last decade. quote:For more than a century, rural towns sustained themselves, and often thrived, through a mix of agriculture and light manufacturing. Until recently, programs funded by counties and townships, combined with the charitable efforts of churches and community groups, provided a viable social safety net in lean times. quote:Meanwhile, major cities once considered socioeconomic laggards have turned themselves around. In St. Louis, which has more than 30 nearby four-year schools, the percentage of residents with college degrees tripled between 1980 and 2015—creating a talent pool that has lured health care, finance and bioscience employers, officials say. Instead of people moving where the jobs are, “jobs follow people,” said Greg Laposa, a local chamber of commerce vice president. 
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trump voters were predominantly high-income, not the rural poor 68-year-old jim-bob sitting at the bar all day cheering on Trump and whining about liberals makes $90k a year just from his pension
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deth 2 amerika
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I think rural america will end up like those Japanese villages which ended up as ghost towns due to gradual depopulation. The death of rural america can be blamed on income inequality and how the more negative aspects of globalism destroyed sources of work like manufacturing. Best part of the article was the preacher saying how Columbus was going all upscale.
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etalian posted:I think rural america will end up like those Japanese villages which ended up as ghost towns due to gradual depopulation. it can also be blame on the dipshits living there failing to understand cause and effect and doubling down on the thing that's killing them lol
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I mean fentanyl is great at getting the job done but when if krokodil coming to rural ohio?
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do you think racists ever stop and think about how bad job loss would be if slavery came back
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etalian posted:I think rural america will end up like those Japanese villages which ended up as ghost towns due to gradual depopulation.
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This thread is getting awfully smug considering the long term downward trends in every other population grouping.
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^^^^ was celebrating a news report of people dying of drug overdoses yesterday. pls ban
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https://youtu.be/-UjPbiYOybs
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dont worry, theyre merely depopulating the rurals for a time, but those communities will come back stronger than ever as vacation homes, country estates and, eventually, plantations
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Related: Illuminati depopulation scheme goes well https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/05/upshot/opioid-epidemic-drug-overdose-deaths-are-rising-faster-than-ever.html?_r=0 If you are an American under fifty, the most statistically likely way for you to die is by overdose. Also, elephant heroin is a thing Nobody tell the crackhead clubhouse, god-fearing drug users will start a thread mocking the sheer incredible stupidity of messing with that stuff, then inevitably goons will start defending it and start posting trip reports, abruptly vanishing
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Jun 8, 2017 16:59
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inb4 "they didn't vote for hillary i hope they all die screaming"
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woops nevermind
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Peanut President posted:woops nevermind owned urself harder than a rural trump voter
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Not to mention the whole automation thing will pretty much destroy jobs like truck driver. Rural towns are basically the real world equivalent of putting your Civ city in a area that has no resource bonus tiles.
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as a guy who lives in one of these districts that supposedly is overwhelming full of racists, something retarded like 30% of people in my county voted and of that, only 30% voted for trump. so. its not that rural people are retarded racists or w.e. its just that they're all insanely poor, in a lot of cases too poor to even afford to move
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Larry Parrish posted:as a guy who lives in one of these districts that supposedly is overwhelming full of racists, something retarded like 30% of people in my county voted and of that, only 30% voted for trump. so. its not that rural people are retarded racists or w.e. its just that they're all insanely poor, in a lot of cases too poor to even afford to move Sorry, despite its pretension to rationality, politics is really all about chickens in a barnyard just pickin' on the person below you in the pecking order to make yourself feel better this is also why cons rage against the minorities and immigints, btw if they wanted to be effective, they would have to in some sense question if conservative values actually work at all with the stuff the GOP does far less scary to blame those people
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I guess the endgame for rural america is basically Detroit but on a smaller scale.
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The endgame for rural America is the consolidation of all productive land into the control of agricorps and land barons. Towns will be transformed into mere dormitories for transient and resident farm labor.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The endgame for rural America is the consolidation of all productive land into the control of agricorps and land barons. Towns will be transformed into mere dormitories for transient and resident farm labor. don't stop now i'm almost there
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Mycroft Holmes posted:don't stop now i'm almost there Urban laborers will be priced out of all housing by runaway real estate speculation & urban development. Then forced to move en masse to the suburbs, where the low tax base results in rundown public services and toxic environments.
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Just lmao if you think you're safe from enclosure because you don't have land.
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The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.
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Larry Parrish posted:as a guy who lives in one of these districts that supposedly is overwhelming full of racists, something retarded like 30% of people in my county voted and of that, only 30% voted for trump. so. its not that rural people are retarded racists or w.e. its just that they're all insanely poor, in a lot of cases too poor to even afford to move This is why I think there needs to be some sort of rural reindustrial program, also possibly a new deal that will aim for rural areas to be able to renovate their schools.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The endgame for rural America is the consolidation of all productive land into the control of agricorps and land barons. Towns will be transformed into mere dormitories for transient and resident farm labor. Will these barons have kung fu battles with each other? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IQv_iaMDlw
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Peanut President posted:inb4 "they didn't vote for full communism now i hope they all die screaming"
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No I was right the first time because it's always california democrats who post that poo poo.
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maybe they could break up rural areas into a new district system focused on producing certain goods?
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etalian posted:maybe they could break up rural areas into a new district system focused on producing certain goods? Sorry dude can't even parse if this is a joke or not or what is meant by it It sends me back to Half life 2 frankly vv e: ah thanks Nebakenezzer has issued a correction as of 17:39 on Jun 11, 2017 |
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Nebakenezzer posted:Sorry dude can't even parse if this is a joke or not or what is meant by it  it is a Hunger Games joke
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you're really falling behind on your teen action flick trivia. get it together man!!
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Was interesting how the District 12 scenes were actually filmed in a dead rural NC town. The town became a ghost town due to the loss of manufacturing jobs.
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What's that British song from the 1980s about a place turning into a ghost town, with a video that was just a single shot out of the window of somebody's Austin Alegro? Because there should be an American version
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This could work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3eu1gW-bQ8
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Nebakenezzer posted:What's that British song from the 1980s about a place turning into a ghost town, with a video that was just a single shot out of the window of somebody's Austin Alegro? Rural america basically became a depressing Springsteen song like My Hometown
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Harald posted:You drive through some towns now and the only businesses left in the town center are antique stores.. It's like a bunch of old people buying crap from the last old people to die off. antique stores and vape shops etalian posted:Was interesting how the District 12 scenes were actually filmed in a dead rural NC town. the irony is like 20 minutes up the road from there the hills are all dotted with million dollar vacation homes The Muppets On PCP has issued a correction as of 05:24 on Jun 12, 2017 |
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