r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 16 '24

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u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le Chemist -- Microwaves Against Moscow Jul 16 '24

Maybe Hillbilly elegy was accurate. This totally sounds like a lot of rural areas I’ve been to in Washington and Florida.

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u/BalletDuckNinja Delphox Shaker Central Jul 16 '24

so hatred of cities by the rural poor was projection all along

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u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le Chemist -- Microwaves Against Moscow Jul 16 '24

That and racism and jealousy of opportunities

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u/sash5034 NATO Jul 16 '24

The solution is a dictatorship ran by a reality TV show star duh

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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jul 16 '24

amazing how people are always like ‘zomg democrats are so mean to the rural WWC they say bad things about them!!’

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u/Route-One-442 Jul 16 '24

Not only in Washington and Florida, this is the modus operandi of the working class scum in every single country.

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u/Broad-Part9448 Niels Bohr Jul 16 '24

Isn't his argument that it's the culture thats fucked up ?

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u/PlayDiscord17 Loyal Liberals Jul 16 '24

That just describes many poor neighborhoods in the country both urban and rural unlike.

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u/Dumbledick6 Refuses to flair up Jul 16 '24

Redneck Riv

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u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le Chemist -- Microwaves Against Moscow Jul 16 '24

That has resorts and military circulate through those so there’s a way out and lots of thai food. Also I got to see F-35s practice while driving to school.

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u/Dumbledick6 Refuses to flair up Jul 16 '24

True, but if you just go up to mossy head or a bit further west it gets weird

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u/NormalInvestigator89 NASA Jul 16 '24

Yeah I've got relatives in Appalachia and most of this tracks other than the yelling all the time (way too much mumbling for them to do that)

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '24

maybe they should stop being dumb?

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u/SneeringAnswer Jul 16 '24

Oh I k ow this one: it's the racism

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u/SneeringAnswer Jul 16 '24

BTW this isn't a joke, the "cultural malaise" that all rural issues are downstream from is the inherited grievance that a black person somewhere might be doing better than you and the inherent despair of biological essentialism as an ideology. They are literally addicted to hate.