• Manmoth@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    Plenty of great places in America particularly if you like rural living.

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      Oh my God, no. “Great place to live if you want you all your neighbors to be frighteningly conservative, the closest store to be a 30 minute drive, and the nearest hospital to be an hour away and shutting down because their public funding got cut”.

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        To be fair, you dont get land and houses this cheap anywhere else. Rural living is great unless you’re a city weenie. And I’m hardly even rural tbh.

        My 3000 sq ft house (and 1000 sq ft garage) on an acre was 250k with 3% interest 5 years ago. hardly any neighbors, 5 minutes from grocery store, nice town nearby.

        Try doing that ANYWHERE else. I think people are mostly jealous of all that we can have for such little money. I have everythibg I could want, space to garden and rude dirt bikes etc. Lemmings have no idea how good it is.

        The city I’m near ia actually the least maga place in the whole state. Its still annoying tho.

        I get that people want their clubs and what not but thats not for me. I go to a bar once a month maybe. They bore me. I can do WAY more fun shit at my place. Weld, woodwork, play drums as loud as I want etc. People who lived in a new york closet their whole lives would lose their minds.

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          Rural living is great unless you’re a city weenie

          rural living is a hell hole if you don’t look and act like the people who live there.

          it took me tens of thousands of dollars and decades of study and practice to realize that there’s nothing wrong with my queer autistic brown ass and that the only reason i thought that there was solely came from being born and raised in BFE in the american south west.

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            That is the shitty part. People are not very accepting. We do have a little of a diverse neighborhood here which is good at least. No one here cares if someone’s gay.

            Now if your walking around at night trying peoples car doors, you’re gonna get in trouble. We dont tolerate that garbage.

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        6 hours ago

        What’s wrong with it? Why’re Americans suddenly hating their country so much lol, you can still love the country even if you hate the govt

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          4 hours ago

          Why would you love a country built on genocide, exploitation, supremacy, lies, and bigotry? Do you like those things?

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          I don’t love an abstract legal identity. I’m capable of being happy with institutions, the culture composed if the people living there, and adoring the natural splendor.
          Right now I’m actively angry at the institutions, a huge number of people have taken a sharp turn towards fascism, and I’ve got no problems with the forest still.
          Me and the forest are cool, and that’s part of why I’m mad at the institutions.

          I have no desire to live in the forest because, if nothing else, that’s not good for the forest. Then the people who opted to live there became insane, and decided to largely gut all of the institutions, and make it easier to destroy the forest.

          “I live in a state of natural splendor, and I’m willing to fight to let you cut it down, splash me with mercury , and blot out the sun with smoke because I don’t have healthcare and fuck you for asking. It’s the refugees who are the problem”.

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          Getting the orange clown elected, twice, shows how awful the entire country is. It’s not a few nut bars it’s endemic.

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            Brainwashing can make you do a lot of awful things.

            In my own country, I’ve seen really nice people support a bad regime.

            It’s bad people taking advantage of the ignorance of good people

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              Americans have some of the best access to information on the planet. Americans aren’t stupid or ignorant, we’re performers. That’s why you give those friendly sounding Americans the benefit of the doubt. All those conservatives playing innocent like they don’t know exactly what they did are definitely enthralled, but a big part of it is manipulating others’ perception of them so they’re treated like innocent children who can’t be held responsible for their decisions. A lot of them even believe their own performance and free themselves from all accountability even from themselves. I’ve lived around conservatives for a long time. The only way to be an American conservative is to live exclusively in bad faith.