Hexbear

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3 years ago

How about the cost of maintaining the roads and powerlines and infrastructure to keep people like you living in a place no human should live. Leave the forest to nature.

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8 points

3 years ago

people have lived where I live for thousands of years. they were still going to need to maintain the roads so people can travel between cities jackass and the local roads are maintained by the local government

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1 point

3 years ago

TRAINS. Why should we make them stop for rural backwaters? Just move, it’s the state’s job to aid you in that.

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3 years ago

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9 points

3 years ago

what’s your issue with people in rural areas did you get everything you know about us from the film deliverance or something. stops in rural areas allow trains to changeover and adds redundancy in the system

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1 point

3 years ago

Im from bumfuck west virginia, we had to drink untreated ground water, we burned our trash, I was homeschooled for a significant portion of my childhood. Stop romanticising rural living, raising a kid in those conditions is child abuse, that’s why I don’t think where you live should be a choice. Where I was I couldn’t just take a train or a bus or a taxi, you had to own a car or a horse. And the horse thing has to do with the Amish who I hate with a passion and are no different from the Russian kulaks. Confiscate all their land, relocate the hill people to the city.

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8 points

3 years ago

it sounds like you had a personal terrible experience growing up in poverty in a rural area and that’s massively affecting how you think about the whole issue. I have to say though you get some pretty bad situations in urban areas too the issue is the poverty

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3 years ago

And wouldn’t it be easier to solve all those urban problems if EVERYONE had to live in an urban area? I’m not saying f urban living is cheap or close to nature or the apartments are very big but it’s for the benefit of the collective why I support it. Because the only way human society can change is if we live in the same material conditions and that can only happen by destroying rural and suburban areas.

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5 points

3 years ago

I’m sorry you’ve had this experience :meow-hug:

But again, in realms of fantasy - it just doesn’t have to be this way. It’s easier to manage rural, eh, reactionary tendencies, then just wave a magic wand and burn the whole thing while completely redesigning agriculture.

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