• Broiled_Tofu@lemmy.zip
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    I am grateful to live in the USA. My life is great. I fish, I camp, I BBQ, I have a stable career (that at least pays my bills if nothing else).

    If you stop living on social media and feeding yourself outrage constantly it’s pretty damn great actually. I have never even SEEN and ICE agent and I live in a hot spot 😆

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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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        Yea, make that make sense….pay many times what anyone else does for their healthcare, yet it still needs public funding.

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        Better than Democrat cities. There you will wait 8 hours to be seen by the doctor, before getting scheduled 3 months out to see the specialist, go to your car with smashed out windows, cops that won’t do anything about it but still somehow managed to put a parking ticket on your car all while being surrounded by people that don’t see you or care your exist.

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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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          You only get to live that way because your imperialist genocide state shares the spoils of empire with you but it is temporary and you’re going to find yourself fucked god willing. I hate you and I hope to be part of the solution to the worlds problems.

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            Wow much anger. I’m on the same side as you man, no need for hostility. I never voted for this government and I give as little as possible to billionaire corporations when ever possible.

            I was merely comparing city folk with those of us who prefer rural there’s nothing wrong with either.

            And I’ll tell you something, I don’t get fuck shit from my “imperialist empire”. If I get cancer I’m fucked. I don’t have rich parents that gave me everything. Sure, I’m very very lucky, but ive been working harder and longer than you since i was old enough to hold a shovel, doing real work building the shit you use on a daily basis.

            Also, you may want to go touch grass. Lot of anger you have there about things you can’t change. You are exactly as bad as the bigots saying “all people of this race evil no exceptions”. Its never an absolute. I despise maga. Does that make every single american evil? No more than it makes all dark skinned people bad because someone did a crime that was the same color.

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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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              We do have a little of a diverse neighborhood here which is good at least. No one here cares if someone’s gay.

              people use words like this to describe austin, but i had to spend 5 years there before i realized that they’re qualified statements.

              and it’s not just small places, california used to insist that they didn’t have a problem with gay people either, but they still prevented us from getting married and it literally forced families, like mine, to break apart.

              it all goes to prove that op was right.

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                Yeah I hate how brainwashed people are. Completely religions fault. It preys on the idiots and then they are groomed for authoritarianism.

                I never understood it even when little. WHY hate people? Sure, you may hate a criminal or a rapist. But 98% of those are white cis men, not trans folk or drag queens.

                We have good little pockets of community lgbtq businesses and such that are growing more all the time, so its good to see somethibg positive is happening if even a small scale.

                Edit: woof, tankie spotted. No more communications from me, good luck with your sad life.

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                  I never understood it even when little. WHY hate people? … tankie spotted. No more communications from me, good luck with your sad life.

                  sounds like you should be answering your own question. lol

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

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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.