Anonymous #3 5d

nobody is saying monogamy isnt ok or selfish and unwoke lmfo

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Anonymous #4 5d

IN THIS FUCKING TOWN THEY ARE Bro I’m no joking this town is one big polycule and when I pull back and say I’m not like that, they get mad

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Anonymous #3 5d

What town? 💀💀💀

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Anonymous #3 5d

My town too my ex used to pressure me into doing poly and said i was a bigot for not wanting to

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Anonymous #6 5d

Least woke take and it’s what I’m guessing is classism

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Anonymous #6 5d

you’re at level one woke bro

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Anonymous #9 5d

Do you know how many rights we’ve had stripped away from us by rural people? Do you not know how many times they shot us and then themselves just so we all suffer?

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Anonymous #6 5d

ever hear of the battle of blair mountain?

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Anonymous #6 5d

didn’t know every person who lived rurally ever did that crazy can’t believe every single or individual in this group that your generalizing did that exact thing

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Anonymous #6 5d

Do you know how many rights of rural people have been stripped by city folk? Respectfully if your hatred lies in ignorance its not much of a "take"

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Anonymous #7 5d

Kalamazoo Michigan

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Anonymous #8 5d

I’ll bite (as an interested autistic person): tell me more about fascist geography

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Anonymous #11 5d

You already know it! Geography as we use it in this country is a mechanism of settler colonialism. The imposition of property schemes, erasure of placenames, ecologically ignorant partitioning of land, and violence of upholding these systems dispossess indigenous people and physically imposes/maintains oppression of marginalized people. Fuck the railroads and smokey the bear can kiss my ass

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Anonymous #6 4d

That other person is right, you are level one woke. It isn’t rural people taking away your rights, it’s politicians. Why do you think rural means conservative, because it doesn’t. You genuinely sound like a ‘city kid’ stereotype looking down on ‘hicks’ and it’s pathetic.

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Anonymous #9 4d

I live in rural America. I stay tuned in to rural politics. Rural Americans aided in the defunding of welfare and other supports for poor people because black people benefited from it too. This is the ONLY reason policies like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families exist. This is the ONLY reason Reaganite economics persists in both parties to this day. This is the ONLY reason our rights have been held back so damn long

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Anonymous #9 4d

Do you seriously think rural people are noble savages waiting for educated socialists to free them and introduce them to class politics? Because they’re NOT. Rural people are ALWAYS the enemies of a better world, without exception. They resisted the French Revolution, they sided with the South in the Civil War, they resisted Civil Rights until the 21st century—they are the enemies of progress, without failure

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Anonymous #6 4d

why do you think generalizing an entire group of people as bad people is OK?

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Anonymous #6 4d

You live in rural America. You hate rural people, accuse them of stripping our rights, and insist they are the enemies of progress. So you hate yourself, believe you are stripping our rights, and believe you are the enemy of progress?

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Anonymous #6 4d

You can’t make these generalizing statements about rural people as a whole

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Anonymous #6 4d

“(blank) people are always (blank) without exception” tell me you’re a bigot without telling me you’re a bigot

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Anonymous #6 4d

that well-meaning but poorly-educated farmhand is less of an enemy than the genius billionaire hoarding their blood money and the former wants a better world just as much as any of us do

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Anonymous #10 4d

They’re not well meaning dawg I don’t know what to tell you. They hate you

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Anonymous #6 4d

i *am* them, i grew up in arkansas and tennessee. they don’t hate us, many of them genuinely just don’t know any better

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Anonymous #6 4d

Youre so fucking ignorant jesus. Im an urban planner for a rural municipality and yeah theres a lot of right wing regressive stuff but rural people are not the ones with political power to make the sorts of decisions youre talking about, thats city folk and suburban folk. You have a very limited view of how land and politics work which is clouded by your bias.

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Anonymous #6 4d

I grew up around rural people and suburban people and majority of them have history of incest or the small town church family man molesting students. It’s fun 👍🏻

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Anonymous #8 4d

this is a take that i have seen but haven't really seen expanded upon and i really love the way you worded it (especially with how restrictive yikyaks word limit is). super curious though, how does smokey the bear tie into this? how do railroads also tie into geography?

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Anonymous OP 4d

Railroads are a whole entire thing im also a huge nerd about them. They were the primary method of westward expansion, given hellllaaa land by the govt and creating cities. Smokey the bear is only kinda related and it has to do with settler environmentalism favoring prevention over traditional fire regimes

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Anonymous #12 4d

YOU GET IT! Not every rural person, but always a rural person! I also hate suburbia but that’s a level 0.5 woke take so it went unmentioned

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Anonymous #8 4d

Dawg do you not know how the US senate works? Do you not know how many rural districts there are?

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Anonymous #6 3d

I sure do. Have you done much census data mapping? That paints a diff picture. Heres a sc from a geospatial data scientist who works for a rural magazine. Your personal bias doesnt turn opinions into facts btw

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Anonymous #8 3d

I come from a real rural region in a state with large urban center and they absolutely get all the representation. Not to mention how inaccessible democratic involvement is for rural folks due to mobility, educational, and investment challenges. I literally study and work in rural public engagement dawg

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Anonymous #8 3d

That is so interesting, do you have any directions you can point me in to learn more?

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Anonymous OP 3d

There are many good critical urban geography magazines but they can be dense

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