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From early 2023, but I didn't hear about it at the time.

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[-] absentthereaper@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Who are the Dixie-flying settler-born supposed to be the natural allies of, again? I won't deny that it's not all of them, but the few that aren't overtly like that are in a state of "show and prove" with me; otherwise, that's a real quick way for me to become a chalk outline 'cause I was too trusting.

I was born there; and lived experience is telling me you might be overestimating them a little.

[-] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Suburbs or rural? There’s definitely a lot of reactionary propaganda directed there, but there are also a lot of poor people who have given up on influencing politics because it’s presented as a binary between Dems and GOP and Democrats just look like condescending urbanites. Not being around anyone who isn’t like you doesn’t exactly combat xenophobia too. I’m not crazy to think that the vanguard is in the rural white workers or that Republican voters are the real working class, but their interests do align and they could be brought to our side with less condescension and more empathetic propaganda. Obviously, oppressed nations will probably be leading the revolution, but we shouldn’t shit on mislead rural white people any more than we dismiss any potential in democrat voting urbanites.

[-] absentthereaper@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Rural. I mean, sticks as shit, the streetlights over the road ended fifty miles from where I was at, all cow country and farms getting paid to not sew shit other than wild grass. Biggest mistake my blood ever made was moving out there, and I had to live with the consequences of it; best choice I ever made was moving to a city above the Mason-Dixon. At least here, the racism isn't as blatant. Still coded; but not as blatant.

[-] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Ah. Yeah, it sucks in a lot of rural areas, but they also have potential. We shouldn’t idealize them as class conscious vanguard like Midwestern Marx does, but not should we use insults specifically targeting their low class position and totally denounce them.

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