The rural America death spiral

[RB 60]

To be expected from a poorly educated rural hick rube who lives in drive thru country

Poor guno, still thinks he's a machinist and an engineer

[Matt Dillon]

Many of the nation's current pathologies are taking a heavy toll on the majority-white population living in rural America, which was severely impacted by the opioid crisis and has dealt with falling populations, job losses and rising suicide rates.


Let’s say you were born, grew up and now reside in rural America. Throughout your life, you have been more susceptible to poverty, lower education, illness and even death than your urban counterparts.

As a kid, chances are, you lived farther away from a doctor or hospital and got less exercise.
You were more likely to live in a school desert — having to travel long distances to make it to school, if you were able to attend at all. Your school might have shuttered, as school consolidation has become more common in many rural areas.

You had a greater likelihood of getting your high school diploma than the national average, but were far less likely to go straight to college than your urban and suburban counterparts, as The Atlantic reported.
If you did graduate with a college degree, you'd likely end up so saddled with student debt that returning to your rural hometown wouldn't be an option if you hoped to get a job that would enable you to pay it off, according to research by the Federal Reserve.

Even if you stay, some of the brightest people you grew up with would leave, contributing to the rural "brain drain."
As an adult, you’re more likely suffer from obesity, mental health issues, diabetes, cancer and opioid addiction. You are more likely to know people who took their own lives.
If you keep working in your hometown, your job is more likely to be taken over by AI, according to a study by the Brookings Institution

https://www.axios.com/the-rural-amer...b8bf76faa.html

guno is a serious idiot.

[Matt Dillon]

As a coastal person, I'd rather take two shots behind the ear than have to live in rural middle America.
I never had either the opportunity or the inclination to cultivate the qualities that allow one to do so.
You can get a decent steak there, but if you want good Chinese or Italian, you're SOL.

Just the same, even as they piss us off with their stupid votes, these middle Americans do contribute to producing our food.

I don't want dissolve all relations with them, and I'm not unappreciative of their work.
I just wish that the food we buy from them comprised imports from a different nation rather than domestic production.
Then we could get along peacefully instead of wanting to kill one another over politics.
And let's be honest--the latter IS what we want to do now.

Holy fuck! How did someone as fucktarded as you are survive this long?

Oh! You wanna kill somebody over politics. That's fine by me, motherfucker!

Bring it, dumbass! I got what you need! High velocity copper-jacketed lead head injection, baby!
This won't hurt a bit!

[RB 60]

As a coastal person, I'd rather take two shots behind the ear than have to live in rural middle America.
I never had either the opportunity or the inclination to cultivate the qualities that allow one to do so.
You can get a decent steak there, but if you want good Chinese or Italian, you're SOL.

Just the same, even as they piss us off with their stupid votes, these middle Americans do contribute to producing our food.

I don't want dissolve all relations with them, and I'm not unappreciative of their work.
I just wish that the food we buy from them comprised imports from a different nation rather than domestic production.
Then we could get along peacefully instead of wanting to kill one another over politics.
And let's be honest--the latter IS what we want to do now.

I'll take a good American steak over your Chinese or Italian shit any day of the week..

Even as you turn our cities to shit, full of illegals and crime, we rural folk will survive just fine.

Why don't you want your food produced right here in America? Why from other nations?
If you don't like American foods, why the hell are you here?

Nah, your attitude is why we will never get along peacefully. Don't you wish to exterminate us?

[Hawkeye10]

I'll take a good American steak over your Chinese or Italian shit any day of the week..

Even as you turn our cities to shit, full of illegals and crime, we rural folk will survive just fine.

Why don't you want your food produced right here in America? Why from other nations?
If you don't like American foods, why the hell are you here?

Nah, your attitude is why we will never get along peacefully. Don't you wish to exterminate us?

Your optimism is charming, and misplaced.

[RB 60]

Your optimism is charming, and misplaced.

Why won't we?

[Matt Dillon]

Your optimism is charming, and misplaced.

When's the last time you shot a chicken in the neck with a 30-.06 @ 100 yards that you stepped off?
Laid down the cracked corn and waited,..

[RB 60]

The piece is a little outdated, being pre Covid. In fact, NYC is dead and there is a real estate boom as far north as 100 miles from the city. Everyone is fleeing to the safety of rural America, saving tens of thousands/year on rent.

I think we're going to see large corporations leave the huge buildings and have staff work from home. The savings are astronomical. Covid accidentally showed them a new business model.

We would prefer you trash staying in your shithole illegal infested cities.

[Guno צְבִי]

Small towns are in serious trouble. Tens of millions of people left rural communities in the second-half of the 20th-century, and many communities continue to lose their young people to larger cities. Businesses and population alike have taken huge hits, as freeways run motorists around (or over) these towns, but never slowly through them. Rural taxpayers subsidize their own demise, even as they pursue an approach to growth that is designed to decline.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/...-they-be-saved

[Matt Dillon]

Small towns are in serious trouble. Tens of millions of people left rural communities in the second-half of the 20th-century, and many communities continue to lose their young people to larger cities. Businesses and population alike have taken huge hits, as freeways run motorists around (or over) these towns, but never slowly through them. Rural taxpayers subsidize their own demise, even as they pursue an approach to growth that is designed to decline.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/...-they-be-saved

guno is a jewnigger faggot with rotten cumbreath.

[RB 60]

When's the last time you shot a chicken in the neck with a 30-.06 @ 100 yards that you stepped off?
Laid down the cracked corn and waited,..

Never shot a chicken in the neck at 100 yd. with a .30-06. A groundhog at 780 yd. with a .220, though (using a rangefinder).

[Guno צְבִי]

Poor guno, still thinks he's a machinist and an engineer

now retired vocational, special ed school boy , I furthered my education unlike you

[RB 60]

now retired vocational, special ed school boy

Yep. retired at 58

[Matt Dillon]

Never shot a chicken in the neck at 100 yd. with a .30-06. A groundhog at 780 yd. with a .220, though (using a rangefinder).

Just a regular .220? Nothing wrong with that.
Never taken a shot that far myself.
Okay, so my best friend's uncle had this .220 Swift, and that was his favorite gun.
Had one of them multilayer and colored wood stocks n stuff?
He was a gunsmith by trade, and that was his favorite gun,
I can vouch for that he knew a thing or 2.

[RB 60]

Just a regular .220?

Yep. A 50+ yr. old .220 Swift, at that