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In my country every american is called a yankee. As an American what do you refer as a yankee? New Yoekrs?
A yankee as far as i am concerned is anyone in the US that is born above the mason-dixon line which is a geographical line used to determine the North/South regions of the US that have some very clear and defined moral/cultural differences
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sugarpopss · 2 years
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Stranger things is such a weird fandom to be in bc on the one hand there’s our side, like normal fandom stuff happening, fic and art and cosplay and all that shit, but then it’s such a popular show that like half of the fan base is people who have never interacted with fandom in any sense and stumble into somewhere like tumblr or onto Cosplay tags and go “wow, this is taking it a bit far?? That’s fucking weird, you make headcanons for these characters? Gross” like. Espcially weird for THIS show bc have you seen it???? How do you watch a show where every supernatural baddie is named after a dungeons and dragons monster, the most popular character references lord of the rings, and the main (at the time) four characters get super hyped over getting to dress up as their favorite movie characters and come away thinking “I liked that, but cosplaying? Wanting to draw and write about these characters? Fucking weird” baby. Sweetheart darling please just think with your brain for a moment
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vettelcore · 2 years
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"i grew up in a rural state i know how the farming industry works"
*starts sharing misinformation or straight up fake information to dunk on the vegans*
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I stumbled across a "progressive friendly homesteading" IG account
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"-no 🙏 nonsense"
-"we love oat milk and plant meat!"
-"No anti-vaxxers/homeschool crazies here!"
-"I like my homesteading with a side of trans rights 🥰"
You're still beholden to corporate food/pharma, you still send your kids to state schools... are you even homesteading at that point?
You're still a feckless urbanite who bought land in a rural area and you have... a garden, I guess?
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About 75% of veterans and active military vote blue. The armed forces are primarily staffed by people of color, urbanites, recent immigrants, Catholics, and various white & non-white ethnic “minorities”.
In other words only about 1 in 4 are white evangelical crackers. Don’t be fooled, southerners and other rural types are, and always have been, the numerical minority in the military.
The Dems need to change the false perception that RepubliKKKans have created of being more pro-military. We also need to change the false perception that RepubliKKKlans are more patriotic. We need to also take back the iconic symbolism that goes with that.
We are the ones that defend true democracy and the American way. We are the ones helping our neighbors and trying to make America a better place for everyone. These are the true American ideals. Republikkkans are the traitor trash that tried to overthrow the government to install a dictator for life, trampling the Constitution along the way.
Some of you may recall “Tricky Dick” Nixon, the demon who spawned the modern RepubliKKKlan party was a villain in both the Marvel and D.C. comics.
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majorbaby · 1 year
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re: the clairvoyant corporal
first and foremost it’s a running gag that henry and radar, as a seamless comedic duo, get a ton of mileage out of. i know that, but whatever: 
radar isn’t psychic, he’s just got his finger on the pulse of the war. his finger was nailed into place there by the united states army. he’s knows the ins and the outs of the 4077th, its various schedules, its needs, strengths and weaknesses. he could run it with his eyes closed. he’s not psychic, but he can read the war’s mind, like you and your best friend can communicate telepathically. 
he adjusts well to the 4077th because he’s good at adjusting. he’s a farm boy, so he’s accustomed to being in an environment that needs to run on a strict schedule. he’s from a rural america, so he’s accustomed to being stepped on and underestimated by enlightened middle class urbanites. sometimes he follows their example, falling into the trap of mistreating others he perceives as being beneath him. 
he’s versatile. he’s scrappy. he’s a good kid. sometimes he’s a bad kid. he’s a kid. 
he’s susceptible to being taken advantage of by people he cares about or looks up to. sometimes he has to trust that they won’t take it too far. he’s not stupid. he’s not a doctor, but he can do a lot of things the doctors can’t. administrative personnel are pillars of our society to this day. he’s a kid.
he organizes the enlisted men. he knows the fastest way to get under hawkeye’s skin is to treat him and trapper like officers. hawkeye disagrees in theory that the o-club should be closed to enlisted men, but radar forces his hand and makes hawkeye put it into practice. he knows the people in his unit. he knows the war. 
he puts too much weight on hawkeye’s shoulders. he’s not alone in that, he’s just the only one with an episode about it. he’s too old for hero-worship, but he’s younger than the rest. they all could stand to do better by hawkeye. 
maybe he is a little psychic, in the fantastical sense of the word. maybe he stills when he senses approaching choppers the way bugs and animals still when they sense approaching storms. when they (bugs, animals, people) realize what comes after the stillness, everyone scrambles into place. 
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uncle-mojave · 1 month
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I absolutely love rural towns. There's one that I was at yesterday called Veyo where they have what they claim are world famous pies and the claim actually holds up. Their pies are the best god damn pies I've ever had in my life and being a fat man I've had a lot of pies including pies I've made myself.
But Urbanites can't conceive of a place like that. "We got Vinnie's Pies, they're the best pies." Fuck you no they aint. Does Vinnie's make pies with water that has fallout at the bottom of the sediment from the local reservoir? Was the location where Vinnie's is subject to metric tons of radioactive dust and debris from the 1950's until the 1960's? Did Vinnie's play a hand in giving John Wayne cancer? No? Shut the fuck up. All Vinnie's has is rats, roaches and sewage water.
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burlveneer-music · 11 days
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Green-House - A Host for All Kinds of Life - studiously avoiding the "New Age" label, they nonetheless represent the best qualities of that much-maligned genre
In an era of rampant, man-made climate chaos, “solastalgia” (the longing and distress experienced by individuals as a response to environmental change/degradation) has emerged as a useful, semi-viral concept — a catch-all term for the pervasive sense that the world as we know it is far from well, and only growing less so. But, for many of us, a problem, a trap, an ineffable hollowness, exists at the very crux of this concept/premise: how can we mourn (or even sense the loss of) that which we have never known? Especially for lifelong urbanites estranged from nature, who nevertheless grasp the severity and complexity of the problem—how might they remember? How might they mourn? Perhaps indirectly—that is to say, in an exploratory and non-dogmatic fashion—Green-House, a project birthed by Olive Ardizoni and now officially a duo project featuring long-time collaborator and confidant, Michael Flanagan, seeks to address this gap in understanding. Six Songs for Invisible Gardens, the debut Green-House EP whose 2020 release coincided with the depths of Covid-19 “lockdown,” responded to the rampant heartsickness of human and plant life, especially in non-rural areas. The packaging of the cassette release famously included wildflower seeds for the listener to scatter. This gesture (at once simple and daring, especially when one considers the logistical element) exists as testament to the sincerity and seriousness of Ardizoni’s convictions. Music for Living Spaces, the first full-length Green-House LP, followed in 2021— a refinement of the formula that enshrined Six Songs as a cult, eco-ambient hit. Out October 13, 2023 on Leaving Records, they have returned with the LP A Host For All Kinds of Life, a third entry in a series of releases whose titles have incidentally all revolved around the “for” construction: an unofficial canon of offerings, or maybe rather instructions as to how the music contained therein might, could, and should operate in/on the listener’s life and “living space(s).” Decidedly the most expansive Green-House release — one need only consider the LP’s title and the kaleidoscopic, fractal cover art designed by Flanagan—A Host For All Kinds of Life troubles the very notion of “ambient music,” a category with whom Green-House has always existed in some degree of tension. What if a song’s seeming softness constitutes its biting edge? What if easeful, contemplative pleasure can radically alter our mindset? Our very role as worldly subjects? Drawing on the works of Lynn Margulis and our burgeoning understanding of the evolutionary role of biological mutualism (associations between species in which both species benefit), A Host For All Kinds of Life is a deeply entrenched and politically grounded song suite. And there are indeed discrete songs here, with defined structure, momentum, and sway; see the gilded, sixties-evoking melodic arabesque of the record’s ninth and penultimate track, “Everything is Okay” (which incidentally ends with the release’s only human voice—a tender message left for Ardizoni by their mother). In conversation, Ardizoni speaks often of the centrality of joy—that Green-House’s very existence can be traced to a conscious decision they made to not only choose joy as an act of rebellion, but to find that joy in whatever plant life they could access in their immediate environment. In this sense, all of Green-House’s releases (and A Host for All Kinds of Life especially) embody a radicality that may elude the casual or first-time listener. To choose, model, and express joy in an ailing world requires courage, a courage that must be jealously guarded and constantly replenished. A Host For all Kinds of Life encourages the listener to slow down, take stock, tune in to the more-than-human world around them, and gather their courage and joy in light of the uncertainty to come.  All songs written and produced by Olive Ardizoni and Michael Flanagan Bio by Emmett Shoemaker
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pacific-rimbaud · 9 months
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How did you come to see Pansy as a little bit of a country(side) girl? In ADWP, she has that bit of internal monologue where she wants their future family to climb trees and keep tiny chickens, and in RoT she's living happily in the English countryside. I guess I had imagined Pansy as exclusively a fashionable urbanite who prefers to stay in London or Paris, so I'm interested to hear how you decided this bc it seems to suit her so well!
From what I've seen, she's mostly written in fanon as a wealthy, fashionable urbanite. I've written her that way myself, but I tend to headcanon the Slytherins as being the magical version of the wealthy British aristocracy, and very wealthy people everywhere absolutely split their time between urban homes and country escapes. I think she's totally comfortable in well-appointed rural environments. If she was a Muggle, she'd be an accomplished horse rider and all that. Neville is canonically an Herbology/gardening guy, so when she's with him I see her joyfully going all in on that side of herself. The reduced income and home size would be an adjustment for her, but even on a more limited income and in a smaller home, she wants to have her luxuries. Their home in RoT is cozy but ready for its Architectural Digest spread. Thanks for the ask!
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High speed trains are anti-communist because they are made to serve the managerial class and bourgeoisie, as well as perpetuating the capitalist myth that time is money. Furthermore, the dedicated right of ways required for the highest speeds is emblematic of capitalist waste, whereas a mixed freight and passenger right of way would be a more efficient use of resources in an increasingly scarce world. Finally, as they are made to connect cities, they enforce another type of divide: that between the urban and rural. It inherently values the urbanite more than the rural worker.
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"They take and take consuming the hard work and profit of the cities."
I’m pretty sure that the other way around since a lot of urbanites have French Revolutionaries propaganda “Let them eat cake” mindsets towards rural and small towns areas.
Seriously, do urbanites realize the “American child this milk comes from store, babies comes from the hospital.” jokes are bashing them?
And as someone who lived in the Chicago area…every seen pictures of a casket for a 2 year old? Because I did, bah why are urbanites so terrible?
Living in a city gives you brain damage. No one should live in a city. They don't even serve a purpose in the internet age. Cities used to exist as centers of trade and culture and education, but these days all of that is done online or from warehouses that can exist anywhere. There is zero good reason for people to live in cities. 15 minute cities? Nah, fuck that. Abolish cities.
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beardedmrbean · 1 year
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This is what happens when the suburbs go bad because the people from the city have decided to invade and drive cost of living up while driving quality of life down.
Person posting the picture doesn't realize they're giving themselves a big L with it and showing why urbanites need to stay out of the suburbs and rural communities.
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caesarsaladinn · 8 months
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a decent heuristic for figuring out if a country song is good is to ask yourself, “if I, an educated upper-middle-class urbanite, wrote it, would it come across as wildly classist and a stereotype of rural people?” if the answer is yes, it’s almost certainly not worth your time because you’ve heard hundreds of these songs before. if no, you may be onto something
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stoneantler · 16 hours
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How to talk about growing up rural without exaggerating and also without making it appear more idilic than it was. Nothing bad ever really happened. There are signs all over the whole town threatening to shoot you. Yes, they used government money to put them up. We worried about putting pride things up for fear of getting a brick through the window. But it wasn't that bad! Except the pastor did regularly come around to tell my dad he was going to hell. But it was fine and I don't want my stories to make urbanites and suburbanites think less of my community. I want my community to get more and better resources. I could never ever live there again tho.
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On paper a “15 minute city” doesn’t sound too far off from a small town where everyone knows everyone and the stores with everything you need to survive are in walking distance? That sounds normal, pleasant even? How is that the USSR?
Im not a fucking urbanite. Let me live in peace in the forest. Rural people are allowed to live in rural areas. Fuck the Word Ecomomic Forum.
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earthriversoul · 4 months
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Horizon
The red glow in the horizon is not the sunrise it's the new penitentiary they built down the road a place in the country for incorrigible felons a pied-à-terre for those judged to be too wicked to live among city folk among powerful politicians among billionaires with penthouse condos complete with private pools and personal chefs. no, truly dangerous felons must live in the country where peaceful neighbors can live in terror where farmers are afraid to go out to milk the cows where terrified mothers stand beside their kids at the school bus stop with guns to protect the children from unseen evil lurking behind the walls and wires of a prison urban-dwellers don't want in their own backyards so they foist it on people whose houses are now worthless can't be sold can't get a loan to improve security. kiddie pools and playgrounds come down parks are abandoned festivals are canceled outdoor sports are forbidden they aren't safe anymore schools get razor wire and security guards against a future escapee with no morals against shooting child hostages in a desperate ploy for freedom no, urbanites foist the evils they breed in the loins of the alleys and boardrooms and barrooms on rural places with weak voices and cheap lawyers with no army of Harvard grads to defend the sanctity of peace and no way to prevent that megalith of murder from damaging the community.
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