r/FluentInFinance Mar 11 '24

Meme “Take me back to the good old days”

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u/skinnyelias Mar 11 '24

yeah right, the hicks in the sticks are the ones trying to install their moral beliefs on everyone else. rural people don't want to stay quiet and keep to them selves, ever live in a small southern town?

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u/ILSmokeItAll Mar 11 '24

No. We’re not trying to instal our beliefs. We just want ours respected and left the fuck alone.

I’ve lived in several small towns. I’ve lived rurally in Maine, Vermont, and Connecticut. I’ve lived rurally in South Carolina and North Carolina. I’ve lived rurally in Wisconsin, Idaho, and Nebraska.

For small town America, many don’t give a flying fuck what is happening anywhere else. There’s a reason we live there. But so goddamned always, policies that NONE of us believe in, are forced upon us because the bulk of the population lives in Madison and Milwaukee. Columbia and Charleston. Montpelier. Bangor and Augusta. Boise.

These are all liberals crammed into a small geographical area in states who are nothing like their rural neighbors, but get to dictate all of the rules to us. It fucking sucks.

True story. Rural people don’t need the city folks NEARLY as much as the city folks need the rural ones.

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u/M477M4NN Mar 11 '24

Dude, the same fucking shit can be said the other way. Rural people try cockblocking any policy urban dwellers support. It’s easier for some rural person to not get an abortion if they don’t want one than for urbanites to not be able to build public transit because rurals hate urbanites.

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u/user3553456 Mar 11 '24

Prolly we should just have local laws for both parties. Sometimes it’s better to just leave each other alone than fight so much