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Leopards Ate My Face

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Firewood Banks Aren’t Inspiring. They’re a Sign of Collapse. (newrepublic.com)
submitted 19 hours ago by HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth to c/leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world
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I'll give the author a modicum of credit, I didn't know wood banks were a thing, so at least I learned something. But gotta lambast them everywhere else.

Rural America knows the truth long before the rest of the country feels it.

Rural America wouldn't know the truth if it bit them in the ass. This is what they voted for, a silver spoon city slicker who calls functioning institutions "the deep state" before totally destroying them, to their delight.

The article is full of this coddling "woe is they" language.

Rural families don’t get to pretend. ... They also know what it means when everything gets privatized except the consequences.

What a load of baloney. Rural voters have been playing pretend my entire life, to the tune of 64% support for Trump in 2024. They've been pretending that piss-down economics works since the 80's. Maybe you mean they can't afford to pretend, but they've been happily running a deficit on that front and won't stop even if they freeze in the winter.

So I say let them freeze. They can beg for scrap wood and call it charity, because that's exactly what they wanted.

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[–] Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

As a rural American... don't fire shots at me. I didn't vote for this shit. I voted against it.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Hey, asshole, not everyone who lives in a rural area and is poor is a Trump supporter. Nor, would being a Trump supporter mean that it's okay to let them freeze or cheer at other people suffering. You're engaging in exactly the same toxic dehumanization as the MAGA crowd.

If you think rural voters are your enemy or the source of our problems, then you're woefully ignorant about the current political situation or how political influence works.

You're very much right to be angry, but make sure you know where that anger should be directed before making outrage bait posts like this.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Nor, would being a Trump supporter mean that it's okay to let them freeze or cheer at other people suffering. You're engaging in exactly the same toxic dehumanization as the MAGA crowd.

We should not ever be tolerant of intolerance. Similarly, it's fine for those who want others to suffer, to suffer themselves.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Karl Popper’s paradox of intolerance is about how we can’t tolerate intolerance in society.

It isn’t a cloak for you to wear when you want to be intolerant and feel justified. Nor is it a proscription to dehumanize and celebrate suffering.

Those are the actions of the intolerant, which we will not tolerate here.

Similarly, it’s fine for those who want others to suffer, to suffer themselves.

The irony.

So you mean people like OP? You?

Don’t confuse feeling outraged or righteous for an actual moral high ground.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 28 minutes ago

Tolerance is a social contract. Intolerance voids the contract, so no paradox.