I'd say they are the vultures picking the bones. The economic landscape changed when we offshored a lot of our manufacturing to China. The rural enclaves are the people who got left behind. They subsist on state building projects, trucking, and whatnot. I'm hoping we can get some of that back now that China has decided to burn us down. Biden got the ball rolling, Kamala needs to carry it forward.
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Eva Chaos (eva_chaos@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:10 JST 
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Viking Chieftain (vikingchieftain@krigskunst.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:10 JST 
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Yes, the real downward trend started with outsourcing to China. That took away the jobs that these communities depended on. I'm not sure how many of those jobs are really coming back. A lot of them will just go to Vietnam and India. Yes, Kamala will have to do her best to lure some of the jobs back and hopefully create a climate that allows new and old companies to manufacture things locally. It's not just good for the economy, but also good for the climate.
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Eva Chaos (eva_chaos@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:12 JST
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Tbh, you might not be able to tell if you looked at it from Google Street view and didn't pay attention to all the dollar stores and payday loan places. It's different from failing urban areas in that people try incredibly hard to maintain what they have, at least outwardly. You don't see it until you are in people's homes and then you realize the kids have never eaten a nutritious meal in their lives and there hasn't been running water in months.
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Viking Chieftain (vikingchieftain@krigskunst.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:12 JST
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The dollar stores and payday loan places are catalysts in the downward spiral that the area is in.
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kim wulff (kimwulff@krigskunst.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:14 JST 
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@eva_chaos @VikingChieftain Well eva you explain exactly how we imagine it is in the countryside in the United States. Rednecks etc.
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Eva Chaos (eva_chaos@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:15 JST
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Uuugh. There is absolutely no benefit to those things besides demarking the boundaries of dangerous neighborhoods so that you know Google sent you a way you ought not go and you need to turn around. I don't even understand how they make money by being anything other than a front for low-level money laundering.
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Eva Chaos (eva_chaos@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:17 JST
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You have those shits in Canada too?
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Viking Chieftain (vikingchieftain@krigskunst.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:17 JST
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Yes, they do exist here as well. But their interest is capped, but it at such a high level that I don't see a difference between them and loan sharks.
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Eva Chaos (eva_chaos@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:19 JST
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Just like in Russia, they tend to be right next to payday loan shops.
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Viking Chieftain (vikingchieftain@krigskunst.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:19 JST
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Don't get me started on those payday loan stores. They are modern day loan sharks and prey on poor people.
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Eva Chaos (eva_chaos@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:21 JST
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It's just poverty, and by absolute numbers and not percentages, white rural America has the most. It's compounded by the fact that there are very few resources in the sticks compared to urban areas.
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Viking Chieftain (vikingchieftain@krigskunst.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:21 JST
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I understand. Impoverished areas tend to have more problems with drug and alcohol abuse. If you ever watch one of those YouTube videos where they drive through poor towns, the ratio of liquor stores to regular stores is pretty high.
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Viking Chieftain (vikingchieftain@krigskunst.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:22 JST
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I guess they had to replace inbreeding with something else... so FAS was it.
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Eva Chaos (eva_chaos@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:23 JST
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FAS happens a lot in rural America. It's a massive problem.
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Viking Chieftain (vikingchieftain@krigskunst.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:24 JST
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@eva_chaos 🤣🤣🤣
Religion definitely plays a factor in where you end up on the political scale. I don't think FAS victims are only in their circles, but it certainly doesn't help you in life.
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Eva Chaos (eva_chaos@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:25 JST
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Religion and fetal alcohol syndrome is how that happens.
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Eva Chaos (eva_chaos@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:26 JST
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Viking Chieftain (vikingchieftain@krigskunst.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:26 JST
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You have to be primed to believe in weird stuff from a young age to allow yourself to be drawn into the whole QAnon/MAGA/Trump circle.
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kim wulff (kimwulff@krigskunst.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:27 JST
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@VikingChieftain The world loved and laughed at Viktor Borge because he goofed around and did funny things, but only did it because he liked to joke, this idiot believes in what he does and says THAT is scary especially when he seeks to become US President, at the same time equally scary that 'normal' people believe it.
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Viking Chieftain (vikingchieftain@krigskunst.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:28 JST
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All of Trump's lifelong falsehoods are now short-circuiting in his brain, producing stories more astonishing than anything Baron von Münchhausen could have ever cooked up.
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kim wulff (kimwulff@krigskunst.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:21:29 JST
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Well, a few weeks ago it was Biden who might have been senile, but honestly it's Trump who should have his head examined.
#elction #2024Election #harris2024
Hovedperson afviser Trumps mystiske fortælling om nærdødsoplevelse
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