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   clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 05:51:06 JST clarity flowers

   it’s weird that I still constantly see people talking about “rural vs urban” in the us as though this is the True Political Debate when almost 50% of americans live in suburbia. I love small towns and rural regions – I grew up in one – but suburbs are the disease at the heart of our society.

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 05:57:03 JST clarity flowers

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     Like why do I still see libs imagining their ~evil republican enemies~ as rural small town hicks? rural populations are only 17% of america, and I promise the electoral college isn’t tipping the scales -that- hard.

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 06:03:20 JST clarity flowers

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     Your enemy is not a man in overalls in the countryside hitting an anvil with a hammer. He is a landlord in a cul-de-sac complaining about how the city that he doesn’t actually live in should “do something” about the homeless people he sees from his car windows.

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 06:13:14 JST clarity flowers

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     @uoou again, it’s predominantly -suburban-. Rural and urban populations are both minorities here.

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     uoou (uoou@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 06:13:15 JST uoou

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     @clarity Wait these people in the *flyoever states* whose culture and way of life we've been denigrating for decades as they grow all our food don't like us? Weird, they must all be racists.

     Also, yeah, I think the US became predominantly urban in like 1920...

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 06:35:38 JST clarity flowers

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     @vanderZwan yeah I think part of what makes the political situation so surreal is that suburbia is split between “centrist” libs and “moderate” republicans, both of whom imagine their enemy as being non-suburban minorities. post-modernism’s defining feature is the way it barks at its own reflection in the mirror

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     Job (vanderzwan@vis.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 06:35:40 JST Job

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     @clarity I would not be surprised if the people who are saying that *are* mostly from the suburbs