This was fun last time, leggo again

I'll start with: libertarians have solid takes ~40-50% of the time and many of them just need to be pushed a step further in their thinking to turn against capitalist oppression along with state oppression. The libright-to-leftist pipeline is stronger than most seem to think it is.

  • Gonzolegend [any]
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    4 years ago

    Poverty mainly, but also generally more left behind than cities.

    Was Mao's strategy in China. Win the rural people over and hold that territory, and turn the cities into isolated islands, and only then move on the cities.

    • HarryLime [any]
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      4 years ago

      I agree we should win over rural people, but Mao's strategy was correct for the material conditions that existed in China in the first half of the 20th century. They probably won't work in the US in the 21st.

    • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      As someone who lives in a rural area, the main difference is that land reform was a huge promise in China. Thousands of people doing the same amount of labor we automate away. For the most part, people who want to own farms here already own them. The disaffected people leave. Small craft farms don't really mean much in the grand scale of modern American farming.

      Also, a lot of people who would "love to own a farm" have no idea of what they're getting into. I looked into getting sheep for my acreage, and when I read up on all the ways they could die, hurt themselves, and vet bills I decided "wild blackberry patch surrounded by scrub trees" was perfectly fine for now.