I try my best to be introspective. And in this case I'm not seeing it. Maybe the issue is you are assuming I'm referring to everyone that is "rural" and you are assuming from your tone that I'm far disconnected from rural communities and haven't experienced any of these things personally myself.
Just you try exposing a DUI record that could prevent a known businesswomen from getting her liquor license and avoid her getting a disgraced police chief to raid your newspaper where you weren’t even planning to publish her history… in a Small Town!! https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/08/12/marion-kansas-newspaper-raid/70581793007/
There’s no nordstroms in a small town but try that at a bass pro shop breh @AroundTheWorld @ROXRAN @Os Trigonum
All they got are Dollar Generals, Family Dollar, and if nice enough, a run down Wal-Mart. You can try it at any one of those three and no one going to even bat an eye. "Don't Steal! Or Steal. I am the only employee at this Dollar General, not a Cop".
List of companies that moved to Texas (notice the trend of where they are fleeing) Elon Musk’s Boring Co., which develops tunnel systems, recently moved its corporate headquarters from Hawthorne to Austin, Texas. New York-based manufacturer of specialty materials, Alkegen (formerly known as Unifrax), along with nearly 250 employees is moving to Dallas from Buffalo, New York. Previously Las Vegas based Wikilane Inc., a top SaaS provider announced that the company will be headquartered in Austin, Texas and will officially be known as Invoice Home Inc. Chevron is selling its headquarters campus in San Ramon, California and moving jobs to Texas. The oil company is encouraging employees to move to Houston and will cover relocation costs for those leaving for the Texas office. Caterpillar is moving its global headquarters to Texas. The construction equipment maker’s CEO said it was “in the best strategic interests of the company to make this move” both in respect of profitable growth and building a more sustainable world. Hewlett Packard, which already has a substantial presence in Houston, announced that it will move its headquarters from San Jose. Oracle, a company that is seemingly synonymous with California, announced plans to move its headquarters from Redwood City to Austin. Oracle executives said the move positions the company for growth and provides its personnel with flexibility about where and how they work. Venture capital firm 8VC is also moving from Silicon Valley as is Firetrail, a records management software company, now formerly based in San Jose. Amazon chose Houston for one of its prized Tech Hubs. The company occupies 25,000-square-feet of space in Citycenter with a team of more than 150 Amazon Web Services employees. The company said,
But these systematically victimized looters want Louis vutton , Gucci and dolce Breh They don’t have that in a small town dollar general
List of companies that moved to Texas (notice the trend of where they are fleeing) that’s true - however for many businesses, it’s not just the size of the town, it’s whether you have a small town culture … They are leaving New York and California, and Washington in droves because those states have largely made doing business pretty much undesirable when you can move to Texas and have that small-town culture… it’s a credit to States like Texas. That’s something to be proud of if you live in Texas you should be
Now go add up all the corporate subsidies (mostly tax-based) that these companies received to move to Texas, and then look up the projected economic benefits and compare the two. eta: now that I've looked, it seems that every one of these moves involves under 300 employees
Small towns are usually beholden by one or two large companies, like manufacturing one specific auto part or mining. It's why the rust belt was pervasive and sprawled from Detroit to Philly. You have remote work and immigrants from south of The Wall reversing some of that brain drain to large cities but it's just not the same small town feel dadgummit.
A song that stinks. ....... And we do need to talk about the state of this whole bro-country pandemic. Pat Finnerty's "What Makes This Song Stink" video is a hilarious way of us collectively realizing how ... well dumb people in this country can be while also poking fun at ourselves too. The fact that this piece of garbage represents the #1 song in America for a time just tells you everything you need to know. Especially when the song is objectively a load of crap, and really only exists as MAGA clickbait. And it's crazy that even Kid Rock's more over the top attempt to tap into the MAGA economy failed where Jason Aldean succeeded with it doing things that got social media and the MSM to make it go viral. It's hilarious too to see that all of this "MAGA bro-country" braindead movement was really pioneered by freaking 3 Doors Down. 3DD walked so Jason Aldean can run lol. Sometimes you just gotta shake your head and laugh at the fact that half of our country really is that dumb. Fu$k... sooooo.... Trump is going to be president again in 2025 right? Goddamnit.
