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I feel so awful for knowing so little about how a fish exists in the world

😭😭😭🐟 I love this

I could go without the weird bashing of body fat and romanticizing the pre-industrial era. So far, the author is extremely unlikable.

So far, pretty great. I'm enjoying the introduction and reading about which of her predictions were on target and which ones weren't and why.

I feel really uncomfortable with what feels like, "don't set up the achievers to leave". What else were they going to do? These kids need to go to college.

So far, so good.
Describing how despite someone would live in a town for ten years and still be called 'newcomer' pretty much describes how I feel in the small town I live in. Nobody is friendly and you get looked at with suspicion the whole time. I've been here seven years and I don't feel welcome.

Perhaps the author will be able to convince me these places are actually worth "saving".

points for mentioning 'the venture brothers' and 'floyd hole'.
not sure if the author understands what 'objectification of women' means though ~ still enjoyable though. it's been a while since i read music history

it's so bizarre to me that for a group that loves the 'bootstraps' ideology, they would still hate on people who put themselves through college to get a govt job that pays better than 'seasonal lumberjack'.

"We shouldn't have government funded insurance because then people in Milwaukee, who are undeserving, would have it and that's crap."
Me: F*** you very much, sir.

"It is unfair that I work really hard and have to pay taxes when I don't see money coming back to my community."
Me: Yeah, that does suck. I'm sympathetic.
"It is unfair that teachers get health insurance that I'm paying for with taxes when I can't get health insurance."
Me: Yeah, that does suck. I'm sympathetic. Everyone should have health insurance.

"higher income folks talked about education as a means toward self-actualization, networking, and professionalization and as an important element of a healthy democracy. But lower-income folks talked about it as means toward a job."

Yup. :\

"if we conclude that rural consciousness is just racism dressed up in social science jargon, it allows us to overlook the role of antigovt attitudes"

yeah, ok so we have tea partiers who hate govt and are racist. they are mad because there are laws preventing them from being discriminatory dicks

Good read - hopefully this will be useful for talking to people in my community about current events. I find myself nodding and saying, "yeah, this is a big problem that urban people don't understand," when reading the transcripts but then they go and say something off the wall racist and I'm like, "you know what? Screw you and your crappy roads."

Pretty interesting but holy hell, who was this man's editor?! About once per page there is some random sentence where the author was so clearly trying to make a point without plagiarizing that it's impossible to read without laughing. Dude, just cite the source directly so the reader can smoothly continue.

Apparently this is a series and I'm starting in the middle. It's pretty goofy so far.