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I was driving around southeastern Ohio over the weekend and holy cow it looks terrible. just endless miles of abandoned buildings punctuated by dollar general and fast food places. everything including the people look run down and miserable. also the massive trailer parks with stores selling beer and cigarettes at the front. how the gently caress does this happen? what happened to the new deal and the great society? I want this thread to be able to function as a place to talk about poverty and it’s regional variance in the US.
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that's what everywhere in the midwest that isn't a downtown area or a yuppie suburb looks like
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Sep 10, 2019 04:51
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80% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and the actual number is probably much higher, even inside America almost everyone is living in poverty. Any other idea put fourth is simply propaganda to prevent the population from realizing this.
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Sep 10, 2019 04:53
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ur in my world now posted:that's what everywhere in the midwest that isn't a downtown area or a yuppie suburb looks like so basically in the Midwest there’s gentrifying areas of the inner city or upscale suburbs and everyone else lives in poo poo? Ace of Baes posted:80% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and the actual number is probably much higher, even inside America almost everyone is living in poverty. Any other idea put fourth is simply propaganda to prevent the population from realizing this. evidence? there seems to be a lot of upscale city neighborhoods and bougie suburbs. I find it hard to believe it’s over 80% of the population.
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Sep 10, 2019 04:58
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Chuka Umana posted:how the gently caress does this happen? what happened to the new deal and the great society? In very brief? Conservatives fought to limit both prior to their passage, and fought to roll both back a second or two after that. They did this as they're evil bastards who on first inspection just don't want to pay taxes to ensure people survive, but on deeper inspection would still oppose such measures even if it cost them nothing because, and not to repeat myself, they're evil loving bastards.
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Sep 10, 2019 05:01
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Chuka Umana posted:so basically in the Midwest there’s gentrifying areas of the inner city or upscale suburbs and everyone else lives in poo poo? Not just the midwest, but pretty much anywhere in the entire US that isn't a major city or the nice parts of a medium or smaller city (though major cities also have parts in a really bad state). I live in Memphis, and there are parts that are basically indistinguishable from doing a Google street view of random poor parts of cities in Mexico* (in terms of general urban decay). * I only mention Mexico specifically because I was doing a bunch of Street View exploration a while back and distinctly remember clicking random places in a Mexican city I remember reading had big cartel-related problems and thinking "drat this looks like the poor parts of Memphis"
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Sep 10, 2019 05:02
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Chuka Umana posted:so basically in the Midwest there’s gentrifying areas of the inner city or upscale suburbs and everyone else lives in poo poo? https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/09/shutdown-highlights-that-4-in-5-us-workers-live-paycheck-to-paycheck.html FTA: Government workers are far from alone in feeling stressed about not getting paid. Nearly 80 percent of American workers (78 percent) say they're living paycheck to paycheck, according to a 2017 report by employment website CareerBuilder. Women are particularly vulnerable: 81 percent of them report living paycheck to paycheck, compared with 75 percent of men.
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Sep 10, 2019 05:03
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Ill take some cash op
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Sep 10, 2019 05:04
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If you want some insight on how it happened check out Hypernormalization by Adam Curtis, it's a BBC doc but there's a bunch of free copies on YouTube. https://youtu.be/fh2cDKyFdyU Edit: if you don't have the attention span for that just listen to this https://youtu.be/z17nudbZzzQ
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Sep 10, 2019 05:06
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Chuka Umana posted:so basically in the Midwest there’s gentrifying areas of the inner city or upscale suburbs and everyone else lives in poo poo? yes. there are still some ok-ish middle to lower-middle class areas but those are decaying rapidly too. welcome to the midwest!
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Sep 10, 2019 05:06
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everyone in the US is one missed paycheck or one expensive emergency from it all falling apart pretty cool, imvho
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Sep 10, 2019 05:08
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I own my place, don't have any major debts, and manage to put away money every month. When I found out that I was ahead of 90% of the country it broke my loving mind.
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Sep 10, 2019 05:15
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poverty tourism should be bannable
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Sep 10, 2019 05:16
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"wow the poor in america they just...suck so much (giggles europeanishly)"
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Sep 10, 2019 05:16
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Peanut President posted:poverty tourism should be bannable I’m not trying to do poverty tourism I’m trying to create a discussion about more trends in poverty and how to combat it. and also you know it’s not tourism if I, you know, actually live in that area of Ohio.
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Sep 10, 2019 05:23
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america is bad place OP hope that helps!
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Sep 10, 2019 05:27
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Chuka Umana posted:I’m not trying to do poverty tourism I’m trying to create a discussion about more trends in poverty and how to combat it. you're the guy who defended the Chicago PD in the cop thread so you can eat poo poo irl
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Sep 10, 2019 05:30
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Peanut President posted:you're the guy who defended the Chicago PD in the cop thread so you can eat poo poo irl cite a post where I defended the Chicago PD. That’s an extremely offensive accusation.
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Sep 10, 2019 05:32
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Chuka Umana posted:cite a post where I defended the Chicago PD. That’s an extremely offensive accusation. Chuka Umana posted:i'm a big stupid idiot and i love the chicago police department and i love to kiss my own butt XDDDDD
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Sep 10, 2019 05:33
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lmao that guy loves to kiss his own butt
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Sep 10, 2019 05:42
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stop bullying me you ableist gently caress
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Sep 10, 2019 05:44
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have you tried reading any thread in this forum op
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Sep 10, 2019 06:19
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oh we're fine, we're fine. Just do not, and I cannot stress this enough, go to the hospital.
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Sep 10, 2019 07:17
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idk op
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Sep 10, 2019 07:57
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seems to be going... poorly
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Sep 10, 2019 08:01
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If Trump is to be believed things are better than ever
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Sep 10, 2019 08:02
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its p bad idk how ppl gonna survive   
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Sep 10, 2019 08:07
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California has this very depressing variation on this where you still have decaying urban areas but you also have upscale gentrified areas that nobody but homeless people live in lol. Downtown Sac has a bunch of boarded up storefronts and a bunch of the condo towers are mostly empty
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Sep 10, 2019 08:13
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I hear poverty in the US[A] is almost as crazy as the OP!
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Sep 10, 2019 08:20
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did this forum become 4chan overnight? are we od'ing on cancel culture so much that a few stupid posts by the op and a dumb argument over smollett derails what could potentially be a good and inquisitive topic? am i wasting my time here? yes
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Sep 10, 2019 08:48
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Yossarian-22 posted:did this forum become 4chan overnight? the gently caress is "cancel culture" and what are you even talking about Are you secretly the OP? Is that why you post everything on a separate line? Am I secretly the OP?
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Sep 10, 2019 08:50
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"Cancel culture" sounds like some right-wing "political correctness" bullshit, it doesn't pass the smell test. Someone post the Fox News screenshots about it of which I assume there are many.
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Sep 10, 2019 08:51
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This thread sure is a thing
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Sep 10, 2019 08:53
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FactsAreUseless posted:loving lmao there's a much easier term and it's just "harassment" but i figure people don't understand words from before 2019 anymore
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Yossarian-22 posted:there's a much easier term and it's just "harassment" but i figure people don't understand words from before 2019 anymore
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Sep 10, 2019 08:55
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I didn't know there was a cop thread did it get moved here
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Sep 10, 2019 08:55
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Ace of Baes posted:I didn't know there was a cop thread did it get moved here
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Oh lmfao I just remembered who this Yossarian guy is. He's the crazy dumbshit who melted down in the rabbits thread because he was a loving irresponsible douche, so I banned him. edit: and he's definitely also the OP, I just remembered the "ableist" thing. Thanks, rap sheets! 
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Sep 10, 2019 08:59
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congrats on getting demoted. i'm still a straight a grad school student who lurks here and your ban really helped me with that!
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Yossarian-22 posted:congrats on getting demoted. i'm still a straight a grad school student who lurks here and your ban really helped me with that! 
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