Post Axk4MfIjOomc6rH1IO by elftummy@poa.st
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(DIR) Post #Axk4FfE7HHDTqrmCqe by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:16:07.334871Z
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If poverty leads to crime, then how come Appalachia has a lower crime rate than the national average?(That's right, I'm preaching about Appalachia again)
(DIR) Post #Axk4Fg3ADU38PBeyPo by _Seraphim_@nicecrew.digital
2024-03-09T02:30:39.010071Z
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Appalachia is where my heart and soul are. I love Appalachia and Appalachians. We need to save them from demographic replacement and the greedy real estate investors. The mountains there are the footstool of God and the closest anyone can get to heaven on earth.
(DIR) Post #Axk4FgrrB0bCwPNSQi by nugger@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:36:34.208479Z
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@_Seraphim_ @elftummy APPALACHIA IS THE HEART OF AMERICA THE HOME, AND THE CONDITION OF APPALACHIA IS A SURE INDICATOR OF THE STATE OF THE NATION
(DIR) Post #Axk4Fq3X0yHlRDuPNQ by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:17:25.537935Z
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What comes to mind when you think of the word "poverty"?Probably niggers living in squalor because of their own terrible choices in lifeBut that's not what we have hereNo section ape, no food stamps, no HVAC
(DIR) Post #Axk4G3achFTpPcUWGG by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:18:11.332496Z
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In these hills, people cut wood for heat, else there is no heat.
(DIR) Post #Axk4GF0CGVTMo7Xb9M by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:18:43.630756Z
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Owsley County, Clay County, Knox County and McCreary County in KentuckyAll synonymous with "slow motion catastrophe" and "entire communities disintegrating" but no one ever talks about it
(DIR) Post #Axk4GPhSUW1HzBrHyC by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:20:08.201046Z
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And of course there's the purposeful, planned, jewish-led White Genocide via opioidsRead "Opioids for the Masses" by McClure & Garrison for more info on this - it could be a mega-thread in and of itself so I won't discuss it too much here.
(DIR) Post #Axk4GaNemTiT6xg88G by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:20:36.151307Z
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Truly, if anything is systemic, it is the living Hell that make up the lives in Appalachia RW culture war guys don't like to talk about it cause they're poor. LW culture war guys hate them cause they're white and mock them in ways that defy proper description
(DIR) Post #Axk4GlLvzDsH8nxPTU by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:20:50.978558Z
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Discussing places like Appalachia (or the Ozarks, for example) invoke grinding poverty on American soil so hardly anyone does itClass is an underpinning of culture yet avoided by the right and grossly misunderstood on the left but through a lens of hating white people
(DIR) Post #Axk4GwYOLFNJscs0v2 by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:21:09.201775Z
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The Mennonites have done more to alleviate the suffering here than the government and never asked for anything in return. Think about that for a moment
(DIR) Post #Axk4H7qANV84swGreS by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:21:34.772824Z
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Moonshiners? Sure. Criminals? Of course, they're everywhere. Hilljack scrappers tearing copper wiring out of buildings before the sun comes up? YupAnd yet there is an astonishing lack of gang activity from the people living here, and the crime rate is below the national average
(DIR) Post #Axk4HJ7ESOJfr3L9HM by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:22:22.358859Z
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There are numerous factors as to why this is. A declining coal industry, jew corporate interests, drugs, but there's gotta be something else behind it. Right?
(DIR) Post #Axk4HX86LxKXJnr2Zs by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:23:52.111721Z
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Some posit it's a cultural problem i.e. "its dey culcha" (mainly in defense of niggers). In a more developed form, the culture of poverty explanation also informs J.D. Vance’s argument in Hillbilly Elegy, which he describes as a book about a “culture that increasingly encourages social decay” in the context of regional economic decline
(DIR) Post #Axk4HjbFzNmXzhaUgi by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:24:15.406084Z
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Others suggest the “resource curse,” or the idea that places with a lot of natural resources are likely to be poorer because resource industries, like coal mining, dominate the local economy and prevent other economic sectors from growingJust like swaths of the third world
(DIR) Post #Axk4HwYXomKwB3Q0lU by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:25:02.780008Z
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Last century, it was just slightly less fucked-up as it is today. Hard to imagine that politicians used to openly talk about this messEven harder to imagine people acting on their convictions and do something about it on their own volitionyoutu.be/5BYpJVTdeAU
(DIR) Post #Axk4I90HXTecmYUKfI by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:26:17.113256Z
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Although the culture of poverty and resource curse explanations provide very different stories for why Appalachia is poor, they are similar insofar as they present Appalachia’s poverty as a straightforward, apolitical problem to be solved. As they are most often presented, both the culture of poverty and resource curse just seem to exist - natural problems of the mountains waiting to be fixed by the government, NGOs, or whoever else
(DIR) Post #Axk4IL1Qr1hk3b7Q7k by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:26:33.240394Z
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As they are most often presented, both the culture of poverty and resource curse just seem to exist - natural problems of the mountains waiting to be fixed by the government, NGOs, or whoever else There’s little room in these theories for history, politics, or the ongoing struggles to control Appalachia’s resources
(DIR) Post #Axk4IXd5yoxh9spfUm by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:27:59.649734Z
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Without a doubt, the most popular of the critical theories is the internal colony model. Developed in the 1970s to provide a political explanation for Appalachia’s poverty, the internal colony model likens the region's relationship to the rest of America to that of a colony with its colonizer. Under this theory, out-of-state (jewish) companies came into the region to exploit the resources at the expense of the inhabitants.
(DIR) Post #Axk4IkVm5LpX6wVVOC by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:28:51.877436Z
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In part because it taps into Appalachia’s deep history of labor conflict (see my other thread about the Coal Wars), the internal colony model remains a popular explanation among activists (and inactivists) fighting against the idea that Appalachia is “naturally” poor. However, the theory has also drawn criticism and for good reason
(DIR) Post #Axk4IwFCSnhbV0qRDk by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:29:56.595367Z
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For one, in comparing Appalachia to historic colonies like India and many African countries, the internal colony model tends to hide the fact that the region’s White inhabitants did in fact colonize it from wild amerindians. Additionally, in presenting a homogenous, victimized Appalachia, the theory can erase important differences within the region
(DIR) Post #Axk4J7N35xW60XbMTw by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:30:36.354310Z
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It also removes the entrenched local elite. Like most culture war guys they can't be bothered and are desperate to stay invisible enough to not let on how oblivious they are to things just a few miles away
(DIR) Post #Axk4JISPsLLWONCIsK by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:32:09.927413Z
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You'd figure that of all people, the living examples of physiognomy gone wrong who've never went a day without would point out the obvious like>Seventy to 90 percent of land in some counties is still absentee or corporate land, and a lot of the coal and timber companies leased their land from these companies. Harvard University actually still has a chunk of land. It’s the connection between this land grab and local gatekeepers that’s important said no culture war guy everIts a shame, they have platforms and choirs they preach too who'd listen
(DIR) Post #Axk4JTPHAMN0LooS0W by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:32:39.465639Z
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Poverty in 2021 looks different than in 1964 – but the US hasn’t changed how it measures who’s poor since LBJ began his "war on poverty" which has been just as effective as "the war on drugs"
(DIR) Post #Axk4Je43XavrPBy9xY by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:33:48.018671Z
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In Mark Robert Rank's 'Confronting Poverty' he details, among other things, how the approach that the government came up with in the 1960s is still unchanged, despite its many shortcomings. This is the government’s official measure of poverty and used to determine eligibility for hundreds of billions of dollars in federal aid
(DIR) Post #Axk4JuVaP0ScPCyN5k by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:34:29.361714Z
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This is serious, and warrants attention not just for the issues in Appalachia but from coast to coastBroadly speaking, poverty means not having the money to purchase the basic necessities to maintain a minimally adequate life, such as food, shelter and clothing
(DIR) Post #Axk4K7BrFfP7jmqIe8 by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:35:36.697071Z
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The government came up with its official method for counting poor people in the mid-1960sFirst, it asks, what does it cost to purchase a minimally adequate diet during the year for a particularly sized family? That number is then multiplied by three, and you have arrived at the poverty line.That’s itIf a family’s income falls above the line it is not considered in poverty, while those third of its income on food and the remaining two-thirds on all other expenses
(DIR) Post #Axk4KIa0uCGL3tEFKC by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:40:39.802475Z
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The logic was that if a minimally adequate diet could be purchased for a particular dollar amount, multiplying that figure by three would give the amount of income needed to purchase the basic necessities for a minimally adequate lifeBack in 1963, that translated into a poverty line of US$3,128 (~$40,000 USD in 2024) for a family of four. In 2019, the same family’s poverty line stood at $26,172 (35,000 2024USD). For an interesting contrast, that’s less than half what the average American polled in 2013 said was the “smallest amount of money” a family of four needed to get by, or $58,000 (~$80,000 2024USD)
(DIR) Post #Axk4KU5c734kl568bg by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:41:44.094379Z
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The federal government uses jewish tricks called "statistics" to adjust the poverty line annually to reflect increases in the cost of living. The cutoff itself varies by the number of people in the household, while a household’s annual income is based upon the earnings of everyone currently residing within it
(DIR) Post #Axk4KhB3S89VLikAOO by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:42:05.695038Z
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Using this measure, 10.5% of the U.S. population was in poverty in 2019, the most recent data availableKeep in mind, though, these thresholds represent impoverishment at its most opulent level
(DIR) Post #Axk4KvYbzLJXwpsB3Q by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:42:41.263049Z
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Among those living below the poverty line, 45% live in “deep” poverty, which means they live on less than half of the official poverty lineThe government uses the official poverty line as the base to determine who’s eligible for a range of social programs, from Medicaid to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. For example, to qualify for SNAP, a household must be below 130% of the poverty line for its size
(DIR) Post #Axk4LAX2JTy0OIFdBI by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:43:32.160501Z
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So, in other words, its not THE reason but A reason why shit is fucked is how the gubmint counts the poor (trying to exclude all Whites)
(DIR) Post #Axk4LPScoALogxIot6 by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:44:28.384072Z
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But Appalachia is a part of The United States, and while poverty isn't delegated to just one region the issue of miscounting the poor lends itself to this astonishingly fucked up ordeal that for most people who don't live there just fades into the background
(DIR) Post #Axk4LpIElPUSoGdtJ2 by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:45:04.055153Z
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Uh oh, there goes that word again. "Poor"Can't post le ebin maymays about something like that. Nothing you can keep on your phone when it comes up so you can wallow in the crapulence of "haha, I posted it again!"So its no surprise Appalachia, among other topics often avoided entirely, is a no-go zone for both sides of the culture war
(DIR) Post #Axk4M5oNLghm2Znmca by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:45:19.928365Z
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You can't fix a problem you're not allowed to talk about, so callous indifference for one's fellow Americans can easily be masked by silenceIf Appalachia can see resolve, then the rest of the country has more than a pipedream of unfucking itself
(DIR) Post #Axk4MHH8j5FXayLPU0 by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:45:49.376872Z
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The hypothetical worse of "it can always be worse" is basically Appalachia. If it were ever anything other than what it is today, then there's no excuse why elsewhere can't improve
(DIR) Post #Axk4MTQnX06bIOxICe by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:48:45.685401Z
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Its hard here in America, but they've always had it worse. Speaking of America, that's something culture war guys on both sides get wrong as if by design (spoiler: it's by design because jews controll the discourse).
(DIR) Post #Axk4MfIjOomc6rH1IO by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:49:22.034679Z
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But there is abundant room for improvement in Appalachia, and in a way its a sad microcosm of these United StatesIncremental improvement happens at the local level, but it is the least sexy or exciting thing in the world to discuss compared to whatever passes as news these days
(DIR) Post #Axk4MpTjYlWffsUwpk by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:49:51.250850Z
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People can, and should, take their cue from Appalachia. People who enacted change there got up off their ass and left no stone unturned because as pointed out earlier - a buncha Mennonites did more than the fucking government as a wholeNo one is coming for them, they know this
(DIR) Post #Axk4N0cI9HuKDbaRCS by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:55:15.225425Z
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I guess that's really the whole thread.We have to get up and save ourselves because nobody else willeven if orange man has his whole wishlist done (which was made-up by some think tank not him because politics is fake & gay) you can't legislate your way to victory.
(DIR) Post #Axk4NB9ywsnYuzQU6K by elftummy@poa.st
2024-03-09T02:55:55.224579Z
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If you made it this far here's a fat bitch
(DIR) Post #Axk7JC8lf4B0fAeMSW by MeBigbrain@poa.st
2025-08-31T22:35:21.702333Z
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@nugger @_Seraphim_ @elftummy Need to escape the nigger zone