• ElRompeCulo@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Oh it’s happening quite fast. My very small rural home town was already dwindling when I graduated 15 years ago. Now sports teams in the area are having to consolidate with neighboring towns and consolidating entire districts is in talks.

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      1 year ago

      Great idea, now how do we do that? Cities gentrify and force people into towns and rural areas. Where do these people get to live, the unincorporated wilderness?

      The only real answer I have to that question is that leftists need to move to rural areas and help slowly change its political landscape. Or you know, let the elected official govern. Still, I don’t have an answer for this exact scenario. The ultimate problem is who (who have the power to do anything in that exact area) cares? We do, but we aren’t there and I am out of ideas.

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          1 year ago

          Hi kid. “wooosh” is used to show that the person responding to a joke didn’t understand the joke.

          That would make your joke “small towns need to be made smaller” to keep them from being “cesspits”. So. Yeah I guess I didn’t understand your “joke”. Where is the funny in basically saying “small towns need to be smaller” by either people leaving, people dying or towns being annexed by incorporated nearby towns? Not offended, not even understanding why anyone would be offended, I just didn’t think you were joking because what you wrote was just stupid and lacking any humor. What did I miss? Feel free to dunk on me for misunderstanding your wit.