powerful conservative images

Terry Wise at computer BW.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CM3Kye8VAAA2HA_.jpg

Key difference between small towns and the rest of America is they tend to not complain when a Walmart is built there.

Maybe not now....

Maybe that should say "tend not to complain as much". Anyways my point is this "small town" thing like there are mythical towns w individual personalities and not the US as one homogenous corporate landscape is bs.

There are small towns with individual personalities.

Also the US is if not one homogeneous corporate landscape, there are belts of homogeneous corporate landscape. But within those belts are small towns that don't all feel the exact same.

And look I've flipped small town life the bird and intend to live in the city limits of Chicago until I choke on a slice of deep dish pizza or get crushed by a CTA train so I'm not romanticizing small towns, and the straw town the dingaling in that cartoon describes is definitely bs, but there are for sure noticeable and measurable differences between different small towns in the US.

I was joking last week about how college-ish towns with pedestrian malls are similar enough you feel like you could turn around a corner and come out in a different city

i dunno man i'm a few weeks away from becoming a vermonter and VT is full of mythical lil towns

similar to each other, perhaps, but quite unlike the generic homogenous small town you're envisioning, adam

also, honest q: have you lived in or spent any amount of quality time in a small town? a handful of on this very board are from the same small midwestern town that, on the face of it, is the homogenous corporatized town you're tilting at and while it has def changed in the last fifteen or so years, it's still it's own weird (and not even that small) place. like i dunno if it still holds, but when i was in HS there was a very unique h4stings "accent" that was not really all that similar to the more generic "ya sure you betcha" minnesotan accent

fahkin a dood me an siebenaler are gonna get a sixer from his bruther and head down to the bottoms and do some fahkin chewin maybe stop by the churrch and whip some fahkin shitties in the parkin lot

it's like I'm standing next to you, listening, right now!

Not sure, I grew up in various suburban cities w populations under 10k, maybe that isn't really a small town. The only things that stood out in my mind as particular to those towns vs other places when I left were several cherished budget movie theaters that closed down a long time ago.

Also most of my teenage years the city I lived in was wholly defined by the mega church that I despised.

I don't mind people who have strong convictions that aren't mine, I only care when they act like I'm _wrong_ for living differently and that their way is the only _right_ way. Or if they try to claim their kids shouldn't know other things exist, because by denying the ways of the world or even knowledge of how other people live, they're somehow doing people a service.

I mean, I live in a smaller- to mid-sized city and there's at least once church congregation that was trying to get a suburban school district to change the reading curriculum or the contents of the high school library. Really? I'm cool with reading all kinds of things that don't fit with my world view, especially when they make me appreciate or reexamine why I believe what I do. And schools and libraries are exactly the place for that sort of thing.

A lot of American "small towns" are meth-addled hellholes.

not any worse than the areas of large cities with the same demographics

https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlt1/v/t1.0-9/11949349_719887204811127_3875865696150315555_n.png?oh=de2fa30cc9aeec4e2dc2ebc7e04c932f&oe=5664561F

oh my god they are really going back to the well

https://twitter.com/weknowwhatsbest/status/638153297958842368

yeah there wasn't much outcry about the shooting of the TV reporters, liberal media really swept that under the rug

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPCgKJ1XAAEbWtj.png

found it! it's in the middle

Least and Rest

i feel sorry for whoever is lost in the woods with a compass that only says L and R

let's see....Left is...yes, over here to the left

Remind me again when we had a moral compass plz

reagan

The actor?

history ended after reagan

fukuyama was right

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

ha "The actor?" was such a committed pvmic, i enjoyed it v much

https://scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/12032149_1656191417927626_1848929874831067680_n.jpg?oh=f6554693801bd7b24889a3a8411197a4&oe=5669DAF4

Good use of the X-Files font.

I like how they added a huge amount of precision to their bogus calculation.

Left out the number of bankrupt businesses

Hahaha I love it when people use anything other than an actual IQ test to glean an iq score

all presidential candidates should have to take the wonderlic

Caring?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPgzWfxWUAAiq6x.jpg

most dads won't do the tragic pose, share if you agree

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/v/t1.0-9/1891219_695728497153949_1306136883_n.jpg?oh=4b38edaaade12456c41c1ccf619d17af&oe=56A18374

unempolyeed

the idea that a violent suicidal teen would be put off by an armed guard suggests that he is thinking clearly

Is the violent suicidal teen the student or the veteran in this case?

Damn

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRDRveeUEAAaC5D.jpg

Most politicians are lawyers and the bible has nothing but disdain for them and politicians, the other politicians I mean, the ones who aren't lawyers.

I love these general purpose ones that are obviously just a bunch of SCARY THINGS designed to keep the anxiety of white America whipped into a froth.

Either they are confused about DOMA or I am...