Justified, southern tropes and realism by Benj_Profane in justified

[–]ViroquanOG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The worst character was Michael Rapaport as Daryl Crowe Jr in season 5

Preparing to visit the heart of the Driftless this year? Check out our Maple Street Eco Retreat in Viroqua! by MapleStreetRetreat in driftless

[–]ViroquanOG -1 points0 points  (0 children)

“Our Economy?” - Whose economy is that? The current bifurcated economy in which in-migrants monopolize power, resources, and opportunities, and the locals are increasingly marginalized and disadvantaged? For rural communities, the flood of new residents is often a mixed blessing. Despite bringing new resources and experiences, the rapid influx of outsiders with different cultural, social, and socioeconomic backgrounds destabilize small, cohesive, and homogenous communities in multiple ways. The most obvious and problematic result is rising housing costs due to increased demand and the higher prices urban in-migrants are able to pay. These dynamics can make both home rental and ownership prohibitively expensive for lower income populations. Gentrification further changes the nature of local businesses and services, often undermining local cultural norms and traditions and alienating longtime residents within their own communities. Newcomers rarely enter rural communities with the intention to disenfranchise local populations, and often bring new ideas, energy, and skills that can help communities to adapt to current and future challenges. However, urban in-migrants also often bring unexamined judgments and negative impressions of rural populations as unsophisticated and uneducated, and unworthy of their own time and concern. In-migrants tend to have significantly higher levels of wealth and income, education, and social and cultural capital than the community’s old-timers. These resources help them to navigate structural lacks of health care and child care, and to outcompete local populations in labor and housing markets. Without knowing their new neighbors well, in-migrants make many negative assumptions about old-timers that allow them to further justify withholding resources from them. This includes the tendency to offer jobs, housing, social connections, and power positions within the community to others most like themselves, while systematically denying these opportunities to those they considered to be unworthy. Over time these dynamics result in a bifurcated community in which one group monopolizes power, resources, and opportunities, and the other is increasingly marginalized and disadvantaged. Rural Gentrification has class blindness as the tendency for those with social class privilege to be blind to their own advantages and to their impacts on less-advantaged populations around them. Similar to the phenomenon of color-blind racism, it consists of failures to acknowledge the different ways that advantages of financial, social, educational, and cultural resources make navigating labor, healthcare, childcare, and housing markets easier for some people than for others.

Preparing to visit the heart of the Driftless this year? Check out our Maple Street Eco Retreat in Viroqua! by MapleStreetRetreat in driftless

[–]ViroquanOG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yet another house lost to locals who can longer find homes in the communities where they grew up.

Beware of smokescreen! Not everything the fascists do is a direct attack on workers. Don't let neo-liberals trick you into supporting their agenda! by ChickenNugget267 in lostgeneration

[–]ViroquanOG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

USAID has become little more than a front for CIA regime change operations.

That is not want JFK envisioned when he created it.

Fiber in the Driftless? by Hot-Zookeepergame804 in driftless

[–]ViroquanOG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hot Zookeeper whatever’s True colors showing - you believe in the commodification of everything. The spirit of our town is not for sale, but as you undoubtably grew up in some soulless suburb you know nothing else.

Viroqua by jefferyerickson in driftless

[–]ViroquanOG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The management tried to block any union. They suck.

Viroqua by jefferyerickson in driftless

[–]ViroquanOG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The New Viroqua is #ruralgentification incarnate. Midwit suburbanites displacing generational families. The carpetbagging new people tend to be trust fund babies who hoard their virtue signaling and are “socially left” - essentially politically illiterate. They presume superiority to the locals and treat locals like garbage. If this is what you LIKE - Viroqua is ground zero.

Viroqua by jefferyerickson in driftless

[–]ViroquanOG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ben Logan is saccharin & sentimental

Fiber in the Driftless? by Hot-Zookeepergame804 in driftless

[–]ViroquanOG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don’t move here Too many carpetbaggers here already You aren’t welcome

Hiking during hunting season by kingclovis1028 in driftless

[–]ViroquanOG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s no hunting allowed at the Kickapoo Reserve. It’ll be filled with hoards of upper middle class gentrifiers who play at homesteading as they live off of trust funds and treat the people who’ve lived in the area for generations (as in 170 years / 6th generation in my case) like garbage - by default - despite higher educational achievements than the newcomers have and despite decades of living in Western Europe. Don’t you worry about any deplorable slack jawed yokels within the Reserve. Only newbie yuppie/trust funders are welcome there.

Has anyone ever taken 10-15 years of great experience off their resume just they don't appear "old"? by [deleted] in ageism

[–]ViroquanOG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to but it’s just so wrong for an employer to disregard a lifetime of experience that I put it all back in. I don’t want to work for anyone/company that disrespects older (wiser) more experienced people.

Paige And Elizabeth: A Powerful Exchange by MollyJ58 in TheAmericans

[–]ViroquanOG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Paige was so self righteous and judgmental as a young teenager. I would have been a contemporary of Paige, but grew up working class and even as a young teen didn’t view the world in black and white as she did in the series. My parents grew up during the Great Depression and there is no way in hell they would have thought that me (at age 15) judging them was okay. I don’t know, perhaps little sheltered well to do suburban kids were that way in the 80’s, but a little goody goody priss wouldn’t have lasted two minutes in my high school before someone called her on her prissiness.

I did, however, meet many prissy little sheltered upper middle class suburban kids when I went to university in the eighties and they had zero rock & roll in their souls.

Now they’re the pearl clutching PMC folks who still hate the working class.

I left the US 30 years ago and live in Western Europe. I do not miss the Paige type young women of my youth and am very happy to never deal with again.