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Google thinks I'm the sort of Heeb who buys a $3000 pen

This sort of thinking is mostly just white nationalist types projecting their thinking onto normal people.

Furthermore, this idea can be defeated with a simple question: would the powers that be at the time have allowed it if that was the primary motivation?

No. They would have crushed it.

White nationalists be advised: remember that you are a weirdo, that you are not a normal person, or else you'll be inclined to make silly errors of projection like this.

Don't you think other factors might play a role? I don't think it's as simple as "I was ousted from my city because of dirty immigrants" or "we decided life would be better out of the city". Suburbs are a phenomenon entirely resulting form transportation technologies, and are designed to support cities rather than the people living in them. Suburbs are inherently not walkable because they're built for automobiles and trains, not humans. They're built for city workers who can afford not to live in cities, not for farmers and rural folk. They're artificial and mostly inhumane

As long as the Temper and Intellects of Mankind shall remain in this wretched and disordered State, nothing truly good is likely to be done. We must therefore wait with Patience for better Times; hoping, that kind Providence will inspire one Part of the Community with sounder Understandings, and the other with better Hearts.

I feel you, Mr. Tucker. I really do.

I've said that here and other places and most aren't receptive to it. "It gives me freedom" while being oblivious to all that was sacrificed for it.

The Daily Poor supports this message regardless of context (with one exception). Freedom is gay unless you're talking about freedom from sin.

All over-grown Cities are formidable in another View, and therefore ought not to be encouraged by new Privileges, to grow still more dangerous; for they are, and ever were, the Seats of Faction and Sedition, and the Nurseries of Anarchy and Confusion. A daring, and desperate Leader, in any great Metropolis, at the Head of a numerous Mob, is terrible to the Peace of Society, even in the most despotic Governments:—But in London, where the People are the most licentious upon Earth,—In London, where the Populace are daily taught, that they have an unalienable Right to be self-governed;—and that their Rulers are no other than their Servants:—In London, where nothing is held sacred, but the Will of the People [blasphemously called, the Voice of God] what are you to expect from an Addition of Privilege and Power, but an Encrease of the most daring Outrages, and the Subversion of Law and Government? The audacious Villanies recently committed in June, 1780, are sufficient, one would think, to give any Man a Surfeit of the very Idea of adding still greater Influence and Power to a London Mob.

Wow, even I think it's possible that Mr. Tucker might have been a bit too harsh on Londoners here. Damn.

Once more, If a Man has any Sense of Rectitude and good Morals, or has a Spark of Goodness and Humanity remaining, he cannot wish to entice men into great Cities by fresh Allurements. Such Places are already become the Bane of Mankind in every Sense, in their Healths, their Fortunes, their Morals, Religion, &c. &c. &c. And it is observable of London in particular, that were no fresh Recruits, Male and Female, to come out of the Country, to supply those Devastations which Vice, Intemperance, Brothels, and the Gallows are continually making, the whole human Species in that City would be soon exhausted: For the Number of Deaths exceed the Births by at least 7000 every Year.

Reminder that the rural/urban divide is one of the most fundamental struggles within our civilization. The only one obviously more important concerns Christianity.

it's occurred to me that the autistic right will deride boomers for "ruining cities" while celebrating the WWII generation for selling their multigenerational farmlands to come to them in the first place

I will not stand for AI monopolizing the EM dash—I will now use them even more often

If you don't have a way to easily make them established on all of your devices, I have no respect for you.

On Windows, it's Alt + 0151, btw.

The official Daily Poor abbreviation of "secondly" is "2dly"

Which way, Northern man?