[ SECRET POST #4229 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4229 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's kind of funny that nowadays it takes money to live like my dirt poor Appalachian ancestors.

[(Anonymous)]

The reason it costs money is precisely because people don't actually live like dirt poor Appalachians. More like a country squire. With extremely good healthcare.

[(Anonymous)]

Posers!

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah... I somehow doubt your dirt poor Appalachian ancestors had hundreds of acres of farmland plus livestock with other people to run it and do all the dirty work.

[(Anonymous)]

They had the farmland and livestock. Obviously they did the work themselves.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a pretty significant difference from the lifestyle Pratt is living. If he wakes up one morning and feels sick, or tired or simply decides he'd rather stay in bed binge-watching cooking competitions on Netflix, he can. He doesn't have to worry about childcare or whether or not his farm provides his family with enough food, never mind profit. He can board a private plane and spend three months sucking down mai tais in the Bahamas if he wants - someone else will do all the manual labor for him. The farm is his hobby, not his means of making a living.

[(Anonymous)]

Also, Appalachia is still one of the poorest regions in the entire United States, and the level of poverty that exists there should be a shock and a scourge to the conscience of every person in America.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but poor people don't matter if they're white and Republican.

[(Anonymous)]

Dunno who's saying that. It's certainly not me or anyone else ITT.

[(Anonymous)]

Who are you arguing with? Nobody in this thread has suggested this. Maybe you should take your edgy debate stance to people who are actually espousing such beliefs.

[(Anonymous)]

tell them to stop voting against their own interests in the name of hating the coloreds

[(Anonymous)]

They should do that, but they still deserve economic aid and anti-poverty programs regardless of who they vote for.

It's just that those economic programs can't and shouldn't be reduced to MINE MORE COAL, MOTHERFUCKERS

[(Anonymous)]

My parents couldn’t afford to keep their farm and sold it when I was three, but they lived in a one bedroom house they rebuilt themselves from a derelict farmhouse last tenanted in the 1860s. They had spotty solar electricity and if my mom wanted to watch tv she had to power it with the treadmill.

Most of the stories I was told involve stuff like my mom making friends with a stud bull and him almost killing her because she took a shortcut through what she thought was an empty field until he charged her because he wanted to play. Play=butting heads and body slamming. Or the time the water tasted funny and it turned out there was a dead deer in the spring box, or when the culverts flooded and the road washed out, so my dad was digging the brush out of the culverts, only the brush was all poison oak... and this was in California in the early 80s. Farm life is only glamourous if someone else does the work.