(04-06-2024, 12:26 PM)Grace Wrote: Oh... I missed this thread...
Is that what's happening in the cities?
Really? It's gotten that bad?
Yes.
Years ago, when I was working in cities, I saw a lot of it... but usually, that was because my job was being in the middle of the crazy, wherever I could find it.
You remember what it was like when we lived in Kansas City, but again, that was because we were in a "bad" neighborhood. The whole city wasn't that way.
Now the problem is that it's spreading from "bad" centers of cities into outlying areas, like a fungus spreading outward from it's original source. That means that not only is it becoming more prevalent, but it's being encountered by other folks more often, due to the spread.
Now we have New Yorkers and Californians etc. fleeing their shitholes in addition to "migrants" creeping in. Of the two, I' prefer the "migrants" - I've seen first hand how New Yorkers fuck up a perfectly good area as soon as they move in. Californians are less problematic, because none of them have the sense enough to be a real danger, but those New Yorkers... !
We are right in the target list for New Yorkers and "half-backs" - people who flee places like New York to Florida, find out it's too expensive for them to live there (because their kind raised the goddamned prices to begin with!), and then move "half-back" to New York or whatever other shithole they crawled out of. We're in that "half-way" zone with a big target painted on our backs.
The Southern Appalachians, from mid-Georgia up through West Virginia, are the target for those folks, because it's cheaper to live here - housing, land, food, taxes - it's all cheaper here. But it won't be for long if we allow them in. They'll pump up the prices so far that natives will no longer be able to afford to live here, just like they've done in Florida, and then they will move on again, like a swarm of locusts.
I think of them as fungus spores, seeking new areas to infect, new centers to spread the infection outward from.
Luckily, perhaps, we've dealt with their kind before, right after the Civil War. Back then they were called "carpet baggers", because they came in swarms from Yankeeland, all their belongings packed into carpet bags, to try to make bank off of our misery. A lot of them met a tall tree and a short rope.
This ain't our first rodeo.
The Hispanics aren't that bad, so long as we can keep the cartels out. They're friendly people, hard workers, and good cooks. I've never met a New Yorker or Haitian in person who could lay legitimate claim to any of those virtues. The Carpet Baggers - folks from New York City, Chicago,, LA and San Francisco, etc - in contrast, bring nothing of value with them. They just come in like swarms of locusts to see what else they can ruin, and make a buck off of by ruining it.
They bring the crazy with them, and the impatience, and the "better than" superiority attitude that fosters so much of the crazy.
They are best shot on sight. At a minimum, they should never be taught how to survive here or assisted in any way in their invasion. They should, at a minimum, be made to feel unwelcome and "helped" along their way the hell out of here... one way or another. Whatever it takes to get shed of them.
I don't know if you recall, but during the covid panic-demic, a knot of them tried to break in to Buchanan County, VA, from New York and New Jersey. The sheriff's department met them at the county line and turned them around - told them they didn't have to go home, but they sure as hell weren't staying here. They had a plan to take over Poplar Gap (now re-named to "Southern Gap"), but that got shot down real quick, at the county line.
I saw with my own eyes what they did to North Central North Carolina, and we all can see what they are doing to Northern Virginia right now.. It ain't gonna happen here, not on my watch.
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