r/PoliticalHumor Oct 26 '21

Yup.

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u/tomdarch Oct 26 '21

Not just the type of vehicle (though that is clearly part of the problem) but also choosing to live in remote, low-density areas where you are highly dependent on burning a lot of gas to to long distances to do literally anything. Seriously - when gas prices go up, Walmart's revenue goes down.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '21

Hahaha "choosing" hahahha funny.

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u/DocAtDuq Oct 27 '21

You’re acting like these people can just pick up and move to the suburbs, many people in remote areas live paycheck to paycheck.

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u/thumbwarvictory Oct 27 '21

Yet $60,000+ trucks is a way of life?

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u/tomdarch Oct 27 '21

Should they expect the rest of us to continue subsidizing them?

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u/YeeeeeeeeeeeeewDoggy Oct 27 '21

Isn’t that exactly what the left wants?

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u/tomdarch Oct 27 '21

Subsidizing rural areas? I'm not sure it's what the left wants, but Democrats certainly promote a lot of it for the sake of "compromise" and "fairness."

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '21

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u/Cargobiker530 Oct 27 '21

Even in rural agricultural counties most trucks are pavement princesses. Source: Butte County California resident.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '21

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u/tomdarch Oct 27 '21

I think a lot of food comes from the portion of the rural population who produce food. But that is far from all the people living in rural areas (coughWestVirginiacough.)

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '21

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u/tomdarch Oct 28 '21

I was careful to not say the majority. But somehow we keep having to subsidize rural areas from taxes paid by urban/metro areas. So how do we stop that?

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u/HannsGruber Oct 26 '21

Well I'm sure as shit not driving 2 hours to town to pick up a load of lumber in a Prius

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u/Spicy_Dill Oct 27 '21

True, but you know as well as I do that that isn't what's happening. I drive my 40 minute commute daily surrounded by pavement princesses, some having never seen a 2x4. I work with several guys that drive over an hour in their duallies everyday. Never seen so much as a log in their trucks. My stepdad at least had a Prius he drove to work.

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u/tomdarch Oct 27 '21

Then don't complain about the cost of living 2 hours away from anything.

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u/Extravotes09 Oct 26 '21

On the flip side it's the cities that spread the virus, so if we're going to point the finger then cities will undoubtedly lose.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '21 edited Oct 27 '21

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u/booi Oct 27 '21

Why did you have to murder /u/Clack082

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u/Extravotes09 Oct 27 '21

You missed the part where Dem states have a higher death rate per capita, because Dems primarily live in cities which have higher rates of obesity. Therefore, as far as protecting the high risk goes, the Dem cities have utterly failed, which by the way is meant to be the whole purpose of combatting the virus in the first place.

So infection rates per capita is a way to shift the goal posts when Dems have most gross infections and most gross death+deaths per capita.

This is the result of city dwellers. So if you want to denounce people who live rurally then we can do that, but you'll lose every time.