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    “Don’t even bother talking to me if you don’t have a rainwater collection and processing system for the apocalypse”

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    God I think I know where that is…

    Or these fuckers are all so similar I can’t tell them apart.

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    They spend all their money on guns, ammo, and red maga hats - what did you expect in Biden’s Economy? /s about the last part

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    The same people that say the economy is shit because life’s hard and they can’t get ahead are the same ones that point out that the president says the economy is doing great whenever someone criticizes him.

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        A surprising amount of of urban conservatives in ghettos also live like this. Even if other houses in the area dont look like this somehow theirs do a lot of times

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      Honestly, I’d be stoked to own a house like this. Tin roof will last 60+ years with no maintenance. Classic country aesthetic with a nice big front porch. Nice woods to walk around in. Bonus points if it has a wood fire stove - free fuel when I do fire mitigation on the property, and when I’m out of that, pellets are dirt cheap. Obviously the decor could use an update, and some paint would be a nice touch. Though… if the siding is still in good shape, I think maybe a nice summer oak stain would make it look real nice. Then build some bird feeders. Bat boxes. Plant some fruit trees. Solar hot water on the roof. Then lay a big sheet of plywood out in the front yard on some cinderblocks as a table and invite all my friends over for a potluck. Drink wine. Play music. Have a bonfire. Good times…

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        You say all this like you don’t know about mosquitos or the fact that there are probably something like 3 weeks of comfortable weather between gross humidity and dreary rain

        Plus working 3 jobs to afford food and bills doesn’t leave much time or energy for nature hikes

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          I grew up in north Florida. Mosquitos can be mitigated on the property with larval traps and emptying standing water, plus mosquito netting. They also don’t like me much - I think because I don’t eat a lot of sugar.

          Humidity and rain arent that bad if you get used to them. The problem most people have is that they constantly flip flop between heat and AC. When you live in the hot and humid full time, it just fades into the background.

          Plus working 3 jobs to afford food and bills doesn’t leave much time or energy for nature hikes

          Why would I do that?

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        On the plus side, if you do have a wood fire stove, the whole house can help you with your bonfire project aspirations. /s

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      I have seen many an occupied barn in rural America.

      This kind of situation is usually a medical condition and the land inherited from grandpa. The piece of land and shanty structures on it are all they have. Which is actually a whole lot given the value of land these days.

      But for the most part they’ll stubbornly die on the bit of land they grew up on. If they have kids who left, they sell afterwards. If there’s kids that don’t leave, they perpetuate the cycle another generation.

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    Yeah, but most Trump sign houses are suburban McMansions and historic urban estates. Like we keep saying, the die hard MAGA people are thoroughly bourgeois and have been all their lives.