Thread by @JessicaHuseman

The overall substance of this thread is people are shitty to rural Americans. That I made a joke and one of the tweets does not take away from that, and then I bought 17 acres of land in a town you don’t know about doesn’t mean I want the benefits of urban life in a rural area.

https://twitter.com/golikehellmachi/status/1435670256731627520

Internet and a paved road are not benefits. They are basic things. Rural communities should be able to have this and live in more expensive areas if they choose to, that doesn’t mean they are demanding all urban amenities. I don’t want a mall. I want internet.

This is frankly the dumbest, most academically unsound thing I have ever read. There are absolutely ways to bring fresh produce to rural America.

https://twitter.com/golikehellmachi/status/1435671046758170624

And I think this tweet magnifies my entire point. You think we’re all Americans are asking for all of these urban amenities, but what are they asking for? Internet. Paved roads. Regular trash disposal. Are you kidding me?

https://twitter.com/golikehellmachi/status/1435677952612585475

This person found and screenshot a tweet celebrating my land purchase last year, determining that my points are invalid bc I chose to buy land there. Right now all I have on that land is a little cabin. These things don’t affect me on a daily basis, and that is a privilege I have

That one day I would like to live in a place with fewer people does not invalidate my need for social services. You don’t have to be structurally impoverished and stuck in rural America to be able to complain about the lack of access to resources for the people there.

And frankly, the callousness with which this person dismissed points simply because I chose to live among the few were people proves my entire point about rural America. They are not fucking aliens.

This is just a false reading of everything I said. I mentioned public transportation as an example of some thing that these communities do not have, I did not say that we should put a bus route in Oakwood. A paved road, however, would be pretty fucking nice.

https://twitter.com/golikehellmachi/status/1435684010286481412

And this is just the perfect tweet that shows everything wrong with the way that we look at policy and rural and sparsely populated communities. We can build an interstate highway system under Eisenhower, but I guess broadband and roads are ice in hell.

https://twitter.com/golikehellmachi/status/1435678138999078914

The federal government spends billions of dollars a year producing weaponry we never use to falsely boost manufacturing jobs in powerful congressional districts. Don’t tell me we can do that and then tell me that providing basic aid to rural America is impossible.