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Michael J | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The replies to this post are, to me, very telling.

Nostriches/Bitcoiners would rather flee to the country in self-imposed exile rather than seek to improve their communities in urban/suburban areas.

That's not even addressing the fundamental unrootedness and atomization of today that makes picking up and moving like that thinkable.

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mleku | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 yes, because you get coerced into letting your children be brainwashed in day prisons, for a start

and being registered and all this other shit, and you can't trust your neighbours, or the police

out in small country towns between 500-10k people none of these things are true, you can negotiate with everyone, smaller is better for less government influence

psychopaths use population to hide themselves, and then they force their desires on everyone around them and make themselves invisible, this is just facts

the dunbar number exists for a reason - it's a cognition limit, and beyond that limit, lie dragons
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Michael J | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Many of the people within our Dunbar number are online or long-distance friends.  If we prioritized our neighbors it would be a much different picture.
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mleku | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 not gonna make any difference if they don't do the same for you

so you gotta move to the amish village for that
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mleku | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 i appreciate what you and stella are saying but i'm not gonna let my legacy fall into extinction

as far as i'm concerned, the zeroth commandment of God is right there in the creation story:

go forth and multiply

don't gell together and get squashed by satan