Current Events > Those who live in the part of America where high school athletics IS the economy

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shouldn't have a strong say in the parts of the country where there is more to do on a Friday night than watch your nephew Cletus' football game then go to a bar your nephew can't even walk into where you know literally every single person there because all of them went to your high school in the same building and now suffer from the same brand of alcoholism and drug abuse rampant in trailer park country
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You couldn't possibly sound any less bitter than you do right now.
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"I've never even left my city before but let me tell you all about how Mexicans are"
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I've never understood the outright fetish some places in the US have with high school sports.

It's a bunch of greasy, smelly teenagers running around a field.

But some places by stadiums and shit for it
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Doom_Art posted...

I've never understood the outright fetish some places in the US have with high school sports.

It's a bunch of greasy, smelly teenagers running around a field.

But some places by stadiums and shit for it

because it's literally the only thing keeping those places afloat

you build a stadium for your local HIGH SCHOOL teams because that's the only way you drive traffic in or out of the town

because there's literally no other reason to be there than... just being there at this point
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Where do you live TC? I bet you could rip your shit hole town apart in three sentences or less.
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Johnny_Nutcase posted...

You couldn't possibly sound any less bitter than you do right now.

there's really nothing but disdain and pity for people stuck in flyover country

Small town USA is one of the biggest sources of prejudice and misinformation in the United States

Not SUBURBAN, mind you
Literally these remote towns with 3000 people, and all of them attend the high school football games
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Johnny_Nutcase posted...

Where do you live TC? I bet you could rip your shit hole town apart in three sentences or less.

oh i get it now
you must live in one of these places

guess it happens more often than i think on the internet since that's the only way those folks can ever get any information outside of their own loosely related neighbors
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

Johnny_Nutcase posted...

You couldn't possibly sound any less bitter than you do right now.

there's really nothing but disdain and pity for people stuck in flyover country

Small town USA is one of the biggest sources of prejudice and misinformation in the United States

Not SUBURBAN, mind you
Literally these remote towns with 3000 people, and all of them attend the high school football games

Well what else are they gonna do? Go to the fucking Rolling Stones Concert?

Small towns are definitely boring but they're just for people for like to live in silence. I get it. Just because you don't doesn't mean you have to be a complete piece of shit about it.
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I mean my rage towards football aside, I'd like living in peaceful smaller towns.

Hell I got a house out in the country cuz I hated living in the city so goddamn much
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Johnny_Nutcase posted...

Small towns are definitely boring but they're just for people who don't want to be bothered while they illegally moonshine and traffick heroin.

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Johnny_Nutcase posted...

Where do you live TC? I bet you could rip your shit hole town apart in three sentences or less.

Seattle

before that Chicago

before that Seoul, Korea

before that Reno, NV

before that, again Seoul, Korea

i'd like to hear some fresh criticism about the city I live in so go ahead
give it a try
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Seattle: Expensive

Chicago: Expensive and dangerous

Seoul? Why?

Reno? Whore capital of the world. Makes sense for you probably.

Seoul? Again WHY?
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

Reno, NV

Dollar Store Vegas
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Johnny_Nutcase posted...

Seattle: Expensive

Chicago: Expensive and dangerous

yet i have access to things small town Americans do not
i've also got more people around me physically and there's public transportation to get around
all the big music and theater acts stop by seattle or chicago
they both have football teams (one HAD a basketball team too, alas)

i'm not even FROM seattle or chicago lmao

Johnny_Nutcase posted...

Seoul? Why?

because it's a sprawling INTERNATIONAL HUB absolutely BRIMMING with culture and entertainment
also it's WAY safer than any American city and cost of living is not TOO high for Americans (it's higher than it used to be as Korean economy gets stronger)

Johnny_Nutcase posted...

Reno? Whore capital of the world. Makes sense for you probably.

I was 12-14 and my first experience with the part of America that leans on high school athletics for economy was in Nevada

also reno does suck it's a terrible city
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Why you gotta bash on Cleetus? If he wants to drink Coors Light at the bar with his same two friends he's had since high school, how does that impact you in any way? How is that any different than you drinking at the local craft brewery with your friends?
Cleetus can fix your car in exchange for a 6 pack. Cleetus will help you build that shed you've been putting off. Cleetus will attend your funeral. Small towns are about community and depending on one another. Its not as bad as you make it seem.
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So what you're saying is you've only ever lived in big cities and only shit on small towns because you've never lived in one? Gotcha.
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the thing that'll really blow your mind is that many of these places don't even have a bar to go to after the game
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PoopPotato posted...

If he wants to drink Coors Light at the bar with his same two friends he's had since high school, how does that impact you in any way?

individually, you're right he doesn't impact me at all

now multiply him by about 1500000 and you've got a problem
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

PoopPotato posted...

If he wants to drink Coors Light at the bar with his same two friends he's had since high school, how does that impact you in any way?

individually, you're right he doesn't impact me at all

now multiply him by about 1500000 and you've got a problem

Coors doesn't seem to have problem.
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Johnny_Nutcase posted...

So what you're saying is you've only ever lived in big cities and only shit on small towns because you've never lived in one? Gotcha.

I've never LIVED in one, no

but I've passed through and stayed in, plenty
if you like having no AC and 3 channels on TV it's perfect
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What did you just say about my cousin?
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

Johnny_Nutcase posted...

So what you're saying is you've only ever lived in big cities and only shit on small towns because you've never lived in one? Gotcha.

I've never LIVED in one, no

but I've passed through and stayed in, plenty
if you like having no AC and 3 channels on TV it's perfect

Now I know you're trolling or just plain stupid. Satellite TV is all over the US. Small, medium, or large cities.
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Are you trying to say in a round about way that you are upset that Trump was elected and it's the fault of people like Cleetus?

Cleetus has nothing going for him and wanted someone to come along and say that "hey man, I know your life sucks, but I'll do what I can to make sure you still have a job to go to so that you can drink Coors Light."
Rather than, "we gotta make sure people can use whatever bathroom they want."
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Johnny_Nutcase posted...

Now I know you're trolling or just plain stupid. Satellite TV is all over the US. Small, medium, or large cities.

Time isn't a thing
I definitely wasn't in these towns IN THE PAST

lmfaoooooooo keep trying guy
I'm not trolling

shockthemonkey posted...

I generally like small towns but the ones that TC is describing are real and creepy. There are plenty of small towns, even flyover towns that arent like that, but fuck those towns where high school football is a cult.

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DezDroppedFreak posted...

What did you just say about my cousin?

i hope yall aren't kissin cousins
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Homeboy lived in Chicago

lmfao

city raised dude here so don't even try
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PoopPotato posted...

Are you trying to say in a round about way that you are upset that Trump was elected and it's the fault of people like Cleetus?

no

it's definitely not just extreme-rural America that contributed to it
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Drowning__Fish_ posted...

Homeboy lived in Chicago

lmfao

city raised dude here so don't even try

TBH

I loved living in Chicago but going outside could sometimes be pretty sketchy
especially where I was living (as a poor college student near the south side)

downtown and surrounding areas are fun
suburban chicago is sketchy af lol but i'd prefer the chance of getting shot at by Latin Kings over living in "high school football is literally our only source of income" town
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

DezDroppedFreak posted...

What did you just say about my cousin?

i hope yall aren't kissin cousins

Ill have you know Cletus is ALL-STATE and has scholarship offers from Arkansas and Kentucky
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I think that saying that it "IS the economy" is a huge exaggeration, but that being said, I think that Middle America has a problem with its culture. This is one of the problems. Middle America obsesses over youth sports, especially high school sports. As an intellectual who grew up in Middle America, this drove me crazy.

Here's one example I'll give about the obsession with youth sports and how it negatively impacts our society. At my high school, every Monday morning there were announcements. They always revolved around sports. The guy who gave them was the Athletics Director even. Maybe a couple times a year another activity would get mentioned, like when the band is playing at the state band competition or something like that. Other than that, all sports related. There were almost zero academic announcements of any kind.

Go walk around the school and look in the trophy cabinets. They are all sports related. Even the music trophies aren't placed in trophy cabinets but instead just sit on top of shelves in the band/choir/orchestra room. Go in the gym and you see all these giant banners that display years that a sports team won the state championship.

Are there any trophies for academics anywhere in the school? No, I know of zero academic trophies located at any place in the school. Also when it comes to the choices of extra-curricular activities available, you almost exclusively have basically music, drama, and sports. Where are the programming teams and robotics teams? They rarely even exist. The closest thing was this thing called Envirothon which was kind of like an environmental science contest. We got 2nd place in the state actually my junior year, but of course there were no announcements, no trophies put in trophy cases, and the vast majority of the school had no idea that Envirothon even existed.

We push kids towards youth sports as if it's the most important thing in all of society. In reality, only a tiny tiny fraction of them will ever have careers in anything related to the sports they play. The students are being pushed into focusing on the wrong things. It's no shock that the US is falling rapidly behind when it comes to math, science, and reading scores. Countries like Poland and Croatia are now beating us, even though people used to flee these countries less than 30 years ago.

America is failing itself.
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im glad some people are able to look past humor to find the kernels of truth
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DezDroppedFreak posted...

Ill have you know Cletus is ALL-STATE and has scholarship offers from Arkansas and Kentucky

MY BOY CLETUS
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Johnny_Nutcase posted...

Seattle: Expensive

Chicago: Expensive and dangerous

Seoul? Why?

Reno? Whore capital of the world. Makes sense for you probably.

Seoul? Again WHY?

i thought about this post today (yes i thought about CE) and i laughed because he said he'd tear the city i live in apart

"Expensive" lmfao TORE IT UP GOOD BRO
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Doom_Art posted...

But some places by stadiums and shit for it

Maybe you should have hung around your high school more often.

Sativa_Rose posted...

As an intellectual who grew up in Middle America, this drove me crazy.

groan

You do realize that the attitude expressed by TC is exactly why liberal costal elitists, no matter how many millions of them there are shouldn't have a strong say in parts of the country (90% of it) where they look down on everyone from there and couldn't begin to give a damn about either.

So when people, and I'm sure TC is one of them, cry about the EC come election time. This attitude. This exact thing is why it's there and never going anywhere.
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Johnny_Nutcase posted...

Seattle: Expensive

Wow, you really ripped Seattle apart there, take it easy
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EternalDivide posted...

You do realize that the attitude expressed by TC is exactly why liberal costal elitists, no matter how many millions of them there are shouldn't have a strong say in parts of the country (90% of it) where they look down on everyone from there and couldn't begin to give a damn about either.

So when people, and I'm sure TC is one of them, cry about the EC come election time. This attitude. This exact thing is why it's there and never going anywhere.

I like how it's "elitism" and not "bumfuck middle of nowhere america is wrong"
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EternalDivide posted...

You do realize that the attitude expressed by TC is exactly why liberal costal elitists, no matter how many millions of them there are shouldn't have a strong say in parts of the country (90% of it) where they look down on everyone from there and couldn't begin to give a damn about either.

So when people, and I'm sure TC is one of them, cry about the EC come election time. This attitude. This exact thing is why it's there and never going anywhere.

This is why we should return to a more states' rights oriented system as opposed to a system where the federal government runs loads of things. Think of how the average person spends way more in federal taxes than what they send to their state.

It's probably better if we let states run most things at this point, otherwise the coasts and Middle America will keep clashing.
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or maybe people who don't know anything shouldn't make decisions for anyone
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