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The end of high-trust society
The Blaze ^ | October 04, 2023 | Auron MacIntyre

Posted on 10/04/2023 12:30:00 PM PDT by Heartlander

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1 posted on 10/04/2023 12:30:00 PM PDT by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander

As America slowly collapses, a major city is not the place to be unless you have weapons, ammo, body armor and heavy duty transportation to get out.


2 posted on 10/04/2023 12:37:50 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: Heartlander
At a cookout a few months ago, I heard a story from a local police officer that I have now seen play out over and over in American cities. The young cop said that after the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, the order came from on high essentially to avoid interaction with minority communities at all costs. Even a routine traffic stop in one of these neighborhoods could escalate unexpectedly, and with the incredible bias of the press and the viral nature of social media, an officer could have his career ended in the blink of an eye. Better to avoid possible lawsuits and violent riots by simply ignoring the call when it comes in over the radio.

"FIDO"

3 posted on 10/04/2023 12:39:18 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Heartlander

Legalize the Mafia.
Have people in the neighborhood pay Protection money.
Let the Mafia handle the criminals.
There won’t be any crime.

Not joking.

Or, to cut out the middle man (the Mafia) just get rid of the police and tell citizens in the neighborhood that they can respond to crime as they wish. No charges will be forthcoming.
There won’t be any crime.

I see this as “an unstoppable force” moving toward “an immovable object”. Can you stop the unstoppable? Can you move the immovable? People will say “you can’t do that”. But the plain fact is “you have to”. You have to do the thing which is unthinkable. Unless, of course, someone has a better idea. And I sure hope that the “better idea” isn’t just “hire more officers”. Because that would be a sad joke.


4 posted on 10/04/2023 12:40:28 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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To: BigFreakinToad

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5 posted on 10/04/2023 12:40:29 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Heartlander

In our little midwest town, a local farmer puts his vegetables on a flatbed at an intersection near town. The stand is un-manned, so everyone is on the honor system to take correct amounts, put payment in a metal box he has bolted to the flatbed, and to not steal the payment box.

It must work, because his product is there every summer and autumn, year-after-year.

Societal trust a beautiful thing, and awful when its gone.


6 posted on 10/04/2023 12:43:14 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: kiryandil
the order came from on high essentially to avoid interaction with minority communities at all costs.

At a terrible cost - to blacks.

Black homicides, and black traffic fatalities doubled immediately and are still well above long-term averages.

There's approximately an extra 10,000 extra dead black Americans thanks to the Feast of St. Floyd.

7 posted on 10/04/2023 12:47:30 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Heartlander

Moved out of the city shortly after Barry the Muslim was installed, we saw the writing on the wall in 2008, nobody questions me anymore about leaving the city, they want to leave too.


8 posted on 10/04/2023 12:51:03 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: ClearCase_guy

I am thinking the same as you. Bring back the mafia with a code of the old mafia. It will fix crap in 12-18 months. The politicians can’t grandstand about cleaning up the crime if they make a deal with the necessary evil.


9 posted on 10/04/2023 12:56:40 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored )
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To: Heartlander

When you see police living in gated forts, then we have hit south american style collapse
We’re getting close.


10 posted on 10/04/2023 1:00:19 PM PDT by redgolum (We are not going to make it, are we. )
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To: PGR88
We have a any number of places like that selling vegetables and eggs on the back roads.

But on the state route that are heavily traveled and not surrounded by houses you find the stands are all manned.

Neighbors look out for each other. When you have no neighbors you have to look out for yourself.

11 posted on 10/04/2023 1:02:33 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: eyeamok

I wouldn’t count on being in a rural area.

Look at why cities were first made. It was to combine to protect against brigands, who live in the hinterlands.


12 posted on 10/04/2023 1:06:27 PM PDT by redgolum (We are not going to make it, are we. )
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To: Heartlander

“ highly racialized politics”

The only question that needs to be asked is: who benefits?

The answer is: politicians

The destruction of America is entirely due to our permanent political class.


13 posted on 10/04/2023 1:18:20 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (“We should not assume civilization is robust”)
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To: Dick Bachert

Spot F’n on!


14 posted on 10/04/2023 1:27:38 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: redgolum

I understand, probably why I am on my own mountain with clear line of sight for 1 mile, and my scoped 30.06 is really accurate.


15 posted on 10/04/2023 1:31:06 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: redgolum
Look at why cities were first made. It was to combine to protect against brigands, who live in the hinterlands.

For the last century, cities have transformed into prison / psych wards / homeless encampments.

Telecommunications, transportation, and infrastructure have passed cities by.

Other than possibly hubs for medical treatment, what other industry besides the Grievance Industry and the Government Industry would stay there?

16 posted on 10/04/2023 2:15:37 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: PGR88

I saw that a while back in Vermont.
Picked a few cucumbers and tomatoes went to put my money in a box and saw a bunch of cash just sitting there waiting for me to steal.
I was amazed.....
That cash would last 5 minutes in my MA town...


17 posted on 10/04/2023 2:32:55 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Heartlander

I know I trust virtually no one and those I do trust passed a high bar to get there.


18 posted on 10/04/2023 3:08:58 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Heartlander
A high-trust society can operate with remarkable efficiency because the people enforce the rules on themselves.

And what were those internalized rules our system was founded on? They were Commandments and statues and teachings from the Bible.

19 posted on 10/04/2023 3:10:11 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Heartlander

This multi-cultural, multi-racial world doesn’t seem to be working out so well, does it?
People don’t have much in common so they appear strange to each other.

My father lived in a small Kansas town where there was very little crime. Many people never locked their doors and some would always leave their car keys in the ignition.

It’s a matter of trust, basically. Sadly we have less and less reason to trust in these modern times.


20 posted on 10/04/2023 5:36:55 PM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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