Nobody's saying 'fuck you' for being forced into suburbs. Were saying 'fuck you' to the people who built suburbs instead of high density housing and made housing near your job unaffordable.
And the people who genuinely had the choice (I might argue you didn't) and chose to pay extra for suburb.
Not the best. The best of rural is nature wildness and independence. The ability to wander off into your backyard and shoot something and not get an eyebrow raised. The ability to pick a direction, and start walking, and not turn around until your water gets low, then go home, and not meet another person unless you choose to. The option to just dig a big ass hole or marvel at the intricacy of the ecology. Maybe have a few dozen semi feral cats, so nobody xan quite say you are ir arent the creepy cat lady. The best of rural is room to experiment and play, to be entirely food independent, etc. And oh my god it can get so quiet! Its nice. Peaceful, if a little rough. And if something goes horribly globally wrong? Might not even be your problem.
Suburbs have... A little privacy indoors, I guess? Room for a small garden, if your house is old, maybe some fruit trees? A garage to play with if you don't drive, which is a major sacrifice?
The best of urban us art culture and people at your fingertips, connectedness and depth. Walking two blocks into an entirely different world, hopping on the train/bus to a dozen art museums and twice as many different cuisines and so many options. Knowing that there are friends for you nearby, if you just find them. Enemies too, probably. Its collaboration and history and the intense humanness of the designed world around you, and oh my god the architecture. At its best, which I admit is rare, its the very very almost imperceptibly low grade version of the thrill of collaboration all the time. And if something goes horribly globally wrong, at least you know youre not alone. Its pretty cool. I'm a fan.
Suburbs have none of this. They pretend at the restaurants, but they're all chain shit, homogenized to pointlessness.
Suburbs are garbage. Youre as dependent on long ass supply chains as an urban core, but you're all tiny little ratter dogs pretending to be wolves on the tundra, so you don't acknowledge or embrace it. You get all the isolation with none of the solitude. It takes almost as long to get anywhere, but you can't just chill on your farm or go forage in the woods, so you need to go.
Suburbs ate garbage poison and ecologically unsustainable. One can argue modern cities are unsustainable too, but there's room for doubt on that one; there are economies of scale to take advantage of.
Eagerly aiding a genocide while also doing one at home, but you know biden wouldn't stop it if the fascists just did one, so he's not really better than trump OK that either.
At least if trump tries to genocide me, he'll be using poorly primed hierarchal power and you'll get a lot of mutinies. Like, a non-trump fasch genocide is blood in the streets, and I'm so fucking shit at that, so my odds are like 10% and its definitely a bad time. If trump orders it, There's a 50/50 chance the local air force base mutinies and flips on him because poverty draft, and I either get s hellfire missile or I don't.
I always find a weird cognitive dissonance when I talk to people on the street about it. They know its not trustworthy, but they still trust it. They're more open if you point that out before presenting alternatives.
Its kind of like elections? 'Everything's broken, all the systems are bad and will never serve us, vote em all out!' As opposed to real action.
I feel like the core of liberalism is feeling like youre a good person no matter what you do. Like all their evil is the monkey paw version of good things, and then they say they did the good thing.
Like how we did get globalism and free travel, but only for commodities, so (poor) people were locked down and labor was made more fungible because factories but not people were mobile. None of that commie universal kinship/comeraderie shit or the total anarchy of freedom to roam unaccosted by uniformed thugs, that might disrupt the interests of capital.
Liberalism is jacking yourself off with a monkey paw. It doesn't even vibrate, I don't think, but the stroking motion is essential. And if you point out not everyone's got a dick, you get a cookie and a pamphlet about using it as a dildo.
Russia is trying in Ukraine. Their stated war aims are explicitly genocidal. They're just mostly failing, and not as fucking ghoulish about it as the kapo trash doing 'protocols of the elders of zion' larp with real bullets.
So condemning them is the right thing to do, but not condemning (and continuing to feed+arm) the worse assholes doing a worse version of the same thing on much more helpless people is the problem.
Nobody's saying 'fuck you' for being forced into suburbs. Were saying 'fuck you' to the people who built suburbs instead of high density housing and made housing near your job unaffordable.
And the people who genuinely had the choice (I might argue you didn't) and chose to pay extra for suburb.