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I always thought it was weird that leftists just brushed off Anarcho-capitalist weirdos. That’s pretty much where this shit is headed at this point.
Remember when everyone under W (including Alan Greenspan) said they were Ayn Rand stans?
*Rand Paul was literally named after that dumb shit lol.
I don’t mean to undersell the large scale problems like poverty, crime, and a lack of public transportation (GM and Ford prefer people to buy cars, weird), don’t get me wrong.
But I’d still recommend a visit if you’re considering moving there. Detroit really does have a lot to offer.
I mean, the fresh water is an obvious draw. There’s a smaller lake named lake st. clair that’s large but not a great lake nearby. The Detroit river is relatively narrow so you can escape to Canada if need be.
There’s a ton of history. Some great commie art (Rivera). Interesting urban art (Heidelberg). Motown, obviously. MC5. Death. A long history of great musicians.
The area still has manufacturing capacity if shit hits the fan but it doesn’t go mad max right away. Militant labor history. Still a strong labor town despite neolibs gutting a lot of it.
It’s affordable. People are relatively friendly for a bigger city. And they’ve been through a lot of shit already. Michael Moore (our favorite radlib) called places like Detroit and Flint canaries in the coal mine, like, a decade or two ago, so they’re probably better prepared to weather adversity than a coastal “brunch town” (not sure what I’m trying to convey, but I think you get the picture).
Plus, if shit somehow gets better, you still have the same stuff (probably on a smaller scale) that any other city has to offer.
Biiiiig urban ag city, too, if you’re into that. Urban farms are everywhere.
Dreher wrote an entire ass book based on Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue. MacIntyre, a philosopher who was heavily influenced by Marx, went on to shit on Dreher’s The Benedict Option:
https://twitter.com/SamRochadotcom/status/1273818391992659968?s=20
Then Dreher chose to do some real notice me senpai shit only to get fucking owned again by his hero:
https://twitter.com/roddreher/status/1274410673183821825?s=20