I'm in a town of 3600.. People are super fucking poor and still work their asses off. None of them would give a fuck if you "try that" or w/e the fuck that guy is on about.. They'd go on about their business because they are just surviving. They'd sure as fuck not give a shit about any sorta of vigilante justice. They'd say "that's definitely not my problem"
Pretty sure this dude is pandering to wannabees who probably have never actually spent any time in a small town in the US.
There are still some niche subs that didn't come to lemmy that I engage in, but I spend more time on Lemmy now than I do on reddit. I think there are probably dozens of us like that. So while I might still show "traffic" I'm not spending near as much time as I did on it and since reddit is trying to go public they wont publish that little fact.
Anyone can buy an article, so I expect to see more of these "everything is just hunky dory at reddit" articles because again they have profit motive.
Meanwhile lemmy grows and grows. Hopefully people continue to engage over here to keep it interesting.
it's also really stupid considering the liberal cites are literally what MAKES Texas. There's mass amounts of population in rural areas that just flat don't vote. If everyone voted in TX it's be blue as fuck.
Either way when the cities themselves lose all the workers that high paying jobs need the cities start to fall and the revenue for the state will follow.
Literal idiots that just think the oilfield will go on forever and nothing else will matter