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Diamond_Dog

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13. Congratulations on 22 years here, hermetic!

Sun Mar 15, 2026, 01:44 PM

Sunday

I am forever grateful for stumbling upon this site, too.

I just finished Paper Girl by Beth Macy. It’s along the lines of Hillbilly Elegy except it’s more accurate, insightful, and intelligent than anything JD Vance could come up with. I highly recommend this book to anyone wondering how MAGA has brainwashed small town life. Macy writes about growing up poor in Urbana, Ohio, just down the road from Vance’s Springfield, and how her once community-oriented hometown became thoroughly MAGAfied.

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