Anonymous #1 13w

I do, what’s your point?

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Anonymous OP 13w

can i not just say a life saving tip in case you or others reading might not know it? damn, wasn’t attacking you chill

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Anonymous #1 13w

Can I not just ask you what your point is without you saying i think you’re attacking me and telling me to chill? Also, Narcan is very limited. It doesn’t really work on stimulants and I live in a meth town and crack town.

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Anonymous #2 13w

The mayor is a drug dealer, school janitor, lawnmower, and bus driver

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Anonymous OP 13w

yeah i stand by my point, in towns like yours the drug problem tends to stem from those in power

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Anonymous #2 13w

And he really only does performance enhancing drugs his main market is the athletes

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Anonymous #2 13w

Power is an illusion in this town. The town pop is barely 1000

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Anonymous OP 13w

yeah my best friends from a town like that, has a biggg meth problem that they fell victim to. full of dirty cops and politicians

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Anonymous #2 13w

You don’t understand this town doesn’t have politicians at least not real ones. They have old buddies. The political landscape is dead. The only thing remotely close to politics happens in the school board and system

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Anonymous OP 13w

i swear to you i do, there are so many towns like yours all over america. like so so many. my best friends family were those “old buddies”, their family has been one of the like 3 families that have had primary control/influence for decades and decades

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Anonymous OP 13w

the fact that they’re all just buddies is what makes them dirty, if they like you you can get away with anything

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Anonymous #2 13w

You’re still not listening the only centralized power in the town is the school we don’t have any oligarchs. And yea Ik there’s towns like mine everywhere and there’s towns like your friends that are everywhere but while our towns are similar they also aren’t the same.

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Anonymous OP 13w

lol okay bro, sure. your town doesn’t have politicians.

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Anonymous OP 13w

you’re just being annoyingly knitpicky about the specific words i’m using to describe them because for some reason you don’t wanna accept your town isn’t special

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Anonymous #2 13w

It doesn’t in the traditional sense the closest thing we have to actual politicians or people who hold influence would be the school and the country

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Anonymous #2 13w

Like I’m majoring in sociology and political science trust me I have analyzed and dissected the place I’ve lived for the past decade

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Anonymous OP 13w

County*^

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Anonymous OP 13w

a town with no politicians does not exist, like you literally said there was a mayor. small towns have different types of politicians vs a big city but they are still politicians. the people that run your school are politicians.

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Anonymous #2 13w

Ik my town isn’t special hence i said there’s plenty of towns like it. You just can’t admit that maybe I have a better understanding of where i live than you do. Which is quite honestly weird.

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Anonymous OP 13w

never said i have a better understanding, you’re claiming that it’s not possible for me to understand your small town for some reason which is honestly weird

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Anonymous #2 13w

They are politicians but not actually the mayor is the mayor because literally no one else runs we have a town council so they can vote on themes for the town parade. The principals do a two year residency at every school in the county.

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Anonymous #2 13w

The political landscape of the town doesn’t really exist but we do exist in a political landscape for the county. Like example all the schools are sinking funds so the county wanted to consolidate into one school for the entire county but the schools didn’t want that so they got each town to sign a petition.

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Anonymous OP 13w

yeah those are still politicians, idk why you are so dead set on not using that word. the specific verbiage is not important, my entire point was just that those people, whatever you want to classify them as, are the people that have the power and are likely the root of a lot of the systemic issues like yalls drug problem

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Anonymous #2 13w

Not saying it’s not possible I’m just saying the understanding that you are portraying is wrong

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Anonymous OP 13w

i genuinely don’t understand how it is so different from the millions of other around the country, like i just didn’t use the same wording as you, sue me

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Anonymous #2 13w

No the root of the systemic issues is the lack of an actual political authority or power in place to govern the people. It is neglect and lack of jobs, housing, and resources.

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Anonymous #2 13w

Because you aren’t talking the time to understand that some towns have literal farm animals elected as a mayor. Would you still say that animal is a politician, even though they’re an elected official. I would say they are a politician in name only and therefore aren’t really one.

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Anonymous OP 13w

yeah how exactly do you think it reached that point? im gonna take a shot in the dark and guess it was an industrial town back in the day? and then the people in charge(at a town, county and state level) left all of you in the dust when the industry left? where do you think those resources come from?

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Anonymous OP 13w

the farm animal mayors are not real bro you know that 😭 there is still someone making the mayors decisions in those towns

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Anonymous OP 13w

like pls those things are only to grab the attention of people for small towns that don’t usually get it, there are still real people making decisions there is no actual town in the us that is just anarchy

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Anonymous #2 13w

No the town was never an industrial town lmao we were a self reliant town and mainly focused on agriculture like we still are. Although now we are now more of a retirement and getting in touch with nature get away.

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Anonymous #2 13w

And I’m telling you that while yes we technically have an election where we elected a mayor they have no power and nothing political happens at a town level.

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Anonymous OP 13w

So the town doesn’t have politicians the churches in the town do but that’s a division of the town and the town is a division of the county which has politicians but within the farm of the town and in that context we don’t have a political landscape.

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Anonymous OP 13w

shot and a miss, it’s still the same idea though. agriculture used to be a booming industry that is becoming less and less prioritized. the addicts don’t cause your lack of resources your lack of resource causes addicts. and why does your town lack resources? because the people in charge(again, town, county, state govt.) are not prioritizing you

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Anonymous OP 13w

the county politicians are still your politicians, that is a political landscape, i don’t understand do you think that most towns have an entire board of politicians just to themselves? like you are just describing how towns in the us work. there’s a mayor and then there’s the county politicians

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Anonymous #2 13w

Yea I’m the one that originally said the lack of resources is the issue and the lack of resources is because of the lack of people in charge. And the lack of people in change is because of the American narrative of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and that the region historically has been left to its own and has always been impoverished to the point the Great Depression had no effect and people didn’t even know it was happening

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Anonymous OP 13w

there are as many people in charge of your town as there are most small towns, i don’t understand what you’re trying to prove to me. my entire point was just that the people that are in charge(ie the mayor and your county politicians) are the root of your struggle

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Anonymous #2 13w

Think of it like a big circle that circle is made up of slightly smaller circles and those circles are made up of even smaller circles and so on and so on the biggest circle is the state then we have the country in a small circle and then we have all the towns/city in that country in smaller circles now some of these circles have little dots each of those dots effect the politics of all the circles inside of the circle. This town/circle doesn’t have any dots to claim for itself.

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Anonymous OP 13w

It can fall in line with the next best circle and their dots but the circle itself is dot less

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Anonymous OP 13w

i’m done bro i know you’re so annoying, i have been telling you over and over that your towns politics work in the same way all towns your size do, you just for some reason are so fucking knitpicky about the exact semantics and refuse to accept i know how basic governments work

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Anonymous #2 13w

No they are not the root of the struggle they too are struggling the people in “charge” of my town have no actual power and they exist in an illusion of authority

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Anonymous OP 13w

k bro sure the county government has no authority or ability to advocate for yall

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Anonymous #2 13w

Some small towns have more local politics than others the political climate of each town can be different. I am not saying my town is special I’m just disagreeing with you that my town has political powers other than the school

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Anonymous #2 13w

Why tf would a county advocate for a single town out of all of its constituents.

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Anonymous OP 13w

because they should advocate for all their constituents, and it’s almost like it not being able to do so should be an indication that you should have a greater problem with the way us governments at large function(cough the people in charge are the root of the issue cough)

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Anonymous #2 13w

It does advocate for all of its constituents it just doesn’t single out our town because all across the county we have issues with drug use as does much of the country and state.

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Anonymous #2 13w

You don’t seem to understand actual political theory and take everything at surface value and like to oversimplify social issues.

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Anonymous OP 13w

yeah and you seem like you’re real fun at parties. i was mostly just arguing because i find you to be annoying. and i do genuinely believe you just were not listening to what i was saying or acknowledging that the drug epidemic in the us is in fact the governments fault.

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Anonymous #2 13w

You seem like you’re fun at parties too. I’m sure you have a lot of friends.

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Anonymous OP 13w

probably more than you bud, you live in the middle of nowhere 🤣 + i generally didn’t like how you were talking about homeless people and addicts. i heavily doubt you’ve even tried talking to them in a meaningful way

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Anonymous OP 13w

plus who doesn’t love a good ol coked up debate at a party

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Anonymous #2 13w

Homeless people and addicts aren’t any more special or sinless then any other person. And i volunteer at homeless shelters and soup kitchens and I definitely have had more meaningful conversations than you would think. I have helped convince people life is worth living and that they matter.

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Anonymous #2 13w

dude. you read their post and went “☝️🤓 ur town is messed up because of politicians making people do drugs” and then proceeded to call them wrong when they corrected you about their own town for like 30 messages. learn when to stop arguing about things you know nothing about.

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Anonymous #3 13w

nah it’s fun bro

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Anonymous #3 13w

if i find someone annoying i will chew their ass out bc i find it entertaining, do you think YIKYAK is the place for genuine discourse? no bro its not its for shitposting

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