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Nick Brumfield

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Well, we're doing "stay-or-leave" discourse, so as someone who spent much of their 20s wrestling with the guilt of leaving a broken system in West Virginia I had no reasonable expectation of fixing, I'm here to tell you you're allowed to leave if you want.

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Mobility has been one of the most powerful tools in the hands of ordinary people since agrarian-based states have been a thing. Solidarity and community organizing is important, but I'll not have folks begrudging people for getting out.

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