Totally. I’m not against listening. News is about 99 percent utter trash and 1 percent vitally and irreplaceably important. It’s easy to get mad at because of this ratio.
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For sure, it’s good to know how the mainstream sources are framing stories for talking to other people. I like The Intercepts podcasts for analysis that’s from the left and more nuanced. Citations Needed is my favorite for breaking down events/framing and general news.
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Almost any time you redneck culture bring up native alignment it’s because they are trying to reconcile an uneasy tension. They hold raciest beliefs that this is a white country. Confronted by the fact that this land is stolen from PoC doesn’t sit well. They are aligning their culture with natives solely for the purpose of feeling a greater claim to the Americas. Songs like this are by raciest people for raciest people even if they don’t know it.
That is all. Seeing that slot machine stirred up some stuff. It’s why I have things like that around. To not forget or become complacent. But almost any time is almost certainly hyperbole. It’s probably not close to most
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Oh my God, I’m watching Trump and Vance being reunited with Zelensky and what fucking clowns are both Trump and Vance.
Like DJ Khaled said, “Another one”
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I contend that even for $7-10/dozen eggs are still an incredible value when compared to other foods and their cheap price rests on a bedrock of animal cruelty in industrial production.
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I used to do Model UN. Even a bunch of caffeinated high school and college students roleplaying countries could treat their enemies better than Trump and Vance treated an erstwhile ally. It was a mess.
Also, on rhetoric, even if someone cheers on bullying (none of us here, I trust), it was inept bullying. There are very diplomatically savvy ways to bully, to slight, to malign. It requires tact, hinting, undermining, smiling. Putin, ironically, does it quite well. Trump and Vance don’t have that sort of subtlety. They turn into fragile, angry men.
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I don’t swear on the forums by holy fuck this was a nightmare. Trump and Vance are unhinged and ending it with “this will make great television” was the most repugnant thing I’ve witnessed.
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It is truly repugnant, and clearly Vance is only talking to online republicans with his ‘propaganda tour’ talk. Something around a million ukranians have died in this war and Vance is trying to signal to the American people that the real villains of this war are liberals like Ben Stiller.
The whole mineral rights nonsense is the actual type of shit that will start world war 3. America and multinational corps have been enacting soft power over that type of stuff for a long time (Hunter Biden being on the board of a Ukranian oil & gas company for example) but image-obsessed republicans staking their foreign policy on high profile deals like this seems like a recipe for disaster if say, Putin continues pushing in to parts of Ukraine that the US has an additional big financial interest in.
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Journalism is utterly compromised.
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The mineral side is awful but the real concern is that there is no security guarantee tied to this shitty Trump deal. So if Russia decides to invade again, and they will, the US can sit back and do nothing.
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there was never going to be a security guarantee. No defending trump but the US has been stringing Ukraine along for forever. neither trump 1, Biden, hypothetical harris, nor trump 2 was ever going to go to war for an alliance with Ukraine
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Actually tbh I did my due diligence and read the article (after sneaking around the paywall anyways).
It’s a classic example of a decent article with a horrible headline and subheading, which for all we know was added in after by an editor and not from the journalist.
The spoiler alert on the article is less that it’s wEiRd that eggs were ever cheap, and more a product of horrendous conditions in factory farms, also the price of eggs has been a political talking point in US elections as far back as 1960 in Kennedy v. Nixon campaign trail.
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That is a relief to know. It is often the headline that repels me when it’s supposed to make me mad enough to read it
i read the news today oh boy
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I thought the new “let them eat cake” would be more like - “doesn’t everyone [at their mansions in Montecito] already have pet chickens anyway?”
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I’m trying real hard to not be hyperbolic, but I think — from the outside looking in — it is now clear that America is a failed state. The next few years will cause multiple generations worth of damage.
Banning measles vaccines, banning fluoride. This is insanity.
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i’ll be the last person to say things are good, but there’s still a very long way down before we approach anything that might reasonably be called a failed state.
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the US and Australia are somewhat unusual in how common flouride treatment is in drinking water. Most of the rest of the world including the high class individuals in europe do without it. Dont think that crackpot mode is the right decision-making framework to be taking generally though
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I wonder the frequency at which Utahans drink tap water compared to caffeine free diet sodas
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