I’d rather starve than put money into maintaining or improving my source of income
I’d rather starve than put money into maintaining or improving my source of income
He’s just giving this guy a new Missing Persons project, so I look forward to reading that
Damn don’t think I’ve ever been “walk ten miles for burger king” hungry.
Anyway, dead bodies are typically the kind of things you want to report ANONYMOUSLY
LULAG
I lost my best friend and first “dog I adopted as an adult” a few weeks ago and it was so hard. Something that surprised me was how much comfort I took in people offering sympathy. You gave him a good life and loved him every day. May we all be so lucky
Things that are fine:
Real MVP radicalizer for kids who grew up in conservative shithole towns
LIBERATE TUTEMET
Still not gonna forgive him for making the scariest movie of my childhood (event horizon)
Michael Moore presents: Sicko 2, Sickoer
Literally used this video yesterday to unclog a very stubborn tp clog. It worked
Guess I’m the only one here who thinks he’s doing a bit
This is the guy who killed the person pushing their disabled black partner in a wheelchair, right?
Yep
Yeah and who defeated the Nazis WHO DEFEATED THE NAZIS MOTHER FUCKER
Stage actor union, apparently
There are a few, most notably syphilis
You know what would really alleviate our ailing psyches? Another government cover up of a health crisis that needlessly kills countless people
Tl;dr: what no class consciousness does to a mf
I live in Henry County, Kentucky, which I can remember as a part of a thriving agricultural region with many small family-run farms and flourishing local economies. Now, as in every place I know in rural America, the small towns here are dead or dying, much of the farmland (long priced above the reach of farmers) is consigned to toxic, continuously cropped large acreages of corn and soy beans; communities and families are breaking up. The education system prepares our young people to leave, and they are leaving. Other problems are addiction, depression, bad health, poverty, and the boredom with rural life that is induced and expected. At present we are suffering a solar panel land rush and a Bourbon boom land rush, which further increase land prices, go after the best farmland, and turn neighbor against neighbor. I believe I have given a fair representation of the plight of rural America, a land of worsening problems that it did not cause and cannot solve, from which urban America derives its food, clothing, and shelter, plus “raw materials.” For these necessary things rural America receives prices set in urban America. For the manufactured goods returned to it, rural America pays prices set in urban America
Yeah, those are all real problems.
Because I have watched for half a century and more the decline of my own community and others like it everywhere in rural America, along with the increasing ecological and cultural damages of industrial agriculture, I have made a practice of reading newspaper and magazine articles by Democratic or leftward experts of politics and economics, hoping that I would see an acknowledgement, first of the economic importance of the natural world, and then of the importance of the land-use economies of agriculture, forestry, and mining, by which the goods of the natural world are made available for human use.
You’re right, the Democrats aren’t interested in addressing real issues.
Started typing up an answer but don’t feel like sourcing it and someone better informed is going to give a better answer eventually, but here’s a start…
Whereas the Spanish significantly intermixed with the indigenous populations and created a mestizo (mixed) racial group, the US colonists maintained separation from the native population. In both cases, smallpox/disease reduced the native population by about 90% [relevance to question?]. The long running goal of the decision makers in America was to either force the natives to assimilate or be killed; the reservation was everyone’s last choice.
Someone smarter, your turn
Some of them are plenty smart - they got good grades and went to good colleges and have professional jobs. They’re engineers, teachers, what have you. And they’re probably perfectly good at their jobs, and they think because they’ve made it that far and see so many people doing worse, they assume they’re just better.
As said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”