This is so wild. I grew up in the rural midwest and had a lot of friends and family teetering on the edge of poverty. Some died in domestic violence situations, some died in drug/alcohol-related accidents and overdoses--weirdly none of them blamed gays, immigrants, or brown people for their problems. Huh.
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“I’m not from Appalachia, but confidently state the reason people think this isn’t a good depiction of the place I’m not from is because they don’t like its politics.”
I have no doubt that this film transcends politics. No matter your political belief, you’ll find that the movie sucks eggs.
Its funny. The rest of the Trump Klan was mostly about graft. Money, power and simple corruption. The money the Trumps stole from us is significant.
I strongly doubt Prince William has watched any of The Crown—why would he want to? Margaret on the other hand, were she still alive, would totally be hooked to the telly.
Pro tip: please don’t ask women why they don’t have kids, why they didn’t have more, or if they want more children. I experienced pregnancy loss and only told my immediate family. Since we have a young son, everyone feels entitled to ask me these questions. Since my miscarriage, I fumble through a vague deflection and…
I used to love David Sedaris. But his treatment of — and writing about — his sister who died by suicide just soured me, forever.. :(
She’s talking like someone on some phantom version of cocaine that makes you just as intense, but shoves you over to ‘niceness’ instead of ‘douchebaggery’
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Wait, one of them was willed to her grandfather as a wife by her grandmother? Why is no one else talking about this?
Mormon here and the “Mormon royalty” claims are really funny. If there is Mormon royalty, it is not these women. It’d be people like Donny Osmond or Mitt Romney or a famous athlete who everyone knows. The episode covered how the women are “royalty” and it was SO FUNNY (but only to Mormons...). First, the claim that…
This was my question. I don’t think I’ve read a paragraph that just got more and more incomprehensible and self-centered that didn’t end in a WH official getting fired.
I know this world too, and sorry, but fuck this attitude. My white rural community was fucked, but you know was fucked even more? Indigenous communities nearby and black communities who had to live even more rural. The fact of the matter is that these people from liberal art colleges make just as many bad choices, but…
meh, these people aren’t going to dig much deeper than Trump promising them a way out of their lot in life. Channel that rage at the white elite in America, they are happy for you to keep being angry at “rednecks” because it maintains complete status quo, and doesn’t incite any change to the capitalist structure in…
Both can be true!
They are literally the most educated people in their communities. They are unquestionably the intelligentsia there.
I mean just look at how they had to dress and do the makeup of Close and Adams, it looks cartoonish and silly because it looks like pure cos play of poor people.
There’s Hillbilly Elegy, the memoir of Vance’s family, which (so far as I know, at least) is basically uncontested in terms of its accuracy. And then there’s Hillbilly Elegy, the socio-economic, political and cultural text that’s used to advance a very specific and very damaging political agenda. I don’t know to what…