Drives me absolutely man. And yet, so any people really still believe that if we just get the right person in office all will be well and things will get magically fixed.

Completely delusional.

Old dude at boat launch to my wife: Wow you can back that trailer up really well!

Me: Yeah, she's really amazing despite that vagina.

😡😡😡

Yes. I’m on the left and I find it a little bit obnoxious how they described this as “right wing.” Unless “fudge rounds” is a racist dog whistle that I’m not aware of, I don’t think this qualifies as right wing and it’s not helpful to get all worked up about a country song. I mean, of course obviously corporate welfare is a much bigger problem, but it’s a SONG not a manifesto.

What probability would you assign that the “missing” trillions from the pentagon are being used to fund black op/secret UFO reverse engineering programs?

The media calling Oliver Anthony’s song a right wing anthem when 1) it doesn’t mention political parties or specific politicians and 2) has rather broad appeal across anti-establishment types in general is inaccurate but predictable imo.

Now, I think one valid criticism is that if someone were to write a song called “Rich Men North of Richmond”, and it only criticizes one fiscal policy in the song, then food stamps (assistance aimed at the poor) probably isn’t the best one to pick. There is no shortage of fiscal programs that siphon money towards corrupt rich people (eg defense contractor graft), which would be more on-theme to pick.

But imo that doesn’t detract from the song much. And this unfortunately happens a lot. Usually the fiscal programs that benefit the rich tend to be harder to explain and more obfuscated than ones aimed at the poor (eg food stamps buying unhealthy things vs massive Pentagon or Medicare corruption). By design.

I support ossification.

One complaint is how there’s nothing built into the structure to check or balance the technical dev perspective (and implementations)

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