this doesn't mean the South is hopeless, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't keep trying to win elections and fight the MAGAs in the South, but maintaining this fantasy nonsense about how the South doesn't REALLY have a uniquely racist culture in a number of respects is just foolishness
November 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
this doesn't mean the South is hopeless, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't keep trying to win elections and fight the MAGAs in the South, but maintaining this fantasy nonsense about how the South doesn't REALLY have a uniquely racist culture in a number of respects is just foolishness
as a white liberal with Southern roots, quite frankly, I think other white liberals from the South need to get the fuck over their oddly defensive attitude about what should be pretty blindingly obvious.
I understand why some white liberals from the Deep South want to insist that there isn't something distinct (and bad) about Southern political culture but the problem with this is that we wouldn't even have this idea of "The South" as distinct from the rest of the US if there wasn't a there there
November 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
as a white liberal with Southern roots, quite frankly, I think other white liberals from the South need to get the fuck over their oddly defensive attitude about what should be pretty blindingly obvious.
I think the big thing everyone is missing here in the “affordability/std of living” thing is that if you don’t feel like your housing, healthcare, and/or food is secure, it doesn’t really matter how fucking cheap a flatscreen TV is, and there are a lot of people who can barely afford the essentials
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I think the big thing everyone is missing here in the “affordability/std of living” thing is that if you don’t feel like your housing, healthcare, and/or food is secure, it doesn’t really matter how fucking cheap a flatscreen TV is, and there are a lot of people who can barely afford the essentials
We assume the bell signals the imminence of tacos and while this might hold true we cannot rule out the possibility that bell is itself is composed of taco
November 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
We assume the bell signals the imminence of tacos and while this might hold true we cannot rule out the possibility that bell is itself is composed of taco
A St Louis Fed paper analyzed the Silicon Valley Bank bailout and analyzed the assets and found it would have been better to let it fail because 90% of the assets were crypto and VC bets and would have had little to no effect on the broader economy.
“It’s not that I’m for austerity, it’s just that I’m against bailing out AI, crypto, private assets/university endowments, and I’m fine with canceled Thanksgiving flights and missed paychecks as long as Republicans take the blame for it.”
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
A St Louis Fed paper analyzed the Silicon Valley Bank bailout and analyzed the assets and found it would have been better to let it fail because 90% of the assets were crypto and VC bets and would have had little to no effect on the broader economy.
I do not understand why people are obsessed with the Edmund Fitzgerald. Is it just because of the song? Was there anything special about this or was it just ship sinks in storm but it happened on a great lake so people from Michigan are weirdly proud of it?
November 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I do not understand why people are obsessed with the Edmund Fitzgerald. Is it just because of the song? Was there anything special about this or was it just ship sinks in storm but it happened on a great lake so people from Michigan are weirdly proud of it?