You see this kind of thing in struggling lower-income Southern households, and it tells a very specific story.
When life hasn't delivered much.... no wealth, no power, no real social standing.... some folks discover that white supremacy is basically a free membership card to a club that makes them feel superior without requiring any actual achievement.
It's the world's laziest status symbol.
The starter kit is always the same:
*A Confederate flag honoring a war their ancestors lost badly 160 years ago.
*A gun they'll never actually need.
*A Bible they've never actually read.
*And Fox News running 24/7 telling them they're REAL Americans.... unlike those fancy elitist Democrats who are secretly importing an army of replacement voters to steal their....
Their what exactly? Their Dollar General? Their 1987 Camaro on cinder blocks in the yard?
FOX found the formula, and they never let go of it: Take a man who has nothing, tell him the reason he has nothing is because those people are taking it.... and suddenly he's not a struggling nobody.
He's a soldier in a cultural war. He matters. He's relevant. He becomes a MAGA Warrior!
And THAT.... ladies and gentlemen.... is precisely how a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, 34-time felon, bankrupt New York con man who golfs at his own resorts became the hero of the working man.
You genuinely cannot make this stuff up.
And I write this so that hopefully they will recognize what they have done and what they are doing and snap out of it.....
I was born and raised in Appalachia ... These very people could be my relatives ..... but ... I .... got common sense from my granny ----- "question everything". VIA~Lee Murphy
Always Go To The Funeral
“Always go to the funeral” means that I have to do the right thing when I really, really don’t feel like it. I have to remind myself of it when I could make some small gesture, but I don’t really have to and I definitely don’t want to. I’m talking about those things that represent only inconvenience to me, but the world to the other guy. You know, the painfully under-attended birthday party. The hospital visit during happy hour. The Shiva call for one of my ex’s uncles. In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn’t been good versus evil. It’s hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing.”
Look closely at the tiny muscle bulging on the forearm just below the elbow. That is the extensor digiti minimi, a small muscle that helps extend the little finger. Anatomically this muscle becomes especially active and visible when the little finger is extended. Notice how Moses is lifting his pinky? That is why Michelangelo sculpted that specific muscle in tension.
This kind of insane biological accuracy came from his nights spent dissecting corpses at the hospital of Santo Spirito in Florence, where he traded a wooden crucifix and other artwork for access to dead bodies to master the mechanics of human flesh.
I love confusing people simply by being myself and not fitting in categories or abiding by their false dichotomies. I’ve never felt the need to choose between this and that or pick out a spot on a spectrum. I am who I am and there is no catch with me.
Sudan is now the world's largest humanitarian crisis & without urgent action it’ll soon become the worst famine the world has seen in over 40 years. Many regions in Sudan are declared to be in Phase 5 of IPC famine conditions. Pls share & donate when you come across Sudanese GFMs
finally completed a very important task i’ve been avoiding for several months. it took 8 minutes and zero effort on my part and i felt immediate and immense relief. i probably won’t learn from this