Thanks! I’ll check them out; I know I was speaking in a broad generalization. For contemporary country, I’m a fan of Aida Victoria, to name one. It’s just, as OP said, those songs and musicians who produce “Republicunt siren songs.”
Actual, classic country is really good. It’s the modern stuff that’s all about loving Bush’s wars, drinking shitting beer, and hating gay people that’s the problem.
Doc Watson, Johnny Cash, and Marty Robbins are all worth checking out, to name a few.
That’s a good pitch. I took French in high school so I’ve been benefitting from what I remember of grammar from that after many years without touching the subject. However I’m confident that it’d be basically useless for me if I was starting a new language from scratch.
That’s super interesting and I totally believe it!
I have a lot of issues with Duolingo and did think about the free advertising and the fact that they’ve started to use more AI—wouldn’t have taken it too personally if you had been throwing shade. While I don’t pay for it, I just don’t know an alternative I can use in the same way 😕
Started life as a peasant, cucked a king, and helped (albeit unintentionally) weaken a monarchy in a way that led to revolution. Truly was doing the lord’s work.
Huh, TIL! That does raise some interesting questions about discovery vs continuous settlement. Only other example of terra nullius I can think of is the Falklands-Malvinas dispute which I feel raises similar debates.
Saying nothing about the old colonialism with Denmark owning indigenous land such as Greenland.
I don't know enough about Greenland's desire for independence, and I assume it's messy the same way the question of Puerto Rico's future is, but there's a lot of injustice that Trump's expansionism is just the most recent example of.
One of today's (unlucky) 10,000 who has never read that one poem. They may come first for somebody you, a fucking bigot, don't like, but later they're going to come for you, too.
I wasn’t trying to equate the degree of their misdeeds. I was trying to illustrate that political change takes time and a lot of willpower and was pointing to recent examples of other long-term efforts.
If you do want to play that game, which is kind of pointless, let me ask about when Europeans are going stop just letting migrants drown in the Mediterranean?
But I don’t blame all Europeans. I don’t blame all the French, Italians, Maltese, and Greeks. That’s counterproductive and not how we fix these problems. I know there’s a lot of people in those countries trying hard to help save the lives of migrants. Shouting “cope” at people isn’t going to accomplish anything.
Isn’t this sort of the same idea as a spoonful of sugar and hiccups?