This is the dark side of the “small-town values” Republican politicians often advocate, which are supposed to be about things such as honesty, integrity and hard work. Don’t be fooled into thinking that “Try That in a Small Town” is anything but a wishful fantasy. It might sound as though it’s addressed to urbanites, but they’re not the real audience. It’s not a warning against city people coming to small towns; it’s a dream of how great it would be if they did. Then they could finally get what they deserve.
If Aldean’s song is disturbing in its implications, it’s also utterly banal, as usually happens when art is put to right-wing ends. Like political ads full of stock photos, it slaps together cliché and resentment into something you’ve heard a thousand times before.
Nevertheless, the song — and the controversy CMT heightened by pulling it — will no doubt make Aldean more popular. There will always be a market for the idea that you can be the hero of your own violent drama of retribution.
When my kiddo finally decided (at age 20) that it was time for (most of) his enormous Lego collection to go, it was a gut-wrenching moment for me (goodbye childhood!). However, we used this service, which was simple and hassle-free.
the thing is this dashboard change isnt the end of the world ill get used to it whatever im just fucking dying of embarrassment that its supposed to look like twitter
twitter gets run over by a bus and the next day tumblr comes 2 school wearing her clothes like. oh my god come on
Greg Abbot is a fucking monster and I hope he suffers just a tenth of the pain he has inflicted on human beings who are just looking for a better life.
Why is amazon treating its employees like teachers treat students
Because infantilizing your underpaid workers is the best strategy to instill feelings of inferiority and fear, while also encouraging them to want to please middle managers for better treatment while not actually improving their situation at all. Its very effective.
Everybody needs to take a good, hard look at the history of West Virginia, so they can understand just how badly companies will sink their claws into your life, and how to stop them from doing it again.
We are really gonna replay the 1920s all over again
Happened in the 1800s in Wales. They were called “truck shops”, and the English coal barons paid the miners in coupons that could only be used in their own shops, where goods were massively overpriced. The Merthyr Uprising was, by some accounts, the first place the red flag of worker’s rights was raised, and it was in part because of this.
reminder that the state joined the war on the side of the corporations
Some specific facts about this from the Battle of Blair Mountain:
The US Army fires over 1 million rounds of ammo at striking coal workers
around 100 workers were killed, nearly 1000 were arrested over the strike, some were tried and imprisoned for years
the bombs dropped on the workers by the state were the first time aerial bombs fell on US soil
“the bombs dropped on the workers by the state were the first time aerial bombs fell on US soil”
"I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence."
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