https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/16/jd-vance-hillbilly-elegy-appalachia

Whether you care for him or not for whatever reason, Hillbilly Elegy is incomprehensibly wrong in all regards and an absolute insult on our culture and people as Appalachians.

I hate how both the book and film depict us as weird mystical idiots who are responsible for all our hardships in history and in the nation, and how if we weren't so backwards and hillbilly we wouldn't be the way we are, which to him is just drug addicted mountain idiots who can't do anything worth a damn. The only "heros" of Appalachia in his story are those who "escape" the despair, aka himself. This is disgusting and simply unrealistic, unreasonable, and does not represent our strong culture and values.

I hate to be political on the chan but I hate that our possible vice president is famous for writing a book blaming Appalachians for their problems, despite being a huge hand in the opioid epidemic, depicting us all as idiots who are "otherly"(effectively subhuman), etc just for being collectivist instead of industrialist.

https://youtu.be/w9SYFwRJrxs

Common Louis Rossman win

I must say, this has been me a lot for the last many years. I'm almost to the point of just having a Forth OS over some basic hardware, doing wireless drivers for IRC and using bridges, using ham radio for local coms and just shutting off access to the modern world lol

The US has lost 4.3 acres of agriculture and wilderness every minute every day for the past 22 years.

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This is insane, I didn't think that party could lower their chances of winning even more but they somehow did. Kamala was obliterated in every debate, being called out for being pure evil and incompetent. Not saying anyone else is anything but those two things, but she is recognized for it in a way that other people simply aren't(unfortunately!!!). Dayum

No more politics from me though 😌🙌