maglevtrainfan [he/him]
not to miss the point or anything, but a frog will jump out if able
never had this problem, but I do have a couple different youtubes to get different algos. Maybe change your youtube gender? sorta related i wish there was a way to pre-load youtube algos and have other peoples algos so I could download the algo of someone who’s into deep into science and stuff cause whenever I try to make a science youtube it just recommends the same couple vsauce videos. Sorry that this is happening also.
I guess this is a bit of a gripe, but John Oliver is also pretty smarmy and annoying. So like once you start disagreeing with him everything he says starts being nails on a chalkboard. Kinda carries over to his target demographic and makes them frustrating. Or maybe they were already like that and the show just mirrors the petite-bougie but downwardly mobile / uncertain worldview? My bit about it IRL is that it’s a “well if I was in charge…” from people who are honestly not that far away from being in charge.
“anyone else find it bizarre…?” I think this is what you’re looking for caitlin johnstone article
If you see someone shoplifting food, no you didn’t
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Burn After Reading vibes
In Defense of Looting has good takes about this that I’m about to explain poorly.
Non-planter white southerners had very little power politically or economically, but were consoled by their 1. not being slaves, and 2. promise of the rewards of westward colonial genocide.
So southern aristocrats wanted to be a slave empire in the way that Europe was and make the ‘west’ into endless slave plantations, but the north wanted to make the ‘west’ a white settler colonial state with homesteading and industrial labor. These things are kinda at odds with one another, cause that homesteader labor was pretty racistly organized and didn’t want to be undercut by slave labor and the plantation capitalist south needed more land to build more plantations to enslave more people to make a line go up. Plus northern capitalists make a lot of it’s money acting as a stand in for Britain in the Triangle Trade and collecting colonial profits from the southern states (+ the Caribbean).
Pre-Civil war slavery being outlawed was not uncommon in New England and Europe, although that comes with some serious caveats, and the south used a “the north will make slavery illegal” line as a racist way to get support from non-planter whites (and whites in the north). There were also a lot of slave uprisings in this time for a lot of reasons which destroyed the economies of the south and north because both economies were based on slave labor. Then the war happened and non-planter southerners had a “rich man’s war” vibe. Many deserted, but also many didn’t.
I guess that because this is an internet person it’s not really that important to be super correct or thorough in your response. I liked this book though.