This song speaks to me right now.

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Anonymous wrote:Shakira just dropped a song that feels like the Spanish language version of Rich Men North of Richmond:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7oTlx5YC2P4

There is an energy in our country in this moment. People are feeling despair and hopelessness about their futures and these songs are tapping into that feeling.

Yeah, we've only been talking about growing income inequality for twenty years now. But one right-leaning song about it comes up and suddenly Republicans notice.

We have been talking about it. Biden started doing something about it with help to families but the GOP lost their minds and voted against it. Trump campaigns on fixing it but we all know he doesn’t care about anyone but himself. He gets his followers upset at the Dems when it’s Republicans voting to hurt the working class and poor in this country.

Yup they ridicule anything that could help.

Dem:Make college affordable so everyone can go?
Republican:You're elitist! (literally Rick Santorum to Barack Obama)

D:How about non college job training? That's OK yes?
R: Nope! Just voted to kill job training funds for WIOA.

D:Bring green energy jobs to depressed areas?
R:Nope protect coal!

D:OK well could unions at least protect coal miner safety and maybe negotiate better wages?
R: No! Unions are the devil!

D:Then at least raise the minimum wage.
R: Nope! You'll kill jobs

D: Do you have any ideas?
R: Cut taxes for billionaires!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shakira just dropped a song that feels like the Spanish language version of Rich Men North of Richmond:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7oTlx5YC2P4

There is an energy in our country in this moment. People are feeling despair and hopelessness about their futures and these songs are tapping into that feeling.

Yeah, we've only been talking about growing income inequality for twenty years now. But one right-leaning song about it comes up and suddenly Republicans notice.

We have been talking about it. Biden started doing something about it with help to families but the GOP lost their minds and voted against it. Trump campaigns on fixing it but we all know he doesn’t care about anyone but himself. He gets his followers upset at the Dems when it’s Republicans voting to hurt the working class and poor in this country.

Anonymous wrote:Shakira just dropped a song that feels like the Spanish language version of Rich Men North of Richmond:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7oTlx5YC2P4

There is an energy in our country in this moment. People are feeling despair and hopelessness about their futures and these songs are tapping into that feeling.

Yeah, we've only been talking about growing income inequality for twenty years now. But one right-leaning song about it comes up and suddenly Republicans notice.

Anonymous wrote:Look, I think Fredericksburg is as crappy as the next person. But to write a whole song about it is a bit much.

Late to reply, but great post. It would be a better explanation to the song than anything offered by the singer or anyone else.

Shakira just dropped a song that feels like the Spanish language version of Rich Men North of Richmond:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7oTlx5YC2P4

There is an energy in our country in this moment. People are feeling despair and hopelessness about their futures and these songs are tapping into that feeling.

Anonymous wrote:So the Richmond rumors were mostly true. The grandfather of the singer's wife (so his grandfather in law) have an interview to the NY Post. He's currently in a very happy marriage, they have one kid and another on the way. He has been married before and has a child from that marriage. He's a nice guy, great husband and father. They live in Dinwiddie in a regular, nice house. He worked as an aluminum salesman but quit to pursue music.

So he's not a poor guy living full time in a trailer in Farmville.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/how-oliver-anthony-went-from-aluminum-sales-to-viral-success-and-is-still-a-doting-dad/

Yeah, and Bruce Springsteen never served in Vietnam. But wrote a song about it called “Born in the USA”.

He dodged the draft from a concussion 2 years earlier and acted erratically at his military physical as he was told to when he got drafted at 19.

Yet he made millions off an anthem for vets who served in a war he literally faked his way out of serving in himself.

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Anonymous wrote:"Look out for miners"? They failed to make a switch to Bitcoin mining. Too busy living under a rock. Time to invest was when money was flowing. Why would they thing it was going to last forever?
Where I'm from, the poor are not too sharp and they know it. They don't blame it on someone else. They have opportunities just like the white man singing. He, however, can't see the opportunities even now. Too busy being pissed.

What an odd statement. No value is produced by bitcoin mining. It expends massive quantities of energy and produces nothing in the end but solved algorithms.
By contrast, miners actually produce the fossil energy that makes bitcoin mining possible-- as well as providing the energy that powers our homes, schools, factories, etc. Either you know this and you're being cheeky, which I hope, or-- more likely-- you don't understand what you're saying.

+1000

I did bitcoin mining from 2008-2014. In the early days there was some worthwhile return but now it's no longer particularly viable. Unless you have some kind of free source of energy or compute cycles (and most of that is illicit), it typically costs more to power a bitcoin miner than whatever bitcoin return you will get out of it.

Anonymous wrote:"Look out for miners"? They failed to make a switch to Bitcoin mining. Too busy living under a rock. Time to invest was when money was flowing. Why would they thing it was going to last forever?
Where I'm from, the poor are not too sharp and they know it. They don't blame it on someone else. They have opportunities just like the white man singing. He, however, can't see the opportunities even now. Too busy being pissed.

What an odd statement. No value is produced by bitcoin mining. It expends massive quantities of energy and produces nothing in the end but solved algorithms.
By contrast, miners actually produce the fossil energy that makes bitcoin mining possible-- as well as providing the energy that powers our homes, schools, factories, etc. Either you know this and you're being cheeky, which I hope, or-- more likely-- you don't understand what you're saying.

Anonymous wrote:"Look out for miners"? They failed to make a switch to Bitcoin mining. Too busy living under a rock. Time to invest was when money was flowing. Why would they thing it was going to last forever?
Where I'm from, the poor are not too sharp and they know it. They don't blame it on someone else. They have opportunities just like the white man singing. He, however, can't see the opportunities even now. Too busy being pissed.

Bitcoin mining uses a helluva lot of energy. Is that what you want?

"Look out for miners"? They failed to make a switch to Bitcoin mining. Too busy living under a rock. Time to invest was when money was flowing. Why would they thing it was going to last forever?
Where I'm from, the poor are not too sharp and they know it. They don't blame it on someone else. They have opportunities just like the white man singing. He, however, can't see the opportunities even now. Too busy being pissed.

So the Richmond rumors were mostly true. The grandfather of the singer's wife (so his grandfather in law) have an interview to the NY Post. He's currently in a very happy marriage, they have one kid and another on the way. He has been married before and has a child from that marriage. He's a nice guy, great husband and father. They live in Dinwiddie in a regular, nice house. He worked as an aluminum salesman but quit to pursue music.

So he's not a poor guy living full time in a trailer in Farmville.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/how-oliver-anthony-went-from-aluminum-sales-to-viral-success-and-is-still-a-doting-dad/

Look, I think Fredericksburg is as crappy as the next person. But to write a whole song about it is a bit much.

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Anonymous wrote:This guy wrote a good song for many people who like it and live in his world. And yes, there are fat people on welfare of all races - so I agree that if you are morbidly obese maybe welfare is working too well for many using it.

The bolded reflects so many levels of misunderstanding that it must have taken significant effort to achieve it.

How about just not allowing government subsidies to pay for junk food?

"You'll have to pry my high-fructose-corn-syrup laden junk food from my cold, dead hands!!!!"

Do you understand the difference between government PAYING for junk food and government dictating the size of a big gulp you can buy?

The government subsidizes the corn used to produce HFCS, so that the government can subsidize food with HFCS.

Yep. The junk food is heavily subsidized and funded and much of that comes from the red-state ag lobby, ya know the "Real America" that Palin talked about while defiant raising that massive Big Gulp.

The pp who said "do you understand the difference" has got to be one of the most obtuse and clueless people on this thread. It's all connected.