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  • The singer does seem to be trying to distance himself from the conservative implications:

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/25/entertainment/oliver-anthony-song-response/index.html

    “The one thing that has bothered me is seeing people wrap politics up into this,” Anthony said. “It’s aggravating seeing people on conservative news try to identify with me, like I’m one of them. It’s aggravating seeing certain musicians and politicians act like we’re buddies and act like we’re fighting the same struggle here, like that we’re trying to present the same message.”

    But the line about:

    Well, God, if you’re five-foot-three and you’re three-hundred pounds
    Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of Fudge Rounds

    seems a bit hateful unless that’s supposed to be a metaphor for “fat cats”. The CNN article thinks it’s a metaphor:

    “though it has also courted controversy for its lyrics referring to politicians as “obese,” welfare recipients “milking” the system,”

    But the antisemitic connotations seem like a stretch to me. To assuming that criticism of capitalists is automatically antisemitic seems pretty antisemitic to me in it’s own right.










  • That may be, I’m just dismissing that “assets are cheap” is evidence that there is no cabal. I’m not sure who is fighting over the scraps- Rothschilds and Carnegies? I haven’t heard of that.

    I don’t know about “pipe-dream”. There are organizations we’re aware of that literally control economic conditions of the world such as the Federal Reserve. Do you remember voting for anyone on the Fed board? They are appointed by presidents. We vote for a president in America- but we can decide between the rep-party backed candidate or the dem-party backed candidate. If you can’t convince one party to support you there is literally 0 chance to win in a “first-past-the-post” electoral system. I see a system of “checks and balances” but not one that benefits us.

    I think that your scenario is more likely (which to me, is that what we’re seeing is just the outcome of deregulated capitalism) but I wouldn’t fall out of my chair to find that strings are being intentionally pulled by the people who control the world to benefit themselves.





  • czech@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhy do people dislike California?
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    I’ve lived outside NYC and in SoCal. I don’t think fair to only consider the total numbers (especially “living outdoors”) when one place is freezing and inhospitable for a few months every year while the other is relativity (and in some parts, actually) a tropical paradise. People are going to migrate from all around the country to the most comfortable places to live outside. Not to mention cities literally bussing their homeless out- NYC was actually the first and still has the largest program:

    New York appears to have been the first major city to begin a relocation program for homeless people, back in 1987. After the current iteration of the program was relaunched during the tenure of mayor Michael Bloomberg, it ballooned, and its relocation scheme is now far larger than any other in the nation. The city homelessness department budgets $500,000 for it annually.


  • Is you are someplace it is legal you can buy concentrates, eg: live rosin, which relativity smell like nothing. I vaporized weed for years; whatever room you are vaping in will smell like vaped weed. The best you can do is keep it to one room. With concentrates someone will only smell them if you open a container and bring it to their nose, or if they walk through your exhale. I use a an e-coil and a banger, the alternatives are to use a butane torch or a e-cig typle device.