Quote (ofthevoid @ Aug 27 2023 06:33am)

Agreed, i don't really understand why tens of millions living in the Appalachians, rust belt or rural mid-west can't simply just learn to code. Don't they know there's six-figure jobs waiting for them in NYC or San Fran?

Quote (JohnnyMcCoy @ Aug 27 2023 01:34pm)

very interesting

when its poor white people from the countryside america is the land of opportunity and its their own fault, but for other groups its a repressive system with systemic racism and no opportunity for them ^_^

i do agree btw, there are plenty of ways to make a decent living

Quote (El1te @ Aug 27 2023 08:49pm)

Yup, leftists have been doing this for decades

Quote (theCrossbones @ Aug 27 2023 09:34pm)

No R have for decades been wanting to remove these programs for the inner cities all the while denying that rural America is even more reliant on it

Quote (ofthevoid @ Aug 27 2023 12:33pm)

Government subsidy 100% exasperates the obesity problem. It's not their intention but it happens. For most of human history obesity wasn't really a thing because you needed to work to get food. So you naturally burned most calories through manual labor, nor can you gorge because food wasn't that abundant nor was it processed with sugars and other preservatives.

I mean go through a stroll in Walmart and look at what land whales pile into their carts. You realize many of those people are buying all of that on funds from food stamps/disability, etc. I have a friend, his father is 300+lbs has not worked in 20 years, there are a lot of people like him and it's not really a right/left issue.

Quote (El1te @ Aug 28 2023 08:03am)

White and poor = Learn to code you stupid redneck

Black and poor = You're oppressed by an undefinable racist system

Quote (thesnipa @ Aug 28 2023 11:53am)

its a chicken egg situation. the cause is sugar/corn. now is it the govts fault for allowing the sugar/corn lobby to gain so much power? or is it the fault of the self serving lobby itself? and really at the time that sugar started to seep into all facets of the american diet lobbying wasn't really needed, that was the early days of the FDA when they were chasing down snake oil, not overly sugar snacks. but the lobby under the guise of muh freedum has stopped any legislation to counter it for decades.

Quote (ofthevoid @ Aug 28 2023 01:26pm)

It's a combo of personal responsibility, sugar lobby and government enablement. IMO all play a role and people tend to focus on one over the others to either internalize or externalize the blame. None are wrong, and all play a part.

Blaming purely government is like blaming the parents for giving a kid money and then him going to buy heroin with it. Blaming the sugar lobby is like blaming the dealer for the drug problem. Blaming the user while accurate also misses the external forces that enabled & enticed it.

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It was funny seeing my song at the presidential debate, because thats who my song is about. Its funny that they had to sit there and listen to it

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Its funny seeing the response, you know, that song has nothing to do with Joe Biden.