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No, if you can’t figure it out then you deserve the world that you get. Saying rich people should solve the problems is the lazy answer. US consumer spending is 70% of GDP.
You are not obligated to explain yourself, but you also don't get to complain when nobody knows what you're talking about.
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No, if you can’t figure it out then you deserve the world that you get. Saying rich people should solve the problems is the lazy answer. US consumer spending is 70% of GDP.
You are not obligated to explain yourself, but you also don't get to complain when nobody knows what you're talking about.
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I love, love, love country music. I like most types of music, reggae hip hop/r&b, rock, just not death metal really. I think your post is a real underhanded compliment. It's like saying I really hate football and it's players, but John Elway is an OK dude.
There's a twist on black metal that you might like that's been coming out of Norway lately, exemplified by the bands The Good, The Bad and the Zugly and Kvelertak !
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This is another new troll account, noticed them in the snowden thread.
It's actually so much that I can only imagine it's someone trying to make the right look bad with a false flag.
I didn’t know that they are exclusively right-wing oriented, but will keep an eye out.
I hate, hate, hate country music, but I have an enormous amount of respect for Dolly Parton. She's just a plain old good person, and also extremely savvy from a business and money point of view (while having to plough through patriarchal barriers both emotionally and financially): https://www.joshuakennon.com/dolly-parton/
I used to say things like "I like all music, but country", especially when I was younger. But then I started dating someone who grew up in the south (Georgia and Texas) and I've been exposed to many country songs, spanning many decades and I've found myself enjoying some of them. It's still pretty low on my list of favorite music genres but I can have a good time listening to it. Not all country music is the same. I…
I hate, hate, hate country music, but I have an enormous amount of respect for Dolly Parton. She's just a plain old good person, and also extremely savvy from a business and money point of view (while having to plough through patriarchal barriers both emotionally and financially): https://www.joshuakennon.com/dolly-parton/
I used to say things like "I like all music, but country", especially when I was younger. But then I started dating someone who grew up in the south (Georgia and Texas) and I've been exposed to many country songs, spanning many decades and I've found myself enjoying some of them. It's still pretty low on my list of favorite music genres but I can have a good time listening to it. Not all country music is the same. I…
Check out the Shaver talk and performance on the Norm Macdonald Show on Netflix for example.
I hate, hate, hate country music, but I have an enormous amount of respect for Dolly Parton. She's just a plain old good person, and also extremely savvy from a business and money point of view (while having to plough through patriarchal barriers both emotionally and financially): https://www.joshuakennon.com/dolly-parton/
I find your comment interesting and would like to understand why you hate a large genre of music. Is it the message in the songs, the people, Nashville? My taste in music is questionable (I still listen to Yaz and even Modern Talking occasionally, mixed with 80s disco, which I believe was the epitome of popular music) but I do like many Country songs: putting aside Dolly’s favorites like 9 to 5 (great lyrics and musi…
I also find sometimes that music in a genre is so bad/annoying that it wraps around to being listenable.
Maybe it's easier to see in movies where bad movies become enjoyable. (like "shoot-em up" where Clive Owen delivers a baby in the middle of a gunfight)
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Are there no profit charity organization where everyone is a volunteer and no one draws a salary? Lots of these orgs often seem like they exist to maintain the organization than benefit their cause.
I am a nonprofit CEO who’s worked in community, sport, educational and health charities. Organizations and causes require people who work full time to help organize the charitable work. It is very difficult to find people to volunteer at this level and typically if you do, they are independently wealthy. Retired people can do more but typically they do not want to give that much time and have other things they want t…
I often hear, well, if you don't pay them top salary you are not going to attract people from private enterprise. I don't think you want people whose main motivation to contribute is money.
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Not to detract anything from her contribution but she isn’t funding the whole thing. The way it works is a local nonprofit for a geographic area partners with the Imagination library and funds them to offer the program in that area. Their website explains how you can become a partner for your area and the costs involved. In some places it is government funded. The program in Baltimore City for example appears to be l…
$2.20 per child, per month. That’s the partnership contribution. Please reconsider where you place your time and outrage.
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Not the person you’re replying to, but I think it’s reasonable to dislike a genre when one dislikes the things that define the genre. I don’t like death metal because I find the vocal affectation silly and the range of instrumentation too narrow. I dislike country for exactly the same reasons. There are genre-defying artists who transcend the category; Patsy Cline comes to mind. But if someone’s going to sit down and…
For me, death metal is like...black coffee. Bitter at first, but eventually you learn to appreciate the unique experience for what it is, and then you start drinking it all the time. You start trying to tell others about your experience, but only other black coffee drinkers seem to understand, and you sound insane to people who have tried black coffee and hated the bitter taste.