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So the internet noise machine has been trending this last week or so due to an execrably antagonistic and jingoist track called “Try That In A Small Town,” recorded by country “singer” Jason Aldean.







First, let’s be 100% clear: this song is just…junk. Musically it’s as cookie-cutter and formulaic as they come in every possible way. The video immediately validated my suspicion that country music in 2023 is just hair metal with steel guitars and flags. I swear they lifted part of this directly from a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7im5LT09a0" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.youtube.com/watch?

“Just ignore them and they’ll go away” is a long-standing stock response to behavior that is abusive, harmful, dangerous, and intolerable. In this edition of “TLDR” we break down this gaslighting behavior and call it out for what it is. It’s time to end this harmful and destructive narrative.







In a departure from the norm for this edition of “TLDR,” this page is just a summary with the media files embedded. The canonical transcript is published at this link on Medium.Com. (Disclosure; I get paid for writing at Medium. This is a “friends link” that will ignore your free article limit if you’re not an existing Medium subscriber, or bypass the paywall if you’ve already read your five free Medium ar...

In spite of all the disinformation you’ll find around the subject of capitalist economics, it is very true today in the US that banks have rigged the system to rob everyone else.







And it just sort of…happened, while we weren’t looking. The result of it happening is this massive inequity of wealth and power that we’re living in now.







In the US (and most other places) we have this thing called fractional reserve banking. In this system, commercial banks are allowed to loan money in excess of their actual cash and assets on hand. If the fractional reserve is 10% and I have a thousand dollars, I can write loans for ten times that.







Perfect conditions for this to actually work are first,

OH LOOKIT ME IMMA EDGY COMIC I’M GONNA OOOOHFEHND AND GET MYSELF CANSULLED!







Look, clowns, until one of you walks out on that stage and spends 90 minutes not only insulting everyone in the audience on every fundamental level from family to religion to sex to ideology, forcing them to take a hard, deep look at their ugliest and most reprehensible, repulsive, contemptible tendencies, recognize those tendencies within themselves, and be moved to make themselves better all while laughing at the jokes that are on them AND paying you for it?







Shut up with the “ooh I’m gonna be offensive” crap. 







The most offensive thing about you is that you think you’re offensive to anyone.  OH LOOK AT ME I’M GONNA REPEAT CARLIN’S SEVEN DIRTY WORDS AND GET A FACEBOOK BAN FOR 3 DAYS THEN COME BACK AND DEDICATE MY...

(Disclaimer: in no way does this article assert that









* racism isn’t a thing,







* white racism hasn’t been the root of horrific crimes and sins against humanity,







* racism is “over,”







* there is such a thing as “reverse” racism,







* racism in communities or people of color is “just as bad” in terms of impact and harm inflicted

Hey there folks I’m a little teapot short and stout and my name is John Henry from johnhenry.us, welcome to TLDR – “Too Long; Didn’t Read” – let’s have a short conversation about “the anger vote.”







Ran across this meme from Michigan Republicans posted via motivational speaker Matt Fol…er, sorry, that’s Matt Hall, who as it happens is my state representative.







The only thing breaking here is my eyeballs trying to find something meaningful in this statement.





The original post adds a comment about an “extreme partisan agenda” and a comment about “Big Labor,