This is Amerika.

How goes it? Tough times here in the household, but just to show people that things do get worse: read this piece on a UK student's experience in TN. 
Rape, attempted rape and racism, basically. Not that this surprises me (I didn't include it all, but you should read it for sure). 

Refused birth control by campus healthcare thing due to being 20. Had letters from my dr in the uk. Called a liar , had to go to I think a planned parenthood place. Obviously got called names as I walked in. 

Party- got dragged into a room by a man I didn’t know. I threatened to glass him, I was released. 

Got put in a headlock by another American guy who tried to move me to an empty room. My Swedish friend , who was like a Viking, saved me. Humiliated the attacker by picking him up shaking the living shit out of him. Me and Swedish guy are still friends. 

Got told by a prof that I needed to stay in America to mate and improve the gene pool. Then he wrote a letter to my uni in the uk saying how wonderful I was if not a little distracting due to my eyes. My university in the uk freaked out and various things were said.

No surprise, but goes to show how crazy the ungovernable tribal regions of America are (not to say this isn't an issue everywhere non-rural, it's just definitely apparent in some areas... that is rural areas). A comment in the section gives voice to some of what I've said: that many of the rural areas are filled with very hateful people. And sure one can point to things like economic backwardness of those areas, but they also drive away a lot of their youth. The different ones. Sexually speaking or racially or otherwise. So essentially their youth with creativity. [1]
These people end up being internal refugees in the cities. And though cities have their issues (housing and other forms of discrimination, up to and including reactionary police force that mainly draws from small towns) these people do find it better out here rather than in rural hellholes [2].
And that rural tyranny that currently has more representation in the Senate than it's worth is what's driving the world over the Climate Change Cliff and tearing our country apart. And, mind you, still the purveyor of a cancel culture that the left only ever hopes to match in terms of power and tyrannical reach:





Yeah, and in a way Trump not facing any consequences for his actions (for 70+years and here and now) is much of what the right's screams about cancel culture are: they don't want their own hegemony on cancelling any culture they don't like to go away. Now, there is definitely a discussion to be had on free speech and not taking "any offense means it's offensive speech" ideas too far, but this is the fight right now: the real cancel culture of the right. 
And on that note, I think Homeland elegies does not grasp this idea enough, IMO. And by doing so misses a lot, even if it's worth a read. 
What else? Well, my baby is crying so I have to go, but we just spent 100Billion on nuclear tech that will make the world a less safer place (read the article, it's a great and sobering breakdown). But it brings jobs so what can you do? Oh, spend on things that will make us safer? Like a better pandemic response? Climate Change response?
But as we reach 480k dead, surely you must know it was worth it? [3]

And, anyways, more people dying everyday than on 9/11 means... well I can't tell you, but since our reactionary wing couldn't take advantage of it to gain power we can only assume it means nothing. 
Take care out there people and write your thoughts. 
[1] Again, not all but many.
[2] And that's what rural people and the current culture war is about, isn't it? The ability to make life hell for people you don't like, essentially the right's stance right now. Note too how much of the right screamed bloody murder that these same cities dared to vote in larger numbers than them. Nevermind that they have prisons of people who can't vote but who also pump up their dismal population numbers. Man, going on a OT rant here, but in Gods Fail, I tried to point out that the people who would survive strikes on the cities would be the rural types and none of it would lead to anything good. I think I was too rosy in the picture I painted. 
[3] /s for the ones in the back. 
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