Ah this is my US centric view kicking in and just assuming everyone is from here, my bad. So many of these issues are universal it feels like. Yeah talking outside our bubbles is very refreshing, that’s a good take we could all use more of.

I know it’s just a pack of gummies Karen, but I’m still choosing the weird off brand to avoid the cute fascist puppy from getting in my house.

I mean - if you have an opinion section on a news platform now is the time to fucking use it, end up lying in chalk with WaPo and La Times anyway.

I’m suspicious at best - what better way to control the narrative than to shape it before anything even starts. After watching Fox News shape the Tea Party in 2007, and the handful of times I’ve already seen this referred to as the d*mocrats version of the tea party, I’m ready for my tinfoil hat.

Turn on the tap in Flint, Michigan or rural West Virginia and you’ll get a very different perspective on that clean water issue.

How much of our country have you seen, geographically and socioeconomically? Because I think that solves about 99% of your confusion.

If you’d like a genuine dialogue I’m here for it, not trying to be belligerent. Have a good one regardless man.

Thank you for this - as an American I mostly hear “nothing will change” and it’s disheartening to say the least. I see how frustrated you all are too, and you can’t even do anything directly about it. Anyway, thanks for your support, it means a lot.

I make a monthly playlist, cool if I just share some of that? Here we go

Animal Collective - Prospect Hummer

Father John Mosty - Anthem

PPL MVR - Day Of The Dead

Sam Cooke - Cupid

The Main Ingredient - Everybody Plays the Fool

Justin Townes Earle - Ain’t Got No Money

Oneothtrix Point Never - Lost But Never Alone (Forced Smile Edit)

Luis Cole - Planet X

PUSHA T - M.F.T.R.

Childish Gambino - Backpackers

A Perfect Circle (it’s a cover) - Fiddle And The Drum

Desmond Dekker - Israelites

Buke & Gase - Flock

Everything Everything - Undrowned

Ikimonogakari - Unmeichan

ICE BAHN - Legacy

Childish Gambino - This Is America

That might be the point

As someone who lives in the suburbs in the Midwest as an adult who can’t drive - yes it’s a fucking nightmare. I lived in NYC and just lived near subway stations, best time of my life. SoCal is a close second, I lived in a city that was walkable/bikeable to anything - including the ocean. To say the suburbs were a shock is about as equal as my depression is to it still today. I’m an artist so fortunately I at least have that to do at home, the depression means it’s working right?

That’s absurd and it’s this kind of misinformation that has led our country to be the joke it is today. Do better.