anyway, every yokel safari piece is the same piece, some guy without a lot of close connections to a small town cosplays as what he imagines the median resident to be and valorizes the place as he remembered it as a child, hillbilly elegy at least doesn't try to hide vance's contempt for it - ThreadSky

golikehellmachine.com • 1 day ago

anyway, every yokel safari piece is the same piece, some guy without a lot of close connections to a small town cosplays as what he imagines the median resident to be and valorizes the place as he remembered it as a child, hillbilly elegy at least doesn't try to hide vance's contempt for it

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ericblyler.bsky.social•1 day ago

My mom had to quit her church in NE Georgia because they kept including her in their racist, sexist, conspiracy theorist email chain letters even after she repeatedly asked them to stop.

lizamazel.bsky.social•1 day ago

I have a collection of essays from old Gourmet magazines. One that sticks with me from, oh, mid 20th century I guess: some dude waxing so exuberantly purple over the rugged, terse masculinity of Maine lumberjacks & such you're embarrassed for his corpse, 70-odd years later

lizamazel.bsky.social•1 day ago

in writing about their mighty manly breakfasts: they eat not "feminine rashers of bacon" but butcher chunks of salt pork. eggs and bacon would be "an insult to his oily masculinity" (really. OILY)

lizamazel.bsky.social•1 day ago

after downing a Bunyanesque portion of carbs & fats prepared by the long suffering wife, Maine Man "grunts, 'Ayuh,'" presumably adjusted his crotch and spits, then goes out to tame the American wilderness.

and the journalist goes home, faps, orders room service and writes it up before deadline

radherring.bsky.social•1 day ago

Bert & I go to the cardiac clinic

mrbtx.bsky.social•1 day ago

The part that gets me about Cuban specifically is like ...bro you are a Jew from Pittsburgh...why

golikehellmachine.com•1 day ago

billionaire brain damage

jerryn13.bsky.social•1 day ago

And the worst part is, he's about the best of the dotcom bros.

texaskrusty.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because he cashed out early before the crash and went into other things.

eleanor.lockhart.contact•1 day ago

because he's a clout hound who knows how to get easy social media acclaim, he's just not quite as dumb as certain other billionaires who do this

mrbtx.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh definitely, and being that rich makes you dumb etc

golikehellmachine.com•1 day ago

i stopped talking to a cousin of mine from summit county, ohio because i was catching up with him after getting out of prison and he called obama the n-word and i haven't been back to washington county, oklahoma in almost 30 years, i should write a book about my experiences and sell it to netflix

ericblyler.bsky.social•1 day ago

Correct move 👍

skoryy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ah, Summit County. Akron and a whole bunch of those kind of exurbs.

golikehellmachine.com•1 day ago

my mother grew up just outside stow in a house built on a landfill

etxgov.bsky.social•1 day ago

Man they could tell some great stories on small town and rural liberals.

anotherstraycat.bsky.social•1 day ago

I go back to my hometown to see my mom, and if she dies or moves, that’s the last time they will ever see my ass.

foolishmortal.bsky.social•1 day ago

Summit and stark counties have some of the highest shithead hick to lib gradients in the country. Tractor pulls and gun rooms to live laugh love/in this house in under fifteen minutes highway.

aiyaruk.bsky.social•1 day ago

That's just Ohio cities in general I think. Go right from "HELL IS REAL" to the suburbs of Columbus, the gayest city in the state.

lizamazel.bsky.social•1 day ago

"hell is real, thank god I moved"

jeninmotion.bsky.social•1 day ago

Have y'all traveled the surreal hell that is the Turnpike to Pittsburgh and on to Cleveland? They are all the same white people also I assume we've all seen That Trailer with Trump's name if you've done the drive

jeninmotion.bsky.social•1 day ago

Coal Oil Guns Pro Life No Socialism? Always a highlight of our holidays.

jmroth.bsky.social•1 day ago

I hardly ever drive the Turnpike, but did it twice in the last month, so I know exactly what you mean.

acerbicotter.bsky.social•1 day ago

.....I grew up in Summit county, should I be writing "Western Reserve Elegy"?

cool-ranch-soda.bsky.social•1 day ago

So, Hudson was as aggressively elitist as all of us in the little rural towns outside Akron thought it was, huh?
Please, please do not write Western Reserve Elegy.

acerbicotter.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh it was SO elitist

acerbicotter.bsky.social•1 day ago

Granted, the town I grew up in was one of the wealthiest towns in the area and dang were they snooty. My dad was a college admin and we were looked down upon as trash

eleanor.lockhart.contact•1 day ago

I mean, if you wanted it I could see you being Vice President in a few years

mrnelson007.bsky.social•1 day ago

I can’t imagine GLHM remotely wanting it but ironically “not wanting the job” feels like one of the better qualities a VP could have

fixjong.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think this might be the real root of like ALL humanity’s problems since forever; we want leadership but the people best suited to lead don’t want the job. What sane, compassionate person would want such heavy, responsibility?

rikibeth.bsky.social•1 day ago

some consolation for it being worth a bucket of warm spit?

pugetopia.bsky.social•1 day ago

I need Ron Howard on the phone, stat!

bigsteven.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was invited into a group chat with a bunch of old friends from a church I went to when I was in HS…good old Carteret County NC.

I was mortified to see some of the shit
they were sharing…

I left the group after a day…

jharty42.bsky.social•1 day ago

When can I preorder Golikehelligy?

goaskalis.bsky.social•1 day ago

When on yokel safari DO keep hands and feet inside the car let's be safe class

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