and that he carries a lot of weight in as the chairperson of one of the main actors?

not everyone you dont like is a Nazi

they are when what i don’t like about them is they’re a nazi, which is the case with DHH

I can’t find any legitimate sources that quantify her total charitable expenditures

And you probably never will. I can speak anecdotally on that she gave us $3500 to get our truck fixed for our mutual aid project to keep delivering water to the southern coal fields of West Virginia. She didn’t publicize it, and she didn’t ask us to do anything one way or the other in terms of saying where they money came from. She just saw that we were helping people and helped us do it.

I think we can, and should, be critical of that the charity model she chose was less helpful than mutual aid models, but I certainly can’t find it in my heart to say that she built her empire and put her money towards what she put it toward out of pure selfish greed. To my eyes she got enough money to always protect herself forever from the horrifying traumatic poverty she grew up in, and then looked around her lifeboat, saw other people drowning, and got to work not just pulling people into her lifeboat but helping others build their own.

Again. There are definite critiques to be made about how she went about doing that since I think she overshot her protection mark by a margin and didn’t create durable mechanisms to survive her death, thus potentially creating a vacuum now that she’s gone. But I don’t think being a scold will help. I think trying to train the next abjectly impoverished person with some talent how to build out better than Dolly did will go a lot farther.

When you scold Dolly Parton, all the people who really got helped see is you saying that the person who inspired them to get to helping isn’t worth drawing inspiration from. It’s disheartening, and that’s why that other poster is getting downvoted so hard I think. Instead of virtue signaling that we hate rich people, let’s instead model that we help people, and use opportunities like Dolly’s shortcomings as a dedicated helper to educate the next generation of helpers to be more robust, resilient, and daring than any of us ever dreamed was possible when we were struggling with poverty.

I was intentionally over-exaggerating for the bit of the comedy. The important thing of what I was trying to call attention to was that republican policy is not about fiscal stewardship, it is about abject cruelty.

“i know this one rich nice lady already paid for all of it but… fuck you”

first saint in agnostic heaven. we don’t have rules so we can make them up

i think the concern is that half of Dollywood is owned by a charity foundation that Dolly set up to direct funds to people in need throughout Appalachia and the south, people Dolly saw their governments failing and knew first hand how awful it was to be that poor. You think Dollywood’s commercial, just wait until you’ve experienced Busch Gardens or Disney World where environmental exploitation is done in the name of making a quick buck and performing brand synergies. Or what I’m scared of for Dollywood, private equity coming and squeezing all the value out like what happened to the nearby Great Wolf where all of the value to the people who benefitted from Dolly’s stewardship of her brand get cut out entirely.

as good as what she tried to build was, she unfortunately followed an empire builder model. i fear her estate won’t be as surehanded as she was, and the inheritor of her crown will squander all that was there and that it will all be left in ruins in 10 years

A lot of people from that modernist movement were real awful. In addition to being a Nazi collaborator, Stein was also big time into Zionism and spoke fondly of the illegal kibbutzes in Palestine. I’m a lot more interested in the post modern responses to modernism in Surrealism and Dadaism. Of the two I lean way harder into Dadaism.

Also before you go diving into any of those movements, please note: Salvador Dali was a fake ass phony and is not all that representative of surrealism.

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i don’t doubt her value as a foreign asset, i just think noble patriotism for her true homeland is a less likely explanation than “if you give me some money i’ll tell you stuff”

and what homeland would that be? she’s from California

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absolutely loving it

(bias alert: my profile includes an Appalachian flag and i moderate !spoonbreadtube@slrpnk.net )

i would even say with enough time and deprogramming we can make them suck a lot less than they do. perhaps it’s true though that there can never be full recovery. but i think part of achieving class consciousness is having the faith to put in the effort in believing that better things are possible and that humans are neither inherently good nor inherently evil, but rather products of their environment

I did notice some of the middle books had a shocking amount of ink smudging and that multiple times while reading Parade of Horribles I found myself thinking I must have two pages stuck together because the pages were thicker than the other books

woman/women/men/man are both adjectives and nouns. english is fucked because it’s a bunch of different grammars that all jumped another language in alley and then made a new language by wearing that language as a skinsuit, and then conquered most of the world.

we don’t refer to “men artists” or “men writers” because the hegemonic standard within our society is the masculine perspective. so we sometimes have to draw attention to “this artist is showing you a woman’s perspective” to draw attention to that the arts and culture that you see by default show an incomplete view of the world. i look forward to the day the feminine perspective is common enough that we either just call everyone artists or have to start differentiating perspectives to ensure we fully understand the ramifications of what we’re seeing

sometimes you have to do the study to prove what was already obvious to everyone so you can proceed with a bigger and more ambitious endeavor

legal systems in the British tradition have this tendency…

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which is why i wish they wouldn’t label one paradigm “natural”

it’s become the default on mac, windows, and gnome, much to my dismay. i even had to install a gnome plugin to get sanity back