Both red and blue candidates owns multiple million-dollar properties. I believe you are missing the point of this meme
Edit: I didn't noticed the flag at first, for a moment i though people were finally realizing how much the system is rig but it's just another political meme
The funniest thing about this is Trump won't stop grifting them. Every month is something new. Trump trading cards. Trump shoes. Trump NFTs. Like the moment Harris tries to sale me shoes, I'm out. But these people can't afford medical care because their Republican state government cut their benefits, so now they are going to send money to a guy who is selling NFTs... Enough said.
I dunno, I feel like the hierarchical nature of feudalism is more core than tribute extraction. The lord needs the support of his loyal vassals, while the loyal vassals only need their lord insofar as they crave a ruler over themselves - or over their despised peers, for which they are willing to sacrifice money and dignity, and sometimes even their lives.
It would be awfully hard for a vassal landholder to get the kind of materials that they can’t produce on their own. Iron, tin, copper, lead; depending on the area, lumber, as well.
There was also the military presence keeping the brigandry in check (including from other feudal lords.)
Vassals also exchanged military service for land. (And the serfs that came with it!)
I agree here. Feudalism to me was a system to maintain order by splitting the kingdom into essentially vassal states that worked relatively independently through a kings central government rules.
This is something I see a lot with the houses that have Trump signs in my area. They always have a multitude of run down cars, a house that is falling apart, a bunch of stuff in their yard that are not lawn ornaments, and occasionally are fenced in. It's pretty consistent and they always have Trump signs and flags even though voting for Harris would likely help them afford to fix up their cars or house.
Maybe it's a post hoc ergo procter hoc, ie. the run down property, and voting for Trump, are both symptoms of the same thing: That life's been hard, that they are in over their heads, and that nothing seems manageable anymore. (Doesn't it sound an awful lot like undiagnosed neuro divergence?)
Maybe voting for Trump initially was an f you to the intellectual elite that "are keeping them down"? After a while it became part of the identity. And now they may not have much going for them, but they have their savior Trump.
I just noticed that both previous paragraphs starts with "maybe", that wasn't planned, but it doesn't convey my own doubts.
If mental healthcare were more widespread, available and good quality, a lot more people would really be something like that. Many of them not embarrassed anymore.
There are reasons our current time is so ... overloaded with junk and depressed. A lot more threats to one's mental health and triggers for otherwise less notable conditions have emerged, but everyone was like "it's just the Internet, common sense doesn't apply there, it's all toys and not real".
My comments are a good example of someone who would be stronger (not a millionaire, I'm afraid of power) should they go offline completely. Quite lonely though and unable to scream out my opinions about civilization going to hell at least in text T_T.
There's such thing as critique. We usually talk about it as something good. The issue is - in society there's your side and the other side. It's just life and humanity. When you allow yourself to feel too much shame and guilt, or allow your approval of actions of your group to replace your own action, dropping your own "me" and the responsibility of that "me" stemming from there being no justification for your position except your decision only - you lose.
Parents 20 years ago would teach their children to say "no" and to stand tall, but they didn't have to explain how it scales for Internet echo chambers because there were none. Ultimately there's only you. You can't do anything, even think, without taking full responsibility. Internet communities make that appear contested, but in reality it isn't.
That's the most important problem of our time. The rest people standing tall and taking responsibility for everything they do will fix.
Honestly even with the current situation, I'm seeing call for donations and aid to the affected States who have been hit hard this week. But I think to myself, why should I help these people when they are voting for politicians who are literally refusing federal aid, cause they don't want to look like they're accepting Biden's help. Now my poor ass is s donating to people who are refusing aid at the same time. I hate it
That's kind of narrow minded of you, not every person in the south is a trump loving conservative. That's the same kind of thinking they have when wildfires affect California, or pandemics hit cities more than rural areas, you have to be better than them and more open-minded.
Also Asheville, which is now flooded, is one of the most hippy liberal cities in the country.
Because despite political bullshit there are good people suffering. And even if you dont see some of them as good they are people and dont deserve the arbitrary harsh treatment only imagined in polarized social media echo chambers.
Is it arbitrary if they voted for the situation they find themselves in politically and financially in the wake of a disaster that would otherwise have been eased by the social programs they abhorred until needed?
Dunno, the first photo seems a nice place to live except for the racist flag.
But then it's probably not a big chance to get a girlfriend or an interesting job while living there.
But then again, girls are strange - some of them care about glossy appearances less than they seem to, and jobs are strange - some of the pretty good ones can be remote. Both may not work too well with that flag though.
I'd say without the flag I'd choose the first picture. I like nature. The second picture causes some kind of nausea I can't describe.