We were talking about how Iceland is an amazing country, surprisingly; and then I was thinking of other nations that have surprising aspects, and I rememgber that my Uncle told me that Blackface was acceptable for 20 years in England longer than it was acceptable in America.
Ah, yes. Europe in general took a bit longer to get off the blackface train, for a number of reasons. Germany was doing it all the way up to the 1980s.
America's different in that there's a particularly strong middle class (which is getting lower and lower every day). But yeah, we do have a class system, one that's not ironclad but harder to get out of than culture would imply.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
America's different in that there's a particularly strong middle class (which is getting lower and lower every day). But yeah, we do have a class system, one that's not ironclad but harder to get out of than culture would imply.
The way I've heard it explained is that America's class system is different in that it's pretty much entirely a money thing; if you can afford a yacht, you're upper-class, no questions asked*, but in Europe, you can be rich and still be considered lower- or middle-class if you didn't get your money long ago enough.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
-legitimately curious and ignorant-
the DS with a backlight must have put them out of fucking business
One of the best MADs ever