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  • Co-opting alpine divorce, which regularly involves a murder attempt, feels weird? Just call it the sierra split.

    I do wonder how much of this is a cheapening of the weekend getaway, where you’d go to a B&B upstate, find out your potential partner snores, drinks to much, is rude to service workers, or views a toothbrush as optional. You’d sigh and split. It’s just a bad weekend.

    But with this, camping and hiking is a complication. You’re drinking warm filtered water from a Nalgene, eating granola because someone forgot to bring a lighter. Also, it’s raining and all your socks are wet. Did you bring anything to wash dishes? Ah, there are no dishes. You smell like smoke and are covered in sand.

    Granted, you can do camping/hiking well, but I’d bet some of these cases are from people doing it poorly, trying to save a buck by avoiding more expensive weekend getaways.











  • pachrist@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldThey can't answer this
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    2 months ago

    Easy.

    There is a huge portion of the country, about 1/3, that knows they aren’t living the American dream, but they work hard and don’t understand why.

    Then, someone tells them something slightly true. That there’s not enough pie to go around (semi-true), and that the reason there’s not enough pie is all the immigrants and freeloaders who aren’t working and are taking handouts (false).

    What they aren’t told is there could be enough pie to go around, if the top 1% was willing to share. They aren’t. And they now control ~35% of wealth in the USA.

    And then the top 1% uses that extra capital to tell that 1/3 of people that their Hispanic neighbor is the problem.