And you’re just going to ignore Mexico and Central America? Because their violence puts the USA to shame.

Right, but the point is this has been a hallmark of conquering nations for thousands of years, and the denialism goes hand in hand with it.

Japan sits silently in the corner

Let’s not talk about Nanking.

As someone from an actual small town, that’s hilarious 😂

Hear that subtle mandolin?

You dumb motherfuckers want a keychange?

Love that song.

Here, have a trophy for winning at internet arguments

With that kind of charisma, you must have a ton of friends

I was born in Illinois and I don’t listen to country (except Niel Diamond, which I argue is partially country even though others disagree)— not that it should even matter. But I say it just to help drive my point home about your stupidity

Check my profile and see how stupid I am, I dare you

If your goal was to look cool to random strangers on the internet, you failed

Yee, the most common things aren’t the only things. There’s something called the “animation age ghetto”. It’s a phenomenon where most people assume that animated movies and shows are for kids only; and it has held back the medium a whole lot. Animation is just a method of getting the art out there. It can be about whatever— or for whomever— you want.

You're thinking primarily country pop, and I agree with your assessment - most of it's crap. That being said, if the only country you know is what you've been exposed to on the radio, you're missing out on some amazing musicianship. Since I dig sharing music that breaks (or makes) a mold, here's some country pieces that you might dig:

"Lee Highway Blues" - Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper

Jolene - Dolly Parton

The Highwayman - Wayland Jennings, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristoffersen

Nah there’s definitely more variety to country music than that, but you have to dig for it (try Woody Guthrie for instance). Much like pop music, you have to go past whats popular to find the good stuff

wasnt aware of that, thanks for the link!

Hell yeah I know about Sturgeon’s Law! And its corollaries!

I believe that taste is subjective, but quality is objective. That’s because I believe that quality is about how effective a work of art is at doing what it set out to do, to its intended audience. And if an aspect of a work of art distracts from that goal or brings the work down, it is of objectively lower quality. However, I want to be clear that I mean statistically— individuals of course may be more or less affected or unaffected by individual choices in art.

Most people— for example— don’t see anything wrong with many of the choices in Ace Attorney; but I find that series to be ugly, tasteless, and insulting (not to mention extremely autism-unfriendly). The faces, the characters, the low-brow, the intuition-unfriendly dumbness. I believe that if Ace Attorney made choices that weren’t bad in those ways I described, nobody who currently likes the series would like it less— instead you’d have a larger appreciative audience instead. So basically, you can make aspects better without them (or others) being less-liked or worse.

As an autistic person, I really can’t shut off my observation, comparison, or thorough thinking. It’s always going. And one of the effects is that high standards come naturally to me. So because I’m always passionate and scrutinizing, I get more angry or more disappointed when things are bad— but also way more excited than most people when they are good. I feel like a lot of people don’t understand me, thinking that I just hate everything; but those people are focusing on when I’m negative and ignoring how giddy I get at other times.

But I digress. There’s a lot of crap out there; but that just makes us who notice that much more appreciative of the things that are genuinely good.