Dan Romero on Warpcast

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If you're intellectually curious, you might consider reading JD Vance's memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. It was highly lauded by the NYT and other elite media after Trump won in 2016 (and JD had yet to enter politics). I expect that to be memory-holed now. :) https://www.amazon.com/Hillbilly-Elegy-Memoir-Family-Culture/dp/0062300547

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i read it when it came out (and enjoyed it!) but the tide had turned against the book (both critically and in popular culture) by the time the movie came out in 2020 no memory-hole required, it already happened four years ago

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“if you’re intellectually curious” is such a clever, smooth way of saying “if you’re not close minded or too tribalistic”

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Nice book. Read it in ‘16 since it pictured a life I’ve seen when living in Virginia & worked for legal aid. Seen many families like that

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I read it when it came out; it’s a good book. It paints a sympathetic picture of another part of America, but I don’t think it would actually help him in the race. If anything some quotes might hurt, but probably not enough to be noteworthy compared to his opinions in interviews back then.

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I caught Vance's book back when it got so much interest as the explanation for why the pollsters were so wrong. As someone actually from Appalachia, he was another in a long line of outsiders who stereotype the region and highlight the worst. His sin is only made worse by claiming weekend and summer visits gave him some type of insight that he could share with his friends from Yale. Now that his motives are more clear, I would advise anyone who reads it to view it with that lens. As I tell my Texan cousin, visits to your granny in the summer doesn't make you a Kentuckian. Kentuckians know and understand that not all of Appalachia is poor, broken, and dirty. Not every hero aspires to leave. Poverty is not a moral failing. This book is worth a read, especially now that Vance is the most likely candidate to become the first millennial president.

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weirdest timeline for sure

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For a lot of coastal folks I think the book does work to educate. This video is also somewhat topical to it: https://youtu.be/p3O6bKdPLbw There’s a reason Dave Chappelle lives in Yellow Springs too…

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I'll have to check it out... I'm reminiscing in some older stuff that I inherited... The nostalgia & the aroma of reading FROM a book 70+ years old just hits differently. 69 $degen

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We need a book club for a re-read. So timely

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A Chinese pdf version of this is spreading in wechat..😆

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MILWAUKEE, July 15 (Reuters) - Eight years ago, in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, J.D. Vance was a bitter critic of Donald Trump. Publicly, he called the Republican presidential candidate an "idiot" and said he was "reprehensible." Privately, he compared him to Adolf Hitler.

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