#mass country

[soweirdsonormal]

Cheesegirl

[guywithbeer]

Enjoy some South African hip hop from this sadly (recently) deceased artist. 

[kaleidoscopeprhyme]

[sbmoleme]

“GALXBOY, that’s culture!”

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[barzonlinemag]

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#MassCountry is still available [released 24/02/23), @AKAWorldWide fourth album from him with 14 blazing singles like #Prada, #Dangerous, #Mbuzi(Frestyle), and #Lemons(Lemonade)..

And massive line up of features from artists like @Sjava_Atm, @Nadia_nakai, @KhuliChana, @ItsYangaChief, @Nasty_csa, @ThatoSaul and @blxckie___ plus many more

Streaming available:

https://music.apple.com/za/album/mass-country/1664064205

So always remember to #GoHardOnline with @barzonlinemag

[ghanaplug]

Gyakie Featured on AKA’s Posthumous Album 'Mass Country'

Gyakie Featured on AKA’s Posthumous Album “Mass Country”

Ghanaian songbird, Gyakie, has joined the star-studded lineup of South African rapper AKA’s posthumous album, ‘Mass Country’, making her the only Ghanaian artist featured on the album which was released today February 24, 2023. The album, described as a “parting gift” and “love letter to South Africa,” showcases AKA’s love for his homeland and the diverse sounds that make up the local music…

[notfeelingthyaster]

like i get bruce won't kill joker or whatever (boooooooooo 🙄) but doesn't new jersey or gotham have death penalty? if not, there's no way for joker to be tried by federal justice after how many war crimes this man committed? and then promptly executed, bc i don't think the insanity plea holds to multiple accounts of mass murder, serial killing and premeditated kills

[waitineedaname]

I find it very funny that the only time ling and mei directly interact is at the very end and the only time they were ever in the same room together before the promised day is when ling has been freshly possessed. we already know mei gets a glance at greed and is like "is that the yao prince?? why is he here????" and I have to imagine it went similarly from ling's perspective. like he's still reeling from getting possessed on purpose, probably still getting his bearings in there, and he's just experienced potentially the worst twenty-four hours of his life, and then greed starts applauding a little girl's reunion with her panda and ling gets a look at her and is like "oh what the fuck."

[the-final-sif]

There's a post from someone outside of the US about how people in the US don't put their country down and just put down their state and something about US people being US centric, and part of it has always kind of bothered me because I think that people outside of the US don't really understand how states work for us or why people think their state should be enough. Some of it is being US centric for sure, but I honestly don't think that's the main reason.

It's because the US is a bunch of countries in a trench coat. I've compared it before to the EU, and I really do think that's accurate. It's literally a union of states. Each state has it's own government and laws and we have the federal government too but day to day a lot more of your life comes down to the state laws. Your driver's license, license plate, wage and a lot of employment protect (and enforcement), vast majority of court experiences, etc all go through the state. Moving to different states can mean being subject to wildly different laws, tax rates/methods, and forms of discrimination (ie florida trying to ban queer people while other states are explicitly adding protections for them).

Like, you'll notice that streamers often tend to be clustered in certain states in the US, and a lot of that has to do with certain states not having an income tax. Depending on what state they're registered in, companies can be subject to wildly different laws. Hence why Delaware is so popular for businesses. Bankruptcy law works differently in every state.

Lawyers are licensed to practice by state, and while they can move to different states, it's difficult and depending on their area of law they may be totally out of their field. Even small states like Delaware have totally different laws from a place 15 minutes to the left like New Jersey.

The largest single state by population is California which has nearly 40 million people. That is more than the entire population of Canada. It's roughly on par with Poland. Give or take a million people.

Ohio has about 11 million people, about 1 million more than Sweden. Florida has 22 million, over double Greece's population. New York and Romania both come out to about 19 million each.

Our smallest state by population, Wyoming, which has about 500k people, still has about 200k more people than Iceland.

Fucking Russia literally does not have half the population of the US. It sits at 144 million while we're at 333 million.

To give a sense of landmass/scale, France is the largest EU state by landmass with 630k square km. Texas alone is 695k. Alaska is 1.7 million square km. The US in total is 11.3 million square km. The entire EU has 4.2 million square km.

The US is 1) fucking huge and 2) so much less cohesive than a lot of non-Americans assume.

So why would someone from the US just put down their state? For the same reason that most people from the EU don't write down "Germany in the EU". Your state is where you're actually from, the USA is the weird umbrella you live under.

[bebegi]

[phantomrose96]

With the whole Trump and Musk fiascos going on it makes me wonder just how many highly powerful institutions in history were in fact run by man-children. It’s gotta be a lot more than we realize. I think historically it was just easier for this kind of thing to go unnoticed because for most of human history these people could not live-tweet their every stupid action to the masses

[prncssguya]

if you hear a phrase like “gun violence is now the leading cause of death for american children” and can just go about your day and not feel an ounce of rage or shame, something is incredibly wrong with you

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

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