I mean Jim Jones was pretty damn effective at convincing a large group of people to commit mass suicide. If he’d been ineffective, he’d have been one of the thousands of failed cult leaders you and I have never heard of. Similarly, if Hitler had been ineffective, it wouldn’t have takes the combined forces of half the world to fight him.

Are you having a stroke?

While I don’t care for the song, NPR calling media enjoyed by the lower classes “racist” isn’t exactly a new thing, and it rings less true every time they do it. The song, at its core, is a generic “We’re tougher than you” machismo piece which is a perfectly normal thing that can be found in most genres. Someone from Tennessee writes a song about how country people are tougher, then someone from Compton writes a song about how city people are tougher. It’s just dick waving and it’s normal thing everyone does, whether they realize it or not. NPR trying to turn it into a race thing isn’t convincing anyone to change their musical taste, it’s just fanning the flames of a conflict that pits working-class country people against working-class city people, in which everyone loses except the ones taking advantage for profit

For me, it just came down to how unintuitive and slow Windows’s desktop environment is. Setting up the most basic customizations requires going through like 15 sub-menus or dealing with the registry. Also, GNOME and KDE are just so much prettier than Windows’s desktop environment.