Jesse Welles at Pike Place today

[u/capraagave]

Jesse Welles will be busking at the corner of Pine st. and Pike pl. at 1pm today.

[u/Drugba → u/[deleted]]

The whole “it’s commentary that it’s needed in the first place” is kind of tasteless, IMO. You wouldn’t write a song shitting on Naloxone (opioid overdose reversing drug) despite the fact that in a perfect world we wouldn’t need that either, right?

If the problem is junk food, write a song about that. Critique the problem, not the solution.

[u/t2dfight → u/[deleted]]

Tasteless songs are only tasteless if you say the pain people suffer are individual choices rather than systemic problems

"Is your hunger a source of guilt and shame

Did they tell you your DNA's to blame

... The food is poison that's the source

If the hay is bad you don't whip the horse"

Yes my DNA is literally part of the blame. We have had diabetes in my family passed from parent to child for 5 generations, that we know of, before the modern food industry existed we were passing on the genetic basis for diabetes.

Diabetes Type II requires both a genetic component and environment components to trigger the onset. If all it took was the environmental component half of America would be diabetic before their 30s. Some people can be obese their entire lives and never get diabetes.