Slick Willy

This is pretty true and a I love it.

For all the ills of social media the internet has been an absolute godsend to musicians and music fans alike. We can find genres and sounds in clicking around curiously that most of us just wouldn’t have ever been exposed to without the internet.

FWIW I try to purposefully spend some time “exploring” music on YT, Spotify, and bandcamp, and I go out to local venues a lot. I’m a little older and having a wide library of good music helps me feel “in touch” with the world.

I have this site bookmarked, this seems like a good place to post it: https://www.gnoosic.com/

My brother and I noted the propensity for some people born into wealth to be attractive as well. Braces when you’re 10 and a dermatologist when you’re 13 can have massive, lasting impacts decades later. Just a bit more invisible privilege those born to money get.

Did you make this? This is a really nice reference and is pretty much what I was thinking, well done.

I was always partial to Barth.

Make sure someone takes minutes so we can maximize our synergies and deliverables.

Oh shit I unironically like this.

This is a good analysis and a great point re: the wedge issues they use to divide us. God, Guns, and Gays. Things that actually impact a relatively small number of people, but that are central to a persons identity and so can be used to turn people (who might otherwise have a lot in common) against each other.

Bro look at Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan,

Better toys for your soldiers doesn’t mean you automatically win the war.

And still today, right here in this thread, you have obviously privileged people tut-tutting gun ownership. Urging their comrades to forsake any defense at all against rising fascism.

If the people in power get their way there are going to be camps for undesirables on U.S. soil in the next decade.

I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety.

Get to know people in your community. Take an interest in growing food, learn how to fix things. Get a gun (or two) and learn how to use them. Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could happen here.

I’m not sure it is, we may well be walking into Civil War 2.0 though.

I feel like a true reckoning after the first Civil War never happened. A whole bunch of traitors were allowed to go home, heads held high, and assume the reigns of power. The proceeded to rewrite the memory of what happened. Making it a story of honor and tradition instead of hate and exploitation. Every one of them should’ve had their lands confiscated and their leaders hanged. The land should’ve been given to freed peoples as reparations, 40 acres and a mule and all that.

The fucking Heritage Foundation, our current situation really is the culmination of almost 70 years of rightwing efforts. It’s long but worth checking out Robert Evans BTB episode: “How Conservatism Won” in which “Robert sits down with David Bell to discuss how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all).”

The tl;dr is basically the rich hated FDRs New Deal and immediately set to work to undo everything he did.

They do not share our American values (life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness). They do not value freedoms (speech, press, religion, etc) the same way that many of us do. They want a return to the gilded age with them as the robber barons and gentry and everyone else as a permanently toiling underclass.

It’s worth remembering that one of the primary ghouls/traitors responsible for the attempted overthrow of our government on J6 was Roger Stone, the same traitorous ratfucker who began his career working for Nixon and has a fucking Nixon tattoo on his back. It’s really impossible to overstate just how fuckin’ bad these people are and they’re winning.

I hate the word so much because Bill O’Reilly used to constantly use it back in his hayday (early 2ks) so I associate it with him.

I agree he never had a shot but he definitely had some influence.

But that influence was just money, and there are other influential people out there who don’t want to be in front of the camera 24/7, so he has to go. Rest assured he’ll be toiling behind the scenes for the same ruling class goals as all the others though.

We had a coach in middle school who made it very clear to us on the first day that’d we’d be “dressing out” every day and we’d be expected to shower because you stink after you play sports. For the first month or so he stood outside the locker room and made sure your hair was wet, he didn’t inspect any penises, or even come into the locker room that I’m aware of, but he made sure a gym full of 11yr old boys knew they were supposed to wash themselves after physical activity.

It was a few decades ago, and he was the same gym coach that taught “health/sex education” so I get it. It was pretty uncomfortable and awkward but some people need to be told to wash themselves. I still smell grown people out in public who clearly never had a coach explain stank to them.

RIP. Coach J you were alright even to the nerds

I used to do data recovery and working on macbooks was a dream compared to every other plastic-and-clips cheapo laptop.

The soldered on memory is stupid but overall the build quality on them is very apparent and only comparable to very high end PC-laptops.

There are a couple places here with “breakfast” pizzas that have cheese sauce (or sausage gravy), scrambled eggs, and bacon.

I’m sure it’s an abomination to hardcore pizza aficionados but holy shit it’s a tasty slice.

I’d even be willing to let someone have their lake/hunting cabin/whatever and not tax too much but people are greedy and we’re far past that point. Once you start accumulating 5-10 homes, taking them off the market for other buyers, the taxes should increase exponentially.

That’s what his riches are all about, it’s all just trying to make people like him. He’s the unlikable rich kid who tries to buy friends.

But it’s not gonna work, all the money in the world won’t make people genuinely like you. Only humility and therapy would do that and those aren’t going to happen.

I feel like he peaked too early and shot himself in the foot. The true successor is a (relatively) unknown.

But I’m no Nostradamus and it wouldn’t even be the first time I was wrong today.