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...comes out looking like context ~ ~ someone across the street from twitter HQ is projecting a ticker of elon musk insults onto the side of the building |
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I'm just trying to figure out your actual, substantive, salient points lately. As in, the specific reason you post the progressive news articles you do, and what you actually think about them. here I the points I gather are: 1. Huffingtonpost has an article about elon musk (Gee, I wonder what they're slant is going to be) 2. he looks like like richie hawtin (an "in one ear and out the other" electronic musician i havent seen mentioned since 2007). I'm just making sure I didn't miss anything |
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target=_blank>elon musk "owned" by sjw text crawl, topic reposted by autsitic millennial ignites firestorm on dead electronic forum . |
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i dont post on twitter and all and I dont care one single iota if elon musk lives or dies but i can roleplay as the midlly acidic twitter guy that replies and you instablock. i can roleplay this guy all day |
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did you read the huffpo article whilst putting in your nosering bro |
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bro? |
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my family is in town for an early thanksgiving. im gonna see if anyone wants to play it's pretty fun. people create these little sacks (game comes with colored bags) and try to sneak in contraband. they're like "I have 5 bread good sir" and the person playing as a sheriff is like "fuck that, you're sneaking in some mead and crossbows" and if they're wrong the other guy gets the points. I suspect, very strongly, that breakdown was more interesting than the topic itself, so you can consider this thread saved |
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and while we play sheriff of nottingham we're not gonna mention anything from ariana huffington. and we're not gonna talk about elon musk or nancy pelosi. floridians wont be brought up in discussion. anything to say about that, epic? |
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i love the concept of projector graffiti; it's perfect. just project light from a bit away onto the headquarters of some nonsense that needs a solid slapping. and yes, a projector across the street, with a marquee ticker saying, like: "...Petulant pimple Spoiled Oligarch Apartheid benefiter Space karen" ...and, yeah, Space Karen, whoever came up with that, i owe you a beer. it is just beyond perfect. and i'm just here for the lulz. |
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> did you read the huffpo article whilst putting in your nosering > bro it's kind of strange to see someone aspiring to be mermaidman. ah well; elon musk twitter takerover still stranger i have no piercings; no tattoos. i am not from california. i am from massachusetts, and we don't put up with that nosering horseshit over here |
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I'll be honest I dont really know mermaidman's style too well. I remember his name, so he's an older user, but I think his persona has mutated over the years. That said, his "I can sere your little peen" posts WERE inspiring to a degree, but duplicating that is not the specific goal I guess. The goal is more like... well you're the most prolific poster these days and what you're posting is like top of the "reddit meta" garbage and I just think you could be a little more interesting, as you have in the past. People go through phases. Yours right now is like, I'm triggered by musk and gonna keep posting the stupidest trash and peacing out of the thread mine is more like, that deserves to be shit on and I have the ability to do it were gonna play that game now. I listened to part of your album you posted and I liked what i heard so far. |
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i am reacting to current news? that, i have, like, almost a year of random threads going back to how: i told microsoft "i hope whoever made this decision dies in a fire" and i got suspended from twitter and i haven't used it since? that i've been making threads about all sorts of other interrelated topics... musk, how discord is plundering internet communities for their IPO, how this should be just fucking destroyed as a viable business model where some asshat feudal landlord demands everyone be "hardcore" or get kicked out of the tribe and fend for yourself in the jungle. so i see "mastodon" and at first, it's like: this is the right idea, this is the sort of thing. but then i take a closer look and this is terrible shit, and the paranoid side of me say this is almost a straw man to train people to avoid open source as a solution and stick with fucking massive feudal concentration cramps like facebook, tiktok, but, honestly -- i just consistently post a bunch, about all sorts of stuff, about nirvana, about aphex, complaining about the carbon footprint of streaming [is it even a fucking discussion yet? you fucking stupid, stupid idiots] and more and no i tried using reddit. i made a few subreddits and everything i posted was in a fake vaguely asian broken english that really didn't add up to any particular variety of asian, like "food i like eat" and no one posted in my subreddits and i decided i hated reddit and that was like 2015 and my position has not evolved since. that i actively avoid evening visiting that site unless no other links have the juicy datum i require |
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i think perhaps it would help if i say where i do get my dat(a|um) from - there was the thread where i'm bitching about new google news and tony danza recommends feedbro and now i'm largely coming from a curated pile of about 100 RSS feeds. admittedly mostly "liberal" but i make sure to keep some flavor - i listen to most episode of marketplace on NPR - i was listening to this new "hard fork" podcast from NYT and it's almost like someone is answering my posts in part of it. that i'll go with the lesser ego interpretation, that it's nothing to do with me except i'm dead on with what many are thinking now and, well, you? i get the whiff of someone who feels threatened. but it is, frankly, annoying... that this is an issue? my album is another thread? we can disagree and i don't hate you? etc |
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feedbro with huffpo, npr, nyt damn dude it's like you installed a wet bar to drink the kool aid |
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yeah, I'm not actually trying to talk shit or be mean spirited. I just think it's a weak thread centered on a weak article that has a weak political spin. If Elon's twitter fails completely, and it probably will, it'll be because of the progressive pressure on advertisers and no other tangible reason. Your opinion that I'm feeling threatened is pretty on point, but I'd just say the threat is over, the culture that I enjoyed for most of my life is actually *gone.* Not a threat anymore, just a reality. It would have happened regardless at some point with age, but it happened so fast (all post 2016- a reaction to Trump, perhaps) that I'm still adjusting. |
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will the next cultural phase produce anything of value? It hasn't yet, to my subjective tate. Not one show worth watching, not one movie, not one piece of music that has stood out yet. The people still doing anything worthwhile all the holdovers swimming against the stream, paddling against the huffing post and verge and threads like these |
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Wolfie if you want a good post 2016 series check out Midnight Mass by Mike Flanagan. As for music it's the same as ever, you gotta dig for the good stuff. I should bump the bandcamp finds thread if I can find it, ironically |
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One holdover I still have a lot of respect for is Tarantino. The last two movies I saw in the theatre were Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019, it was great) and The Northman by Robert Eggers (he did the fantastic "The Witch" and "The Lighthouse.") here are some reviews "This is a crucial element in Tarantino’s dream-1960s world: men use violence as the ultimate answer to manly problems. This assumption dominates the westerns, war films and spy romps that Tarantino spends much of the film painstakingly re-creating, and which mean so much to his central male pairing. The movie’s controversial ending is essentially Tarantino bringing on stage the enemies of his fictional world (“fuckin’ hippies”, largely), and then spectacularly reasserting his worldview against them, punctuating his argument with every gory slam of a Manson follower’s head against a telephone." could that "review" be any more fucking soy? From the vulture, same trash as the verge you linked the other day: "You realize that Quentin Tarantino has just made his first movie since the downfall of Harvey Weinstein — the man who launched Tarantino’s career and became a symbol of poisonous male-dominated Hollywood — and made that movie a celebration of old-school, masculine Hollywood. That realization makes the final note it strikes, intentionally or not, feel even more stubborn in its vindication of old-school macho men." |
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I could do Northman too, but I'm getting lazy and they said ALL the same shit. The point is, the people writing these articles are the people you've been linking recently. I already know what they think about everything, and they're the reason art is currently such trash. |
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I will check out Midnight Mass for sure, Redlettermedia liked that as well and I actually stopped watching their vid cause it looked interesting! I just forgot about it since. Yeah I said in another thread the other day, I'm mostly here on XLT for the spam (epic yours too!). The amateurs have been coming through more and more, I think bandcamp is a pretty cool platform. |
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clarity: "I actually stopped watching their vid cause it looked interesting!" I stopped watching their review to avoid spoilers because it was immediately interesting! |
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oh for sure avoid spoilers. go watch it now go go |
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will do, I forgot I paused that review, this was a great reminder. still at my mom's for thanksgiving tho, her internet is shite. I'd have to buffer every 10 min :-/ |
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the other show RLM sold me on and I ended up skipping the review for was some apple tv thing called "Severence." That's on the list to check out too.. |
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this may sound strange but i only made the thread because i thought "Space Karen" was funny, and hey, perhaps other people will find it funny also? maybe even a liiiitle? then wolfslice really wants to talk politics. it's not what i expected, but alright, this is just as good let's roll with it |
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someone actually linked me the guardian article over telegram as a response to me linking them my album. just more details that, well, clash mightily with your assumptions |
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but it makes sense the album came back the other end of the thread through wolfslice; sort of like an einstein-rosen bridge going on here |
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i don't really understand why i'm being accused of drinking the kool-aid, i guess. what am supposed to RSS, fox news? that one i can't stomach, but like i said, i dug up a bajillion feeds, and i did try to represent the gamut. now i have a giant list of feeds, and i kind of just graze; skip around. even kind of like... well CNN is saying this, what is CBS saying. kind of taking a histogram of the headlines and then selectively reading articles. no bother to read everything; no preference for any RSS just whatever i deem worth reading. i feel like it's more "i feel NYT is wrong and so you are drinking kool aid" and yeah, you get deep into their opinion column, and there's some right proper trash to be found in there; "i can't take this i have to stop reading" etc. and really you're just mad because you think i'm drinking the kool-aid that competes with yours when i ain't drinkin' neither |
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here, let me take a stab at... well, making a mess one part of the US's inflation/economy spiral is not discussed: the US has vaguely given up slavery, and used immigrants as a cheap source of labor. if you're illegal, you can't tell your boss at mcdonald's to fuck off, because you're not sure if burger king will also overlook that you, er, forgot your ID but then it's also at the top of the chain: importing desperate engineers from india who simply want an electric grid that works without having to bribe someone. pandemic has cut both of these off. that i'm particularly surprised at biden not opening the gates more. it's kind of a puzzler. i mean, it's awkward to say, "the economy needs the flood of immigrant labor it's used to more than ever right now" but you don't have to do that, you can just scream "humanitarian" and immigrants, look at that, as you quietly coyote in a shit-ton of H-1 visas. or something. that i also think: how can the people running the fed not see that shit? how can they not see that people still have to buy potatoes, even though they're more expensive? and there's where i go properly off the deep end, just as a lark: is the US deliberately suppressing the world economy to A) vacuum up resources for itself B) starve both russia and china off at a time when they really need it but the fed's job is to control inflation, not to control the world, and i kind of don't blame them for just focusing on their literal mandate. because fuck peeing on the third rail so probably not. but if you want me to challenge the liberal whatever, the above should be deece |
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the sherriff looks like a fun game good hijack |
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this thread turned out awesome "the culture that I enjoyed for most of my life is actually *gone.* Not a threat anymore, just a reality. It would have happened regardless at some point with age, but it happened so fast (all post 2016- a reaction to Trump, perhaps) that I'm still adjusting." are you sure you are not adjusting to being old? dont know how old you are. Im 36 myself and even if life has gotten much wider in the last decade my taste is narrower or more focused, meaning its harder for things to impress me. still the stuff i do like i enjoy much more |
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Ive considered that too, and it's possible! I mean, I know I'd eventually age out of everything. I've been spending time chatting with my 96 year old grandma (she's still ALL there, it's awesome) and I can only imagine that the culture has substantially shifted for her 4, maybe 5 times in her life. Either way, what the culture is right at this moment, I strongly dislike. I think what triggers me though is there's a (mainly corporate) culture telling me what I like is straight up wrong. That's what bugs me enough to make these posts. |
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