Leonardo’s was literally just running a copy of Besiege 24/7 in his brain, wasn’t he?

For anyone who doesn’t get this reference, do yourself a favor and listen to the album Joy As An Act of Resistance by Idles immediately.

Resist with a resurgence of live music where people witness live talent and skill of their instruments, that write incredible pieces and songs. Get involved with your local music scene. Share music you love with people who appreciate the artistry.

Besides the massive hegemons of the music industry, the vast, vast, vast majority of incredible music that are available on streaming platforms from artists, bigger and smaller, barely made them an income from streaming to begin with; they used it as a marketing tool for people to access their art, and otherwise monetize their brand by selling LIVE SHOWS! Selling merch! This is how they really made money off their work. And even then, many of them still have day jobs to make ends meet. They do it because it’s their passion man.

The Taylor Swifts and Bad Bunnys of the world will do fine; their labels will find a way to profiteer off AI with their brand and image. Yes this screws over smaller artists again, but what more is a lost fraction of a fraction of a penny going to do for them if they already struggle to begin with? Resist. Go to a live show.

Edit: also note, be mindful of how live music venues are in cahoots with stealing profits from artists and smaller venues. Support your local music scene.

I get it. I wouldn’t, at least not outside of voting for the lesser evil. It’d be disingenuous for me to believe this isn’t just going to exacerbate all the reasons that led to Trump taking power to begin with.

Assuming he won in that scenario, I think I’d use the next 4 years to leave the country and try to live where a progressive democracy and the rule of law actually matters; personally of course.

Ironically, that is exactly what would happen with Gavin Newsom if he won presidency in even a far cry of a free and fair election.

Gavin Newsom is fighting a billionaire wealth tax in Cali right fucking now. He’s shut down universal healthcare in Cali when he had a chance.

We can do better than this scumfuck asshole who believes in nothing. Remember that during the primaries people.

OPSEC is a survival skill in the 21st century

Real talk, I remember when Amtrak was fraternizing with the Trump admin, and even considering putting ICE at their train stations. Not to mention the embarrassing launch of their new trains that were supposed to be faster, but wound up going about as well as Tesla’s convention loop in Las Vegas. In other words, it did not go faster or revolutionize travel.

I’m highly critical of Apple, their philosophy for proprietary hardware with an aggressive stance against right to repair, and some particular design flaws on specific models of their machines that are unacceptable for the price point they sell their products at. Not to mention their ball coddling of the fascist fuck in the white house.

But MacOS is definitely superior to Windows, game developers not focusing on MacOS be damned. The bloat on Windows is beyond overkill, and MacOS’s Unix based build for ultra specific hardware runs so much more efficiently. I used to play around with a hackintosh back when Mac OS X Lion was around.

No. That was a symptom of a controlled opposition party veiled in neo-liberalism running parallel with the right wing propaganda machine. Equally as complicit and treasonous.

Earnestly, the new Epstein dump makes me feel the whole thing was an Israeli psyop. My head is still spinning.

The right wing propaganda machine did such a good job at getting the “apolitical normies” and the otherwise politically nihilistic public to misconstrue the noise as just some left-right partisan debate, with all the buzz about just the rioters; while in the meantime Trump was working in the background at the same time, along with the likes of Rudy Giuliani, to deligitimize the 2020 election in a failed coup, and barely got any coverage. This was Trump’s Beer Hall Putsch

Truly the most accurate comparison to ICE on paper. Schutzstaffel (SS) is the one everyone knows about and for practical reasons in the public eye, it’s a good analogy, but it’d be beneficial for people be aware of Sturmabteilung (SA), because the SS were far worse following the Nazi party’s truly solidifying grip on power. History really does rhyme.

She might’ve gotten her son involved as well; according to a journalist I follow, she was asking Epstein if it were appropriate for her teen son to have naked girls to look at provided by Epstein. Some weird twisted shit.

I’d be in agreement with you before the 2024 election when I still some semblance of a belief in bipartisan left. But now, not so much; I learned that Republicans / MAGA are in a fascist death cult, and are in fact demons that we share the country with.

But common, we’re not demons. There’d are red state refugees that’d make great blue state people whom we can take in.

Vermont at least has a cool progressive city that elected Bernie Sanders for mayer 3 times before becoming a senator, and Graham Platner is a progressive, rockstar senate candidate in Maine, so there’s some redeemability there IMO. The real zit to pop in the northeast would be New Fucking Hampshire.

It’d be a pain in the ass to workout a divorce, but I think it’d be a whole lot easier than dealing with the fucking deathtrap we’re heading into. Not to mention some redemption on the global stage for better relationships with our virtually former allies? “See, we are not with those fucking assholes! And we got all the money!”

It’s one of the better reasons why a national divorce from the blue states and red states sounds like a better and better idea each and every day into this administration.

Your leaders are pussies and have been mostly disappointing in the face of fascism; sucking up to Trump up until the more vivid threats to Greenland, and being almost equally as complicit in letting the Palestinian genocide happen that tipped the domino for delegitimizing international law.

Neoliberalism is what made room for fascism to rise in the US, it’ll be what tanks your continent if you do not put pressure on your leaders, elect populist leaders with an actual vision for the future of Europe, and grind those fucking shit-stain Nazis to a fucking dust.

I’ve never been more embarrassed to be an American, but those of us that knew that Trump was a fucking fascist are the ones organizing against his paramilitary with relentless protests, organizing two general strikes, and winning special elections against the right just this month. The public is getting radicalized and are arming themselves.

And to remind you guys that money isn’t everything in an election, there was a special election last year that Musk dumped billions of dollars into, to prop up one of their MAGA hacks because they wanted that district strategically, and they fucking lost. Leftwing Zohoran Mamdani in NYC was also facing against billionaires, but won with a populist campaign and is the most popular politician in the country.

Anyway, US hegemony is over, and you guys have to make it for the better. I grieve our relationship with Europe, but you guys are on your own now and the rest is up to you. Protest your leaders if they suck Trump’s cock, elect leaders that are willing to dump US bonds and get rid of the US dollar as the world reserve currency. Get yourself and your people involved in your elections for people that will fight for you. I pray for a better future for the world, even if it means this country will get what it rightfully deserves.

Trump’s not even gonna be alive to witness the apex of his fuckery; he’s gonna leave us all with the fucking rubble. Yes, we should be sanctioned and have our bonds (threatened to be) dumped by Europe, and build alliances elsewhere.

These protesters are victims of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. They’re protesting for higher standards of civil liberties while two rouge, fascist nations utilize them as a means to instill regime change for their own interests. Complete disregard for human life, while the ayatollah see them as an accessory to US and Israeli aggression and clamped down on the protesters with more lethality.

And on top of that, Trump’s corrupt foreign political donors in the middle east like the Saudis asked them to back down, and he did. So extra lives were squandered for virtually nothing.

Turns out Stanley Kubrick was actually filming a docudrama

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