No, it isn’t actually but when you’ve never lived outside your state, I guess it’s hard to imagine someone who’s lived on multiple continents.

Academic journals disagree with the forced sterilisation of neurodivergent people. Got it, thanks RFKjr.

This is what AI is for. This is why Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and Google have been collecting all of our data for so long. The embedded AI on your devices and Android Security Core Read your devices, constantly. Copilot records everything you do on your computer. All of them are accessible from their centralised AI. AI is the ultimate secret police, they just have to ask, “Is anyone voicing dissent?” Big tech has been employing fewer and fewer people thanks to AI. This is an attempt by ALL of them, not just Musk, to cull the weak from society by eliminating vaccines and social security. RFK is to pave the way for forced sterilisation, hence his awful speech about autism. It’s all the plan. We exist in a post-capitalist world. Capital used to be the output, whether that’s labour, or a trade, or a craft that’s what capital is. Now, we are the capital. Google is a search engine that made billions selling your private data to amazon, whose effect on the global economy has massively accelerated climate change. Google maps records your phone calls, they copy and scan everything from your phone. Every free online pdf converter, every image editor rips the binaries from your computer, sometimes for years afterwards by virtue of cookies.

Most of all computing and all of the resulting data is collected in the browser. Every app on your phone, generates data points it sells to Google, Amazon Web Services, Meta and all of big tech. The clearnet has shrunk drastically to only a handful of companies. They use this data to profile us, socially engineer us. Your thoughts and opinions are not your own, they are what you have been trained to believe. Advertisers and sellers pay rent to Google, AWS and meta to remain on their platforms so that they have access to us. The rich don’t need us to spend anymore. When you are worth more than the GDP of entire continents, when less than 3000 people have that wealth, they seize control to install themselves as our rulers. Why do you think Jeff Bezos, Zuckerberg and Alphabet have said nothing despite reportedly losing “billions.” Because when money becomes meaningless, you go mad with the power to use it to control people and reshape the world into what you want. That is why being a Billionaire is a mental illness, because when you have access to literally everything and anything at anytime you want. You relate to no one, because they exist to please you and you value nothing, because you struggle for nothing. The people who want you to spend aren’t the rich, they’re the farmers that rent the land from the lords that own it. Who will never need money again.

No, not anymore. We exist in a post-capitalist world. Capital used to be the output, whether that’s labour, or a trade, or a craft that’s what capital is. Now, we are the capital. Google is a search engine that made billions selling your private data to amazon, whose effect on the global economy has massively accelerated climate change. Google maps records your phone calls, they copy and scan everything from your phone. Every free online pdf converter, every image editor. Most of all computing and all of the resulting data is collected in the browser. Every app on your phone, generates data points it sells to Google, Amazon Web Services, Meta and all of big tech. The clearnet has shrunk drastically to only a handful of companies. They use this data to profile us, socially engineer us. Your thoughts and opinions are not your own, they are what you have been trained to believe. Advertisers and sellers pay rent to Google, AWS and meta to remain on their platforms so that they have access to us. The rich don’t need us to spend anymore. When you are worth more than the GDP of entire continents, when less than 3000 people have that wealth, they seize control to install themselves as our rulers. Why do you think Jeff Bezos, Zuckerberg and Alphabet have said nothing despite reportedly losing “billions.” Because when money becomes meaningless, you go mad with the power to use it to control people and reshape the world into what you want. That is why being a Billionaire is a mental illness, because when you have access to literally everything and anything at anytime you want. You relate to no one, because they exist to please you and you value nothing, because you struggle for nothing. The people who want you to spend aren’t the rich, they’re the farmers that rent the land from the lords that own it. Who will never need money again.

Sure, I can contextualise this with the fact that every single year since the 2008 crash the economy has worsened as the mega rich have collected massive amounts of wealth. Wealth extracted through endless advertising and social engineering, across every single denomination in the world while paying basically zero tax through exploiting tax loopholes. This forces every single country’s central bank to print more money which drives inflation. Which is absolutely meaningless to the absurdly wealthy because billionaires will notice no change whether it’s 50 dolllars to fill their gas tank or 5000. If we continue as we are now, generational living will become absolutely necessary for everyone because in 2 generations the wealth gap in the west will grow to resemble some of the poorest parts of India. This is reality, there is a reason 2 working adults with full time jobs cannot afford a 1 bedroom apartment in san francisco and homelessness is rampant. It’s why it’s 1.2 million euro for a fully-attached, 1 bedroom bungalow on the South Side of Dublin city. As the rich acquire more and more wealth they will out compete us all for resources, for our homes, food, politicians, countries. It is why most millennials will never retire and it’s the reason for the rapid decline in birth rates across the globe. The internet and social media have been nothing more than a giant skinner box, used to redirect your ire away from the Billionaire class and at other members of the working class. Be that racially, with immigrants and asylum seekers. Or, politically, left and right. Wake up comrade.

No THIS POST is a psyop to help normalise the idea of generational family living at home again so that we’ll swallow the ungodly recession and poverty that will be brought upon the entire working class; should we not agree, as a global unit, to Tax the rich and restore wealth to the Government, Middle and Working classes and out of the hands of Billionaires. Fuck this post.

Bernie would have won the presidency.

You don’t look illegal bro. It’s not illegal to be you.

Very Powerful Read

He’s Talking about regulations on Big Tech in terms of data collection, monopoly and social engineering. We need to remove these people from the sphere of political influence. Break up Alphabet, Delete Meta, tax wealth not work.

Well, I actually quite enjoy discussing Musicology in detail. I would be remit in pretending it isn’t satisfying to dress you down like that. True, most academics usually get offended when someone who’s never opened a book about a subject, make wildly inaccurate statements about their field of study and tell them their wrong. It’s more about about making sure anyone who stumbles upon this thread never mistakes your confidently incorrect statements as evidence to support a broader narrative based on lies, manufactured by the cultural hegemony of white, corporate, post-capitalist America. You’re free to go back to being wrong now.

That is patently untrue. People drink piss in Berlin too, in fact, Berlin is a major tourist destination. Heineken is produced in The Netherlands and widely available and consumed throughout continental Europe. This idea that Europeans won’t serve you something they themselves wouldn’t consume, or find repugnant is also not true. But it sounds like a cool anecdote to someone who’s never been there and knows absolutely nothing about it. If you’re gonna tell that lie again, at least use Budweiser, or Coors light. At least that sticks with the theme of uncultured American faux pas, which is what your story was trying to emulate.

“I have never lived in, occupied, or been near anywhere that employs this type of housing. But, here’s a list of stipulations I have decided are absolutely necessary based on nothing other than what I feel former soviet satellite states are like.”

-This Dude

the size of the objects doesn’t match human size if you measure from what might be a head to the other end of the object

1)Are you having a stroke?

2)How the fuck are you using anything for scale from an overhead satellite image?

The image was about how peoples need for “security” can grow to destroy their basic freedoms. You just ruined it.

Or you could try to develop an actual skill to express yourself, you know like a real person.

As a European, thank you. Remember to sound the words out one syllable at a time when you get stuck. <3

You make one point, over and over. So, I refuted it, with a single point. If you don’t understand, that, well… think of it like this.

There’s no value in explaining spark plugs to my dog, but she can still hang out in the garage with me while I change them.

That sure sounds convincing for made up nonsense based on your preconceived feelings about nothing substantive at all. Fortunately, I actually have a Bachelors (hons) in Music. A sizeable amount of which involved sitting through 4 years of lectures on Music and Western Civilization, covering roughly 4000 years of Western Musical History. So, I can speak fairly competently with a fair amount of detail about this. A Waltz is dance, when I say that, I mean it belongs to the genre of “dance music.” As in, that was what it’s function was originally. As a dance when you think of a waltz you’re probably thinking of ballroom dancing, which would be the Viennese Waltz. Which is where people without a formal education in music history think the Western Art Music, or WAM (see “High Art”, “Aristocratic”, “Snob”, “Wealthy Elite”) hegemony of White, Germanic, Male cultural dominance begins. This is in no small part because traditional Western Musical Canon has been heavily and selectively codified to be such. East of Germany and Britain gets the worst shake in The Classical Period, in my personal opinion. Opera is huge and obviously, Italy is massively important to the tradition. However, Opera is taught as it’s own separate thing, because the tradition of Opera spans Pre-Medieval Music, through The Enlightenment, Classical Period, Romanticism, Modernism, Post-Modernism and beyond. It is both “Music” and “Theatre” but it is not “Musical Theatre.” Musical Theatre is a true American art-form, emerging from Vaudeville. (4000 years is a long fuckin’ time and I never get to flex on people like this, anyway, back on track). In terms of WAM a layperson’s idea of a Waltz is, conceptually, Chamber Music. It’s all hoity toity ball gowns and bowties and German Tradition, German Tradition, German Tradition. It goes to show you how successful the homogenisation (exclusion of the history and influence of Mediterranean, Balkan, Celtic and Briton music. Despite their obvious connections) of European musical history actually was. Probably one of the most visible cliche’s people get exposed to in media is the “grand ballroom meme.” Think protagonist opening up the Ballroom Doors during a waltz and couples dance in perfect circular unison, maybe they all suddenly stop for comedic effect. Or, camped above the festivities, maybe there’s a sweeping overhead shot showing the Dancing in Unison and it’s always Swan Lake, or The Nutcracker, which were never danced to at a ball like that, ever because they are Ballets performed by Orchestras and NOT chamber music by a fucking viennese String ensembel.

Half of the instruments in those pieces didn’t fucking exist at the time. That’s because movie and film producers know fuck all about musical history which is why people have these misconceptions. In actuality The Waltz, or as it is known in and throughout Europe for many hundreds of years prior “Volte” (lots of variation of spelling), or “slide dance” is a type of dance in 3/4 time with emphasis on certain beats accentuated, or shortened. (N.B. You acttually confuse Beat, Time Signature, Rhythm and Tempo in your comment. By referring to aspects of each of them incorrectly, but this is a history lesson. Not a lesson on music fundamentals). There are tonnes of examples of waltzes which are sinister, macabre or that conjure feelings of anger and despair in the Tradition of Western Art Music. Jean Sibelius’ Waltz Triste, Saint-Saens Danse Macabre. Fuck, if you Google “Angry Waltz”, you get some dude’s school composition project call “Angry Waltz” which is actually not a bad example. If you want to step out of Art Music for a look into folk Music, Norwegian Folk Music has 3/4 dances, waltzes, called Springar which are dances with region specific stress patterns. I know you’ve never listened to someone perform using a Hardingfele, but Springar are not slow and folk dancing can be very fast paced and are inherently a-harmonic at times. Very harsh to listen to if you’ve never been immersed in that musical space. We can even talk about The Waltz as protest music. Look no further than Shostakovich, basically everything he wrote under Stalinism put his life in mortal danger. He would outright flout what Stalin imposed on Composers and the wider Soviet Artistic community. Sometimes he would comply maliciously, just to walk the thin line with Stalin’s ego. If not for his massive cultural import and popularity (he was a genius) he would have been murdered and he knew this. Being an authoritarian government, any art Stalin did not like was grounds for immediate execution of them and their families, or forced labour, or banishment and starvation. Waltz No. 2 from Suite for Jazz Orchestra 2, I know you will know and I want to impress upon you. That the sheer, ungodly weight, of the fear Dmitri Shostakovich lived with everyday under Stalin was absolutely dwarfed by the planetary mass of the balls it took to write music like this under Stalinism. This is slow, nuanced and deeply defiant, most importantly it was protest music under the guise of Nationalism.

Expanding on this, I think you have no fucking concept of what protest music is. Bob Dylan’s Desolation Row is Protest Music, Jimmy Hendrix covering The Star Spangled Banner is protest music. For fuck’s sake my guy Listen to the WORDS of what is being said in these songs. Have you heard For What it’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield lately? It sounds like it was written about America Yesterday. Literally, listen to that song in the context of the Trump regime and Luigi Mangione. I don’t understand why Buffalo Springfield isn’t being blasted EVERYWHERE in the USA right now. Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi is protest music, Green Day’s American Idiot is Protest Music.

His music used slow tempo, heavy and steady beats, was bass-driven, and melodic vocals. swap vocal for strings and you’ve just described Prokofiev’s Dance of the Knights to a tee. Does that Sound Angry and Western enough to meet your standard of protest music? It isn’t protest music.

It’s not whitewashing

It is Whitewashing, it is absolutely egregious whitewashing. Bob Marley was an extremely important political figure, Legend and the Bob Marley Biopic are designed to appeal to white audiences. This is taken from the wikipedia page:

"Despite its generally positive reception, Legend has been criticized for being a deliberately inoffensive selection of Marley’s less political music, shorn of any radicalism that might damage sales.[25] In 2014 in the Phoenix New Times, David Accomazzo wrote “Dave Robinson, who constructed the tracklist for Legend, [said that] the tracklist for Legend deliberately was designed to appeal to white audiences. Island Records had viewed Marley as a political revolutionary, and Robinson saw this perspective as damaging to Marley’s bottom line. So he constructed a greatest-hits album that showed just one face of the Marley prism, the side he deemed most sellable to the suburbs. […] If you’re looking for mass-market appeal to secular-progressive America, you don’t include songs that invoke collective guilt over the slave trade, nor do you address the inconvenient truth that the bucolic Jamaican lifestyle of reggae, sandy beaches, and marijuana embraced by millions of college freshmen, exists only because of the brutal slave trade. […] the songs on Legend offer just a brief glimpse into his music. The definitive album of the most important reggae singer of all time is a hodgepodge collection of love songs, feel-good sentiment, and mere hints of the fiery activist whose politics drew bullets in the '70s.”[26] Vivien Goldman wrote in 2015, “when he does get played on the radio now, it’s the mellow songs, not the angry songs, that get heard – the ones that have been compiled on albums such as Legend.”

The Medium is The Message YOU are full of crap

Going back centuries, angry western music is fast paced, unsteady rhythms, big changes in volume, discordant sounds and lots of high frequencies. You have no fucking idea what you’re saying, you’re just stating what you think might be true based and you just described The Build up and Drop to Bangarang by Skrillex.

Well, I’d say that has more to do with music sensibility. His music used slow tempo, heavy and steady beats, was bass-driven, and melodic vocals. Translation: “I have never heard, or engaged with, any of Bob Marley, The Wailers, or Peter Tosh’s music, outside of The Legend track list verbatim and I did not understand the lyrics of those I did hear.”

That isn’t angry music for a western audience. Reggae IS Western Music, resulting from the SLAVE TRADE you absolute TIT! Have you never listened to reggae?

It’d be nice if someone gets something out of reading this, I really enjoyed thinking about music academically for a while and I hope no one ever listens to this person as an authority about any aspect of musical history, the slave trade, musical theory ever again.

TL;DR In short literally, nothing you said was correct and it was so egregiously, offensively wrong, that I was inspired to write this. As a dude with an education and 4ft long dreadlocks, up yours.

Well Yeah, have you seen the Bob Marley Biopic? Whitewashing is precisely why his music is seen as stoner-feel-good-vibes and not the fiery protest music it was. He’s closer to the Black Panthers then he ever was to Cheech and Chong. But that’s not the reality they want you to accept.