One hell of an album.

I don’t believe you
You got the whole damn thing all wrong
He’s not the kind you have to wind up
On Sundays

This makes me wonder if drummers have a dominant hand. Except Rick Allen of course.

Related to this, but also not really, is how I feel as a right handed person playing guitar.

I mean, sure, the right hand is doing some picking, but the left hand is up there doing all the clever stuff and the right hand has no idea how it manages to do any of it.

He was a democratically elected leader from the left in Latin America. Not being murdered in his sleep could be considered special concessions.

That sounds like it would get very expensive very fast.

Very different from Jojo Rabbit of course, but fantastic for showing what humans can come to consider the trivialities of ordinary life.

I’m very happy I saw it in the cinema. Also very happy I was somehow completely oblivious to the thematic when the movie started: I first saw the swimsuits, thinking “huh, is this the 30s?”. Then I heard the German, at which point I realized nothing good was going to go down. I guess the sound during the intro also gave a hint.

Anyway, amazing movie. Worth seeing without distractions.

There’s something so fundamentally fucked about those pictures where everything looks harmless unless you know what you’re looking at.

Thanks for digging it up. I cut my search short before even disabling safe search, still saw things I would be happy to unsee.

Do you have a link to that picture? I’m not good enough at web searching, evidently.

When talking about the making of Jojo Rabbit (a must see movie, in my opinion), I remember Taika Waititi making a point out wanting to represent the colourful fashion and more lively sides of Germany under the Third Reich. War movies tend to portray Nazis as dark and dull figures with no inner life other than murdering Jews and plotting for world domination. This is probably dangerous, as we won’t recognize the fascists when they’re in front of us. They’ll be laughing and dancing as they murder the innocent.

Similar to how we study Eichmann to learn about the banality of evil, I think pictures like this one should be in every text book. This is what evil looks like — pretty much like anything else, if you’re willing to ignore the atrocities.

Ah. That’s a fun idea.

I think it’s too much effort though - you can get upvotes easier than that. But I’m sure content is already stolen from here for some uses, and it’ll only get more common as time goes by. It’s in the nature of posting things online, I guess.

Fun fact: if you’re an artist on Spotify receiving less than 1000 streams in a year, they won’t even bother paying you. You also need a minimum number of unique listeners. That number is secret.

Spotify is good for those already rich, and bad for those who isn’t.

They also have Joe Rogan and Gwyneth Paltrow on their payroll, and they actively lobby for more relaxed AI legislatiolegislation in the EU.

If you have a subscription, the best thing you van do is to cancel it, get your music from the high seas, and instead donate $12 per month or however much it costs directly to artists you enjoy by buying their music or merch online.

AntennaPod is good for podcasts.

Yeah, generally people need quite a bit of nudging before they get off their asses.

So now seems like a good time to start - no reason to wait for things to get even worse. This is why I stress the community building - it only really requires people to fight back, but it does require people to fight back.

She’ll be happy to hear that it has worked on numerous occasions throughout history! After the fall of Fascism in Europe, people in many countries got together and created strong welfare states in the post war period. Some were more successful than others, but even in the ultraconservative UK they managed to create a national health service that hs proven difficult to kill off.

Sadly, I’ll have to break to her that the fight never ends. The second you stop fighting for progress, some asshole will pop up and try to instill feudalism again. After a generation or two people tend to forget the ongoing nature of this threat, and it seems we haven’t managed to come up with ways to permanently get rid of it, despite our best efforts following the French and American revolutions.

Maybe the time has come to go back to the drawing board, and rethink some of the decisions that were made back then. Jefferson said every generation should have its own constitution. Maybe he was right.

If your friend is willing to make the effort to combat this, she should get organized. She should find like-minded people, act locally to gain political power, and create a stronghold where the illegitimate government will face resistance. She should base this around ideological lines, rather than willingly subscribing to what experienced members in established political elites in her country are trying to make her say or do. She should write down whether values are and make sure to keep them close at all times, knowing that she just might be successful and that power corrupts.

She should not give up hope, but she should give up the belief that others will change anything for her. She needs recognize that her country is already broken, and she needs to act to be the change.

She needs to recognize that she’s not powerless. She can make a difference.

Likewise, she needs to recognize that it’s a long and painful process. It needs to start locally, and it might always stay local. But that is fine.

She needs to realize strength is in the community. Building the community of like minded people working for local action is crucial. She’ll be disappointed in them at times, but she’ll just have to keep going. There’s power in community.

At least that’s what I think I’d advice her. But I don’t know your friend or her situation, obviously.

American capitalists are really, really good at cracking down on any civil attempt at unionising and/or improving society at the cost of the ultra rich.

You could recite the extensive history of violence, but honestly the greatest achievement is in the propaganda. Solidarity seems to be commonly understood - by all classes - as having to take the bill for somebody even poorer than yourself, and nobody seems to be comfortable with the idea that they might themselves one day benefit.

Americans can’t have good things before they start fighting back. Read up on union history. Organize. Educate. Teach people what solidarity is and what the Battle of Blair Mountain was. Learn what was taken away from you, and help others understand as well. Begin locally.

Either that, or keep watching the fascists take over day by day, as they have been doing for decades.

My impression is that karma matters less here. But I never used reddit much and I have never used Lemmy either, so I’m a bit of an anti-expert.

I think the bots are set up by people who simply wanted to see the content. I don’t think anyone is trying to farm anything here.

Ideally they should all be tagged as bots, which would make them less problematic.

If you’re this principled you should be boycotting Amazon anyway. If you’re not, give the driver $5 if it costs you nothing.

For sure, the American left were blue eyed in regards to what was happening in the Soviet Union during McCarthyism. I just find it hard to judge them too harshly for that, considering their experience of being prosecuted at home for no good reason, and their first hand experience of how American capitalists wage a full-on war against organized labour.

My way into Guthrie’s thinking is through the songs he wrote, and what emerges through that is a man who absolutely has his heart and brain in the right place. I have no doubt he had his shortcomings as a human, as we all do.

At the height of McCarthyism, I think anyone would be a fool to believe anything told by the American government or official narratives.

Unlike Pete Seeger, who died in 2014, Guthrie died in 1967 with Huntington’s disease so severe he hadn’t been able to talk for a good while when he died. It’s also a fact that Huntington’s disease affects your mental state, and Guthrie did to some degree go crazy before he died. He got the disease from his mother, and her reaction to the illness is the origin of the family tragedies that made it so natural for Guthrie to write about his hard travelling.

There’s also accounts Guthrie was a real jerk in the final years, which again can be attributed to Huntington’s disease.

As for Korea, America had no fucking business there.

Scotland and Norway have the right to roam, where there are land owners but they do not have the right to keep you off their land. As far as I’m concerned that’s the bare minimum for a decency, even though it’s a long shot from communism.

But Guthrie was a communist. This was before Stalinism and a lot of the bad connotations given to communism since - I doubt he would have embraced much of what have happened in the name of communism. But he was a union man.