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.
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21·1 day agoSpoken like someone who cannot speak a single language outside of American English, who has never met a Western European. We are not a monoculture.
1·1 day agoTake note, this is why America need massive education reform and funding for a comprehensive federal department of education. Reading comprehension is suffering.
Nonsense, Big Tech propaganda. Of course evolution is ongoing. Every point outside of that is wrong. The REAL reason everything is so expensive. Why we can’t afford housing, or food. Why birth rates are declining. The thing that is driving inflation is all because of wealth inequality. If I purchase from Amazon.co.uk in the UK from a UK retailer. The United Kingdom sees no tax. Because, for the purposes of that transaction Amazon is in Sweden. Any transaction to Meta and again the residents countries see NO tax, because for that purpose, Meta are in Ireland. These companies collect money across every denomination, from every country on Earth and they pay NO TAX. This forces the central banks of every nation to print more money which drives up inflation. Creating Further poverty, homelessness and enslaving us to their propaganda.
Did you notice after COVID how every bank machine became a smart device that runs android? One with cameras on both sides. What about how clock in machines became android tablets that take your picture when you clock in and out? Why do they need to take your picture? Smart watches record your biometric data and send it to Apple, or Google. I mean, look at the cognitive dissonance. You can’t talk on your handset in the car but every new vehicle comes with a giant screen in the centre console that runs either IOS/Android. Every new security camera is a wifi camera which runs Android. Why does a CCTV camera need to have an internet connection? Every checkout machine runs android, records your grocery list and records you, while it takes your picture and your card information. The phones are always listening always recording. Google have just bought the data from Europe, by paying the fines. That’s why they went after Germany and had Merz elected. They want to dismantle any and all privacy protections left after the passing of the AI Act in Brussels. But why? Curtis Yarvin, mentor to JD Vance and Close personal friend of Peter Thiel wrote about his desire to “Virtualise non-productive people as a humane alternative to genocide” under the pen name Mencius Moldbug in 2008. That is what they want for the rest of us, to die dehydrated and starving while we live out the rest of our lives virtually, through generative AI and it has been All over popular media for decades. AI exists to spy on everything you do and to silence dissent. So they can easily search the gargantuan database they have collected on all of humanity by saying “Hey Gemini/Grok/DuckAI/Leo/Copilot etc. Is anyone out there expressing dissatisfaction with the regime?”
None of it returns to circulation. In addition unlike a company like Honda, who produce tangible goods as capital and pay many workers. Big tech comparatively employ very few. So even less of that money is reintroduced to circulation. In the case where they do employ a sizeable number of employees, the ones they have horrendous working conditions, as is the case with Amazons factory workers. The same Amazon whose CEO owns The Wall Street Journal, which has been warming America up to the re-legalisation of child labour. Because the only jobs that will be brought back to America will be the sweatshop jobs, families will need to have their children employed in, in order to survive. This is why Elon Musk said a “Single World Government” would destroy society at the world economic forum. Because if we banded together as nations and said no more we could demand that these companies pay taxes back into the economies they steal from. We need to Tax Wealth, not work. If we were wise, we’d all install linux. divest ourselves from all of their properties, reject AI and buy flip phones. Make no mistake, this is global terrorism, of the highest order. It is the plot to take over the entire world. Natural selection? Have you seen how Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk and Marcus Andressen look? Hardly poster children for “survival of the fittest.” Billionaires have a mental illness, they never have to work for anything, so they inherently have no personal value in anything. It is the deification of money. The loneliness epidemic exists because of how addictive they made their platforms. That’s it, youtube, facebook, instagram, google search, x all of them. Just pieces in the same feudalistic, data harvesting radicalisation machine. Nothing else.
First America, then the rest of us. We have the choice to stop, we do not have to obey.
If stupid people live, stupid people vote. Because stupid people think they’re smart.
The irony is more than enough for me, thank you.
I don’t care to convince them. Every opportunity we have to counter the false narratives meant to divide the working class, is an opportunity for you, myself and everyone else provide our comrades who have not yet woken up to the programming the ability to:
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Recognise agents, bad actors and bots.
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Give them the tools to counter them and drive home the message of unity. We need to stop playing party politics and realise the struggle has always been up vs down, left vs right is just how the owners of our media push us against eachother.
Thank you for contributing to the wider conversation.
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41·2 days agoRoom Temperature IQ vibes
7·2 days agoBecause they made the poor and uneducated afraid. That’s why all the guns. Fear of that which they do not understand. They were fed endless propaganda about how Trump cares for the working class. Republican Corporate media let them keep their guns as long as they had an enemy to point them at that wasn’t them. Keep them scared and afraid of their allies, their fellow working class.
This is propaganda, this programming. We’re supposed to care about education, because education and media literacy is your key out of poverty and your key to understanding things. Republicans overwhelmingly pushed “Traditional Christian Values” as an excuse to axe education and science literacy throughout the 2000’s. These are the poor people you’re supposed to want to help, but the division created by this absurd “culture war” created by corporate and social media has conditioned you to believe otherwise. Propaganda works, just as they are conditioned to fear, which leads to anger. To hate, which leads to suffering. They see everything they don’t immediately understand as a threat. So too, are we pushed into ideas of superiority, as if we are better than them. That they’re irredeemable and the cause of our life’s woes. Positioning this as anything less than an attack on the working class by the wealthy elite as they seize power across the world is just playing into their hands. It is ignorant and it is wrong. We must defeat the corporatists who have robbed us of our wealth, our unity and our civil discourse. You see how many people turned out in Idaho, for Bernie Sanders of all people. The working class recognise that the Trump administration does not represent them. It is not about right or left, it has never been about right and left it is always wealthy elites positioning the majority against eachother, while they continue to rob us blind, devalue our currency and stoke the flames of societal collapse. Do not entertain it, do not comply.
Europe is absolutely not as you describe. That’s what the media feeds you in North America.
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Kids weren’t being forced back to labour in factories by the CEO of Amazon -see Florida.
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State Prison populations logarithmically dwarf federal prison populations, overwhelmingly Red States With Mississippi, Lousiana, Oklahoma, Idaho, Arizona, Texas, Georgia as the magnificent 7. All notoriously with a racial bias. No democrat president would have made the move or received the support necessary to dismantle private prisons at this point in history. What Trump is doing is not legal, you cannot rule by executive order, the judiciary are just all bought or neutered right now.
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Biden’s white house was about economic recovery because that was what was most important after Trump racked up the deficit. America enjoyed the lowest impact of inflation with the most economic regrowth of any country in the world after COVID. Things are significantly worse elsewhere. Inflation was going down under Biden, but social media gaslit the nation into believing it was way worse and once again that Trickle down economics would fix it.
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Crashing and burning the global economy was Big Tech’s goal, under Biden the judiciary ordered Alphabet to break up Google’s monopoly. It was just too late to happen at that point. No other government gave enough of a shit about our personal privacy and freedom to attempt to break the single largest corporate spy network in the history of existence. The democrats didn’t do everything we wanted them to, that doesn’t mean they didn’t make some very important and historically significant moves.
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There was no presidential immunity until the very end of Biden’s presidency at which point he was in noticeable mental decline and there was no supreme court stacked in his favour.
It’s not black and white, is all I’m saying. The constant self-criticism is what splits the Democratic party, reduces the turnout and allowed corporatism the opening to advantage themselves. We’re lucky Trump still has the energy to rule without having the mental faculties to let others call all the shots. Sometimes, better than literal fascists is enough.
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31·2 days agoFound the guy that bought the Cybertruck!
1·2 days agoFlouting that you’re incapable of reading a small paragraph of text in order to engage in good faith discussions does not bode well for our future.
32·3 days agoYou’re the kid I stopped sharing my colours with.
Why are people seeking refuge in a party that silences the voices of the people most in need.
Because the other option is the destruction of Western intellectualism, death camps, the genocide of the working class and White Supremacy. It’s quite simple really.
I said I agree with you. I never said anything about moral superiority. Why do you create conflict with those that are actively agreeing with you? You just serve the purpose of those that you claim to be against.
I think you forgot a “don’t” in their pal.
Musk is a misogynist. He convinces women to have children with him through IVF and they assume he’ll look after them forever. He then withholds money to control them and manipulate them to his will, because that’s the only way he can fuck a woman.
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 timw. That’s because movie and film producers know fuck all about musical history.
In actuality The Waltz, or as it is known in 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 confuse Beat, Time Signature, Rhythm and Tempo in your previous by referring to aspects 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 don’t know if you’ve ever listened to 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. Shostakovich, basically everything he wrote under Stalinism put his life in Danger. He would outright flout what Stalin imposed on Composers and the wider Soviet Artistic community. Being an authoritarian government, any art Stalin did not like was grounds for immediate execution of them and their families, or forced labour, or bansihment 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 Stalin. This is slow, nuanced and deeply defiant, most important protest music under Stalin.
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. Have you heard For What it’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield lately? It sounds like it was written about America Yesterday. Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi is protest music, Green Day’s American Idiot is Protest Music.
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.”
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.