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  • okay but he's not speaking for himself here. he's using the platform he's been given to speak for exactly who you're saying we should protect

  • gotta get catharsis while you're processing tragedy somehow. in a lot of ways this guy had it figured out

  • anticommunists: communism is bad because a central authority sets the price of evertything

    also anticommunists: a central authority should set the price of everything

  • it's the social features and the network effect. if you want to make a playlist and share it with your friends the easiest way to get them to listen to it is to host it on spotify. also blends, collaborative playlist, jams, and now listening all provide the illusion of connection through a shared listening experience. and it's not so much that these things are better than what we used to have for sharing music, it's that corporations have all killed our ways of sharing music. that's what they really hated about groove shark. artists made more money in the groove shark era, but umg, sony, and warner didn't control how we shared on it.

  • may your soups always be tasty and your songs always be sung

  • Their propaganda methods are also meant to make everyone feel alone. For the conservatives, it makes them feel powerful, like this is all working, like they're the self reliant culture warriors they always dreamed of being. For the empathetic, it makes us feel like we don't have enough power to band together and resist them. That's why right now songs and soup are everything. They make you feel like you're connected to whoever taught you the song, sings the song with you, or that you teach the song to. The soup fills your belly and gives you the energy to power forward, and the soup you make is also one of the few true choices you have in desperate times. You're surrounded by the illusion of choice, but soup, soup is something we the underclasses own. You can put anything in your soup as long as you like the resulting soup, and when you feed it to someone else they receive the results of your choices, and they gain an understanding of you.

    Conservatives fear empathy, and they've announced it in broad daylight. They fear it because its what erodes their movement. It's what gives us the power to act against them. I don't know where you're located @Grumpyleb@lemmus.org, but I advise that everyone on earth is more connected to the resistance and danger of fascism even if they think they're away from it. Learn some songs, make some soup. These are the most powerful pieces of propaganda in the face of the horrors of our lived reality. A family in Kyiv taught me in 2012 while they were hosting my boss that a war is fought with bullets and bombs, but it's won with boycotts and boots. For 13 years I've carried this wisdom with me and now I'm sharing it with you and anyone else who finds this comment

  • and here in the states it's a matter of time before they start shipping anyone with pale skin, curly hair, and large noses to israel because the evangelicals don't want a safe place for the jews, they want the jews in their midst gone

  • who do you think each major character is?

  • yeah but past behavior is indicative of what kind of person someone is

  • yup. that's how we know why dictators do this. millennia of precedent. they're little losers on their insides so they have to project power outwardly and make themselves inescapable. they start by going after the most vulnerable people in society because their strength is a lie. they fear going after someone strong will reveal their truth

  • yeah but you can get better hush puppies almost anywhere (disclaimer: i'm southern)

  • you must be going to different longs johns silvers than any of the ones i've been to. i haven't been in years, but it's really a "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, fool me multiple times over the course of my childhood because my dad fell in love with you and THAT'S IT no more chances"

  • most even felt they owed their canary a life debt after they alerted them to the gas. the thing to understand about miners is that they were just people in mines. just imagine yourself in those conditions

  • what a fuckin' loser. also. so we're clear, he's trying to make his face inescapable so you can't ignore him

  • can't be worse, right?

    — everyone, everywhere

  • the real deep state was all the oligarchs we empowered along the way