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@DoctorLemma I got to see him live after the film. Prior to the film, I was told he offed himself on stage. So, it was an incredible shock to find him still alive. Someone made a lot of money off him, thankfully the soundtrack to the film finally got him some royalties.

In 1970, a Mexican-American musician named Sixto Rodriguez released an album in Detroit, USA that critics described as genius. It sold approximately six copies in his home country. His record label dropped him. He went back to work in construction and demolition, swinging a sledgehammer in the streets of Detroit for the next two decades. Somewhere across the ocean, a single copy of that album found its way into South Africa. Nobody knows exactly how. The most repeated story is that an American girl brought it over during a visit. Her friends copied it. Their friends copied it. Under the apartheid regime that ruled South Africa at the time, the country was almost entirely cut off from the outside world. No internet. Severe media censorship. International cultural boycotts. Music from other countries circulated almost entirely through bootleg copies passed hand to hand. Rodriguez's music spread through an entire generation of young South Africans that way. His anti-establishment lyrics became a quiet soundtrack to those who opposed apartheid. By the 1980s he was considered as significant as the Beatles and Bob Dylan. Half a million copies of his album are estimated to have been sold or copied across the country. Nobody knew anything about him. Rumours spread that he had died on stage. The most common version said he had set himself on fire in front of an audience. In the late 1990s, two fans in Cape Town, South Africa decided to find out if any of it was true. They searched the early internet. They followed a chain of contacts. They eventually found him. Sixto Rodriguez was alive. He was in Detroit. He had no telephone, no computer, and no idea that millions of people on the other side of the world knew every word of his songs. He was fifty-six years old. He flew to South Africa and played six sold-out concerts to crowds who had believed for twenty years that he was dead. When he walked on stage for the first time he said: "I'd like to thank you for keeping me alive." He passed away in August 2023. He was eighty years old.

@Bukolababii I'll never understand David Copperfield's tricks either.

Men will never understand what women go through to look attractive for them.

@jonatanpallesen It's what happens when cousins marry.

The proportion of high-IQ people in the world is declining fast.

@WomenBeingAwful Reign

Can you?

@EricRStPierre They are frogs in a slowly boiling pot.

Do Canadians have it in them to revolt?

@FoodProfessor I have lived in three countries with no tipping, yet have a thriving restaurant industry. Japan might be the most surprising. It is considered insulting.

A new survey finds that 67 per cent of Canadians believe it’s time to abolish tipping altogether, with frustration mounting over digital tip prompts, rising suggested percentages, and confusion about how gratuities are taxed.

@elonmusk Lower the price.

What are your initial impressions of Grok 4.20? Major upgrades are still landing every week.

@PrairieVeteran I now live in a country where if someone even steps on my land I can shoot to kill. Not my first option, but I have the choice.

Pepper Spray WOULD NOT have stopped this. But we KNOW WHAT DID......🤭😉 I won't shoot to kill you as they want you to believe. But you may get injured in a way that leaves a lifelong rehabilitation so it makes you remember how stupid you were. 😉

@Martyupnorth They were great until Bono crashed out. Kind of like old Di Niro. I just can’t stand either now.

I just listened to this album while working out. I could predict the next song as soon as one was finished. It's a nearly perfect record, from a bygone era. It totally reminded me of my youth, and how the last 35 years just flew by.

@brianlilley Has the guy on video in Canada threatening to kill people been arrested yet. Oh, wait…that would be culturally insensitive.

No, police in Canada aren't threatening to arrest people over social media posts. The woman in this video, Nicole Pearen Miske, posted about Prime Minister Carney and made a threat. "'I'm coming for you, you suck twisted fuck. You will get yours!" Police must investigate threats.

@BerisfordRon There is something Fawlty with this question.

Which one of these seventies comedies is your favourite?

@xevekiah But where it is legal, and women can opt out, but the man wants the baby, what does he get? Can’t have it both ways.

if abortion is ILLEGAL, men abandoning their pregnant partners should be ILLEGAL too. if women can't opt out of PREGNANCY, then men shouldn't be able to opt out of FATHERHOOD either!

@Martyupnorth Portugal did it. They fucked right off.

No need to deport. Just take away their free benefits, and they naturally go home. From October 1, 2025, to January 1, 2026, preliminary estimates indicate that the number of non-permanent residents in Canada decreased by 171,296. After reaching 3,149,131 on October 1, 2024, the number of non-permanent residents living in Canada steadily decreased to 2,676,441 on January 1, 2026.

@LaykeGirl @delbigtree I never got it. I left Canada as soon as I could leave. In TZ, tons of sun, fresh food organic food, almost zero junk food. No 24h convenience. Look up the former leader decrying the vax. He sent motor oil, goat, and fruit samples with human names (PCR) They came back positive.

@MrSparklu @delbigtree I refused it & do believe it wasn’t “safe or effective.” Some say not being screened during the shutdown led to the increase in cancer so I’m thinking of ways to either prove or disprove that theory. We need to know who is getting cancer, vaxed or unvaxed.

I got on a tiny prop plane and went to Guernsey. They have one of the highest COVID vaccination rates in the entire world, and I had to see it for myself. What I found wasn't what they expected me to find. A room full of people who knew they'd been lied to. Who felt their rights had been violated. Who had been some of the most compliant people on earth, and were now asking the hardest questions of their lives. That's what happens when you tell the truth in places they think are already conquered. Freedom and morality are directly proportional. When one erodes, so does the other, every time, without exception. And the moment you accept that vaccines must stay on the market because someone is afraid of bad optics, you've already lost something you may not get back. ICAN. The World Council for Health. The McCullough Foundation. Different organizations, different approaches, one thing in common: We are not afraid. That's it. That's the whole secret. I started this journey thinking it was about autism and one vaccine. What I found was an ocean. And once you see the ocean you cannot pretend it's a puddle. Guernsey saw it too.

@SarahK804 @LaykeGirl @delbigtree Yes. One of the highest birth rates on the planet and one of the lowest excess death rates on the planet. Most people got a fake vax card to travel if required for with. I don’t know a single person who got COVID here.

@LaykeGirl @MrSparklu @delbigtree Meaning low rates of 💉s and therefore low associated diseases?

@LaykeGirl @delbigtree Almost no one took the shot here is my point. No rise in excess, unexplained deaths. COVID was a non- issue here. If COVID was as bad as advertised, there would be no more Tanzania. Look up Magafule and Tanzania when it comes to the vax. He gave it the middle finger.

@MrSparklu @delbigtree Would love to see the cancer trend lines for Guernsey and Tanzania.

@ThrillaRilla369 Spilt rear window or not?

Has anyone ever heard of a car called Plymouth Barracuda?

@oelma__ Bolt.

What advice would you give this horse?

@PeterSchiff Hence DOGE.

The U.S. national debt just surpassed $39 trillion, up $2.8 trillion since Trump took office 14 months ago. But as war costs soar, interest rates rise, and recession ensues, budget deficits will skyrocket. The national debt could hit $50 trillion before Trump leaves office.

@MattWalshBlog I hear they are still clapping.

Say what you want about the guy but he obviously ran an extraordinary campaign