Rich Nipples

New Dems embracing the worst parts of idpol liberalism (cancel culture, constant whining) alongside the worst parts of DC centrism (neocon foreign policy, market fundamentalism) seems like a recipe for electoral disaster.

this is so awesome

Rock and roll/rockabilly was a mix of black blues and white hillbilly music. Blues is argued to have had some rhythmical influence from West African music but the the 12-bar blues progression relies on functional harmony rooted in European tonal systems, including the diatonic scale and common chord progressions found in Western music. European folk music, hymns, ballads, and dance forms (such as those from the British Isles) frequently employed similar strophic (verse-repeating) structures, simple harmonic sequences, and the I–IV–V relationships. Enslaved African Americans encountered these through exposure to European instruments (guitar, fiddle, harmonica, piano), church music, marching bands, and folk songs of British settlers. The call and response features of African folk music may have influenced Blues and rock but call and response was present in the earliest Protestant songs in Scotland (lining out) and England and this was hugely influential on American gospel music which influenced popular black music later. I am not saying “whites invented the blues” as that would be as pathetic as trying to claim that “rock music is black”. Music history is complicated but this fantastic narrative that blacks invented popular music is so stupid and ahistorical.

Americans really, really do not like progressive ideology. They liked liberal ideology. When liberalism gave way to progressivism, Americans started to walk away.

Politicians are use to subsisting solely of off baby blood. That’s why they look fucked up when they eat food meant for actual humans.

@useful_emetic Gen Z shit

I’ve never really been on a date with anyone who cared about bodycount or relationship history stuff, so all this discourse is flying over my head.

@blondesnmoney Biden 2028

Illinois wrestler, Lucas Byrd, stands next to his 6’3 girlfriend holding his 8th place trophy after becoming just the second 4x All-American in program history.

@HistoryBoomer Im not sure is stats tell the story they can be interpreted any which way same as other forms of disembodied information. I find it more interesting how we humans almost universally project our particular assumptions about moral imperatives onto the framing of others motivations

I have regular political arguments with a buddy, and when he says Americans are racist, etc., because they voted for Trump, I counter that most Americans have only the vaguest clue why they voted. They're ill-informed about everything. He finds it hard to believe they don't know who Trump really is because in his bubble (that I share), we're hyper-informed on these things. Matthew's essay backs me up! This line rang especially hard: "just know for sure that your intuitions are no good." That's why I love data. I want to see numbers, not just vibes from people who live like me. (And my buddy sometimes checks my Twitter feed, so Hi "Bob!")

A few years ago, Alejandra Caraballo was a dangerous and powerful person. Caraballo was one of a handful of people who shaped the discourse. When Caraballo tweeted everyone in media saw it, an army of reply guys and activists engaged. So, whatever Caraballo was tweeting about in the morning was likely to be the topic of discussion on CNN by the afternoon, or the subject of an op ed in the NYT or The Atlantic a few days later. If Caraballo was displeased about the content of an article in the New York Times, editors there would have high-level meetings. In early 2023, 1000 Times contributors, substantially martialed by Caraballo, signed a letter condemning their own paper over its coverage of trans issues. If Caraballo quote-tweeted you during this period, you were likely to lose your job. But Caraballo’s power and influence wasn’t derived from people having a real or durable respect for Caraballo’s opinions. It was all driven by the algorithm. And after Elon Musk took over Twitter and made changes to verification, all that power dissipated. Without Parag Agrawal’s Twitter algorithm shoving Caraballo’s tweets to the top of everyone’s feed, nobody saw what this person was saying, and when these tweets were gone, nobody missed them. The premise that this was an influential person whose opinions people cared about was contingent on their posts being aggressively promoted by artificial systems. When the content was stopped being promoted, it disappeared, and nobody missed it or went looking for it. Caraballo attacked the NYT on Monday for promoting a reporter who has covered trans issues with less than total deference to activist positions. The post got 374 likes on the other site. There will be no open letter this time, because Caraballo no longer has a platform that can reach or influence that many NYT contributors.

@WorksInProgMag Women and men in post-industrial civilization are increasingly enemy classes, with increasingly less common values alongside the increasingly antagonistic individual and factional interests. The discourse drives this farther

Why were western men largely convinced by feminism in the 1970s but now, when women in East Asia and Latin America are becoming more feminist, the men remain unconvinced?

Culture isnt mere aggregated consumerism but neither can it be boiled down to particular conventions or practices. It is a connection to the transmission of shared memory. I think the core reason the internet has effectively put an end to human culture is abolition of context

@Heminator Whats the average age of No Kings generally? Id bet this is representative

Springsteen is the youngest person on this bill — he’s 76. Sanders is the second youngest. He’s 84.

@useful_emetic I am too. Honestly didnt even text at all until a handful of years ago

I am a very atypical millennial in my preference for Talking On The Phone. Today Mr F had a problem with an order and was fruitlessly interfacing w chat support. I said “WE MUST PHONE!” When I finally got the company to connect me w an intelligent english speaker, all was fixed.

@JVMonte2 Let There be Rock by Drive by Truckers youtube.com/watch?v=jHDu_7…

What song opens with an incredible guitar or bass riff?

@grahamcclark1 Yeah I tend to like that kind of thing. Also me not them most likely, but The Wall loses me eventually. Eventually the Pink Floyd ship took on so much weight it no longer had a good wright to prevent it from drowning in the waters, as it were

@Pythagasaurus3 Probably nothing, it's very Harrowing, the contrast between the acoustic dirge and the loud electric guitar, just like it is on The Wall, I just don't enjoy either of them, it's not them, it's me

Maybe one problem with Get Out and Sinners is that the blaxploitation movies that are supposed to be the ne plus ultra of Blackness were already self conscious in pretty much the same way we are and their prestige blocks today's yuppies from getting at the race films behind them

@nonblankslate Its more to do with financialization, debt and the commodification of everything (Woodstock et al could be seen as adjacent)

A lot of the issues with young women stem from Boomer experimentation with society's fabric. Straight line from Woodstock to OnlyFans.

Less this, more This

This might be the quintessential Millennial post