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@val_ross31278 @rocknrollofall The goal was to get the music out in front of people. It worked. Sure they aren't musicians but they got people interested for awhile.

@val_ross31278 @rocknrollofall Aykroyd loves the music to a geek level. He got Belushi interested in it. They never claimed to be musicians. It was Aykroyd blending his work of comedy with one of his interests, music. They hired top notch talent for the band and for the movie's various musical numbers.

As contagious as it is to watch Belushi, you just can't take your eyes off of Aykroyd. The sheer amount of talent on that small stage is staggering. The Blues Brothers performing 'Soul Man' live on SNL, in 1978. 48 years apart yet it is still incredibly impressive.

@BigKen472 @Libs_OfChicago @ChicagosMayor @GovPritzker Why is it considered perfectly acceptable for criminal foreigner to be carrying a firearm on his person to the point we are looking at teenager being in a park after hours instead. As a FOID card holder if I was anywhere in public at any time with a loaded gun I go to prison.

@Libs_OfChicago @ChicagosMayor @GovPritzker You’re hyper-fixating on immigration status like that’s what caused this. A random act of violence at 1:30 AM isn’t explained by someone being undocumented it’s explained by the person committing a violent crime. Shes just a prop in your latest narrative

Mayor Johnson banned ICE from public parks, Sheridan Gorman was killed by an illegal alien a public park. Governor Pritzker requires Americans who want to practice their 2nd Amendment Right to ask permission to do so but illegal aliens are exempt from this requirement.

@Libs_OfChicago @ChicagosMayor @GovPritzker Illegal aliens don't have and can't have FOID cards yet these democrats bend over backwards to justify them not only owning guns but carrying them. It's not even considered a crime for them but for us it's bullets with serials numbers or else if they get their way.

@eddyluxe_ @meds3333 @ItIsHoeMath The financial slavery system we live under has all sorts of moral justifications made for it. During slavery some slaves were allowed to work jobs in the private sector. Their owners got half. That's pretty much what those of us in blue states keep after all taxes today.

@meds3333 @ItIsHoeMath There's no moral justification of making someone a slave, regardless of alleged improvements in living conditions. Also, many families were ripped apart.

I would never choose to be black, but I would rather be myself forced to pick cotton in the Antebellum South than be myself forced to experience "diversity" from the 1990s to today. How is this even a question? Cotton-picking slaves were taken from a chaotic tribal life, living moment to moment like animals, and they were given cars and apartments and grocery stores. Their population grew from a few hundred thousand to 40 million. Most of them live on free resources given to them by White people. White people created everything of value and had it stolen from us, are being openly abused and killed by low-IQ "outdoor people" who don't belong here, and we have no access to the things that we created. There is absolutely no comparison. Sign me up for picking cotton with my own people and a guaranteed future handed me for free.

@astronomy89 @ItIsHoeMath Slaves were very expensive. Do you abuse your own property and damage it? No. That was also the prevailing case with slave owners. Yeah some people abuse their property most people don't. Many slave owners considered it a burdensome responsibility and lost money on it.

@ItIsHoeMath You're saying slaves weren't mistreated, then?

@JamesCappleman @ChicagoContrar1 These gun grabbing democrats would absolutely destroy a citizen who legally owns/carries a firearm for the slightest paperwork mistake never mind killing someone but they go out of their way to rationalize the actions of criminals and foreigners who can't even legally have a gun.

From listening to Ald. Hadden, I didn’t get the sense that she blames Gorman for her death; rather, it seemed she was suggesting the perpetrator was not at the beach with the intent to kill. Her point appeared to be addressing public fears that murderers are lurking at the beach looking for someone to target.

Listen to 49th Ward Alderwoman Maria Hadden's take on Sheridan Gorman. Hadden blames Gorman for her death. "The wrong place, wrong time," excuse is bad enough, but to suggest Gorman "startled" her killer and he shot out of fear or in self-defense is clinically delusional.

@illinoispolicy Because it wasn't intended to be a cap but a PR fake out. That's what happens time and time again.

In 1995, Illinois passed a law to cap property tax growth. Cook County taxes have surged 181% since. The Property Tax Extension Limitation Law (PTELL) was designed to limit tax hikes to the rate of inflation or 5%. It was a promise to protect homeowners. Instead, property taxes have outpaced inflation by 48%. How is this legal? Because the law is riddled with loopholes. Local governments use carveouts to bypass the cap entirely, shifting the burden directly onto taxpayers. If a tax cap doesn't actually cap taxes, then it's a policy failure. PTELL failed.

@ShawnRyanShow @ZachLahn They talk to the eugenicists.

This State Has the MOST Cancer. 😳 @ZachLahn

@GorkUniverse @BrianRoemmele Camera evidence requires cops to investigate. They aren't going to.

@BrianRoemmele No, as soon as these robots have cameras and can film what's happening.. that will pretty much stop vandalism or robot attacks. It's like a Tesla with cameras. People vandalize them then got arrested now nobody vandalize them.

This behavior will multiply and magnify more violently with the rise of Humanoid robots. The new underclass and the recipient of all anger of job loss in the unstable Interregnum period. Roaming Luddite gangs looking for “justice”. It will be a tuff time in human history.

@BrianRoemmele I disagree. Over decades property crime has become effectively not a crime. Also communist attitudes have taken hold and massive numbers of people from low trust 3rd world societies have been imported. These robots need the disappearing high trust western society to survive.

@StefanMolyneux The Atari 8 bit programs in magazines were usually assembler called from Atari BASIC.

Some of us did it in assembler

@JBPritzker Trump's tariffs are pennies on the dollar compared to the taxation you've imposed. Never mind the additional taxation you and the rest of the democrats keep trying to impose. And then there's your control freakism going after the law abiding. You're far far FAR worse than Trump.

Donald Trump's tariffs have already hammered Illinois farmers—tariffs my MAGA opponent, Darren Bailey, says he believes in. Trump's Iran War is only making things worse.

@letsgoskatepool @StefanMolyneux @Pathofmostresi1 I was in college in 1991. They sure didn't dress like that in engineering school. Anything that remotely approached that was worn rarely and still covered from the neck down. They might wear that kind of shirt but skin was covered in a not quite opaque fabric.

@StefanMolyneux @Pathofmostresi1 Calm down grandpa. That’s how teenage girls dressed in the 90s. These shows were a reflection of the culture, not the other way around.

It’s all so vile. Why was this little girl dressed up like a prostitute?

@Junkmail_84 @StefanMolyneux Typical on TV. In real life not so much. I remember the late 80s and early 1990s quite clearly and in real life girls and young women either never dressed that way or rarely did. TV was different. Even the girls who took the most fashion risks in my HS didn't go that far.

@StefanMolyneux That’s just typical 90’s teen clothes. You are in a dark place mate.

@wirefiftytwo @flowidealism That was never the case under the old american model of education. It became a thing with the switch to the modified prussian models government schools.

@flowidealism Yes, the "bar" should be raised for all children. However, the older I get, the more I'm inclined to believe that the qualities you list are to a great extent hardwired: 80% 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 to be told what to do. 10% will strive/think/learn independently 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘦 poor schooling.

John Taylor Gatto was named New York State Teacher of the Year. Upon receiving the award, he quit and spent the rest of his life writing devastating critiques of the educational system he had mastered. Gatto argued that regardless of the official curriculum, schools actually teach seven hidden lessons. The first is confusion. Students learn disconnected facts across dozens of subjects with no integration or meaning. The second is class position. Students learn their place in the social hierarchy. The third is indifference. Students learn that nothing is worth finishing because the bell always rings. The fourth is emotional dependency. Students learn to surrender their will to a chain of command. The fifth is intellectual dependency. Students learn to wait for experts to tell them what to think. The sixth is provisional self-esteem. Students learn that their worth depends on expert evaluation. The seventh is that they are always being watched and have no privacy. These lessons, Gatto argued, are the actual function of schooling. The explicit curriculum of reading, writing, and arithmetic is almost incidental. The real purpose is to produce passive, dependent, compliant citizens who wait for authorities to tell them what to do and think. Trad schooling amounts to thirteen years of training in being passive and dependent. I have seen this play out with hundreds of students. When I created Montessori middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, about half the students came up through Montessori elementary and about half came from public schools. When we opened, the Montessori kids immediately began doing their work, taking initiative, choosing what to tackle first. The public school students were lost. They would stare at their desks until we walked over and helped them plan their morning. It took at least a semester, sometimes a full year, before they could function in an environment that asked them to direct their own learning. These were not less intelligent children. They had simply been trained differently. For years, someone else had made all the decisions about what they would do, when they would do it, and how they would do it. When that structure was removed, they did not know how to operate. Agency is natural to children unless we train it out of them. When I coach parents on evaluating their children's education, I tell them to ignore grades entirely. The question is whether their children are taking initiative, being responsible, and becoming empowered moral beings. If a child is getting straight A's but has no initiative and no sense of personal responsibility, that child is being damaged by their education regardless of how it looks on paper.

@flowidealism Are you sure they were lost or were simply afraid of punishment for not waiting for instruction? Because in typical school and corporate life no matter what a person picks to tackle first, he'll be wrong. Teachers, bosses, etc wait until a person picks something theb punishes.

@WallStreetMav It makes perfect sense. AI is the excuse for firing people but since AI doesn't work and will never work they'll be hiring H1Bs on the cheap.

The same two things are said repeatedly by CEOs and politicians and news media. But never at the same time. 1) AI will automate millions of jobs out of existence. 2) America must bring in unlimited H-1B's. Both cannot be true. They don't make any sense together.

@not_alive_irl And the taxpayers get the bill.