That must’ve been giving off a wonderful aroma. Especially combined with the cholera squirts of the era and ever present urine stank
That must’ve been giving off a wonderful aroma. Especially combined with the cholera squirts of the era and ever present urine stank
If you haven’t given pocket city 2 a try yet I highly recommend it
I coughed, burped, and sharted simultaneously a while back. It was disorienting and I felt violated
He’s a 2010s era, weird part of YouTube shit poster. Started out with edgy/crass/racist vlog style videos. He popped off when he introduced pink guy. With his newfound success he spread out into a ton of different types of videos ranging from music videos, Japanese lessons, topical comedy, weird sketches, satire, public pranks, low budget gross-out jackass style stunts, an entire cinematic universe, and creating the Harlem shake. All while still staying wildly racist and playing into the edgy humor that was so popular at the time. It does not hold up well haha
Unskilled labor is a bullshit term used to diminish the work done by people in low paying jobs. Many people would say that a line cook is unskilled, slightly above flipping burgers or digging ditches. It’s nebulous and useless for productive conversation
Wanna trade for a bit? Both make me eat more
Truly one of a kind, shame that he left.so soon
I can’t remember the last time I’ve had a good cry to some music but goosebumps come easier. Crying is hard haha. But here’s some sad stuff that runs an equal risk of giving me goosebumps or ruining my mood for the day:
Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die (album)
Uboa - The Origin of My Depression (album)
Joy Division - Closer (album)
The Antlers - Hospice (album)
Giles Corey - Giles Corey (album)
Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There (album)
Modest Mouse - Edit the Sad Parts (song)
The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave (album)
Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric co. (album)
Two Gallants - What the Toll Tells (album)
The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee (album)
Might come back an add more later!
It absolutely fucking isn’t. It’s “healthier” than smoking by a wide margin. So is abstaining from it. But for people already smoking, vaping will not only be better for them but can also help them kick the habit. Please keep your blatantly wrong garbage takes to yourself, misinformation like that does active harm to other people
Nicotine is terrible for anxiety, it’s a stimulant not an anxiolitic. I have anxiety and started smoking when I was 16, not because of anxiety but because I’m an idiot. Don’t do it. Vapes are healthier than cigarettes, if you’re already a smoker. Don’t start vaping if you weren’t previously addicted to nicotine, it’s not good for you. Nicotine isn’t good for you. And it’s not going to help your anxiety. Quit while you can before you’re stuck with a habit that’s nearly impossible to kick
And the OG les claypool. Both are incredible in their own right
I agree with you generally, but narrowing the scope to serj specifically I’m not 100% on the same page. You say he’s a class traitor, but that’s assuming he’s in the same class as you and I. His net worth is apparently ~$20 million. Are you a multi-millionaire? I know I’m not. He’s simply not in the same social class as you and I. As I said earlier, the relationship of violence and coercion (which is only part of the issue) that makes renting problematic. He’s taking money from people in the same class as himself. If anything, the idea that he’s taking money from other wealthy people and (presumably) and funneling it to progressive causes should be a point of reassurance. I don’t personally view it that way and I definitely see the red flags but I’m being hypothetical-ish here.
Serj isn’t personally responsible for homelessness and poverty and he could (I would argue has an obligation to) be doing more. It is an indictment of our system, you’re absolutely right. But is it an indictment of him specifically?
If other rich people are paying for another rich person’s mortgage, I don’t personally have a big issue with it. It’s money changing hends between two people in a similar position. Again, the rent is 6,000 dollars a month. That’s 3x what I make in month working 60 hours a week in public service. I don’t feel bad that a rich person is fleecing another rich person. It happens all the time and it’s either inconsiquential or very, very mildly helpful to the left in general.
To your last section, that looks like beneficial virtue signaling to me. That landlord has a direct impact on the livelihoods of people like you and I, serj doesn’t. If he were serious about expressing solidarity he would do something akin to rent to own for his tenants or give them equity in his business.
Land lords are shitty. You’re right. Serj is doing a shitty thing by renting his house. Considering the context in which this shitty thing is taking place, who it’s affecting, I don’t think it’s as shitty as you think it is. We could extrapolate and put all of our problems on serj tankian but that doesn’t do much. It’s the system we’re within and the selective pressures at play to blame, not this specific individual. If we were talking about someone like Larry fink (CEO of blackrock) I’d be with you, but we’re not
Let’s not be hasty here. We haven’t explored all the pros and cons of drawing and quartering the troops yet
I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but I have a hard time feeling sympathy for anyone who has the means to blow 6k/mo on a luxury rental. At his level of wealth and privilege he’s not really a class traitor is he? A bourgeois parasite on other bourgeois parasites maybe, but not a class traitor.
Semi tangent warning. Being a socialist doesn’t mean taking a vow of poverty. If you’re in a position that affords you a certain level of wealth, that’s not an inherently bad thing and you’re not “less socialist” for it. There are obviously systemic pressures that act on wealthy people that encourage certain behaviors and that’s something to be aware of and mitigated as much as possible. Living in a capitalist economy means we have money, and people with a lot of money can put it to good use in supporting struggles. Until we can rid ourselves of market economies there will always be some people who have more wealth than others, it’s a function of currency no matter how it’s structured.
I obviously can’t say this is the case for serj, I don’t know much about his finances or what he does with it outside of supporting left wing movements and the liberation of Armenian people. He may do other things with his wealth that would be unbecoming of a socialist, can’t say. But the fact that he’s wealthy doesn’t immediately mean he’s a fraud, the fact that he’s a landlord definitely raises some eyebrows. But the elements of violence and coercion that are normally present in housing rentals aren’t really present here. If you can afford a 6k rental, you can afford to buy a house basically anywhere. With that kind of budget you’re not really in a “fork over most of your money or be homeless” situation. Yes, private property is bad, but that’s just an aspect of our current social structure that can’t feasibly be eliminated yet. He’s playing the game a bit and that can be fairly criticized given his stated political positions, but it’s not necessarily an affront to the concept of socialism itself
Ha ha spouse bad am I right fellow humans?
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Do you want balrogs? Cause that’s how you get balrogs
Informal text communication has increasingly played with punctuation and grammar to indicate tone, emotion, and cadence. This has been happening for decades. Language is a tool that is fluid and malleable. There are only rules insofar as there is broad consensus on how language works at the moment. Stop being a weenie