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MC Fresh Breath

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  1. This won't be a popular opinion, But the DT "50 Cal to Ukraine" thread bothers the fuck out of me. The open bloodlust and eagerness to chip in to see death (and often from so-called liberals) when there are righteous causes right in Texan's back yard bothers me. Don't see a "let's go stop the drowning of migrants" thread somehow picking up so many willing 100 dollar donations. Or just about any humanitarian aid anywhere, including Ukraine. Send me videos of dead russian pawns instead. Additionally, and I've mentioned this before, I didn't see this kind of outcry over many other atrocious wars and acts, a decent amount of which the US did more than just let happen. Daily news on the horrors of the Russian v Ukrainian wars versus just about any other conclict, including the awful shit we did in the ME. As put by others: I'm sure this lumps me into some lazy 'both sides' replies, and a few negs. Which often makes me wonder if I fit in here at all. Oh well, I'll go back to laughing along with whatever happens to the orange faced gibbon. But I find the participation in that thread by some pretty damn awful.
  2. I recently read a book of essays by the late Barry Lopez. In one of the essays he pointed out that while there is a Holocaust museum in DC, there is no national museum dealing with Native American genocide. I don't think I knew 1/32nd of the amount of horrors we inflicted. Outside of some random college courses, it really isn't taught or acknowledged.
  3. video showing same thing.
  4. https://old.reddit.com/r/Jazz/comments/wrhml3/spotify_is_making_fake_jazz_artists/ https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/remember-spotify-fake-artist-theyre-still-going-strong-and-still-attracting-scandal/ This is apparently pretty old news that happens to be new to me. Fake artists all over those 'mood' playlists. So they don't have to pay out to real artists.
  5. This was one of those "duh, of course" things I can't help but think about now every time I read it. In front of my face all along, but with all the other bullshit I guess I didn't notice. Desantis story brought to my attention again. They have not been hiding who they are for some time now. We should not accept this behavior. Thank you for pointing it out.
  6. "songs played on the radio" is another indicator of old* by the way. This complaint has been levied by seemingly every generation ever. Which I think makes it an old compaint. *I'm old but I could not tell you what is being played on mainstream radio in any genre.
  7. She should not have put air quotes on "old."
  8. I always called Dylan Moore spy's boy.
  9. https://www.allaboutjazz.com/evenings-at-the-village-gate-john-coltrane-impulse-records https://www.jazzwise.com/review/john-coltrane-eric-dolphy-evenings-at-the-village-gate-john-coltrane-with-eric-dolphy I'm a sucker for just about anything these dudes did. As noted, it is a singular mic recording so for me the bass (and there are two bass players) disappears most of the time quite often. But Coltrane/Dolphy/Jones are on fire. The playing outdoes the sound quality imo. Is on all the streaming services.
  10. whoa. seems out of nowhere. RIP. Edit: Didn't know about her son. Sorry for what she was going through.
  11. Been reading some obits and tributes this morning. Seems he was the exception to 'only the good die young.' I had no idea he was a serious painter by the way. What an impressive life he seemed to live. RIP.
  12. Everytime I read the thread title, I hear "songs of freedom" in my head.
  13. fatty laughing at drowning migrants and their children confirms my reasons for putting on ignore. pretty vile.
  14. While I'm at it (and this is more lower class than middle, but still): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/24/us-federal-minimum-wage-rev-william-barber
  15. Whether you are pro or anti-Bernie ( I feel he is a lonely voice shouting against the winds) $886 billion for the Pentagon is so ludricious.
  16. Everthing WhatTheBuck wrote was correct and that was just the tip of the iceberg. How many members of PNAC would have been in the Gore administration? There is no right thread for you to continue this nonsense.
  17. Henry Kissinger is doing just fine. Pat Robertson died rich and at a fine old age. W/Cheney seem allright. Have you heard the aphorism "only the good die young?"
  18. Oh man why did I let myself get sucked back into this? Him writing “ideology ahead of returns” makes me feel like that newscaster in Scanners.
  19. This one got a lot of play at one point.
  20. I somewhat get what you're saying, but Hunter is not an elected official and the hearing was allegedly about the IRS.
  21. Similar to my sentiments on the open corruption of the SC, I do feel like there was a time where this kind of thing would have caused real outrage and she would have been booted. Now it is shrug and move on to the next ridiculous thing. A congressperson waving dick picks in public for revenge should have repercusssions. But it won't. It feels beyond surreal.
  22. I heard that line my whole life it seems. Turns out there are places where a moderate amount of snow and occasionally shoveling your driveway beats not wanting to go outside for 6 months out of the year. Personal preference of course. Perhaps eventually this isn’t true, but as it stands now the choice doesn’t have to be blast furnace versus Arctic blizzard. There are still some nice four season in betweens out there.
  23. You mentioned the 80s series. One that really messed with me from that run was called “need to know.” I had to google the plot to find the episode name. Frances McDormand was in it but at the time I wouldn’t know her name.
  24. Now the rapture folks want to kill you first just to make sure. we are the smartest people. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/16/chris-gloninger-tv-weather-man-climate-crisis
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