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  1. Just now, Captainant said:

    Trump's anti-vaccine rhetoric turbo-charged the antivax movement, and we're now seeing the re-emergence of polio and measles. It's now political to be vaccinated or not. 

    Trump made it political. 

     

    I don't think he should be held criminally liable for COVID deaths (and maladministration is really hard to prosecute), but he shouldn't be fucking let off the hook as you're suggesting.

    Agreed. He was ignorant about Covid in the beginning, then made it political. He maligned the Surgeon General and the CDC. He began to rail against mask mandates and distancing as time went on. He set a poor visual example by never masking or distancing. He talked about it being akin to the flu. He talked about using light or bleach to cure it, or using those horse pills to cure it. He gave the MyPillow guy a platform to talk about it. He absolutely 100% politicized vaccines and public health. I give him credit for fast-tracking the vaccine-making infrastructure, but his public-facing rhetoric about it was totally political and rejected all common sense and science. Then he had the audacity to get covid a survive it, which was his biggest sin in the whole thing. 

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  2. I don't know. I feel bad for the victim, of course, especially since he was trying to help out as a Good Samaritan. But on the aggregate, big boys that carry guns seem to have this idea that guns will help in these kinds of situations. They get puffed up and have bravado because of them. Then they wind up escalating a situation because they are wielding a gun, and shit goes sideways, and then they get hurt or die. If he hadn't busted out his pistol and tried to go Clint Eastwood, there wouldn't have been multiple bullets flying around the Burger King parking lot and there wouldn't have been an out of control driver  speeding through an area packed with cars and pedestrians. It's a miracle that no one else got hurt. 

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  3. 19 hours ago, DixonHur said:

    Ok, half of those are Beatle songs, so I will only respond to the Lennon solo stuff.

    Perhaps it's a definition issue, but I'm willing to learn, what is musically complex about Steel & Glass?  Seems pretty straightforward to me.  

    Same with Starting Over (one of my favs BTW), Whatever Gets You Through the Night.

    I mean compare either of those musically to either Live and Let Die, or Maybe I'm Amazed....it's not even close.

    I'm a huge Macca apologist and an admitted Beatles honk, so I won't argue the genius of Paul McCartney's songwriting. I was only saying that Lennon's material IS complex and interesting in many cases, and it's certainly not "usually just piano." I've actually been on a project in which I am playing every guitar part of every Beatles song in chronological order (as well as many other instruments in their songs). It has been a cool project to see the songwriting of John, Paul and George develop from a musicianship angle. I'm just about through with the White Album and it's clear that John is the most straight-ahead rock musician in the group, but some of his stuff is really intricate. But yeah, McCartney went into entirely different genres and soundscapes after the Beatles, and often went complex, whereas John kept more true to standard rock and roll songwriting.

    Still, I think Lennon was at his best when he kept it simple, TBH. His best album is Plastic Ono Band and that's about as simple and straightforward as a musician can get. 

  4. It's well established that while Lennon and McCartney co-wrote many of their early songs together "eyeball to eyeball" as Lennon stated in a later interview (I Want to Hold Your Hand was written by both of them while they sat at each end of the same piano, for example), but much of the middle years and most of the late years were written solo and then brought to the rest of the band for improvements. There are many songs credited Lennon/McCartney that were written and performed without the others' input. 

    DixonHur is also wrong about Lennon's musical talent and song arrangement, saying "it's usually just a piano." It's very trendy to shit on his music these days, but the "Lennon was the lyrics guy while McCartney was the music guy" is an old trope that conveniently ignores complex songs like Strawberry Fields, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Day in the Life, I am the Walrus, Steel and Glass, Whatever Gets You Through the Night, Starting Over....there's a long list. But it is the unpopular opinion thread, so keep it up. 

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  5. 19 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    Was watching the CMT Awards the other night and that huge guy "Jelly Roll" singer with face tats that make Post Malone looks classy, who looks like he has one of those aired-up sumo costumes you see at drunken corporate events, but it's his actual body.  Shouts out during his award acceptance speech, "I'll see y'all out on Sixth Street tonight to celebrate."  And a part of me really wanted to go down there to see what kinda shit he would start as a shitkicker (bad) country singer who looks like he wants to be known as the toughest guy on Cell Block C.  

    Every fucking time we go meet out of town investors at the convention center or one of the hotels for dinner or whatever, I tell them "Take off your badge so the homeless can't tell you're from out of town...they'll still hit you up but at least you can blend in."  And then "Do not fucking go to Sixth Street, I know the hotel guy and the brochure and all that shit says it's our 'entertainment district', it is not for folks our age...don't go."  And invariably, get a text the next day, "Hey we went to Sixth Street, that place is crazy.  Saw two fights, a handgun, one dude with a trident, and a rabid dog."  Some people just gotta learn the hard way.  

    The only reason 6th Street should be mentioned in anyone's list of things to do in Austin should be to say "don't go to 6th Street."

     

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  6. 49 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    I can't remember not loving Tom Petty.  When I was in pre-school ('89-'90) Full Moon Fever had just come out, my Dad was wearing it out on the tape deck in the car, and one day in class when the teachers asked us to sing nursery rhymes, I claimed I didn't know any and instead sang "Free Fallin'" which lead to my mom getting a fairly stern scolding from the teacher.

    Loving Tom Petty's music has been a part of my very literal entire consciousness, so it's very hard for me to to wrap my head around someone hating it, or even mildly disliking it.

    I was an undergrad when Full Moon Fever came out. I had never cared for his 70s catalog, but FMF totally changed my opinion on Tom Petty -- so much so that I started liking his earlier catalog. Funny how that can happen. Been a fan ever since. 

    Oh, and fuck you for the "I was in preschool when FMF was released" comment. Asshole. 

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  7. 27 minutes ago, Rusty Shackleford said:

    I wouldn’t say I hated him, but I actually walked out of ACL in ‘06 right before his set started because I just wasn’t a fan (was a freshman in college). I still regret that decision to this day as I ended up becoming a huge fan over the years. Thankfully I got to see him at the FEC in ‘17. 

    At least you had some redemption. And you got to see some great stuff he put out between 06-17. 

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