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--Zero- posted...

Next election after Biden is finished and there's no more Trump and the Republican party is even more burned out. It's an easy win for her if she starts in 4 years.

Haha sure, keep thinking the country will be there in 2028...

Nothing against her but boomers are still in fairly good health at large and she's one of the Democratic boogeymen they like to bitch about. Also, I hate to say it, but I don't know if 12 years is going to make us that much more ready to make a woman the leader of the nation.

Great, so either their prediction is accurate and a lot of people will die, or it doesn't happen to an extent expected from the article and people use it as an example to suggest climate change proponents are alarmists, leading to worse problems in the future. I think I'm supposed to not want this to transpire though.

s0nicfan posted...

You know, I was just thinking that this whole situation in Russia feels like the old "frogs in a boiling pot" problem. 40 of the richest and most powerful people in Russia have been slowly assassinated and the remaining ones are either unaware or unwilling to act until it's their turn.

You're definitely right that if a whole huge chunk of people died back to back at the very beginning, the remaining oligarchs might have actually rallied and done something about it.

I was saying that sarcastically to make fun of how see-through it is to anyone in the West observing on the outside. At the same time, there is a reason for them not doing all this at once, and as you mentioned, and it certainly keeps their own population and prominent figures in line out of fear they could be next by making a fuss.

It's a good thing for them that they're smart enough to space them out a little bit.

Pastryarchy posted...

Wouldn't matter much if he did. The US is far from the only contributor to global pollution and Biden has zero sway on what they do. They just fudge their numbers and lie anyway; it's not like competing world powers respect American opinions enough for full disclosure anyway. The US really isn't that powerful anymore...

As a world leading country, the US has a huge precedent to set. Also, it's not like these other countries don't have the same stake in this issue as we do. It's more problematic for less prosperous countries, though those are often the ones using outdated, harmful technology. The more we can help move other countries toward cleaner energy, the more manageable the oncoming future will be for everyone.

So Kumbaya and all that good stuff...

TaylorHeinicke posted...

another facet of the cynicism relates to the hilarious idea that john recycling his coke can and shortening his shower by a minute will offset the damage done by the corporate oligarchs who profit from actively destroying the climate and environment

I totally understand the frustration and society needs to make major systemic changes, but before we can get there, we need it to become normalized in peoples' minds as to why. People can be guilt-tripped into doing the right thing, as religion has shown historically although sometimes the wrong thing too there. So there is some grassroots aspect to it, but I absolutely agree that we need to focus on more than just our own individual harmful behaviors.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Hemp and nuclear. Unfortunately, a vastly more gigantic portion of the population is vastly more scared of those than climate fuckery.

That's more like it. It needs to be more in the public discussion of how these resources/technologies can prevent likely tragedy in the future. So increased awareness again would be a good thing. Speaking of hemp, it may be influencing my tone now so don't take me too seriously with this particular post.

Does the cynicism from this board spill over into every topic? Maybe someone's got ideas other than it's already going to suck so why not let it suck even more, possibly to the point of the collapse of global food chains, from the same selfish behavior that put us in the sucky situation to begin with?

If you want to be mostly useless to the cause, fine, but at least understand why our society cannot afford to elect nationalist-leaning leaders, who don't give a shit about humanity's well being at large, without it coming back to fuck us in some major way, whether its extreme weather or mass extinction.

Monolith1676 posted...

Ever since shutting down the economy and Biden taking over our economy has sucked.

Yeah this can definitely be traced to Biden. I mean maybe our economy would be even worse under Trump's incompetence, but at least he knows how to throw down when it comes to McDonald's.

hockeybub89 posted...

He's a idiotic piece of shit and Democrats continue to live in the delusion of common ground when the literal other side of the aisle in Congress thinks they and "their" minorities need to be exterminated to save America and Christianity.

In the real world, the right's extremists are half of Congress and half of our state legislatures. The left's extremists? Some protesters and idiots on social media, who the Democrats will fight harder against than they will their fascist opponents in office. You almost have to wonder if they're all in cahoots.

Man, I don't even know what world you're on but you already said "Fuck Joe Biden and fuck the Democratic Party" so you'll just have the understand that the other posters have kept me busy enough to try to decipher what points you're trying to make.

A_Good_Boy posted...

What domestic terrorist is using democratic causes to justify their actions? Cause I've seen plenty of domestic terrorists that committed bombings and mass shootings that had manifestos espousing right wing talking points but I've never seen a spree shooter saying they were murdering a bunch of people because we don't have free healthcare.

I'm not going to go digging for stories because the ones I read are usually the same ones people here are seeing. My point was hypothetical and to deny these people exist in some capacity is rather ignorant in itself, but the environmentalists destroying artwork (the cause I think should be the leading voting issue for everybody) damages the image of the left in the global eye, although I do like that it at least confronts people with the underlying issue itself I'll admit. Obviously that's on a global scale and not a domestic one but it's the only one I can think of right now without googling to see what dirt I can find about the party I favor.

cjsdowg posted...

AOC And Bernie: We need to have health care for all.
Minn Dems: Kids should have free Lunch.
People at CPAC: Eradicate Transgender people.
SC Republicans: Send Women who have abortions to the firing squad .

They are so much alike .

Again, I don't think he was getting at AOC / Bernie or even the Democrats of Minnesota, but maybe I'm missing something here. If you want an actual political example, how about California's policies regarding the prosecution of theft under a certain amount? I don't think most states would like to see that become the norm. But even then, I don't think that's what Biden was getting at with his very broad terminology.

Antifar posted...

I think the president painting his party as too extreme does more harm to those causes than internet comments.

He was acknowledging that both parties can consist of people that take their party's position way too far. Whether he's talking about any domestic terrorist who would use Democratic causes to justify their actions (just as we all know they use Republican causes to justify) or AOC/Bernie, I couldn't really say for sure from just a tweet, but I have feeling he's getting more at the former category. Maybe in hopes Republicans can take some accountability for their own. Is he misguided? I can see an argument for that. But to just jump on him over this is gross.

TheLiarParadox posted...

This is stupid.

ellis123 posted...

Enlightened Centrists typically are.

I'm not a centrist. I've just had enough of the dialogue among left-leaning people becoming deluded as to the mainstream mindset of this country.

I don't agree that the extremes of the Democratic party are as bad as the extremes of the Republican party so I could absolutely take issue with that part of the statement. Still, to make such a fuss over that is overly nit-picky and tears the left apart more than it helps advance liberal causes in this country.

This criticism of Biden is exactly why I think the most vocal progressives are poisonous to the well-being of the Democratic party. It's completely normal for the President, who is supposed to be the leader of every citizen of this country, to show understanding that good people can come from any demographic of society. It's not like he was just trying to dismiss a travesty so don't analogize this with Trump's speech about Charlottesville... please for fuck's sake.

cjsdowg posted...

There are many feminist who think that women can't rape or a DV men.

People can call themselves whatever they want. A lot of people call themselves Christians, but their values would indicate totally otherwise. I just believe in having an equal treatment of genders before the law (outside of possibly narrow, actually biologically founded categories, but even those seem like they typically don't need to be addressed by the law or justice system), so label it whatever you want.

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Yep, that's my understanding of what feminism is supposed to be. There are people who might like this type of justice that call themselves feminist, but I don't mean to imply feminists in general would.

What great double standards we continue to uphold... Thing is, I think I might blame the paternalistic right for this more so than feminists, who last I knew, wanted equal treatment before the law.

Edit: Thought I was on the politics board so excuse the politically charged language.

SpiritSephiroth posted...

I don't understand the comments. The guy had a gun, what would the cameraman do? Seems like he already called the police and was waiting for them.

Fucking sucks for the homeless man. Imagine being homeless and some evil piece of shit just ends your life.

It's indicated there was some kind of altercation leading up to that point.

Still pretty messed up to think this happened during broad daylight. I've gone to that Shell location to fill up a good number of times, but it's definitely one I try to avoid during odd hours. I think I get asked for money every other time I go, but most people will only ask once before trying to find someone else in the lot.

Trickfinger posted...

This is true. Ever since music started to be shitted out, it lost its staying power. It's not even bad they just make too much of it to consume and digest properly.

An album drops at midnight and within 20 minutes there are YouTube reaction videos calling it trash or fire. It's such a microwave era.

Yeah, we may be approaching a sort of singularity where it's harder to blow peoples' minds with a particular sound. At least in a way that can captivate most people consistently. I think there is still room for innovation within music, but whether it can keep evolving in a way that still carries broad, popular appeal is the question to me right now.

But really, how many iconic radio songs can we identify since the start of 2020? How many songs from, say, 2018, have shown themselves to have staying power? It's an honest question too, because I really wouldn't know anymore.

I'm sure part of it is me losing touch with the mainstream, but I also think that since the 60's-80's or whatever, it has been less and less the case of most everyone listening to the same popular artists (like Queen, the Jacksons, and Madonna being fairly universally liked if we're talking the 80's even if I wasn't alive then). I don't think we even have songs of the summer to rival 2010's California Gurls.

I think every genre that has been at the top recently has been losing traction in recent years, and I expect with streaming staying so popular for the trend to keep up until most everyone past their teens and early 20's has settled into the music that naturally appeals most to them individually.

I can't think of a metal-related band that does harmonies better. Which of course spills over to the acoustic-based stuff where they show through even better.

Holy shit, this seemed to come out of nowhere.. I was just listening to him earlier today as I've been going through all his albums again as background working music. I kind of just assumed he was still in good health, considering he just released that album with Johnny Depp last year. I thought I'd read they would be touring, but I may be misremembering.

Nonetheless, RIP to a blues rock legend.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

I told you people what the list was and you don't even bother to read or listen.

Yeah, I missed that post. Makes a lot more sense that way but apparently they chose a very irrelevant way of measuring controversy. Beyonce getting her page updated 20 times after every single is released doesn't make her controversial.

Maybe universally hated people aren't considered controversial or something? Though that would make the Hitler listing very concerning.

StormSignal posted...

insert sheik's theme

Haha yeah I think someone learned a new teleportation song before making this topic.

LA-WW Zelda was a very melodramatic/bittersweet period for the series, with the exception of the Oracle games. I suppose my age when playing them could have been a factor too.

Honestly, I'm extremely sick of the opioid crisis and the increased pressure on pharmacies to tighten up regulations. If it could have been kept to that class of drug at least, maybe I wouldn't be so biased about the whole subject. As it stands, it pisses me off that I have to go in and personally request fucking sleeping pills (usually because the phones are tied up) and then wait until they are filled to go personally pick them up or the clock won't start for when I'm able to pick up the next dosage.

I think there should be accountability as always, especially with industries full of experts that should know better, but the opioid epidemic has been blown way beyond ideal proportion. I'm sure juries are happy to award high damages with these cases, but the way pharmacies respond is excruciatingly frustrating for any degree of controlled substance. While I have no problem with these verdicts in of themselves, just knowing the end result is a cause of sudden aggravation.

My stance: Let there be some patient accountability. Way more than we have right now. If you're going to regulate certain drugs, at least make sure they are the ones statistically shown to lead to a significant degree of fatality brought on by misuse. Lately we've been having both parties wanting to fuck with the free market and I associate it with public overreaction from parents who didn't successfully instill in their kids not to touch heroin/fentanyl.

Eh, if you like the music, so be it. Personally, I could never separate the ego from the music so I really never got into it, despite the promise his stuff could have shown at times. Same thing with John Mayer. Of course, there are plenty of artists that can be scumbags and you might never know from just their music. Then there's guys like Morrisey who are ridiculous, but I don't take my listening to his music to whatsoever be an endorsement of all his views.

TheGoldenEel posted...

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Wow, that took like no time for the indie rock/pop festival to emerge. I was just thinking from the previous poster's comment how that scene/era probably would have had the best overall quality of bands, though with a lot of bland indie that is sort of take-it-or-leave-it. That seems to be the case because the cringiest acts I see on that list that I recognize are Tokyo Police Club and Shiny Toy Guns (neither of which I checked out extensively admittedly). Unfortunately it seems to be missing a lot of crucial garage rock acts like Jack White, the Strokes, and Arctic Monkeys, but whatever. I'm not actually travelling out of town for any of this haha. Just cool to see all these old names under one banner / set of banners.

Also, what did I start with Birthday Massacre haha.. I totally enjoyed their pretty, dark sound but they are a far cry from Nu Metal (a genre I still largely regard as unintentionally humorous, despite its almost half or so quality bands it produced). They're more like Evanescence, but better. Also I know Evanescence is on the list, but they are more like a poppy goth metal outfit with their biggest song carrying strong nu metal qualities. If we want to broaden the term so much, then I guess Nirvana and a crap ton of other bands are also nu metal.

pauIie posted...

you best not be including science in this

Even though I tend to think of it more as an experimental, heavy psychadelic effort from them, I can recognize why many people think of it as nu metal. A lot of the choruses also seem like they'd fit well with the big meathead bro sound of the time. Make Yourself continued that aspect to an extent.

Oubliettes posted...

id hardly call this a nu metal festival, i dont think id call even a third of the lineup nu metal
tbh i wouldnt even associate this lineup with any genre of music in particular
its literally just "the shit goth kids growing up in the late 90s/early 2000s listened to"

This is fairly accurate. The bands closer to the top are more indisputably nu metal though, and I hate using the word "goth" in this context, but I know the edgelord kids you're talking about.

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I could have been pretty off for that band. I just listened through their catalogue about a year ago and remember lots of ethereal melodies and synthesizers, backed frequently by heavy distorted power chords (the only thing characteristic of nu metal I can recall from them at this time).

That line up actually has an unexpectedly high percentage of enjoyable shit for a nu metal festival. No Limp Biscuit or Kid Rock, but still having the good big names like System of a Down, Deftones, and Chevelle. There are some cool bands, like Incubus (minus very early work), Failure, and the Birthday Massacre, that do not seem like they should be at a nu metal festival, but whatever. With Sisters of Mercy, She Wants Revenge, and Lacuna Coil, there seems to be a big gothic rock/metal theme going as well. No Linkin Park for obvious reasons and I am in full support, as a former big fan of the first two albums, of keeping it that way. Not gonna pay that price or go all the way out to Las Vegas or wherever it is, but it's nice to see some hype still for a lot of these bands and in heavier music in general.

Vicious_Dios posted...

According to the report, in the past couple of years, athletes would find a tree and throw it off the bridge into the water.

RIP to the kid and all but maybe at least they'll stop doing this?

KhlavicLanguage posted...

thread is predictably a buncha CEmen nerding out and saying rock technically isn't dead if someone somewhere is listening to it, intentionally ignoring the salient point that its mainstream pop culture relevance has basically evaporated in order to gain dopamine hits on gamefaqs dot gamespot dot com

Or maybe mainstream pop culture isn't the phenomenon it was during Beatlemania or the 80's. I'm not trying to act like rock music is back in the limelight, but I think streaming has enabled people to specialize their music tastes based on their preferred genres, and that extends to electronic music and avant-garde hip hop too I'm sure. Somehow I haven't heard a damn thing from Dua Lipa and have only heard snippets of Lizzo's music (not to diss either of them as I'm obviously not at a standpoint to do so), but hear plenty of older well known and frankly more universally (or in the US rather) recognizable songs in commercials and such. So the mainstream music world is much easier to disregard than it once was. But maybe I just don't try to embrace it as much as I would in the past.