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Well Amos Moses was a Cajun, he lived by himself in the swamp...


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Coke tastes better, but I've never tried the HFCS version so I could be wrong in regards to the American variety.

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Funkydog posted...

On one hand, fuck him and all he stands for.

On the other, not allowing any access to the internet in the modern day is pretty fucking awful. Just have it monitored instead so he's limited on what he can view.

And on another hand, he essentially lied that he made a mistake so eeeeh, his own fault tbh.

I mean, the condition was that he had to stay offline to stay out of jail. Like despite breaking into the Capitol with an armed group while Congress was sitting, he was allowed to wait for his trial in the comfort of his own home.

If he's into video games, he probably had enough access to offline video games to keep him occupied. He probably has DVDs and Blu-Rays to watch. He can watch TV for 24 hour entertainment. Even if he's under house arrest, he has all of the comfort and luxury that being at home provides, as opposed to waiting for sentencing in a jail cell.

Like, I can't feel bad for this guy at all. It's hard to stay off the internet? Maybe he shouldn't have stormed the Capitol building with an armed group. Or shit, maybe he should have avoided the temptation to get himself in more trouble by staying in jail.

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Is this gonna factor into his eventual trial? Because if this doesn't show a lack of remorse or a willingness to grow beyond his mistakes, violating parole to watch conspiracy content that led to him committing a felony in the first place, I don't know what does.

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milk milk lemonade

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ScazarMeltex posted...

There is nothing you can do that decrease the ammo for their persecution complexes. Merely by existing and not believing that ethnic minorities and lgbtq are subhuman gives them ammo.

I've also long since given up on the moral high ground. You know as well as I do that had that crowd been anything other than screeching entitled white people it would have been a bloodbath and the right would be using that shit as an excuse to disappear everyone involved and their family and friends into gitmo.

Your insistence on taking a moral high ground position with people whose goal is the overthrow of democracy and the oppression of everyone they view as subhuman is the exact thing that will allow them to accomplish it. Because we won't punish them as harshly as they deserve, and they'll just do it again, and again, and again, until they finally succeed. Then when it's us protesting and trying to get back our democracy from them, we won't be afforded the same rights that we gave them and they'll kill us in the streets.

They should get the bare minimum afforded them in due process. A speedy and fair trial and legal representation. If their dumbfuck lawyer is sick, they get a public defender and everything else moves forward immediately as previously planned.

That's exactly what I was saying in my post.

Of course they're gonna get up in arms no matter what. That shouldn't be an excuse to go "oh well, no lawyer :)" if that's a standard we grant everyone, then this shouldn't be an exception - and if that is a standard that we aren't meeting, then that's fucking wrong and we need to correct that across the board.

The post you quoted was in opposition to the kneejerk "put them on trial without a lawyer" post. The post saying that they should get a public defender and move on with the trial is the one I was calling sensible and appropriate. I agree with you, and furthermore, I want these people to go to fucking jail. I just don't think we should sacrifice our standards to do it.

Of course, there's the conversation to be had about whether these same fascists would do the same if they were in a position of power. Given that they likely wouldn't, why adhere to anything even resembling "you go low, we go high"?

That's a genuine question. Outside of blind idealism, I'm running out of reasons to believe in that. Like I said, it won't make the right any slower to stomp on our throats when all is said and done. So why have standards if someone else has thrown them soundly out the window?

I want to believe in standards, even if they're only baseline human standards. I want the institutions in our lives to do their jobs and provide fair and equal representation for everyone for the sake of justice. And there are people who would use what they have to turn those institutions into attack dogs if given any amount of power or control over them.

So why have standards?

Personally, I just think it's the right thing to do. And I don't want to sell my soul for points in an "us vs them" conflict.

That's not to say that any disagreement or conflict is unwelcome. I'm not coming at this as a centrist decrying "both sides". But I do view the prospect of denying anyone basic human rights as a fucked up thing, and that's what I was trying to get across - if I lessen my standards to the point that denying someone any legal representation is an acceptable prospect to me, I will view that as selling my soul. "Send them to court without a lawyer" is a step too far, and that's the viewpoint I was arguing against in my original post.

On a basic level, we do agree on this matter. Give them public defenders and put them on trial, because that's the standard we grant everyone else. I empathize with what you're saying - you'll never decrease the ammo for a fascist's persecution complex, and the moral high ground doesn't mean dogshit if your opponent gave up on having morals or standards long ago. And we saw how police treated BLM protesters - shooting them with rubber bullets, leaving pallets of bricks out in the streets and setting off fireworks in poor communities for months after the protests were over. So yeah, a leftist demonstration might have been met with a stronger initial reaction, even if I don't believe a BLM or Antifa protest would have resulted in an armed group storming the Capitol.

What I'm saying is that I disagree with kneejerk statements like "send them to court with no representation". The right to legal representation should be a legal right for everyone unless a person chooses to waive that right. Rather, I agree they should be given public defenders rather than be able to wait until they can scrounge up enough money and support for another smug antivaxxer fuckface.

So you can go "that protest would have been a bloodbath if it had been BLM, why exercise any standards that they wouldn't extend to us in the same situation" if you like, as if I'm going to disagree with what you're saying, but don't go on to agree with the exact stance I was trying to take in the first place if that's a route you're going to take.

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If I'm playing Fallout or something, I call my characters stuff like Murderfucker the Blood Tanker. If it's something like Skyrim, I call my characters stuff like Carl.

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The thing about this law is that it's coming hot off the heels of a prominent arrest of a YouTuber by counter-terrorism police for harassing the deputy premier of NSW.

To give you a basic timeline of events:

FriendlyJordies begins covering John Barilaro's corruption and poor behavior with an exaggerated Italian voice in the vein of Super Mario. John Barilaro decries this as racist and bigoted, and the news picks up the bigotry angle without covering the actual news FJ is reporting.

FJ books John Barilaro's holiday house, which is up on AirBNB, to A) go over multiple instances of corruption and illegal acts committed by him and his political team, including a drunk driving arrest and illegally advertising his campaign on other people's property, and B) to have sex with his girlfriend on every surface imaginable for the sake of an incredible joke payoff. John Barilaro decries him as a stalker and a trickster, despite his real name and phone number being on the form and there being no attempt to deceive either Barilaro or his wife as to his true identity when booking the home.

FJ releases a series of videos indicating that Barilaro knows who he is and refers to him dismissively in his job environment, puts out videos indicating more wrongdoing like debt-trapping a community club with his family, pork-barreling and allowing private businesses to steal water on a massive scale from NSW's most important waterway. This is around the same time that 4 or so different publications, including the Sydney Morning Herald - a nationally syndicated newspaper - begin releasing hitpieces on FJ. The SMH release more articles about him than they release about the opposition leader Jodi McKay at one point.

Around December 2020, John Barilaro begins collaborating with an Australian Federal Police officer and the counter-terrorism unit to keep an eye on FJ. This information, that they'd been under investigation since December, only came out recently.

FJ hears rumblings that Barilaro is looking to sue him. So he does a stupid large-scale spectacle at an event Barilaro is at, where Barilaro confirms to a staff member that he is suing FJ.

The lawsuit is leaked to the press without being served to FJ. FJ releases 2-3 videos asking where the documents are and implying that Barilaro is trying to intimidate them and turn public opinion by keeping him in the dark about it while news outlets discuss the severity of the measures.

FJ and co. try to get served - and then make a massive joke out of it involving a fake hand. But they do get the papers eventually.

The documents have an inaccuracy in them, saying that Barilaro lives at Parliament House. So Kristo, FJ's producer, happens to run into Barilaro in public while he has the document, and he tries to give them back. Barilaro hops in his car and drives off.

Kristo records this encounter. Barilaro's witness statement has several inaccuracies, as demonstrated by the footage.

Counter-terrorism police show up at Kristo's home and knock over his 50+ year old mum to try and take his phone away - with this law, it can be assumed they could have made him look incredibly bad under false pretenses. He gets taken to jail in the back of an unmarked police car, and they keep him in jail all day without pressing charges - because they can't press charges. Apparently the actual uniformed police officers were sympathetic and understood that they didn't have a case, but they had to keep him there despite having better things to do.

Kristo's bail conditions are revealed to basically be a gag order to keep him from working with FJ on content referring to John Barilaro in any way, shape or form. This includes working on the lawsuit. These conditions are eventually lifted thanks to FJ's lawyers.

At the time, it's assumed John Barilaro got the anti-terrorism taskforce involved with his witness statement indicating stalking and harassment. But we now know that he was working with said taskforce for 6 months before this arrest. And what's more, the Australian Federal Police officer who's been working with Barilaro for those 6 months is the arresting officer of Kristo.

FJ subpoena both the AFP and businesses around where the Kristo/Barilaro encounter was to further discredit the series of events depicted in Barilaro's witness statement. The AFP footage made it into his latest video, but he's presumably still waiting on the CCTV footage of the initial encounter.

All of this because FriendlyJordies began talking about water theft and corruption with a stupid Super Mario voice.

So take this case into account with this law about the police being able to hack devices and seize social media profiles. What would have happened if they got Kristo's phone, with the video footage of his encounter with John Barilaro?

What would happen if the counter-terrorism taskforce came to arrest FriendlyJordies and seized his devices? Not only could they plant incriminating evidence, they could take down his channel, delete his footage, his emails, his phone messages - anything.

We have a comedian and self-styled independent journalist being sued by the deputy Premier of New South Wales, targeted by anti-terror police with permission to seize devices, add or delete whatever they want, and have you tried for whatever's present on your device. They bowled over a 50+ year old woman and stepped on her dog to get their hands on a phone belonging to a man in association with someone being sued by the second most powerful man in the state government.

Fucking imagine what they could have done if they got their hands on that phone.

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oh yeah, for sure. Didn't mean to imply otherwise, I'm just being a doomer rn. My bad.

For all the progress we have made in regards to queer rights, there's still a lot of pressure to remain in the closet. Whether the people who didn't answer are questioning, experimenting or closeted, I hope they have the support and environment they need to sort out how they feel.

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I get what you mean with "only" 86%, it's down from previous figures, but that's still a sheer majority of America and I hardly see it as an "only" situation.

I'm glad more people feel comfortable exploring their sexuality and coming to terms with not being straight - whether they're heavily labelled or if they're like bisexual with a preference for the opposite gender. But I can easily see this figure falling in with conservative dipshits calling sexual liberation and comfort in non-straight sexual orientations the end of western civilization.

For all the positive I want to approach this with, all I can see in the title are the people who'd use that figure to scaremonger about The Gays and try to rile people up to put people back in the closet.

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Oh, was this a real song before they used it in Ano Hana? Nice.

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ETA: 87 minutes. I typed in Peen

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This is super wholesome.

There's this whole stink about his blood shoes and the Tony Hawk blood skateboard he did in collaboration with Liquid Death. It's like people lost their fucking minds about the satanic blood shoes, saying that Lil Nas X is spreading satanic ideals to our children and subverting blah blah blah - general fundie verbal diarrhoea adding onto the popular backlash - while Tony Hawk gets to do blood skateboards with gnarly twisted imagery that instantly gets a pass.

It's been a topic of discourse lately with even LNX commenting on it, but by making this TikTok with Tony Hawk featuring one of the Liquid Death skateboards, it at least shows that there's no mudslinging or feud between them. The focus is moreso on the difference in moral reception between a black, gay teenager and a 50 year old white man making a similar appeal to a gnarly, not-allowed-in-a-christian-manga subsect of the populace.

Also, Liquid Death is a pretty cool company - the beverage is canned water, and they stock it at like clubs and venues for people who don't drink alcohol. That way they can vibe in those spaces and "pass" among other people who are drinking alcoholic beverages with less scrutiny.

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I was on a moderately sized tourist boat travelling through an unstable region. We were travelling through a packed waterway, and the boat skirted across the concrete side of the waterway three times and burnt out the engine. We were boarded by an armed group who were acting on behalf of the ruling party of the area, and we were detained as a group.

The freakiest part of the dream was when we were visited by a spin doctor or someone who wanted to take pictures of us smiling to send to our home nations as proof that we weren't being mistreated, and he told us that if we weren't smiling when the pictures were taken, it would be taken as a sign of sabotage and insubordination, and we could be taken from the group and subjected to either much worse punishment or instant death via a bullet to the head. He told us that any time they needed us, we had to be smiling, and basically brainwashed us through the threat of severe punishment to grin through their inhumane treatment of us.

There was a point where I made a friend in the group who tried to escape the camp. We had a river nearby, but the only escape was off a sheer drop into a valley that even the river had a hard time dipping off of. I don't know if he survived or not in the dream.

It was a dream, and eventually there was dream logic. But it was an extremely upsetting dream, even when I was able to go home later on in a blur. People did die.

The part that sticks out is being forced to smile for propaganda, so the people detaining us under the threat of violence could say that they weren't mistreating us. Basically having to play mind games to have the most genuine smile on our faces whenever they were there under threat of getting a bullet in the head. Like what the fuck.

What are some fucked up dreams you guys have had?

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rodu_jr posted...

make them go without their lawyer

I'm as vindictive as can be with these fucks, but this would just give them and their batshit crazy mob more ammo.

Irony posted...

Give them a public defender

This sounds a lot more sensible and appropriate.

It's not about respectability - I hope these fuckfaces all go to jail. But it is about standards and due process. There's something to be said about "you go low, we go high" - in that no level of respectability and due process will make them any slower to stomp on our throats when they get the same chance to prosecute leftists over something they see as equally vile.

But that doesn't mean they should be stripped of their right to representation. There are two good reasons for that:

First - the second we lose our standards, we lose ourselves.

Second - it gives them even more ammo for their persecution complexes.

Giving them a public defender is giving them the bare minimum, and it's the same standard of care we give everyone in the legal system. It meets our standards, and while they're gonna complain about it anyway, it's equal treatment under the law.

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I miss Apollo Legend. I'm glad people have taken up the cause in his stead and started exposing corrupt fucks in the niche gaming spaces not everyone is clued in on

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It's a Telltale-style game where the first four episodes have fleeting references to Sonic. It turns out that his world-saving antics are responsible for fracturing the relationship between his ex-wife and estranged daughter, and he's an ex-marine turned trucker to make ends meet.

He becomes embroiled in a series of messed up fights against savage, half-sentient creatures who are attacking towns along his truck route through a crapsack, rundown version of the American midwest over the first four episodes, before the fifth episode has him being called back into active duty by GUN to drive the truck that tries to run Sonic down.

Episodes one to four are like the Walking Dead game, the last episode takes that and pits it against "haha woah totally tubular man" Sonic the Hedgehog as he boards down a street.

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How I Met Your Mother is a good example.

If we're taking entire last seasons into account, like Game of Thrones, Scrubs had a totally unnecessary reboot season after struggling to stay on the air for its initial 8 season run. Season 9 was such a bummer.

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A pedophile, a Republican and a senator walk into a bar.

The bartender says "hello Mr Gaetz, the usual?"

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Dude was old as hell, it was bound to happen eventually.

I recently found a guy who makes like terrible camcorder movies with bad MSpaint-tier posters, and Ed Asner was in a lot of them. It was kinda sad, because everyone else is like your typical z-lister and here's Ed Asner front and centre.

Dude had a long life and a storied career, and he worked until the end. He must have lived an incredible life. RIP, he certainly deserves the rest considering how much of himself he gave to the world.

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GranolaPanic posted...

Your sister isnt a narcissist. Shes a sociopath.

No, she has Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Didn't you read his post?

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Humble_Novice posted...

Milo Yiannopoulos has COVID-19: https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1431674764347813891

Wow, now he's double-banned from Australia lmao

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There is a medical condition known as narcissistic personality disorder. There's a certain threshold and a set of conditions that NPD sufferers have - I wouldn't say it's as widespread as depression or anxiety or anything like that, but it does exist.

It's more than entitled people reaching into tip jars and spitting at wait staff, or just "being selfish". It's stuff like delusions of grandeur, behavior in the style of Dunning-Kreuger syndrome where someone thinks they're smarter than the average person, and believing that theyre "worthy" of certain social privileges such as gatekeeping. A clinical narcissist isn't just "a selfish person", the same way a depressed person isn't "just a little bit blue" - and yet we might call selfish people narcissistic and vain, and we might say that someone who's a bit blue is depressed.

Culturally, both terms are relevant to those types of people, even if they don't meet the clinical definition of those terms. But there is a definable difference between what we see as narcissistic behavior culturally, and what a clinical narcissist is.

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I mean, not to throw the book at someone who doesn't deserve it, but I was drinking vodka last night soooooooooo

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Pretty sure I lost a friend on CE over this?

Like to a degree I can agree that a state doesn't have the best track record of agreeing upon who's put to death. A state probably shouldn't have the power to put people to death - not should a state have the ability to strip a person of their nationality outside of extreme circumstances, for that matter. The state is ultimately as smart as its enforcers, who IMO are really fucking stupid 9 times out of 10. The chances of a government making the right call - American or otherwise - is really fucking slim.

But in the case of sick bastards like Dylan Roof? Let the fuckers fry. They're the 1/10 that the government got right. Him, the Christchurch shooter and other terrorists like the Boston bomber should get the chair. It's moreso a matter of whether wider society agrees that their life is forfeit than a broader appeal to human rights.

And yet by saying that, it opens the doors for retributionists to water down the category of fucked up mass murderers who deserve the chair to include political enemies and the like. Because the second you cede that power to the state and the people who believe in capital punishment, that power will be abused.

And yet while I disagree with people who find the death penalty unfavorable in regards to this particular sack of shit and his ilk - I understand that there's a broader context that my acceptance of their deaths possibly progresses. And I find it hard because I don't want to advance that agenda, but frankly? These racist mass-murdering fuckfaces like Dylan Roof and BT have voided their lives by committing the bigoted crimes they have.

So fuck it. If you don't want to ally with me, if you don't see me as progressive as you are or to a level that you're comfortable with, so be it. Let motherfuckers like Dylan Roof and the Christchurch shooter fry.

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How is Robin Atkin Downes' performance in the last couple games? I loved him in Metal Gear, I want more of his silly intense performance.

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BigB0ss13 posted...

Even though Khloe is a fat slob

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Perascamin posted...

She's worth more money than many of us ever will be by posting those dumbass filtered pics on IG and if girls all over the world are made to feel like s*** because of it

Like I wouldn't agree that Khloe Kardashian is a fat slob. But I do agree with the second and third quotes in that I wouldn't recognize her on the street, and that she's so obscenely rich that whatever she has to say on a human level, I wouldn't take it by itself without like 2 or 3 levels of analysis because there's so many layers of bullshit.

I quoted the first guy because I don't think bullying in reverse is okay. Like going "Khloe Kardashian is a fat slob" doesn't fix anything, at best it's catharsis. The real crux of the issue here is in the fact that A) she isn't a recognisable celeb by any other means but obscene social media presence, and B) for all she has to say about weight and presentation and all that on social media, the image she presents to us is so clearly manufactured and filtered to a set of standards that we would all find acceptable.

And that's baked in so hard by her own sisters and what they want to define "beauty" by. It's super fucked up that we feel such a strong need to play into this, and arguably even more fucked up that the Kardashians exert so much power and influence to assert themselves as the peak of beauty.

Like at the end of the day, I think we can all agree that the beauty industry is at fault the most here. Because while the Kardashians and like Jeffree Star and Shane Dawson and all these fuckin beauty moguls want to be on top of the pile in regards to make-up and serving looks, we're the people who suffer. The youngest and most impressionable people in these fucked up families are the most at risk of identity crises and crippling self-image issues.

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I said it before and I'll say it again.

Good. Let this fucker fry.

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They're signing off. You've seen my coverage of their coverage. But now they've got a list of their videos.

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First day of my Life by Bright Eyes came on.

Listen to this of you don't listen to anything else from this thread

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MrMallard's last song of the night, informed by CHVURCHES, is...

Ironic by Alanis Morissette! No word of a fucking lie.

Song after was (prefaced by CHVCHES) Complicated by Avril Lavigne for shits and giggles.

This was a lot of fun. Can't wait to have a nice, long sleep after this.

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Don't Speak by No Doubt is on. Next song is the last one BC I gotta piss baybee

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Blank Space. I'm on my last drink.

The second I move to Canberra, I'm gonna flip if I don't get to sing Blank Space at some sort of Karaoke bash.

CHVRCHES chucked on Don't Delete the Kisses by Wolfalice.

Okay, this is a very sensual video.

Don't Delete the Kisses was really fucking cool and sweet and sad. Watch this video above any other itt.


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I love how the vibe is like 1970's warfare against the cops, like a more pointed satire of Blaxploitation than Shaft 2000.

Next video is Around the World by Daft Punk. We've all seen it.

I'll admit that the Around the World video took more liberties than I remember.

Next up is Hold Up by Beyonce. I'm saving my last closed drink for a Lauren and Martin intro.

nvm, I missed her monologue about Jay-Z cheating on her. mb

I really fucking dig that. It was a good fucking time.

Next song is TooTime by The 1975.

There's a queer guy in the video - affectionate terming by me - and a girl in a headscarf. Also a girl who flosses. I've heard some prior 1975, not feeling the club vibe but no issues imo

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Okay, we're pretty far back as far as influences go. Next video is Bye Bye Bye by NSYNC*.

This video is kinda meta? It plays with the narrative.

FUCK YEAH SKIDS

Kinda wish they had that clip from the Foo Fighters of a car going over the cliff.

Wannabe by Spice Girls is next. We all know what's up with this one.

It holds up really well. It needs a bit of slowing down and speeding up to work, but it's good.

Next up is Sabotage by the Beastie Boys. Martin advised the audience to crack open a beer. Good think I've got my sour beers.

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Lady Marmalade is a pretty sexy video, like jeez.

Followed by Survivor by Destiny's Child, taking a leak and I'll be back

Caught the end of it, fairly standard late 90's music video. I've only got 2 sour beers left, so we're in the endgame here.

Next song is No Scrubs by TLC. And NBC, apparently.

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Next video is Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim. Classic.

Seriously, name a video that's more iconic than Weapon of Choice. Preferably a song that came out before it did, because we all know how good MJ's songs and videos are. You don't have anything to prove by upstaging me like that.

CHVRCHES just introduced Get Ur Freak On by Missy Elliott.

Interesting video, pretty good song. She had more going on than Madonna, that's for sure.

Lady Marmalade is on next, more credits than I can list

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TheoryzC posted...

MY MOTHER WORKED FIFTEEN HOURS FIVE DAYS A WEEK

I love that song lol

Have you seen the video? It's pretty cool.

Next video is Therefore I Am by Billie Eilish.

She has a Kingdom Hearts logo on her cardigan!

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That was a good fucking video, Christ.

Next one is Mother by Idles.

Okay, I really fucking dig the vibe of this video, Christ. I wish I was either the guitarist or bassist, the one in the shiny pink dress lmao

Okay, This is America by Childish Gambino. Introduced by the band. Nothing to really add.

Unrelated, I'm glad Dylan Roof is getting the fucking chair.

Truth Hurts by Lizzo - not a big fan of this song, but I do like Lizzo and I sympathize with the struggles she has because I've seen the sort of dogshit she faces in CE's BS coverage of her.

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Anyway, next song is Closer by NIN. I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy.

Dude was introducing a Prodigy song when I got up for a leak. Thought it'd be Smack my Bitch Up, but it wasn't. He's wearing like an American flag jumpsuit, it's set in a tunnel and it's in black and white.

Aphex Twin right after. Come to Daddy.

I postponed opening a drink for this one. This is fucking wild.

Okay I kind of fucking love this video. There's even a break in the mirror before the girls start fucking even more shit up, lmao

What the fuck Nanna! Get it!

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WHY BY ANNIE LENNOX, HOLY SHIT.

okay, should I be listening to CHVURCHES based on the music videos I have in bold itt?

That song and video are so amazing and indulgent. Fuck yeah.

Next song is a Depeche Mode song. Something like Enjoy the Silence, I'm drunk. It reminds me of the Erasure song from that robot unicorn game.

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Playground Love by Air seems cool, but I gotta piss

All I got from that video is that the chick might have been Kirsten Dunst.

Massive Attack is next, either the song is called Teardrop or the band is. I've seen this MV a handful of times over the years.

Watching this video with my pro-life friend would probably be the most annoying shit ever. I'm actually about to cut him out of my life on Wednesday for unrelated reasons. Kinda like the vibe of the band, at least.

Next song being introduced is Don't Give Up by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush.

Oh shit, I love this song! And I love the gimmick behind the video, the stage rotates to show the face of the dominant singer.

idk why, but the background reminds me a lot of Boney M. Cool eclipse theme. Also, is this video a oner?

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I'm getting some really gay vibes from this video. Some really gay vibes. Everything from the milk dropping to the lead singer's poses.

Note to mods: not gay in the derogatory way. I mean emphatically homosexual as a purely neutral judgement.

Also, nice dance moves dude

The Scientist by Coldplay is up next. Good song, good video.

Coldplay is an excellent singles band, at least up to Hymn for the Weekend. I'll fuckin fight anyone on this.

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Jesus, the MV for Where The Wild Roses Grow is really good. I dunno if this won a MTV award for the song or MV, but either way it's an excellent song and MV.

I really like Murder Ballads, but there's only so much of that song you can listen to before it begins to wear off. I'm glad I had the incentive to watch the MV.

Next up is Hurt by Johnny Cash. Gonna stop typing and watch. There's a lot of history happening, and a lot of context.

Johnny Cash and David Bowie are two artists with some of the best songs about death under their belt in music history. Like jeez.

So Real by Jeff Buckley is on next. Gonna listen to this.

Weird video, but I particularly dig the music. Next video is Losing My Religion by REM.

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I've got one more 4 pack of sour beers in the fridge after this one. If you wanna get me for disruptive posting, now's your chance, since I got modded yesterday for an inflammatory post about another user's dad's nuts being in my mouth.

Deftones' Minerva is up next. MV isn't much to write home about, but the song is okay.

It had some cool imagery, and I like how the sun's coming up at the end. No hate for th Deftones, I just mostly caught their performances.

Oh shit, they're putting a Nick Cave MV on next

It's Where the Wild Roses Grow. Was hoping for The Ship Song, that's my favorite Nick Cave song.

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SPEAKING OF EVERLONG

I love everything about this MV. The Evil Dead pastiche, the punk shit with the giant hand, and the whole resolution involving waking Dave Grohl up and getting him in the girl's dream. 10/10 music video.

Gotta love how much they crossdress in the early music videos, lol


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I'm gonna assume the kid from Heart-Shaped Box is his kid. I don't know shit about Nirvana.

Interesting music video, didn't really sink in too much. Felt kinda weird-for-weird's-sake, y'know.

Current MV is Only Happy When It Rains by Garbage. I don't mind Garbage, and it has that distorted guitar like the last few songs, but the MV is mostly then being weird and edgy and trashing the place. Kinda prefer Not Your Kind of People, if only because I'm a Metal Gear stan haha

They just put Song 2 by Blur on. idk if it's ironic or serious.

I like Blur. This is the only popular song of theirs to permeate in Australia, it was a jock jam they'd play at football games and stuff, and I hate it.

OH SHIT HOMIES IT'S TRIBUTE

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