You'd get your point across a lot better if you tried some actual journalism, not some shitty YouTube vid with a ghastly thumbnail. You can't expect anyone to take that seriously, surely?
"Actual journalism" what does that even mean? Youtube IS a medium of communication that legitimate news outlets and journalist depend on to talk about various aspects of life.
I think Marxism Today totally missed the point of the movie. How to Blow Up a Pipeline is engaging fun you can share with your liberal friends, that also happens to challenge their notions of acceptable praxis against climate change.
It's a heist film in the Ocean's Eleven tradition, using all the classic tropes like nonlinear narrative, assembling the crew, third act twist - it's unrealistic because it is meant to be entertaining rather than informative. I watched the interview MT clipped from, and they left out the context that they consulted with the counter-terrorism expert so that they wouldn't get into legal trouble for demonstrating actual bomb-making techniques. They collaborated with a government official because wanted their film to have the widest possible release, not to help or hinder people making actual bombs.
I agree that Marxist groups have a hypocritical relationship with 'adventurism' - they only use that term if the cadre's results aren't immediately celebrated by the proletariat. If they succeed and it polls well, they call them the people's vanguard and pretend their plans were stamped at party headquarters. Stalin was a literal heist man, robbing banks for the Bolsheviks. I'm sure the guy who punched Richard Spencer consulted a committee first.
I love the reviews by army-funded Michael Bay film fan types - they all grudgingly admit it's an excellent film, and without any irony say their only demerit is that it's 'propaganda' - that's high praise. If you haven't seen it already, assemble your crew.
Ok so this video convinced me hyperloops are a bad idea because vacuum is difficult to maintain
well then what’s a good idea that can go faster than airplanes? What am I supposed to be excited about instead? I love trains and the hyper loop sounded like a really fast train, which is cool.
You don't need a car everywhere. Most non US developed countries have a robust public transport network. A car is actually less practical than public transport for like 90% of use cases if you live in Metropolitan areas. Same for tourism. Don't need a car to go visit Paris. Jump on a local tgv and be in center Paris just a few hours later from most of western Europe. Why would you bring a car..
We need a way to make sure that the internet can't be owned, physically.
We need some kind of easy to use and fast and robust open source alternate internet that we can all use.
Something that somehow costs nothing to run, that has enough storage and bandwidth for everyone and everything.
Something that has interoperability built in. Every platform should confirm to openid or openauth or activitypub or something like that.
And you know what? we have the technology!
We all have spare devices lying around. Old PC's, old laptops, old phones - they could all be running some kind of node in a distributed platform of some kind of open source AWS equivalent, and let anyone host anything and post anything without getting ad-raped or data stolen.
It's a pipe dream of mine, and I'm sure others... but with a will and a movement we could just take it all back, all at once.
The result you may get then is "I am... Locutus of Enshittification. Resistane... is futile. You life, as it has been... is over. From this time forward... you will service... us" which may make you go "Lock on and file all weapons on full!'
I think it's pretty disappointing that people here will downvote songs just for being country (yesterday's Luke Combs song too). Not for violating the community rules, or spamming, etc., just downvote for being a song in a genre you don't care for. A song that you probably didn't even listen to. What's the point then? Only upvote a song that you already like? Is the point then just to circlejerk about songs you already know?
You know I used to think too that "country is garbage" which I'm sure you're thinking right now. But I gave it an honest chance. I was really surprised by how much my feelings towards country have changed. Is it just the same old themes and riffs? Well ya you know that is sort of true. But then that's really true of lots of music. Latin music tends to be love songs. Pop is certainly the same themes. Punk rock is only a few poorly-played chords played out of time with the same lyrical themes repeating (fight the system, get drunk). In that way, country isn't very different at all. It has musical and lyrical themes it follows.
I've found that people enjoy country music because it makes them feel good. It tends to be fun music that doesn't take itself too seriously. My friends that enjoy country want to smile and laugh and dance and be happy. What's wrong with that? I went to a country music open mic in Nashville TN and found musicians being so supportive of each other, radiating joy and positivity while they sing about their love for their family members and each other. Beautiful! Is country music homophobic or racist? Some is, just like some people are. But there is a lot that isn't. You might really be surprised. In fact many of the most famous artists in country are liberal and do not tolerate hate. Chris Stapleton here says Black Lives Matter.
Speaking truth. People who think all country is garbage are about as bad as the people who used to say all rap is garbage or all pop is garbage. It’s elitist and ignorant.
In 2012, the parody national anthem from the film's soundtrack, which acclaims Kazakhstan for its high-quality potassium exports and having the second-cleanest prostitutes in the region, was mistakenly played at the medal ceremony of Mariya Dmitriyenko at the Emir of Kuwait International Shooting Grand Prix. The incident apparently resulted from the wrong song being downloaded from the Internet.
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