This is one of the silliest things I’ve seen in ages:
What the fuck is that even supposed to mean? Look, a lot of authoritarian propaganda does revolve around the idea that the present is shit and the past was glorious, and therefore the quality of the future is kind of dependent on upon recreating that past (or at least some vision of the past that may or may not have actually ever existed)… but that’s not what the original text is about anyway? It’s “my past”, not “the past”. I mean, my past is vastly more interesting than my present is now or future is likely to be, so I understand that sentiment (better than I wish I did, but hey, life’s like that these days). And for some other dickhead to come along and add “GATEWAY TO AUTHORITARIAN PARANOIA LOL” to it… just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. There’s paranoia and then there’s whatever the fuck this was supposed to be…
Fucking stunning. This has always been one of my Fabs favourites, and I’ve always thought Paul’s bass on this was good, lovely fills and so forth… but fucking hell, listening to the isolated bass track has given me an entirely new understanding of just how good, and now I’m hearing the full song again with a different appreciation… I think because the bass gets a little lost in the mix during THE RIFF in the last three minutes or so, it’s a bit overwhelmed by the guitars and the white noise, it’s hard to actually hear what he’s doing, so hearing Paul by himself is just… oh my. Obviously what he’s doing during THE RIFF is repetitive cos that’s the point of that section, but he finds so much room for variation in that repetition even so; and in the earlier part of the song where he’s more easily audible, you can hear how much work he’s doing to make the bassline melodic. Amazing. I think “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” is now even more of a favourite of mine…
Self-described “theocratic fascist” Malsh Walsh is an appalling human being even by the limited standards of rhe modern American right. For example:
You have to love that sort of hair-splitting terminology-wrangling, whereby it’s technically not pedophilia because the victims are over a certain age, so it’s really hebephilia or ephebophilia, which makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE SOMEHOW. And in any case it’s pooves that are the actual issue. The quality of abuse is indeed strained…
So apparently this is Lord Dampnut’s latest hair as seen at what I presume was his latest cult gathering, and, well, a certain similarity has been observed over on Twitter… although this isn’t the first time it’s happened:
Mike Score, incidentally, is about as bald as can be these days. That infamous “winged” hair apparently took flight a while ago:
It’s Pride Month, and to be honest, I don’t really care about it. Plenty of my friends do and good for them, most of them are the target demographic in a way that I don’t feel that I am. Cos I don’t fully know what I am myself. I’m not trans, that much I’m sure of; I’m he/him binary and have never felt that I was anything but a man (if not much of one, admittedly). And I’m interested in women, not men, when it comes to that. Does that make me straight as such, though?
Cos I always thought I basically was, but about ten years ago my friend Lara came out as asexual, and the more I read about that the more I wondered if this was what I actually was, cos it seemed to explain some things about me. But I’ve never been able to convince myself fully, if you know what I mean, that I am. I don’t know if I’m a “proper” ace, or some subset of ace like grey or demi, or if it’s just the many and varied pills I take each day driving down my libido (come back my testosterone! All is forgiven!). If I were some flavour of ace, would that then make me queer? Cos a certain part of Ace Discourse is the debate about whether or not aces are queer as such by virtue of not really being straight either. And I’ve never felt “queer” myself, so… what, then?
Am I just “heterosexual without motivation”, to quote a splendid phrase I once saw on Tumblr said by someone who had considered themselves ace in the past? Maybe… I read another interesting comment recently, where the author described himself as never having doubted he was male but also not being attached to being male. I forget the exact wording, but something like that. Like being male didn’t particularly matter to him. And maybe that’s the case with me? It’s not as important to me, perhaps, to be big and male and straight as it is to some…?
Cos it’s awfully important to some people out there, and I kind of hate those people. I’ve seen them too many times by now, their very existence shits me to tears quite apart from the things they say and do to demonstrate what STRAIGHT MEN they are, and what their idea of being STRAIGHT MEN involves, and… I don’t know. I don’t do very well at being interested in many of the things STRAIGHT MEN are supposed to be interested in or doing the things they’re supposed to do—you know, being a home handyman, cars, sport, subjugating women, invading other countries, continuing the family line, that sort of this.
I’m kind of a failure as a “normal” man in some respects, and, frankly, I can cope with that. Cos I look at these shitheads on the right and realise how little I want to live up to their preferred stereotype. They make me want to be even less of a STRAIGHT MAN than I already am. One day they’ll even make me feel like celebrating Pride Month out of spite.
Anyway, happy Pridemas to all my queers who are into it. Just watch out for the dickheads who aren’t into it, or you.
A failed political candidate has been indicted on federal charges, including election interference, in connection with a series of drive-by shootings at the homes of state and local lawmakers in Albuquerque, according to a grand jury indictment that was unsealed Wednesday.
The indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque takes aim at former Republican candidate Solomon Peña and two alleged accomplices with additional conspiracy and weapons-related charges in connection with the shootings in December 2022 and January of this year on the homes of four Democratic officials, including the current state House speaker.
Is it just me or is the use of the words “takes aim” REALLY unfortunate in the context of a story about someone engaged in shootings? Jesus fuck, NBC, find better phraseology…
Text messages in the indictment show the 40-year-old candidate bristling with outrage as Bernalillo County commissions certified the results of the midterm election and his own overwhelming defeat as candidate for a seat in the state House of Representatives. Federal authorities say Peña hired others to conduct the shootings and carried out at least one shooting himself.
Hours before the first shooting on Dec. 4, 2022, Peña texted a Republican political ally, who also lost a bid for state representative, to say that “we have to act. I’m continuing my study of election rigging. The enemy will eventually break.”
For me this begs the question of what he means by his “study of election rigging”. Is he trying to say he’s looking at how he thinks the election was rigged (cos I suppose some Republicans must actually believe that), or how he could rig the election himself? And why do I feel it’s the latter more than the former? Either way, I’m fairly sure that attempted murder isn’t the way to go about rigging an election… and what else to call it but attempted murder? Seems more accurate than “election interference”. Or maybe terrorism‘s a better term. Cos that’s what the right would be calling it if the positions were reversed, they’d be screaming for the death penalty if it were a Democrat shooter going after them… although if it were, the Republican targets would already have guns at the ready to shoot back…
Ben Roberts-Smith: I’m a war hero with a Victoria Cross!
Fairfax: Actually, you’re a murdering cunt and we’ve got evidence.
BRS: You can’t call me that, I’m suing you.
Judge: Actually, you’re a murdering cunt and they’ve got evidence.
BRS… Well shit.
I both am and am not surprised that the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case has finally ended in him losing. The trial included some fucking ghoulish details (e.g. the one-legged man they murdered and whose prosthetic leg they took as a souvenir and drank out of; and yeah, I just saw a picture on Twitter of them doing the latter which I will not post or link to) and an assortment of witnesses happy to testify that BRS really was the piece of shit the Fairfax papers were painting him as. As an exercise in defending oneself against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, it was a less than epic success. So I’n not surprised he’s lost.
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