Today marks the 34th anniversary of Living Colour's debut album, Vivid. Hailing from New York City, Living Colour consists of lead vocalist Corey Glover, Vernon Reid on guitar, drummer Will Calhoun, and on bass Muzz Skillings and later Doug Wimbish. The most popular single off of Vivid, "Cult of Personality", received extensive radio airplay in the late 80s and early 90s and can still be heard on alternative rock stations to this day. The song would eventually garner the band a Grammy award for best hard-rock song. Sadly, Vivid was the band's only mainstream success. An all-black rock/metal band singing about gentrification, the status obsessed, alienation and mass shootings, and sexual identity among other politically charged topics wasn't commercially viable during an era of mass consumption and little self-reflection. Vivid's limited commercial success did pave the way for other politically charged acts such as Rage Against the Machine to sign major label record deals in the following decades. Living Colour would go on to record five more studio albums, including the criminally underappreciated Stain, and is still touring today.
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Just realized that Bernie announced his first run almost 7 years ago to the day.
Wonder where we’ll be in 7 years from now :doomer:
seven years ago I was a politically agnostic rube with a bright future
now I'm a political savant destined to be lynched by fascists
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Don't let libs hide from the fact that the democrats had half a century, including multiple years in which they had veto proof majorities, to try to enshrine abortion rights into law at a national level, and they didn't. They let Republicans make abortion functionally illegal in many states, all while acting like Roe was upholding an adequate level of abortion rights, and running purely on defending this flimsy ruling based on "privacy" instead of passing legislation that actually accomplished anything. No one has any memory, I swear to god, people think that the dems finally losing on this issue after 50 years of failing to do anything to strengthen their position is somehow proof that we just need to vote harder and donate more, instead of a fatal discrediting of the party.
I decided to look in r/politics lol:
Biden lost each dakota by 110k each and Wyoming by 120k. So if 340k Democrats move by 2024 we flipped three states on top of Texas potentially going blue
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All we need is 340,000 people to move to shitty states in two years. We got This!!
As someone who is really fucked up largely as a result of being adopted because abortion wasn't legal in my birth country, this really fucking sucks. Its good to focus on the pregnant people who will be affected but the future orphans are going to suffer so much for something they had no say in. With the way adoption gets treated i dont think they'll ever be able to voice their grievances or get justice
Sometimes I really don't like living in South Africa with all the extreme abject poverty and violence, especially towards LGBTQIA people. But then I'm reminded that at least LGBT rights and reproductive rights are constitutionally protected, and will be very hard to remove.
Has any journalist ever had the balls to ask Clarence Thomas if his originalist stance applies to the 13th Amendment?
Lmao Susan Sarandon is reacting to libs having a meltdown about Roe by repeatedly quote-tweeting them in posts about how liberal icons have caused this very situation
No surrender, no retreat
:fidel-salute-big:
I cannot stand this country. The whole reason I EXIST is because my mother was a VICTIM of a violent crime and wasn’t allowed to use contraceptives to abort me. Don’t get me wrong, I love my mother to death and she has always supported me, but this fucking rotten country is perpetuating the culture, stigma, and ignorance of violence surrounding POC women. Roe v. Wade, with even how weak it could be at some points, protected poor women. For what I have left, I have literally negative confidence and trust in the US government. It NEEDS to go
this country is absolute dogshit and i yearn for its collapse daily
Make the GOP regret not killing you before you became too powerful to contain.
I think I might have forgotten to eat dinner last night I don't remember eating anything. And slept too late for breakfast this morning. I'm feeling very faint. Thinking of slipping out of this company meeting and leaving to buy snacks. Wish me luck :soviet-huff:
