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All I get from those videos is how desperate Metal fans are for allegedly superior "classically trained" musicians to validate their taste in music. Why does it matter what a classical musician thinks about I Cum Blood by Cannibal Corpse?
You guys aren't going to believe this, but I called it. I felt it in the winds a few weeks ago that Kissinger would die before the year was out, and the winds told me the truth. Not the exact date mind you, and he was bound to die eventually, but still.
Hyperloop gags aside, the fact that they're able to use cars underground suggests that they have the ventilation problem sorted out. At least, I hope they do. It would come in handy in case of an Israeli gas attack.
Alright, but we still remember all the shit that happened to the indigenous people at the hands of European settlers, and more importantly, so do the indigenous peoples of the world. That's not going away, even if the liberal consensus is that it's all in the past and we should forget about it. This is all part of a historical process, and history doesn't end once the liberals say it does. It's all cause and effect. What I don't like about this post is that it's just handwringing about the state if things, thereby implying that these struggles are, in fact, in the past. If this is all going to be forgotten, then why do we bother talking about it? We should be documenting and discussing precisely so that it doesn't get forgotten.
But it's not framed that way, and a lot of children won't see the similarities. I may not have, once upon a time, as critical thinking isn't encouraged at school. There are many things I think about in relation to economics and foreign and domestic policy which I had to have pointed out to me by more experiened leftists. This frustrates me, as I should have been able to spot these glaring double standards and errors by myself; it also makes me worry about the children of today, who may go their entire adult lives without encountering anything which intellectually challenges them.
I disagree. The only people who will think like this are liberals, and who gives a fuck what they think? Libs gonna lib, as they always have. Left-wingers (some of them, at least - I assume there were some who thought differently) have always been critical of colonialism and imperialism - Marx wrote scathingly about atrocities committed by the British against the Chinese and Engles had some thoughts about the English occupation of Ireland, for example. If it seems as though no-one cared about the Aboriginal Australians or the First Nations people, it was very likely because not as much was known about them; there were only so many socialist thinkers at the time, and they were probably more preoccupied by potential revolutions going on closer to home.
However, the surviving indigenous peoples of America and Australia certainly won't forget what happened to them, or what is still happening to them. The palestinians have the support not just of white European and American leftists like myself, but broadly of the Muslim diaspora community on those continents and the people of the Islamic nations surrounding Palestine. I know I certainly won't forget what Israel has done, nor will I ever think it was justified. And what happens when Uncle Sam finds it inconvenient or impossible to stand up for Israel anymore? I don't know for sure, but it will probably involve a lot more killing.
The merch seller, venue staff, and the rest of the crew deserve at least as much if not more money than the band, and I say that as a musician. Besides which, the band will be taking the lion's share of the profit from the merch sales themselves (unless the venue or label are saying that they want a cut of merch sales, and some do).
The tweet they're using as evidence has added as context "the Saudi government has made no such statement" but that one official has said that talks are on hold for now
Balkans would be interesting. Some Mujahideen fighters were actually sent there by the US to stir up trouble, but they were stabbed in the back and forced to either return to their countries of origin or be arrested. I've heard (though unfortunately, I can't for the life of me think where) that this was one of the real reasons for 9/11 - Bin Laden was pissed off that the CIA fucked him and his friends over.
I think expat communities have something to do with it. I was listening to a podcast about modern reactionaries and nazis the other day, and they did an episode about Slavic Native Faith. The Ukrainian brand was started by a Ukrainian, but took off in the States long before it gained a foothold in the motherland.
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Heads up to anyone reading: at least one of the links on the CPUSA reading list is to a Zlibrary domain that was seized by the FBI, so you may want to search for those ones yourself