If anyone likes music theory, Adam Neely, Nahre Sol, Charles Cornel, and Open Studio Jazz are all amazing.

I really would love to hear what a non musician thinks about them too. I bet maths heads would love it.

Jesse Wells has a line that gets me every time:

“Time is not a mirror/ it’s some distorted view/ of the way you thought you was/ and what you thought they thought of you”

It wasn’t until the invention of the skateboard and baseball cap that pizza delivery could even become a thing at all

Finally saw a VW Buzz on the streets- I fell in love instantly. Not sure of the specs but I think she’s mighty pretty and it makes me want to load up my band and do a cross country trip with a fun montage sequence.

Lol fair

You mean Russian Oligarch and President of The United States Donald Trump works with Putin? I never./s

Can’t trust people. People listen to Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. Can’t trust em.

Yea, I made a post to my people to come to the fediverse. While we have capitalist and communist forums, ultimately the fediverse sits in the anarchist camp.

I like it because I’m suspicious of tankies and hate musk fucks. A nice 3rd option.

I have such great memories of my mom giving me a good honkwhich. I would come home from school and she would feed me like a baby penguin. I felt so safe and secure, frankly I feel bad for the underprivileged youths who don’t get to have a honkwich.

I will say, he did get to paint on TV and know that maybe somewhere someone was better off for knowing he existed.

Bob Ross absolutely got something. Something worth more than any sum of gold.

Don’t normalize stigma, normalize sigma

“my politics are fiscally liberal, socially terrifying”

Latex is a left wing kink (restriction of rights)

Custard pies are right wing (impurity)

Smoking is left wing unless it’s American Spirits

Being trod in with stilettos is right wing (fem Dom)

Wearing a diaper is right wing if a man does it, left wing if a woman does it (gender infantalization)

Last night I whispered “supply side economics” into her ear and she said “you’re a fucking freak”

I’m not sure if updating our tools is moving goal posts- what goal are we aiming for? I understand the frustration with seeing the measuring stick change to make the reasonable seem unreasonable, but I would say that the same measuring stick is now misrepresenting where people fall.

If we are talking political spectrums, there already are plenty of tools used: the linear left right, the horseshoe, the fishhook, the quadrant visualisation, etc. I’d say the data is now leaving the paper. We need new tools to make sense of it.

Much to your point though, I think it’s valuable to ask “what are we measuring, who’s doing the measuring, and who benefits from the answer?”

We will never have the satisfying answers to our questions, but hopefully we can find better questions to ask.

I think that the left/ right spectrum is outdated, or at least the definitions we give to each.

I mean, originally the left/ right divide was about whether to keep King Louis XVI around or to have him beheaded.

The spectrum we know as a communism vs capitalism scale really was useful in the cold war when those were the two sides of a bipolar world. When we still use this as the measuring stick, things become super confusing in the 21st century. Our world is no longer a communist vs capitalist struggle. Russia and China aren’t communist like the Soviet Union. The United States isn’t the same democratic state that it was in 1960.

I don’t know what our new spectrum is, that’s going to be the research of the next great political scientist, but I do think the old tools we’ve used are no longer helpful. Some are saying “woke vs unwoke”, some are saying “populism vs. globalism”, and some are saying simply “chaos vs order”. Perhaps it’s a little bit of all, or perhaps we should throw spectrums out altogether. Either way, if we use old tools for modern problems, we will end up confused. It’s like how jazz is seen as a super complex genre- it may simply be because we still use the music theory of 18th century European composers to try and understand Miles Davis. Of course it’s going to be a wild ride.

I like to think this person was high as balls, got super paranoid, and had to get the biggest weight off their chest.

I wish them the best BBQ burgers.

Oh of course, person by person there are folks who wouldn’t hesitate to grab a machete and get to work.

Hell, there are people in leftist camps who decided to join when they heard the word “guillotine”

I mean that’s what I assumed it meant. I didn’t think we were actually going to come out murdering people.

Ah I see.

Maybe this can help.