Changeling

Music has always been heavily influenced by the physical spaces it occupies and the people who occupy that space. From classical symphonic music to EDM to stadium rock, all music relates to these spaces and adapts to the experience of their audiences. And the modern space is, disproportionately, headphones. And the modern audience is, disproportionately, a single person.

In other words, nearly all the modern music you listen to was created as an expression of capitalist atomization.

Oh for sure

Okay but their intentions weren’t being translated in a State Department press release and published on NPR so how was I supposed to know about it?

Didn’t someone here yesterday say they wanted to move from India and refused to consider the US because it was “a war torn nation”?

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They do appear to have fascist dogwhistles on the list

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I’ve been looking through the resources on his site but can’t find the list of keywords he uses for this site. Anyone more familiar with computational statistics wanna give it a go?

I’m traveling soon and am very glad it’ll be by train. Oh wait.

Yup. Damaging trust in public education is a major point of campaigns spearheaded by pro-privatization think tanks. The forums that school shooters tend to frequent also have a tremendous fucking cash flow in their crypto wallets. It’s not direct coordination, but you can see the superstructure forming a bed for these economic interests to lay in.

Although smart people don’t tend to believe outdated race science either so I guess that’s pretty self-explanatory

Conventionally intelligent people are actually more likely to believe race science because they’re more likely to have fringe beliefs in general. Turns out being good at manipulating logic makes you good at deluding yourself, too.

I know this wasn’t the point of your post, which I agree with in general. Just a common way for us to slip into the mindset that rationality is a trait rather than a skill which needs to be consciously used.

This is actually a common question raised in political science: why do countries go to war with each other when it will weaken both of them to do so?

I’ve always thought it was obvious that rulers are using stolen wealth to send the peasants’ children to war rather than their own, but maybe that’s more of a truism than a legit theoretical construct lol

Where are all the stories of climate activists getting arrested while attempting to bypass museum security? How are all of these stunts so successful?