MolotovHalfEmpty

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[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Trump's walk on performance has big kiryu-pain kiryu-dame-da-ne vibes. Beautiful.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Geuinely bizarre the press is still doing this dance. Ukraine wasn't ever getting into Nato. The US has said as much repeatedly and recently. So have other Nato members. It was always a ruse.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Unite are edgy, ironic types who mix a bit of shock humour and imagery into otherwise loosely anarchist / anti-fascist politics.

They deleted their Instagram and put out a slightly weak but understandable statement after getting spammed there. It basically just says that they're against killing innocents full stop, don't support Hamas, but also point out that it only seems to be Hamas' killings that are controversial and that if Israel doesn't want to be treated as a monster it shouldn't act like one.

For an example of their music here's a few bangers...

PLOMO is a banger about needing both books and guns to fight the system, kill cops, and fight the state with violent insurrection. If you don't recognise the album art it's the famous photo of Francoist PM Luis Carrero Blanco getting carbombed by ETA, the incident often referred to as 'Spains First Astronaut' because the car was thrown more than 5 stories high.

Cayetano Al Arrancar is more of the same, taking aim at the the fascist aristorcracy throughout Spain's history, with mentions of Opus Dei and right wing mafias, telling them they need to keep looking under their cars before they start them.

Calvo Bop or 'Bald Bop' is a silly Blitzkreig Bop Ramones rip off about being bald.

Sasuke Bin Laden is a shitposty track about Bin Laden being CIA but how his real crime is being an anime and hentai fan (as the findings at his compound suggested).

Rayadona is more shit-talking about cocaine, Maradona being great and loving cocaine, and English fans crying about the 'hand of god' goal.

M​И​P is kind of a short mission statement about old school, straight edge, anarchist hardcore fighting landlords, bosses, and goverment by playing and squatting where they want, fighting power, living the 'illegal hardcore' life etc. "Only a firing squad can correct me."

Apoyo Mutuo is just a lovely anthem about support, solidarity, and mutual aid.

Cancion Seria is an 18 second song about Don Quixote being to long so refusing to read it.

Congratulations on your blessing and best wishes to you all!

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The only golf match I would ever watch. The golf wouldn't be any more interesting, but the potential for Joe wandering off into the woods, Trump heckling him until they have a pathetic old man fight on the green, or either of them croaking on camera mid-swing would be too high not to tune in.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Almost exactly the way the Tories suddenly collapsed in UK when the media just suddenly decided to notice all the damage and corruption one day. Almost like the deep state, with their corporate media owners, decided that the incompetence was too risky to continue.

The headline is cope, but it has abolsutley cost them seats and more importantly this is genuinely a victory of electoral-only, low-turnout, geneuinely unique (in terms of other parties) FPTP math. Labour's landslide isn't based on an increase of voters, nor popularity, and a ridiculous amount of even cabinet ministers wins were razor thin. The average margin of votes won by also more than halved. It's going to be a shitshow when the honeymoon is over.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

Literally just nonsense, word salad, a strategy of anti-meaning. The perfect intelligence candidate for a moment they've manufactured to be devoid of meaning.

 

Christmas in July.

 

My local was flooded with ecstatic out of town removed earlier than scheduled. So this went on repeat as I left until the prebooked band was ready. Election day is a fucking nightmare.

Also, it's an all time depressive banger. A great late cynical era Bruce Springsteen song perfected into a dark pop dance ballad by the Pet Shop Boys.

 

I'm going to the pub to watch the England match again (for some reason) so here's a warm-up tune.

It's laser focused satire of a particular kind of English footy bloke.

And for non-Brits here I imagine it'll be like trying to understand something between a magic eye and iceburg of British lad culture.

 

Bedtime cats are on parade!

 

I was expecting some sort of 'emergency' Chapo episode but it seems that Felix was taking a break from gaming and shopping for fighter jets to spend the night hanging in a Waffle House. Clearly he wasn't too impressed with Joe's performance, so I guess that's a sneak preview of the next episode.

 

Biden campaign HQ hype campaign after the debate:

Biden comes out seemingly completely unaware of where he is, while his wife talks to him like a dog.

Jill Biden: "Joe, you did such a good job! You answered every question! You knew all the facts!"

(He absolutely did not, of course)

Doesn't let him respond, just let's him grin mindlessly, while she tries to whip up thr base about the fact that Trump lied.

Biden's face goes back to confusion when the crowd stop cheering and shout "lie" about Trump as though he has no idea who or what they're talking about.

Video Here Apologies for the chud twitter link, it was the only easy clip I could find

 

Taken by @JW_Hendricks on Instagram.

Posted here because we don't have a pictures comm.

 

Taken by Aline Manoukian in the Palestinian camp of Burj el-Barajneh, located near Beirut in 1988.

 

PodBean has gotten shitter and shitter, randomly stopping play when not on screen.

Google has just announced its taking Podcasts out behind the woodshed so you can pay them for YouTube Premium to watch video podcasts in the background in your pocket.

I just want something simple, free or a one off purchase, that is friendly to copying Patreon feed links etc.

Suggestions appreciated, although I still don't relish the idea of refollowing 50+ feeds again.

 

I'm the king of shouty things and wishing I was in the Budos Band now. It's still dead good though.

 

So much better than it probably should be. Some great dialogue sample choices too. Even the EQ/tracklisting video is slick.

A certified oddball banger.

 

More than 20 years ago British rap was giving way to an increasingly northern move that included J Cristie who, despite a shit line about China and a few dodgy refs, put out relentlessly anti-imperialist UK hip hop for his short, but very solid dominance of what remained of the backpack/conscious UK rap scene.

The next record (2006) brought a sequel to The Grip, written - in part, with some broader context - from the sympathetic perspective of a young auicede bomber. Naturally the UK paying attention shit itself and the rest happily ignored it.

So why is this back again (for fhe feed)? In the UK and online people have spent the whole week being bemused or insensed about Galloway winning an election and becoming a British MP. They reference some shameless performances or reality TV. People on the left rightly reference his chameleon status, socially conservative leanings, and recent TERF shit.

But you know why he won a protest by election? You know why he's not just sampled but distinctive contextual sample for one of the most important non-grime records in 2000s music? Because he was and is one of the only public personas in the UK who has been constant on this issue.

The fact that fucking Galloway was who got endlessly sampled then and is getting elected now is fucking shit, but an example of how much worse the UK was and is in general.

But no-ones reading this anyway on a post about 20+ year old BritHop. So why not ramble?

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