Like 100 black peeners, specifically

One of the only industries where the old gear just keeps getting more and more expensive

dude i ven seen the prices ...

Like did u see the console they sold

That was in studio B in abbey road

nyet i hav not but i know

Like 1.6 mill euros for that setup

XD

i have a chinese tube amp .... shit was cheap but good but if you want good tube amp shit .... get ready to earn your way on your kneees to make money for that

@JULZIFICATOR geez man that exp as fuck

Yeah man tube amps are sex as fuck

Lol and yeah it even had an old pultech subtractive EQ in the rack, just one of those original is like 20k XD

I got a fucking good deal on my tube amp thank god. Got it used in a full stack with a les paul forblike a grand

Just that les paul was worth jus under a grand

Lol got lucky tho my guitar teachers buddy was lookin to get rid of em all at once lol fucking jumped on that shit so hard XD love that amp its a 5150 ii from 2001

I play metal so its fucking perfect

So I was researching that thing about Austin renaming itself. It's worse than it look.s

Like austin texas?

I just learned several major cities (including Austin) run 'equity' or 'diversity' departments just like a university.

Yes.

And this nonsense comes out of there.

Lol wow jesus fuck thats unsettling

Social Justice is being institutionalized at the city level.

T_T

http://www.austintexas.gov/department/equity

Yeah i wonder how it is at my local big city

I know the unis there are notoriousley bad for that shit

My small town is not bad for that though

Here's another example:

https://www.atlantaga.gov/government/mayor-s-office/office-of-equity-diversity-and-inclusion

Like my town is fairly liberal. But thank god this sjw nonesense hasnt really pushed the town further left...... Yet at least

Tbh here the unis had focused on the student union protests against austerity the past like 4 years

To the point ppl dont take them seriousley anymore because they are litterally the unis in canada with the fucking cheapest tuition bitching that their tuition is too expensive

This seems to be the big list.

https://racialequityhere.org/

Not to mention that with the rise in tuition in this province they were still the cheapest schools in the country

https://www.sanantonio.gov/Equity

https://www.portlandoregon.gov/oehr/

http://www.seattle.gov/civilrights/

There's more, but I'll leave it to you to explore it a bit.

Needless to say, I don't buy the argument that the SJWs will go hungry after graduating and won't have long term impacts.

equity means less white people

No, Equity means "equality of outcome"

Which in practice means discrimination against the "historically advantaged class"

Theres such a thing as charity fatigue and it'll hit those reparations and equal rights campaigns fast

yup

No it won't.

it will

This is funded by taxpayres.

TAXPAYERS

Not donors.

the pendulum always swings bothways

You really think they'll just wipe out these offices?

once it becomes unpopular

yes

if it gets that way

No it won't. It's an entrenched government program.

I'm not so pessimistic

You really think a politician will just get rid of these offices and accept being called a racist by every left leaning outlet in earshot?

True you have to be the most optimistic as a fiscally conservative person to think that these programs wont last long.. they might, but things are on a tipping scale it seems right now. They werent this bad 20 years ago, so using welfare or other long-lasting programs as a metric won't work

We're not Britain. We don't mind being called racist.. we've been called that since day one

"We don't mind being called racist"

Are you out of your mind?

Here's the political calculus:

Leave it be. It's probably not a big budget item and won't really get you any love from the base (who largely don't know it exists)

OR

? GOP has been called the racist party since after civil rights era, which they were instrumental in passing mind you.

Yet we've had a good amount of republican presidents since then

we've had a good amount of black republicans in office since then

Kill it. Enrage the people hired by the department and all the allies and community organizers they network with. Enrage the local left-leaning press and get called a racist for obviously opposing the voice of the minorities.

I think the politicians will always default to option #2.

*#1

But nowadays that doesn't change things. Those black republicans just get called uncle toms.

There's no advantage to kill it.

I mean they always were, by fellow blacks. Now they're getting called that by SJWs

It just enrages the opposition and stirs up a hornet's nest.

These offices aren't going to just die "when the pendulum swings"

You guys are just rationalizing doing nothing and pretending everything is going to change "just because"

I think things are changing right now

It's a hard sell, but lets just wait it out before we call anyone "out of their mind" for holding opinions yeah?

yup

we're getting to the tipping point where the rational on the left and keep up and are bowing out

Because things are changing quicker than they have in the past. The pace of things just follows that logic.

Yeah, which is why Dems are somewhere around +8 and +12 on the congressional ballot.

Dems are fractures. Even the never-trumper GOPs will vote trump in 2020.

of course they will

they're getting paid

i.e. taxes

Well imo between here and trump getting reelected, if nothing happens which is unlikely the dems NEED to get their shit together

and trump is a center right conservative

exactly who they want in office

regardless if they'll admit it

Dems are collapsing under their own weight right in front of our eyes

Keep telling yourself that.

I'm serious. Like, forget the parties for a minute.

They are deperately trying to get organised

Who do you know on the anti-SJW side who even knows these things *exist*?

the left is collapsing, hows that

Its wishfull thinking saying they have no chance against trump in 2020

and fracturing

Yeah, but even if the left collapses, they aren't going to just purge a bunch of offices and stuff.

Sure, lets forget the parties for a minute. Those with outward overly progressive views have highjacked a moral attitude that the rest of the liberal body can't get with.