Cigars are nice but I am more of a pipe man. At least when I am smoking alone.

https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/its-time-to-let-classical-music-die/

@Abstract Cossack
Wow, damn, he came firing both barrels...
Of an M-34...
@I Know a Fat Guy
Of course it's there. That was the plan all along. 😥😥😥😥

Classical music is dope, that's one of the things that's irreplaceable. Jazz, which will never have a hit piece (all of the black artists), comes in second for me

Dr. Drew in the hizzy! Plague in California! Don’t call it a comeback!

This is basically my takeaway from the debates so far:
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1144423129609048067

So we need to replace all classical composers with black trans lesbians, is what I took away from that piece. All throughout reading it I was hoping to discover it was satire.

Trans black lesbians playing works written by people of color exploring styles from non-White cultural backgrounds.

Look, if you want to play Lebanese gourd flute concertos, knock yourself out. Who's stopping you?

I'm trying to put my finger on exactly what it is about this attitude that bugs me the most. I think it's the idea that because someone has a platform (an orchestra) and a product people are willing to pay for (Beethoven), that they are stealing something (status, attention) from those who do not.

*They are creating value, asshole.* Try doing the same instead of dragging the rest of us down with your endless diversity quotas.

*envy*

In a nutshell, yes. Isn't that one of the Seven Deadly Sins?

Indeed it is

pride, lust, and envy seem to be progressives' M.O.

Hell, let's throw gluttony and wrath in there too

Ie: fat acceptance and deplatforming

I bet we can find all 7 if we look hard enough

Pride: gay pride, non-white race pride etc. The belief that you know best for everyone.
Greed: Gibs. The need to control all institutions and hold all levers of power.
Lust: gay pride again, and the complete unleashing of sexual deviancy generally.
Envy: Communism and the need to tear down 'privilege' in the name of equality.
Gluttony: rampant obesity and fat acceptance, also the proliferation of sensual entertainment generally.
Wrath: the active destruction of non-conforming views and institutions. Antifa.
Sloth: the extension of childhood well into the twenties. Passive consumption of entertainment. Mass underemployment and the welfare state.

Yep, think we caught them all.

This is making me think that one of the differences between the Left and the Right is that the Right sees these as sins to be resisted and overcome and the Left sees them as needs to be indulged and provided for.

I've no idea why you are trying to control people with your patriarchal white supremacy man.

I can't help it, my Whiteness is the whole of my identity.

It's sooooo problematic.

I wouldn't create a list like that, but it was mostly fine. The one that i don't see really fitting is what you had for greed. As i don't know if people who "believe they know whats best" are really greedy.

The desire for power is part of greed IMO.

It was just a 5-minute thought exercise.

I mean yes, some people do just want to be in power and i would count that as greed, but i think the rest just think they know whats best for everyone else.

Then that would be Pride.

And I agree.

Gibs is greed

The idea that you're entitled to the labour of others for existing

Agreed. List edited to incorporate both points.

This whole thing really highlights the differences between "Live and let live" and "Live and utterly annihilate anyone I don't like" worldviews

Talk later fellows, I have roofing to do...

Don't fall in.

Haha thanks. No holes in it, just need to do some patching and get a fresh coat of sealant up before the monsoons hit.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-dems-senate-border

Crazy people do talk to each other. Who knew. https://youtu.be/sppbHQDRzSs

There was some salt on Twitter for this one
https://babylonbee.com/news/gay-man-lectures-christians-on-biblical-morality

@I Know a Fat Guy Ana did kind of admit that the socialist part of Venezuela is what caused Venezuela to fail.

I think it’s funny how they kept appealing to Scandinavia.

@C1PHER Ain't Babylon Bee supposed to put out parody. This happened.

Satire is impossible in clown world