HOLD ON, WE'RE GOING HOME
Hey remember two years ago when some writer accused Taylor Swift of dog-whistling at white supremacists and secretly indoctrinating young girls into the cult of Trump:
http://popfront.us/2017/09/swiftly-to-the-alt-right-taylor-subtly-get-the-lower-case-kkk-in-formation/
Time feels like dog years now I swear to God
I remember reading in the New Yorker about a techbro health food startup that mails you a packet of essential vitamins and minerals you mix with water and drink as a smoothie.
It was called Soylent, and I'm not joking.
Same: The thing I took issue how he frames it.
"It's messed up that it's still controversial to be gay and a rapper, and that a guy like Lil Nas X now has to worry about coming out detracting from his #1 song and all his success." > "Lil Nas X probably shouldn't have come out."
All I'll add is that it wouldn't surprise me at all to learn Young Thug has his own identity issues, even if he is straight, and that's partly why he framed it and phrased it the way he did.
Race and racism certainly played a factor in it taking so long to prosecute R. Kelly, because his victims were mostly black girls and therefore racistly low on Chicago P.D.'s list of priorities.
The Epstein case is different. Why it got buried in the first place says a lot about money, power, and friends in high places. Why it's getting wall-to-wall coverage now is because it involves Donald Trump and Bill Clinton. Fox puts "Clinton" in their headline; MSNBC puts "Acosta" in theirs. Everybody clicks; everybody wins.
I don't think race has anything to do with it.
Explaining cappie's comments and how they have anything to do with the article is one of those word games only really smart people can play, like anagrams or doing sentence diagrams of Proust.
beeeeeeans!
No worries. If I weren't already listening to WoD at least once per road trip, I'd wanna be told to listen to WoD at least once per road trip.
I’m back and feeling great fam
RE: mental illness, don’t try to handle it on your own. Don’t hide things from people. Don’t isolate yourself. That’s when it gets bad.
Do admit when you need help. Do reach out to someone who can help if you have even a passing thought of doing something stupid. Do let family and friends you trust know what’s going on. Do work hard and kick your own ass to get better. Do take your meds.
Sorry 4 no meme this week.
What’s everybody listening to tonight?
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes completely wrecked the ska cover economy.
You know how many marching band kids there were in the early 2000s scrounging through old pop songs for a good one that hadn't been ska covered yet? You know how many checkered Vans-wearing dreamers there were working day and night just to have a shot at their own Reel Big Fish "Take On Me" moment? And these already famous motherfuckers start a band that does nothing but bog-standard ska covers, burning through every single half-decent pop song left? You know how it feels to spend all night working on a MIDI of a new cover and printing out the guitar tabs to bring to practice, only to have your bandmates brush it off with a "Me First and the Gimme Gimmes already did it"? Fuck those guys.
I feel better now.
Thank you for going on record about this.
I'm going to hound him on Twitter until he either blocks me, confesses, or proves you plagiarized him.
#TheTruthIsOutThere
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