A lot of RWers today see The Boondocks as “based” because it portrayed black social dysfunction honestly but when you watch enough of it it’s clear their message is “we have to clean up our act to overcome white racial oppression.” Basically Malcolm X type messaging.
@KEBuHCAH This practice should be more widespread tbh. The French used to translate the “New” element in U.S. state names (e.g. la Nouvelle-York and le Nouveau-Jersey). Now they just use the English terms as they are for nearly all of them; what a tragedy.
@Ritualuseoffire@DrewPavlou Died for nothing is an american phenomenon. Veterans being thrown into the street by the VA and hippies calling you an evil monster. Muslims cant relate.
Enough with the Indonesian keyboard player. Nothing to write home about.
You should know about Bali/Indonesian/Javanese gamelan tho.
It’s incredible percussive music that was directly adopted by a Japanese music academic to make the AKIRA soundtrack.
The clock tower is becoming more emblematic of Mecca than the Kaaba. You can notice this in merchandise and paraphernalia about the city in which it increasingly takes center stage as the most notable physical landmark of the city. This was inevitable since it was designed and constructed in a way that completely decentered the Kaaba architecturally as a focal point. Even worse than that the tower and surrounding caters solely to an elite global consumer class (as well as people mesmerized by Western mass market KFC slop) which furthers the obvious class stratification at a place where everyone is ostensibly equal.