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Dreaming of becoming ungovernable

[Elizabeth Gaskell stan account @Ms_Ojo]

Politicians really have it easy because they’ve somehow convinced you that the problem is that you’re not paying taxes as should.

Not the ongoing state capture. Not the possibility of being met with live rounds and killed for demanding accountability.

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬 @DoctorVive]

This is actually a form of sexism, this idea that woman are universally good, since it affords women less freedom than men, giving us “species qualities,” like the tendency to loyalty in dogs.

[SAD @SADISHAPPI]

Okay so this is funny 😂.

[˚₊· 𝓵𝓮𝓻𝔂 ·₊˚🫐 卌 (petal's ver) @pettingzoolilb]

i thought that was the worst thing ive ever heard but then i heard THIS 💀💀💀 she truly doest gaf anymore bout her music and fans wow

[SAD @SADISHAPPI]

@prettypwise I don't listen to most of her music so I wouldn't know but I think The Last Great American dynasty is a pretty great song.
I just think the bullying is excessive and there's a misogynistic tone to it.
Also I don't think any musician is that important that they can "ruin" music.

[SAD @SADISHAPPI]

I agree with a lot of what you said but then I think we have to stop this thing when we deny that and artist never made good music because they have some couple bad projects. Her music might have gotten stale now but then discrediting all her earlier work as bad is just untrue.

[IChooseViolence @ourhermitage]

The misogynistic tone aside, he’s not entirely wrong. Drake and Rihanna are on this table too. But yes, she and her fans helped ruin the way we consume and evaluate music. Music was reduced to numbers. Collaborations became something to demonise. Exceptionalism got diluted, while mediocrity became heavily rewarded, fuelled by media outlets, stan culture and algorithms. Everything that once made music exciting started taking a back seat.

“She writes her own songs.”

Okay, but is the song GOOD? Somewhere along the way, authorship itself became more important than the quality of what was actually written. I’d rather have 100 people write an incredible song than one person single-handedly write an awful one. Some of the greatest music ever made came from collaboration. Artists needed producers, writers, musicians and outside perspectives to challenge them and elevate the work. Now, having too many collaborators is treated like some kind of artistic deficiency.

And I think that’s where she really cracked the code. She found a way to make mediocrity feel like exceptionalism. You don’t necessarily have to recognise great production, exceptional vocals, innovative arrangements or even particularly strong songwriting. The music can be stripped down to something incredibly accessible, familiar and easy to digest, then packaged and marketed brilliantly until its commercial success becomes the evidence of its supposed artistic greatness.

That’s what bothers me. The conversation stopped being “Is this actually great music?” and became “Look at the numbers.” Sales, streams, records, chart positions, variants, first-week figures. Commercial dominance became synonymous with artistic excellence, and those are simply not the same thing.

[SAD @SADISHAPPI]

"white supremacist capitalist agenda"
I'm all for thinking critically about the art we consume and circumstances/systems through which it is produced but it gets to a point.

[SAD @SADISHAPPI]

This is ridiculous. We have to stop doing this.

[SAD @SADISHAPPI]

This is ridiculous. We have to stop doing this.

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

No single genre of news story annoys me so much as the reframing of gross structural injustice as a “feelgood” story because strangers helped.

[SAD @SADISHAPPI]

I think we should care for everyone in our society especially the marginalized but it gets to a point.

[SAD @SADISHAPPI]

It was this week that I discovered that there is an entire subset of people who believe we should all have to wear masks in public for the rest of our life and if you don't, "you are ableist and want to murder all immunocompromised people".
I need to get out of this timeline.

[SAD @SADISHAPPI]

It was this week that I discovered that there is an entire subset of people who believe we should all have to wear masks in public for the rest of our life and if you don't, "you are ableist and want to murder all immunocompromised people".
I need to get out of this timeline.

[SAD @SADISHAPPI]

@queerboyrising @trueroguejordan Hey so I don't support it in any form. I'm just responding to whether it's legal or not.

[SAD @SADISHAPPI]

😭😭

[Nicholas Craven @NicholasCraven_]

imagine being called Big Boi and having an issue with the originality of someone else’s name

[TreDoes, Sometimes @TreDoes]

This is why I can’t stand these HipHop talking heads bro. All y’all do is give a bunch of empty ass talk about “culture” and shit but y’all are just small business minded negroes vying for a position so you can play gatekeeper for the next person.

[SAD @SADISHAPPI]

I have a lot of questions.
First and foremost, what?

[Brian Pempus @brianjpempus]

This Kalshi ad is among the most dystopian ones I’ve seen from any betting app

[JohannesBorgen @jeuasommenulle]

We live in a very strange world

[Zuli @Zuliovna]

The way some authors write dialogue as if every character is competing to deliver the most quotable line imaginable is so exhausting. People talk like people, not like a collection of pinterest captions

[SAD @SADISHAPPI]

@Ethereal_ilo Wait what?
I know Nigerian banks lack ethics or any form of moral compass but this is a new low.

[ponmo @twoponmotwoegg]

craziest part of all these gender roles and rules is how much they limit you from being a full human being.

[SAD @SADISHAPPI]

@ssSpiraling 😂😂