@revenant_MMXX I forgot who said this, but recorded music is a simulacrum of music performances which are inherently personal, but inaccessible due to the prohibitive cost.
@Hieraaetus How would poor backwards countries be able to produce globe-spanning empires and conquer societies thousands of miles away?
The worldview of these people is that people are successful because they're lucky, and luck should be redistributed.
@VDAREJamesK Remember, even if they made $0 on this the regime would still make it.
Somehow they convinced people to pay for propaganda, so they pad their margins and keep on making it.
The very least we can do is to not pay for it, but what we must do is put an end to it with lawfare.
@Paracelsus1092 Listen it obviously worked, so lets just scrape 50k together, build a stupid stone ring, and just be done with climate change activism. I think that's a compromise we can all live with.
@KeenanPeachy It's always "did you see the new Daily Wire (tm) comedy/princess movie/western" not "did you see the new comedy/princess movie/western"
This isn't normal media behavior. "Did you see the new MGM spy movie" "Did you see the new WB fantasy movie?"
Hard to square this circle though.
@ENDESGA It turns out powerpoint can open pretty fast when it doesn't have to connect to 8 different PAAS servers and whatever AI suggestion slop Microsoft came up with this week
@negev50c@stonetoss We can laugh at Jocat all we like and any man who knows Lizzo's songs well enough to make a parody of them.
However in this case some unhinged troon threatened to bomb his house