Aint No Right

It's pretty cool. Sort of like Lemmy ate Josh Homme. Blue Rose starts out really interesting. A bit like a sharper version of Godsmack with more atmosphere. Rock n' Roll and Cabron are a bit like that too I think. Beaten By Hippies has a bit of an I Mother Earth vibe, which I like a lot. The Dust in...

Well, the whole situation kinda stinks as an intervention. I know you only talked about South America at first, but as I said, given our history with the US, Trump and Bolsonaro are not leaders that give us confidence. The other day I saw a really good video on fb, dunno if you can subtitle it, but...

Right now I'm leaning on Booker to run and lose.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/01/28/divide-venezuela-whos-supporting-maduro-whos-following-us-lead-recognizing-guaid/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4fd1d16684ff I agree that the situation is really fucked up and doesn't seem good either way. This passage in particular really bothers me: Last y...

Almost never.

Six7Six7 wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 05, 2019 4:46 pm

It seems that more and more, the "news" about the members of this band just relates to an interview they gave talking about the 80s and 90s.

That's literally what bands from the 80s and 90s should be doing 30+ years after their heydays...

Matz wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 04, 2019 1:42 pm

I can't name a single BS song

Yes you can.

Pepper.

It's tactically/strategically impressive, but it reminds me of the mid-90s shift to the trap in hockey that basically ended high-scoring and made for really boring seasons/playoffs / dynasty-ish era for the Devils. Thanks Scotty Bowman / Jacques Lemaire.

I feel like the short answer is that Belichik broke football.

I watched it on a US network website using Hola free VPN: http://hola.org/ Worked great. I turned off after the first half though. What a terrible game. Worst halftime show ever. And I didn't realize until it was too late that Cardi B refused to play the show, to show her support for Kaepernick. It'...

Here's more evidence to support a more nuanced view. Like I said, part of what makes this difficult is that it isn't just the United States recognizing Guaido, and prominent support from despots for Maduro complicates the idea that this is straightforwardly a "democratic" issue. There seems to be a ...

Booker's in. https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/01/politics ... index.html

In Venezuela, people are already dying. I don't necessarily think US intervention is the greatest idea, but it doesn't seem obviously bad. The point is that people are dying at least partially *because* of a US intervention. A blockade. Same thing happened in Cuba, same thing happened in Chile when...

Don't forget Mexico, too. Gustavo Díaz Ordaz was working for the CIA when he was president. We'll see how fucked up things have been since the archives from the 60's to the 2000's have been opened. We are all for new elections, we just don't like it how countries are taking part. That's why our gov...

Yeah, but you have to think how we see it too (Pinochet). I just hope it doesn't end in violence. That's what I meant when I said the US (and its allies) has (have) intentionally fucked up, or otherwise intervened in South America before. Not just Pinochet: Joao Goulart in Brazil, Cheddi Jagan in G...

There are serious questions about the role of institutions and tradition in the maintenance of political power and stability. There are equally tough questions about sovereignty, the UN, and the role of international recognition in legitimacy for any government. Venezuela hasn't been in good shape f...

It does *seem* tribal, and it does seem like tribalism is a causal factor in political actions, but it may not be, or it may be overblown. See, e.g., https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/11/14/tribalism-doesnt-explain-our-political-conflicts/?utm_term=.ec2e5a578ff5 I think this, in particular...

That does seem like a smart way to reach a political solution. That's not exactly "caving" to Trump, since drones are not a wall. And they forced Trump himself to start talking about drones. His entire speech was a walk-back of half the dumb shit he said about the wall over the past year.

mockbee wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:24 pm

In three weeks Trump will get approximately 5.7 billion dollars for a border "wall" and the media is saying he backed down and lost.....?


The media is nuts.

How do you figure?