I suppose I’m a left-of-center liberal who flirts w/ anarchism & libertarianism. Thr’s a lot of alt, electronic, exp’tal, & “world” music I like. I’m working on fan-fix-tion for The Handmaid’s Tale and Star Trek.

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  • You’re probably talking about bands I hardly know if know at all. They exist, but I don’t think most are prominent.

    We have Green Day, which might have said little in the 1990s. We had RATM, that endorsed Sendero Luminoso, a murderous group of Communists that murdered about 30 000 Peruvians: mostly indigenous peasants. We had Avril Lavigne, bless her, for whom “sk8er boy” was some kind of weapon she used against female rivals.

    Along comes M.I.A. with Paper Planes and this song.

    Green Day and Eminem attacked Dubya long after it mattered.

    She is endorsing Trump a bit after it matters: Kid Rock has far more to answer for.

    I don’t like her endorsing Trump, but for me this is forgivable given her better past.






  • Even if you convince enough people to vote third party that Trump wins, does that help Gaza? No, it makes the situation worse.

    In the short term, yes, but when the next Gaza occurs—and if history is any guide, there will probably be another Gaza—the Democrats will think twice.

    Besides, in 2020 if 1 million Californians who voted for Biden instead voted for Trump, the 55 EVs would still go to Biden. Presumably if any self-identified “political progressive” in California votes for Harris, wt:thon will probably be voting out of ignorance. Ditto, say, one in a very red state.