THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN A MEME DIES:

(thus be it ever to toxic memes.)

@steveb

What has ended up becoming my "theme song" ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmc6XdUOkBM

The thing about an eclectic is that sooner or later you'll find the place where their tastes venture away from yours.

@steveb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dclmlCHT9tw

@steveb

A benefit of iconoclasm & eclecticism is you learn (about) a lot of things.

So much good music. I have indeed ossified a lot, listening to new things is a lot of work (requiring attention I'm becoming stingy with.) But I have collected gems along the way.

This, in its ENTIRETY:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fo6BgyrwQw

Their second album is fun too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ6IH67ilag

Yer dad, right - all these candies. He says "choose ONE", boy are you sad.

I'd listen to all of any band I liked. What I remember is that in 1974, a lot of bands I liked began changing up what they were doing. One example was Pink Floyd: they used to be head music, psychedelic, and with Dark Side of the Moon, "went commercial" as I saw it. I noticed (sadly) people marking that album as their "takeoff", when we 'true fans' knew better. They weren't going to do anything like Astronomy Domine again.

Many bands - the music was not as interesting (for me) after 1974, so I can mark that year as perhaps the beginning of my ossification.

@atomicpoet @stefan @fediversenews

SITE IS BROKEN, as shown (clicking on a button infinite loops in javascript, apparently.)

Do you read anything contrary to what you already believe?

You've made statements which are /demonstrably false./ I assume you get your news from the mainstream media (MSM.) Well, they're lying to you, and have been lying to you throughout the entire conflict.

Russia has steadily been open to negotiations, but the West doesn't want them. Zelensky was ready to discuss such with RU, then Boris Johnson talked him out of it.

"Russia has no intentions of peace." That's a rather categorical statement; where did you get it from? Have you actually READ ANYTHING about the conflict? Do you know what MINSK 2 was, and are you aware that (1) it was never honored, (2) no less than Angela Merkel, ex-chancellor of Germany, said the Minsk negotiations were never intended to be honored, rather they were intended to buy time for NATO to arm Ukraine?

You have a lot of catching up to do, to learn what the actual history of the region and the conflict is. The notion that "the invasion was unprovoked" is an utter LIE, and only a little research is needed to find the things that explain that. Start with the promises the West made not to expand NATO eastward, then see a time-elapse map of what the west then did. Read HISTORY of Putin's/Russia's repeated warnings about this. Russia was SET UP to attack in perceived self-defense so the US could lie to its own population that Russia was an "aggressor", and worse, all the BULLSHIT that Russia has "territorial ambitions." Really, just wall to wall lies attacking Russia, and they're insane and transparent.

NONE OF WHAT'S GOING ON NOW IN UKRAINE NEEDS TO CONTINUE. NONE OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED NEEDED TO HAPPEN. THE WEST & ZELENSKY/UA-NAZIS HAVE SEEN FIT TO SQUANDER 130000 LIVES FOR NOTHING.

ZERO TRUST FOR WESTERN MEDIA
ZERO TRUST FOR UKRAINIAN SOURCES

All the war crimes? Ukraine did them. Mariupol, Bucha, the continuous shelling of civilians in Donbas since 2014, chemical weapons, the missile that landed in Poland.

And the UNITED STATES destroyed Nordstream.

And all this is DOCUMENTED.

Catch up.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXA8OvZwYs4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4 Mearsheimer 2005

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-john-mearsheimer-blames-the-us-for-the-crisis-in-ukraine Mearsheimer 2022

Mearsheimer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZVIaXFN2lU The Great Delusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTksWA1I2UI Israel Lobby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESwIVY2oimI False Promise of Liberal Hegemony

Vladimir Pozner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng75e5gQ How the West created Putin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity

Even that WP article has been trojaned: the correct key to find it had been MAIDAN COUP, since it was a US-SUPPORTED COUP D'ETAT AGAINST A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT. The WHITEWASHERS have tried to HIDE THAT by renaming it "Revolution of Dignity." What "dignity"?

Remember Victoria Nuland? "Fuck the EU"?

I listen to Colonel Douglas MacGregor and Scott Ritter. There is no point listening to Western MSM in any case.

I never believed in a "unipolar world". Nobody with a brain would, as it makes no sense. What do we now have in the US? PSYCHOTICS running Foreign Policy. OUTRIGHT LUNATICS, who will risk GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR to preserve a HEGEMONY nobody on Earth wants to support. Except a few hundred PSYCHOTICS running the USA.

I LIKE people from all over the world. I WANT ALL OF THEM to do well. That requires getting RID of the people people running the US. THAT is why they overfund the police: they know their grasp on the American Gonad is slipping, and they'll KILL to keep power. They killed JFK, RFK and MLK; I think they killed Paul Wellstone; and they've killed MEDIA INDEPENDENCE so that no dissent will be heard. The assholes VERY MUCH want to bring us to "1984"; I suggest we stop that cold.

READ.

I wrote the zelensky piece a week into the war.

P.S. Crimea is RUSSIA. The Crimeans voted to join. The PEOPLE said so, by a decisive margin. It's not up to some third party to "decide" if that vote was legitimate. Same with the other 4 UA provinces: Donetsk, etc.

The NSFA map when #BDS prohibitions are added:

Are we shitting bricks yet?