It's extremely shameless, he was berating everyone for months for replying to him with "still voting labour tho are you?"

Don't, you'll become the most annoying dude at the venue

a right wing influencer might enjoy, because the right winger is saying things they know their audience will all agree with.

Liberalism's anti-communist tendencies are so entrenched their own propagandists suffer.

unemployment, underemployment, precarity, general poverty etc, she focuses exclusively on identity issues that are highly susceptible to different passionate subjective interpretations and arguments. The very nature of her topics excludes any attempt at achieving the same kind of of mass outreach

the "left" or "the tankies" of doing- sidestep any attempt at serious mass outreach in favour of circular navel gazing and morally posturing arguments over who has the high ground. This is because instead of focusing on things that can easily all be agreed on, like spending power, stagnation,

Ah yes the Dave Matthews Band approach to civil disobedience

I mean I guess we could simply decide that yes the entire population is neurodivergent, at which point being divergent is typical, and we can just do away with the terms entirely.

This happens to everyone frequently to the point that it is a common talking point or joke reference in much of media.

Oh and if you want something specific to the music yeah that makes me mad too because it's fucking everywhere and it sucks but that's hardly gonna convince anyone now is it

What is it about cultural industries, especially music, that makes everyone forget every single they've learned about modern economies and how current capitalist mechanisms work? Even movies get more criticism of the Disney/MCU slop shit, what is it about pop music that evokes this harsh naiveté?

It's unbridled poptimism and I think it's completely fair to be angry at people defending the PR obfuscations of an increasingly predatory industry. Taylor Swift is simply the strongest example we have atm. Might as well dismiss a criticism of techbros because it focuses on one single company.

You're fixating on one single aspect of the entire discussion, and if you read further into some of the other points made it might make more sense to you?

I haven't heard bootleg Dylan in ages so I'll take your word for it. I think it's interesting to imagine just how important "sounding like Guthrie" would have been to his actual success, did the audience really respond, etc.

Bob Dylan to be a pretty funny development in its own right

I thought the chat was he was basically shadowing van Ronk and then moved ahead of the curve a bit, found out how to make the songs more popular with those audiences?

I don't really begrudge it all that much if you're writing stuff like shelter from the storm but I also find the many voices of