The situation invokes a thought of ‘Inglourious Basterds’
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Aww I love Shostakovich. He almost died under Stalin, but decided to play along afterwards. Still, anyone who doesn’t understand that his music was deeply critical of the system - well, doesn’t understand his music.
good. none of these people should be able to go anywhere in public without being booed. Typical conversations should be: Hey your one of the assholes fucking everything up.
I was told during donvict’s first term that denying an asshole like Huckabee her cheese plate, or following along with the likes of Rand Paul as he walked down the street and asking him questions was the REAL terrorism.
Audience members had undergone a full Secret Service security check as Vance’s motorcade drew up at the US’s national performing arts centre, delaying the start of the concert by 25 minutes.
After news of the reaction to Vance at the concert emerged, Richard Grenell, interim director of the Kennedy Center who was recently appointed by Trump, said the crowd was “intolerant”.
In February, Donald Trump sacked the chairman of the Kennedy Center board along with 13 of its trustees, appointing himself the new chair, bringing in foreign policy adviser and close ally Richard Grenell as interim leader, and naming new board members (…)
“So we took over the Kennedy Center,” the president said at the time. “We didn’t like what they were showing and various other things. We’re going to make sure that it’s good and it’s not going to be woke. There’s no more woke in this country.”
Who ruined this place, JD?
“Elites use different words, eat different foods, listen to different music – I was astonished when I learned that people listened to classical music for pleasure – and generally occupy different worlds from America’s poor,” he said. “Unfortunately, this can make things a little culturally awkward when you leap from one class to the other.”
To be fair, I look at classical music listeners the same way I do craft beer drinkers, namely that I suspect they’re doing it more because they like the idea than the actual reality.
I can’t imagine being proud of limiting your experiences to the blandest shit imaginable because you’re literally incapable of understanding that taste is subjective.
So tell me, what’re your favourite Top-40s butt rock bands and corn-based mass produced light beers?
Rachmaninov fucking slaps, and IPAs are delicious. Not everybody has the same shitty taste as you.
The fact that you immediately went to IPAs… Ugh.
Why do people act as if taste isn’t literally subjective?
I’m not gonna hate on anyone. I drink pickle juice by the glass. And I do love a cold glass of peperoncini juice….
And I respect your right to give yourself heartburn ❤️
Believe it or not, strong flavors are popular, IPAs are fucking great.
Now pickles, those a fucking garbage no human would willingly eat. Nobody actually likes that shit, people just pretend to so they seem cool.
Not me eating pickles straight out of the jar atm
I’m with you brother, my wife makes fun of how many pickles I eat. They are a staple in my refrigerator.
I love Chad Lawsons album “Breathe” but haven’t told a single soul IRL. Will listen in my car during long commutes.
His description on irreplaceable, fields of forever and letting go really hit hard during the listen.
So if the idea is people only want status from listening or social drivers to land the act. Then I’m an outlier. Haha. Because I’m so self conscious of the projection of “the type” that listens to it I avoid being seen or known as a listener. If stopped at a light or pulling into a lot will turn it all the way down lol
If I like a song by the Spice Girls I’m telling everyone.
I do. It’s 2 Become 1. It’s cheesy as hell and I’ve been listening to it since I was 10 years old. Check it out. You’ll probably hate it. I don’t.
Classical music is like any music, some of it is uplifting and beautiful and some doesnt do it for me, maybe you should try it though and see for yourself
I have, my mother used to listen to classical music all the time.
Incredibly dull and uneventful.
not a classical guy, i love death grips, machine girl , post punk and thrash. but i would never say classical is ‘dull’. isnt there one that uses fucking cannons??
Tchaikovsky, yeah. Honestly, he’s got better stuff than that.
Iirc, Tchaikovsky wrote his 1812 Overture rather quickly to commemorate the defense of Russia against Napoleon and wasn’t too thrilled with it himself. I believe he called it noisy and without artistry, but I’m prone to collecting myths, so please do check my work.
Is “prone to collecting myths” a turn of phrase? I’ve never heard it before, but it goes hard imho. Makes me wanna build a ttrpg encounter around it.
I was just looking to express my penchant for collecting pseudo-historical stories that I don’t feel compelled to check the accuracy of because they don’t purport to express anything important. Ngl though, I would play the fuck out of that encounter if you made it.
I agree but I think its weird some people are attached to old classical music composers. There is newer better stuff or even classical variants like you would hear in Bridgerton. Its painful watching kids playing those horrible scores at competitions just cause its traditional and expected.
Side note: 100% certain it was the songs cause after events I go to yt to check pros play them and it was still awful.
You can say exactly the same about any music
Yes I but i think its gatekeeping and pretentious. The elites just use old classical as their thing.
Opera was originally art for the masses. I get the thing about everyone thinking its elitest but i was brought up by 2 generations of working class people who loved opera and classical music. Worked at the Derby Playhouse, its just elitist because its in movies and stuff a lot
100% there’s a culture of gatekeeping and elitism all too common around classical music - but it’s not the music’s fault
MAGA = Y’all are f✓cking re+ards!
I used to refer to them as MAGAtards, but then someone very respectfully asked me to stop using a variation of the R-word, so I honored their polite and heartfelt request. Now Inrefer to them as MAGAmorons, MAGAtraitors, or just Traitors.
Those are both true. They’re also re+ards.
And you are an asshole.
Yes, they ARE intolerant … to facism and stifling creativity.
New here. Thought this was more European, but this is just a copy of the politics Reddit. All US crap.
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That’s correct, and intentional.
/r/politics and /c/politics is more or less supposed to be American politics. There’s some history that I can’t be bothered explaining.
You’ll find that in the fediverse without an algorithm feeding you stuff you like, you’ll see a whole lot more stuff you don’t like. There’s also a lot of trash posted to lemmy.
Pro tip: you don’t need to post a comment complaining about everything you don’t like, you can just scroll past.
There’s a number of instances and communities pretty much everyone blocks. I’ll leave you to encounter them in your own time.
Probably check out lemmyverse.net and find some communities you do like. You’ll probably find that there’s less content in those communities than you’re used to seeing on reddit. Maybe post something, maybe don’t.
Congrats on inventing the internet bro!
I suspect your retort is too witty for silly old me to understand.
I was trying to be helpful.
No no they were saying “booourns”
There’s no more woke in this country
I’m still waiting on their written definition of woke. They will never provide one though. “Woke” is their “shmoo”.
Woke is anything they don’t like. If they have to describe it, it’s minorities and women having equal opportunities. Saying woke makes them sound like less of an asshole to people not willing to go beyond surface level conversations.
It’s civil rights.
From Britannica:
Civil rights are an essential component of democracy. They’re guarantees of equal social opportunities and protection under the law, regardless of race, religion, or other characteristics. Examples are the rights to vote, to a fair trial, to government services, and to a public education. In contrast to civil liberties, which are freedoms secured by placing restraints on government, civil rights are secured by positive government action, often in the form of legislation.
Don’t bring me into this.
The real definition: being aware of systemic discrimination, oppression, and persecution.
The Republican definition: everything that doesn’t comport with the values of 1920s-1940s European fascism and 1840s American labor and racial laws.
I’ve just started calling things I don’t like “woke.”
A DeSantis attorney already has. “it would be the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them”. That is what they’re against… Wow.
After news of the reaction to Vance at the concert emerged, Richard Grenell, interim director of the Kennedy Center who was recently appointed by Trump, said the crowd was “intolerant”.
Orly?
And rightly fucking so.
“What, just because my party and I shit on this city 24/7 and just robbed you of your jobs and your children of a decent public education, you boo me? I thought this was America!”
