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As a guy who had lots of anxieties and was more comfortable reading a book of poetry, Binkley was an important character for my personal development.

He was never explicitly coded as gay, (that I am aware of) and I think that made him a stronger character. Maybe he wasn't struggling with his sexuality, but he was struggling with toxic masculinity that expected him to grow up to fit the nickname "Mad Dog."

Further, it touched on how many conservatives would read such admissions as meaning Binkley was gay. Which is why the major flips his lid here in response to what Binkley says.

Once, when I was young, I had someone sucker punch me snd try to start a fight because I was wearing a tie-dyed shirt and was drinking a root beer because I was the designated driver at a party. In their eyes that meant I was "queer" and needed the shit kicked out of me. I didn't go to a lot of parties after that.

Anyway, good for Binkley and his love of non-masculine coded things.

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Finding sources about Bush and Cheney fuckery from 2000-2008 is getting increasingly difficult. Their crimes are getting memory-holed.

EDIT: Specifically, does anyone else remember the specific act that Bush wanted to hit Quakers with terrorism charges over? I remember it being a bunch of Quakers in kayaks doing a blockade of a naval ship, preventing it from leaving port to go to Iraq. I can't find a fucking word on it anymore, and I can barely even find sources on Bush wanting to hit Quakers with terrorism charges other than some broken links at the ACLU. Quakers, as a reminder, are the only religious group in the USA that are default conscientious objectors because violence is 100% antithetical to their religion. These are the kind of people they wanted to use "terrorism" charges against.

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Probably a good bit. I have a backup from my personal website from 2006 to about 2013. Along with a lot of media going back to my teen years. I'm really lucky I've been a good digital steward of my own data and haven't lost almost any of my personal digital history.

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To be fair to China, our top EV maker's (Tesla) CEO Musk claimed that COVID wasn't real and didn't want to shut down operations and Musk claimed he liked China more because of their propensity to lock the workers in the factory due to COVID restrictions.

The people who run US companies will absolutely used forced labor if they can get away with it.

I'm not trying to paint China as some glowing bastion of freedom (it's far from it, obviously) but it's weird to present this as though it's a "China" problem and not a "capitalism" problem. Companies like Nestle won't commit to removing forced labor from their chains of operation, hiding behind "it's too hard to find it all!"

https://www.reuters.com/business/hershey-nestle-cargill-win-dismissal-us-child-slavery-lawsuit-2022-06-28/

The lawsuit being dismissed is evidence the US government also doesn't care about forced labor. So China isn't alone in not giving a shit.

Every major world power is some kind of dogshit, essentially.

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But the status quo is more important than *checks notes... climate change! Won't someone think of the economy! /s

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But you trust "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and "Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments" and "COINTELPRO" and "PRISM" US government?

I'm with Douglas Adams, if you want power you should explicitly be denied power. The only ones who deserve any power are those who don't want it because they understand the implications and care deeply about making mistakes that could hurt people.

People who desire power only ever want to Rule and Control.

There isn't a single world government that isn't currently filled with idiots who are only in it for power and power alone.

Bring back fucking sortition, we've shown we're not capable of handling a democratic system without it.

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Because bombing the future into burning rubble is preferable to burning it into rubble or something I guess.

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Thanks for the well considered reply. I agree that the US's political system is part of what has held it back from going rogue, but the problems I referenced were all growing cancers that may very well lead to an autocratic Trump empire.

Just the Trump cases alone are absolutely destroying any credibility the legal system had left, and when people in a nation start to lose trust in their "justice" system... well, things tend to get pretty bad when people stop trusting authority and turn to Mob Justice.

Even without Trump as President, that's where we're headed because he has firmly shafted regular people's trust that the legal system is in any way fair or just. We all know for fucksure now that the only thing that matters in the US is having money and connections.

When Trump was elected, it was because he was seen as the outsider to shake things up. People are still waiting on things to be shaken up in favor of regular ass people instead of corporations. That includes conservatives even if they're too stupid to understand that's what they are actually mad about. Don't expect Trump's wiping his ass with the legal system to not have long-term impacts.

That's not going to end well, Trump as President or not.

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Too right.

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Yeah, the EU is where I hold out my hopes, too.

Good luck out there, it is indeed scary.

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No shit they need to stop it. Do you or I have a choice in making that happen?

Short of a nationwide labor strike in every industry in both nations, no one citizen exactly has the power to make this stop, and all the legal avenues to make it stop are denied by both governments.

I love it when people complain shit needs to get done when there is no legal avenue to getting it done. Cool, what's your plan chucklefuck? We're supposed to just magic this better world into being by willing it so like The Secret or some other dumb shit?

They both suck because they fucking do. Part of the reason they do is that there is no recourse for regular citizens to stop this kind of thing from happening except boycotts and labor strikes. Boycotts do fuck-all because they're busy selling the fruits of their forced labor to the rest of the planet, meaning they won't lose enough money from the boycott to impact them. Meaning only labor strikes have meaningful impact.

Let me know when you've got all the laborers from both countries ready to go on strike. I'll wait.

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Brilliant rebuttal.

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Because the best way to handle stupidity is to coddle it like Trump, right? That's been working out just gangbusters, right?

Sometimes people say something fucking stupid and need to be told why it's stupid.

Even if it's just so other people don't have to suffer these fools.

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Palantir was founded by Peter Thiel, which pretty much says it all. This is exactly the kind of person Thiel would hire.

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I don’t see why we don’t try to actually fix shit.

Because then they can't keep kicking the can down the road for the next election.

Gotta keep that voter base involved somehow, and when you aren't actually gonna give them anything to be happy about, you've got to trot out nice little lies you'll never follow through with to make them get out to vote.

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Strapping Young Lad / anything Devin Townsend

Zimmer's Hole

Dethklok

Mindless Self Indulgence

Punky Bruster's Cooked On Phonics

Das Racist

DANGERDOOM

Handsome Boy Modeling School

The Lonely Island

MC Paul Barman

Big Dumb Face

Mr. Bungle

Lovage

Man... Or Astro Man?

Electric Six

Ween

Dead Kennedys / anything Jello Biafra

Mean Jeans

Flight of the Conchords

Presidents of the United States of America

Reverend Horton Heat

The Unicorns

EDIT: The Chats

EDIT 2: Atom and His Package

EDIT 4: Voodoo Glow Skulls

Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine

Chromeo

Only Some Funny Songs:

Mountain Goats

Tom Waits

EDIT 3: Beck

EDIT 5: Flaming Lips

A League of Their Own:

GWAR

Most Importantly:

Weird Al Yankovic, because he fucking rocks god damn it.
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I don't care for MC Fronalot except that he wrote the Achewood theme song.

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Way more so, and it's not even an argument.

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I will never stop being sad over when the Primus website stopped being primussucks.com for primusville or what the fuck ever.

Real heads remember that "Primus sucks" is the clarion call of people who fucking love Primus.

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...and the world screams "Kiss me, Son of God!"

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Beck is a tough one because he does have a lot of goofy songs, but they're mixed in with ones that are strange and surreal but less goofy.

Debra is a great example of a funny Beck song.

Girl I want to get with you / Only you / And your sister / I think her name is Debra

Lady, step inside my Hyundai

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I can never decide if this song is silly or incredibly touching and sad or all of them at the same time.

When you punish a person for dreaming his dream / don't expect him to thank or forgive you

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You are indeed correct, sir or madam or other.

Although with the explosion of new music styles, I'd argue that Primus needs its own actual categorization. Funk-Metal or something akin to that.

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If it all goes right / I'll be in your arms tonight / but I'm wavin' my dick in the wind

SnotFlickerman ,
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One Vision is a hilarious song. It's a whole ass song about what brings the world together, and they tell us: fried chicken.

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make me wanna dance

That's how I feel about this:

Is he a dot? / Or is he a speck? / When he's underwater does he get wet? / Or does the water get him instead?

Nobody knows / Particle Man

They're just nerds, through and through. Music, science and history nerds, even.

They've also just always had good values. Their first show was at a Sandinista rally.

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Does music that is unintentionally funny count? Like how you laugh at a bad B-movie?

Because if so...

Rod Stewart.

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Weird Al has literally done covers including style covers of many of the bands listed in this thread!

Presidents of the USA cover: Gump

They Might Be Giants style cover: Everything You Know Is Wrong

Devo style cover: Dare To Be Stupid

I'm sure there's more, that's off the top of my head.

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Gangstagrass is very underrated.

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I hadn't thought about Pink n Brown for years...

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Because some bigots want to filter it out.

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I'll go a step further:

You have to separate the art from the artist because there is not a single artist I've ever encountered who wasn't some kind of fucking trashhole of a person.

Artists spent their lives on being artists, not developing good interpersonal skills or understanding politics or philosophy.

Beleiving an artist is a "good person" is just setting yourself up for disappointment. Start out assuming they suck dogshit and you usually end up being right.

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Trash lyrics fucking up an otherwise good song. It happens far too often.

That's why I'm just a bit of a fan of Thom Yorke's whole "using my voice as an instrument, the words don't mean anything" vibe because at least he purposefully isn't trying to make meaningful lyrics and instead is just trying to add another instrument to the music.

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It's why I got so into Busdriver for a while. Not a lot of rappers out there trying to rap to a melody instead of just a beat.

Further, even if they are out there, they aren't as popular.

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I agree, but I like to start from a position of "this person probably sucks" because then I'm never disappointed.

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That Portlandia sketch with Jello Biafra waking up from a coma to the Yuppies having won was probably the only really good and well thought out sketch on that show.

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The sketch supports the assertion that punk died in the early 80's. That's all.

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*throws trashcan through window

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This is exactly what everyone thought it was: A stealth layoff to get the most costly employees to bail without having to fire them/give them severance.

Now they can be replaced with cheap H-1B workers, especially when the DOJ changes that rule to make it so that companies no longer have to prove they cannot find a US worker for the same job before they hire a foreign H-1B worker.

This was all to cut costs and fuck over the most senior (read: costly) workers.

Fuck all that institutional knowledge, I guess.

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I forgot that Binkley started with dark hair.

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Free Open Source Software

SnotFlickerman ,
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Podcast links? Please and thank you. Sounds interesting.

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You figured out the Fediverse, you're not that much of a luddite.

SnotFlickerman ,
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Thanks so much for the update!

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The amount of mental gymnastics people will do to suck off the image of dead dudes from 200 years ago who designed a dogshit system is too god damned high.

Like, what do you get out of sucking off dead dudes?

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I've voted Democrat straight ticket for 25 fucking years. What has it gotten me, chucklefuck?

Those anti-democratic institutions still exist and we literally have conservative states just choosing to ignore Federal law now. But what do I know, I guess I'm not voting hard enough.

Study reveals "widespread, bipartisan aversion" to neighbors owning AR-15 rifles ( www.psypost.org )

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that across all political and social groups in the United States, there is a strong preference against living near AR-15 rifle owners and neighbors who store guns outside of locked safes. This surprising consensus suggests that when it...

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Thanks for backing up my position with the actual statistics. I'm aware of them too but I was too lazy to dig them up. Thanks.

People should be way more concerned about handguns but mass shootings with rifles get all the attention.

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