#gov’t

[morganbritton132]

Eddie posts a video where he tells Steve that some people on the internet think that Steve’s more badass than him. Steve is like, “Yeah. Because I am.”

Eddie: That’s not true

Steve: Ed, you don’t even crack the top five most badass people we know.

Eddie: Uh, I preformed live on stage with Judas Priest. Who is more badass than me?

Steve: Nancy

Eddie: Besides her

Steve: El. Hopper. Will. Joyce went Russia. Me. Max. Lucas is badass. Dustin, too. Jonathan Byers! You ever see Robin work through her anxiety? That takes strength.

Eddie: Am i the top of anything? Besides you.

Steve, unamused: You top the leader board of dumbest decisions anybody has ever made when you decided not to follow the plan in ‘86

Eddie: Psh, not like I died.

Steve: You did die! For three minutes. I had to do CPR. You were in the hospital for a month!

Eddie, calling after Steve when he walked away: Wait, you didn’t say Mike. You think I’m more badass than Mike? Only Mike?

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[purecommemasolitude]

It was probably due to some combinational of Jeff not being available + it being the first show written but NPMD being the only Hatchetfieldsical so far to not have MacNamara show up is really fitting considering it’s the only one centred around teenagers

Repeatedly during the show adults only work against them or help them begrudgingly while blaming them, because that’s how the life of a teenager is! Of course the guy who shows when the adults are in danger is nowhere to be found. It’s like how children’s novels often involve no one believing or understanding you because that’s just what it’s like to be a kid

[emberflame999]

Confrontation

So this is based on @capturecharlesau’s lastest comic update. Stitchhat does NOT like her cousin Charles, and the Captured!CharlesAU Charles has even more reasons for her to dislike him. Stitchhat would be ecstatic to hear Reginald’s order to attack the intruders and would jump into action, even though she could clearly see Reg was not in the best state of mind. And Charles wouldn’t have been previously aware his cousin was a Toppat…

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

I’m sorry but you can’t cry “human rights violation!!!!” when you are actively carrying out a campaign of genocide.

[krispyweiss]

Dickey Betts Dead at 80

- “The monuments that he helped to create for Southern rock will never be replicated,” the Marshall Tucker Band says

Dickey Betts, the Allman Brothers Band co-founder who was ousted from the group in 2000, has died, the guitarist’s family said.

Betts, 80, died April 18 at his home in Florida. No cause was given.

Betts’ family remembered the musician as a “legendary performer, songwriter, bandleader and family patriarch” in their statement.

“His loss will be felt worldwide,” they said.

With Betts’ death, drummer Jaimoe is the last surviving original Allman Brother.

“Sad, sad day,” Tinsley Ellis said. “Rest in peace, Dickey Betts.”

Betts co-founded the ABB in 1969, establishing a 12-string conversation with fellow guitarist Duane Allman and quickly became “an essential component of the Allman Brothers Band’s improvisatory magic,” as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame said in a eulogy.

“One of the best to ever do it,” Tedeschi Trucks Band said of Betts. “Rest easy, Dickie.”

After Duane’s death, Betts, as lone axeman, was the country to Gregg Allman’s blues, giving the band its biggest hit with “Ramblin’ Man” and imbuing the ABB songbook with epic instrumentals such as the jazzy “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed,” inspired by a tombstone in the cemetery where Gregg and Duane Allman now lie, and the countrified “Jessica,” inspired by Betts’ daughter. And Betts’ 1974 LP Highway Call is an album anyone who calls themselves a fan of bluegrass or Americana music must have in their collection.

“Dickie more than anyone had an impressionable impact in shaping and defining the genre of music that has come to be known as Southern rock,” the Outlaws said in a statement. “The influence of his musicianship and songwriting skills are immeasurable and his passing marks the end of an era.”

The Marshall Tucker Band echoed the Outlaws, saying: “The monuments that (Betts) helped to create for Southern rock will never be replicated.”

After a time, the ABB returned to its two-guitar format and Betts played alongside such masters as Dan Toler, Warren Haynes, Jack Pearson and Derek Trucks before he and the group split acrimoniously in 2000.

“He was passionate in life, be it music, songwriting, fishing, hunting, boating, golf, karate or boxing,” the Allman Brothers said in a statement attributed to the “band, family and crew.”

“Dickey was all in on and excelled at anything that caught his attention. … Play on, Brother Dickey, you will be forever remembered and deeply missed.”

4/18/24

[thecurrentevents]

republican nominee candidate nikki haley just signed an israeli artillery shell saying, “finish them.” haley is a long time supporter of israel since october seventh. do you see how problematic that is? how insensitive and tone deaf that is, to the tens of thousands of palestinians and international workers that have been killed in this conflict? you know, casualties that involve some americans (love how the world is more shocked at international workers dying rather than palestinians), the very same people of the nation she stands for? who is “them,” haley? children? women? mothers, just like you?

joe biden and the democratic party suck on this issue, but the republicans are far, far worse.

[ghostwanderer]

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” - John F. Kennedy

Inspired by Rise Against’s Appeal to Reason & Siren Songs of the Counter Culture

[fuzzyunicorn]

Don’t even bother looking up The Old Guard as there’s zero info on them aside from what I’ve shared today

[muncedes]

hamas hamas hamas do you condem hamas? no i love them actually

[sexuallyactivepopes]

actually there ARE nazis in ukraine and anyone still denying that on account of it being “russian propaganda” is an antisemitic/anti-romani racist piece of shit and can genuinely get fucked in the most exquisitely painful way

like hundreds of soldiers will outright post videos of themselves on tiktok wearing the totenkopf and the black sun and the fucking BANDERA FLAG and “leftists” will Pretend Not To See It and i genuinely h8 all of you

[morganbritton132]

Eddie’s not going to film a bunch of kids dancing so he only posts two videos once they leave for the dance.

(1)He posts a video before the dance starts of a large punch bowl that’s filled with juice pouches. He pans the camera away from the bowl over to Steve and zooms in, “This is an affront to the high school experience.”

“This is a middle school.”

(2) A couple hours after the dance, Eddie posts a video from his bed of Steve dancing around the room. His tie is loose. His jackets is open. He looks soft and happy as he uses his glass of wine as a microphone and sings Careless Whisper.

Eddie’s not talking but you can feel his smile behind the camera as Steve stops singing just enough to tell him that he was amazing tonight.

“Better than prom?”

“Better than prom.”

Eddie might not have been filming that night but the students were. There’s a lot of videos where you can see Eddie and Steve in the background, but there’s one video that goes up where you can clearly see Steve ask Eddie to dance with him. There’s another (multiple) of Eddie joining Mike’s band on stage and he does in fact play Careless Whisper. Steve is standing front row.

[loyalpromise]

still thinking about my t/wdg muses and i think it’s important to tell y’all that violet’s full name is violet britney madison—bc i wanted to give her a girly name that i know she’d hate (and never tell anyone) bc i think it’s funny pfff

[thisismenow3]

Semantics or genuine misunderstandings?

I keep feeling such… depression, I guess? Anger ain’t the right word, nor is sadness. It’s just an all encompassing defeat kind of feeling when I see someone defend their position on an important topic by pretending only the most egregious kind of idiotic arguments against their position are the other side.

The specific instance for this right now is seeing people act like anti-Zionism means anti Jew ignoring the multiple meanings of the word. And then do things such as act like the only way people could side with Palestinians (they usually just say Hamas and limit how often they say the name of the people group being oppressed… wonder why) is if no Israelis were harmed October 7 2023. Bru, some people are malicious idiots that think this way, but I and many people who don’t believe in reactionary group punishment (war crimes) don’t need to ignore the rape and murder and etc of Israelis on October 7 to know two wrongs don’t make a right.

And underneath it all is a failure to engage with the biggest and most salient point of the “side” they rail against; why do people in the West Bank deserve to have their homes taken over and themselves violently thrown out by Israeli settlers? Oh that’s already been happening for 75 years? Seems like you’re ignoring the real issue then. Hamas will always have recruits as long as the Palestinians are treated as sub humans who cannot have freedom of movement, cannot have freedom to keep their stuff or their lives. This applies to Gaza as well, but it’s curious that even with the two step of “they killed and raped civilians! So of course we must snipe grandmas in the streets and in mosques and churches while pillaging and raping in the rubble!” they can’t engage with the fact that they’ve tied their idea of their own and their group’s safety to the genocide of the outgroup. And that on top of that they misuse accusation of antisemitism to hide from this reality like some kind of American Christofascist would, or Russian propagandist, or Azeri nationalist.

But this reality levels their whole wordview, not just argument. They need the delusion of settlers stealing land and houses and soldiers sniping old women and children and denying food, clean water and healthcare to somehow being necessary to combat Hamas… cause otherwise you’d have to admit you are supporting a government that is trying to speed run the American genocide of native Americans. We, Americans, didn’t have to fully regime change or do anything to Iraq to fight terrorism or to keep ourselves safe. More people should’ve listened to how this was reactionary “spill more of their blood to salve our wounded pride and the hearts of those who died in the towers!!!!!!!!” bullshit, but they didn’t. What Israel did and does to Palestinians before October 7 and since makes all of the Levant less safe. Just like with counter terrorism, war and war crimes actually make the problem worse and soft power non military solutions are the actual defenses

[qqweebird]

something about rightwingers and lots of centrists always makes them choose the weirdest fucking ideologies to side with in “conflicts” like this. they never care abt the preservation of human life or ending suffering, only about supporting whichever “side” that is already convenient for them.

they all immediately took advantage of the ukraine situation to let their beef w russians jump out. very few actually cared about ukrainians. hatred for russian civilians, immigrants in other countries, and boycotts of russian-owned businesses; which, yes, exports from russia obv benefit the government, but its… not a SUPPORT of the Russian State to buy fucking vodka. more reasonable people (like, my fairly centrist mother) were able to identify that the government & military were the problem and not the people, but it was still pretty rampant to be incredibly hateful of russia as a whole.

with palestine it was an immediate hostility towards middle eastern people, and anyone that is pinned as “arab” or “muslim,” and fervent support for the US satellite state. NOW i see 100s of people saying shit like “hate the governments, not the people 🥺” “who made the first attack… we can never know… history is just so complicated” “israel has a right to exist too!!”. very few people care to boycott companies that are SPECIFICALLY funding israel. US politicians (and im sure other countries are dealing w this too) are ACTIVELY calling for the extermination of palestinians.

and i saw a lot of people pointing this out while ukraine was the hot topic too!! that countries like the US only care about slaughtered innocents when its advantageous to them! that if ukrainians were brown and it wasn’t russia or china attacking them or if there was some oil field we would gain access to under their graves, the US wouldn’t give a shit about them.

like, obviously not all israelis hate palestinians and those who don’t are only in an unfortunate situation, but that doesnt change the fact that their “country” has specifically displaced the native people from their land and is performing a genocide. and it doesnt change the fact that many israelis DO believe themselves to be the rightful inhabitants of that land! like im sorry but if you are willingly partaking in colonization you are part of the violence and you deserve to be criticized and pushed back as much as ur government does.

you shouldnt hate israelis as a whole but way way more of them are an accessory to this violence just by virtue of BEING THERE willingly than russians are complicit in the ukraine war by just living in russia yk? and yet right wingers decided that russian civilians were villains, and that israeli colonizers are victims ??

[krispyweiss]

Warren Haynes’ “Soul” Shines Around the World

- Allman Brothers track is Playing for Change’s Newest Song around the World

There was a time - from, say 1996 until late 2023 - when Sound Bites didn’t care if he ever heard “Soulshine” again.

But then Warren Haynes, on acoustic guitar and vocals that seem to defy the passage of time, re-recorded his 1994 Allman Brothers Band composition with a global cast for Playing for Change’s Song around the World campaign, and “Soulshine” shone brightly once again.

Turns out the overwrought song works perfectly in this setting with Shemekia Copeland, Ivan Neville and Hawaii’s Kawai Hoe on co-lead vocals - the latter also playing uke - and fantastic backgrounds emanating from ensembles in Jamaica and South Africa.

Add slide guitar from Italy; bass from Brazil; percussion from Ghana and Brazil; and a surprisingly effective saxophone solo from France, and the song takes on an entirely new meaning. And that bad taste Sound Bites has been carrying for lo these many years disappeared.

12/27/23

[oneshortdamnfuse]

Every day I’m thankful my parents didn’t stay in Tennessee after I was born.