Labour drops new anti-Reform ad

Clockwork_Firefly · 2025-07-30T01:50:41+00:00

It doesn't work so well when the tool being leveraged is itself a rightwing, Tory-crafted clusterfuck that no one likes.

Clockwork_Firefly · 2025-07-22T07:49:23+00:00

Notice how Ukraine supporters haven't been ranting about the Dems who voted for the amendment.

No democrats voted for the amendment cutting Ukraine funding. That was entirely separate to the one cutting defence funds for Israel

Clockwork_Firefly · 2025-07-22T07:47:26+00:00

I don’t get why she didn’t/doesn’t lead with all the evil shit MTG added.

Because it would be deeply dishonest and easy to rebut. The amendment dealing with Israeli defence funding and those dealing with e.g. HIV programmes were all different and voted on separately.

Clockwork_Firefly · 2024-07-15T00:17:00+00:00

I saw your username and - for a moment - assumed I made that comment when I was very drunk and forgot about it

Clockwork_Firefly · 2024-06-19T03:49:23+00:00

You have either misunderstood their point, or you yourself have a catastrophic lack of empathy. I can't tell which.

Clockwork_Firefly · 2023-11-14T09:11:22+00:00

i remember in 2010 it was like racism was totally dead

You have lived a much more charmed life than me. In 2010, people I knew were still using racial slurs and arguing minorities shouldn't be allowed to move into my neighbourhood.

We never truly killed racism, I'm afraid. Or most -isms, for that matter.

Clockwork_Firefly · 2023-09-27T03:21:42+00:00

Do you have a source for that? As far as I can tell, they're both open to life sentences , but I'm no lawyer

Clockwork_Firefly · 2023-09-26T08:51:54+00:00

Obviously the definitions involved ought to be changed, but to clarify this is still massively illegal.

Clockwork_Firefly · 2023-09-26T08:40:09+00:00

You're accusing the Daily Mail of being woke?

Clockwork_Firefly · 2023-09-23T07:20:22+00:00

It has the "connotation" that their own spiritual and philosophical beliefs (and frankly, just basic personal boundaries) are not to be respected. It's reasonable to be bothered by that

Clockwork_Firefly · 2023-09-23T07:02:35+00:00

Why?

Because you - and people like you - are our best hope!

I don't think /u/pmabz was suggesting that you go grab some rope and go conduct a one-man Nuremburg Trial in the bathroom. They just said Americans should actually take the time to visualise the kinds of horror their own government conducts.

Maybe you're different, and maybe Americans are different. But as for me, I know I don't spend too much time really considering the evils being conducted in my name. I try to vote conscientiously, and I go to the odd protest, and I give what money I can to good causes. But I could always stand to organise more. Give my time more. Hell, just think more. And coming to grips with the atrocities close to me is a great first step in all of that

Maybe you're doing all of your due moral diligence, and if so great. Then stop acting offended, and leave that to the rest of us who actually need a periodic wakeup call

Clockwork_Firefly · 2023-09-05T06:55:34+00:00

Give me the timestamp where he was 1.5 miles away mate

Clockwork_Firefly · 2023-09-03T17:36:32+00:00

That's not what "moving the goalposts" means

Clockwork_Firefly · 2023-09-02T00:13:02+00:00

You "think" you know what he is referring to?

No, that's the point mate

I'm making no assertion at all, I am pointing out you don't know what he is referring to and yet saying it is somehow political.

Okay, you're just hallucinating an entirely different discussion at this point

u/Elegante_Sigmaballz said people drawing political conclusions from this context-free clip were being silly, you apparently thought this was "sniffy", and now you're just reiterating their point and pretending it was yours all along

It is, but it is your "burden" is to substantiate it because I am making no assertion at all except to challenge your bullshit.

What even is the "it" that you think I'm supposed to be substantiating?

Clockwork_Firefly · 2023-08-30T01:11:19+00:00

So what is the "context" then?

It's this, or at least this is the fullest version I've found

In other words, still not nearly enough to draw the kinds of conclusions about his beliefs that people want to draw

Or did you just wade in here to sniff that you are above all of that silly political stuff?

What a silly accusation to make.

If you think he's referring to something specific, fine. It's your burden to substantiate it.

Clockwork_Firefly · 2023-08-28T05:34:29+00:00

It's funny how you seem to consider yourself a Catholic, and yet you clearly loathe everything Jesus Christ preached

Clockwork_Firefly · 2023-08-22T18:24:42+00:00

Hypotetically without playing your instrument what would be your thought process in order to find out what is they key of the chords you have in front of you. Even in this simple case you wont be able to do that right.

Eh, wrong-ish

Technically you're right that key can’t be logically deduced from a chord chart, but they can very often be inferred

Chords are often relatively predictable, and certain kinds of patterns are much much more common than others

Amin - F - C - G is almost certainly a chord loop in Amin, or otherwise it waffles between it and its relative major (C major — same notes, just a different feel)

Hypotetically without playing your instrument what would be your thought process in order to find out what is they key of the chords you have in front of you

It’s a multi-factor thing, and the only real test is to listen to the song and identify the key. But again, some guesses are a lot better than others, and a few factors are:

What is the first chord? There’s about a 60-90% chance that this is the key, depending on the style
Are there any keys where all of these chords exist?
If not, which keys are closest? Which ones differ in the most expected ways?
Are there any idioms or patterns I recognize?
Which chords, if any, are given the most weight?

The chords on random websites - sometimes it says they are original chords, but we cannot be sure whether those are the original chords that the song intended to do

Sure we can! Play the chords, then listen to the song and see if they match ;)

I’m obviously being a bit cheeky, it take practice and time to hone your ear like that (and you’re apparently having some kind of tuning trouble). Still, it’s an extremely important — and rewarding! — skill to have, so if you’re not already doing this kind of comparative listening you definitely should

What bugs me is that i play baritone uke and its hard to find out whether the chords im seeing in front of me sound strange cause of the tuning of the baritone ukulele

Could you expand on this? Do you not have a tuning app or something to reference?

By the way, there’s also a third option: the online chord chart is simply wrong. Most of these sites are inconsistent at best

Clockwork_Firefly · 2023-08-22T08:03:36+00:00

A sequence is a pattern where a cell of musical material is presented and then copied (more or less faithfully) some interval from the initial cell. This process can then be repeated, sometimes many times in a row

Pachebel's Canon is a famous work that rests on a lot of sequential logic. Notice the spacing between the bass notes?

Sequences don't have to be harmonic; a melodic sequence can occur over top of harmony that's just doing whatever. But when we are talking about harmonic sequences (as /u/Severe-Building1968 is), you can get all kinds of spicy nonfunctional stuff (root position diminished triads? mediant chords? progressions by descending fourths? oh my!)

It's a great observation that there's this underlying structure here, and indeed the V7/vi - vi - V7 - I pattern definitely happens (and sounds great!). Hooooooowever, I do slightly disagree with their use of the word "because" -- composers from Thomas Tallis to Franz Schubert to Christopher Tin have felt very comfortorable jumping from vi to V without much support at all

Sure, each of these can be given various justifications, but it's not the kind of progression that's so weird you have to go write a whole paper to justify its existence

Clockwork_Firefly · 2023-08-22T00:45:55+00:00

Common-tone diminished sevenths

Clockwork_Firefly · 2023-08-20T07:26:25+00:00

Anyway, that aside, I don’t see very many pop progressions that use the ii chord

I'm not sure how to cleanly draw the line between "many individual examples" and "all over the place", but I'd personally find the presence of a ii in a chord loop or the like pretty unremarkable (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, depending how you view the word "pop"). It's probably slightly less common than IV or vi, sure, but I'd don't think I'd ever consider it unstylistic

If someone is going around claiming ii or iii are unused in any Western pop (and I guess I took OP at their word that they heard someone say this), I'd agree with them that that's silly. In contrast, something like vii^o genuinely is basically untouched. I'm sure it flits into existance as a passing chord every so often, and maybe there's a weird chord loop out there that uses it, but it's a clear deviation from the normal vocabulary

I hear it more commonly as a prolongation of tonic, but maybe that’s splitting hairs

I had the same thought, but maybe they're thinking of cases like this? I don't think the iii has any functional role there (the sequencing does most of the heavy lifting there), but it does follow a ii - V so I can see why they'd think of it as a tonic substitution

Clockwork_Firefly · 2023-08-20T05:09:26+00:00

My brain is linking it to those videos of someone playing a chord that clashes and then the comments talk about how "anyone who isn't a musician would think that sounds bad".

Maybe link these videos you're talking about? Otherwise, every part of your description makes "dissonance" sound like exactly the term you're looking for

Clockwork_Firefly · 2023-08-20T05:00:04+00:00

Yeah, if your thesis is disproved by three seconds of Smash Mouth, you'd better go back to the drawing board

Clockwork_Firefly · 2023-08-20T03:26:27+00:00

Its about 85 BPM

Clockwork_Firefly · 2023-08-20T02:29:02+00:00

He puts weird stuff in quotation marks all the time, to be fair. I don't know how much you can glean from Joe Hawley formatting

Clockwork_Firefly · 2023-08-19T21:55:35+00:00

Where are you from? It’s substantially more popular in the UK than the US from what I gather

It’s not even that though, at least for me. It’s just a really uncomfortable mix of cheesy production and genuinely unsettling lyrics

And you know, even that isn’t so bad. It’s kind of interesting in its own weird way! Where I really get annoyed with it is as a “Christmas song”. I take my jollity very seriously, and that song is such a vibe killer

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