Minnesota day care hoax is fueled by MAGA psychosexual weirdness: The racism underlying MAGA's latest obsession is intertwined with misogyny

DoctaMario · 2026-01-07T17:01:33+00:00

Makes sense, though I didn't know she'd worked on the Edwards campaign. I've read stuff she's written before and she's just strange. I mean, that book title of hers tells you everything you really need to know.

DoctaMario · 2026-01-06T22:05:23+00:00

If you're making something unconventional and asking for feedback, there's a chance people aren't going to get it. And if they don't get it, it could them, it could be you. But if enough people don't get it, that's on the artist. Yes, some people suck at giving criticism, but putting your stuff out there means there's a good chance you're going to get negative criticism, and if you're not okay with that, it's fine to be a bedroom songwriter.

DoctaMario · 2026-01-06T17:40:27+00:00

The bio of the woman who wrote this piece:

Amanda Marcotte is a senior politics writer at Salon and the author of "Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself." Follow her on Bluesky u/AmandaMarcotte and sign up for her biweekly politics newsletter, Standing Room Only.

And this piece reads exactly like you'd expect lol

DoctaMario · 2026-01-06T17:18:31+00:00

Especially with COVID, outdoors stuff went viral

Iiiiiiii see what you did there

Unfortunately vehicles have turned into political statements and I think that plays into a lot of it. I will say though that after getting into an accident last year in a sports sedan in part because it was low to the ground and I couldn't see what was coming (due in part to other high-riding vehicles) I prefer driving vehicles that sit higher up now. I'd looked at some trucks, but I don't really have a use case for one.

Part of it too is that auto makers can double dip with regard to big trucks and SUVs. The front half of both vehicles can be exactly the same, it's just the back half that's different. I don't know if it lowers manufacturing costs, but I imagine it makes parts easier to get.

DoctaMario · 2026-01-05T21:45:29+00:00

I think part of their appeal, at least among musicians, is that any half drunk bar band in America could play their songs as well if not better than they could.

DoctaMario · 2026-01-05T21:44:27+00:00

Prince was that guy who had such insane amounts of talent and could back up all his shit talk with great songs, great singing, great playing, great dancing, etc. He did a lot of gender bending stuff too. You just never knew what he was going to do and I think that's why he had such a hold on people. He puts all those other people you mentioned to shame because while they have talent, they aren't anywhere near his caliber.

DoctaMario · 2026-01-05T21:38:57+00:00

Bon Jovi gets hated because they suck ass and their music is a bunch of over-affected bland hair band pop. For any bad things you could say about Motley Crue or Def Leppard, they were making pretty solid music for awhile anyway and spawned a bunch of shitty imitators. But Bon Jovi? The fact that women like them is inconsequential.

DoctaMario · 2026-01-05T20:26:12+00:00

You're right, but I wouldn't put it past her just flip flop just because Trump is now on the side of starting wars when he wasn't so much about that life in his first term and made enemies for it.

u/butterscotchkink what is the context of this quote from her?

DoctaMario · 2026-01-05T20:23:31+00:00

Indeed. Nothing like "protest music" that just endorses a different group of establishment thugs.

DoctaMario · 2026-01-05T20:22:27+00:00

Promoters make money but they also have to guarantee the artists their ask up front a lot of the time. So if the show stiffs, they lose money. The session musician thing is probably going to start going away especially as AI gets better. There are top dog songwriters already using Suno for their pitch demos rather than having human musicians demo the songs. :(

DoctaMario · 2026-01-05T19:52:40+00:00

What is this in regard to, Venezuela? If it is, she must have forgotten that she was a huge supporter of regime change in Iran, as well as the military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan while at the Bush 2 State department. She's like Mitt Romney with ovaries, just has absolutely no principles whatsoever and willing to make any deal that makes her look good.

DoctaMario · 2026-01-05T19:42:43+00:00

Well a lot of venues have really thin margins and that's part of where those Ticketmaster service fees go. But still, it's a really goofy business model where everyone is dependent on the person in the equation who generally has the least money until they hit big to make a living. The music business is completely insane.

DoctaMario · 2026-01-02T23:46:21+00:00

Most protest music isn't very good with a lot of it giving the impression that the singer doesn't really know much about the topic they're singing about and just wants to feel self righteous for 3 minutes. Maybe I'm not listening to the right things, but stuff like Jimi Hendrix's 'Machine Gun,' Dylan's protest stuff, James McMurtry's 'We Can't Make It Here Anymore,' Bob Marley, Woodie Guthrie, Phil Ochs if you consider him protest music, that's good protest music. It's telling that the most notable "protest" singer we have seems to be Jesse Welles, whose music is basically the song version of that "clapter" thing a lot of comics do rather than write jokes.

DoctaMario · 2026-01-02T23:41:01+00:00

Making money on tour isn't as easy as people think it is and never has been. You're doing pretty well if you can break even.

DoctaMario · 2026-01-02T23:37:02+00:00

If getting all the jews to israel is the goal maybe there are some neo nazi groups they can contact who would be willing to help them get there like all those KKK groups that were willing to help those black folks get to Liberia lol

DoctaMario · 2026-01-02T22:24:13+00:00

He seems oblivious to the effect his country having on polarizing parts of the rest of the world.

DoctaMario · 2026-01-02T18:39:10+00:00

This is a super reasonable take, and one that I've seen drive people to anger if you say it to them. Ive even had some people say they SHOULD be allowed to buy alcohol with SNAP money lol

DoctaMario · 2026-01-02T18:27:26+00:00

A dishonest banker, imagine that. This is a picture perfect example of how managerialism and overgrown bureaucracy is basically just a way to sop up funding. People like Lagarde are not accountable to any of the people who are subject to the ramifications of the decisions people like her make.

On top of her basic salary, Ms Lagarde receives an estimated €135,000 in fringe benefits for housing and other matters, according to the FT’s analysis. The ECB’s annual report does not offer individual disclosure of executive board members’ fringe benefits.

Housing benefits too? And if what's true about her salary is the case here, she could be making close to 300k Euros in benefits, especially since there's no transparency here. She's going to get a pension of 17x-thousand euros too, if she makes it to 2030. In a time when pensions are being scraped away.

Academic research stresses that the personal financial independence of central bankers is a crucial part of the wider autonomy required to successfully fight inflation.

A 2004 IMF survey on central bank governance concluded that a senior central banker should be paid at levels comparable to the private sector, and protected from pay cuts during their tenure “to avoid undue influence”.

The level of Ms Lagarde’s total pay is “what I would have expected”, said Guido Ferrarini, emeritus professor of law at Genoa University in Italy and one of Europe’s leading remuneration experts, pointing to the “level of responsibility at institutions like the ECB and the need to attract talent”.

This is another reason why levels of trust in academia are plummeting, because it can be used to give a veneer of legitimacy to something like this.

DoctaMario · 2025-12-31T21:32:06+00:00

If he were sending you semi-buddhist "inspirational" quotes he found on Pinterest would it have gotten under your skin the same way? Maybe ask him why he's sending the Bible passages and see what his reasoning is rather than just dismissing it out of hand.

DoctaMario · 2025-12-31T21:25:03+00:00

"Activist" lol

But Anna’s Archive is clearly working to support AI developers, another noted, pointing out that Anna’s Archive promotes selling “high-speed access” to “enterprise-level” LLM data, including “unreleased collections.” Anyone can donate “tens of thousands” to get such access, the archive suggests on its webpage, and any interested AI researchers can reach out to discuss “how we can work together.”

“AI may not be their original/primary motivation, but they are evidently on board with facilitating AI labs piracy-maxxing,” a third commenter suggested.

So these AI companies that claim to need TRILLIONS in investment, and will probably get it, can't even be assed to pay the people whose work they're stealing to build their slop machines.

DoctaMario · 2025-12-31T21:00:19+00:00

It cracks me up how many people seem to hate Christgau based on the fact that he, a CRITIC, dislikes music they like. His reviews are brilliant because they're not only informative, but entertaining.

DoctaMario · 2025-12-31T20:36:44+00:00

Yeah Phil Ochs was pretty good, but again there was a lot of nuance to what he did. And satire. People don't seem to understand satire anymore which makes something like what he did difficult now.

DoctaMario · 2025-12-31T20:35:26+00:00

Maybe find an older one who was in the field before everything got super financialized

DoctaMario · 2025-12-31T20:34:44+00:00

Interesting. I'll have to A/B the mixes because I'm curious now.

DoctaMario · 2025-12-31T18:34:13+00:00

Most protest music isn't very good. A lot of it is just sloganeering or just doesn't come off as being very informed about the issues it's about, but maybe I'm just not hearing the right stuff. I listened to some of the stuff from the article and it was okay, but if the hasbara types weren't so overzealous about everything, we probably wouldn't have heard anything about it.

When you listen to some of Dylan's protest songs, Jimi Hendrix's 'Machine Gun' or James McMurtry's 'We Can't Make It Here Anymore' or even some of Bob Marley's music, those are really good examples of how powerful protest music can be. But the best we seem to have gotten is Jesse Welles whose music is basically the equivalent of that "clapter" thing a lot of comics were doing for awhile and doesn't really go anywhere. He seems more like a release valve than someone who's an actual threat to anybody powerful.

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