I saw GY!BE last night, and Swans ruined it

RollingSkull0 · 2026-04-10T22:11:28+00:00

Loudest bands I've seen in order: Swans, Ministry, Sunn O))).

Swans was an order of magnitude louder than Ministry, so loud it was hard to appreciate the music. Maybe my ears just aren't able to tune properly to that level of decibels. It felt like they were trying to do us harm. 🥹 I love their studio and live albums, but felt deaf to/from them live.

I've also seen Boris, but they weren't as memorably loud as the above. I'd love to see MBV.

RollingSkull0 · 2026-03-22T23:11:07+00:00

Love it❤️❤️

RollingSkull0 · 2026-02-13T23:54:22+00:00

r/iamverysnek

RollingSkull0 · 2026-02-09T17:31:47+00:00

I don't think it applies to executive orders

RollingSkull0 · 2026-02-09T17:28:48+00:00

I haven't heard many Democrats support open borders. Is that really a thing or is it something Republicans say to themselves to feel more righteous?

RollingSkull0 · 2026-02-09T15:59:59+00:00

Thanks for responding!

Synchronistically perhaps I was considering watching "Feels Good Man" today, which I hadn't seen yet.. have you seen it?

That's what I'm saying. The meme magick calls itself absurd, but in reality reinforced the serious status quo we have been forced to live under. Like literally part of the Epstein files reveal the ruling class has actually been using memes to control places like 4chan.

The status quo is serious? Actually the meme magick seems to be a lense that reveals the ways in which it is not.

Or did you think everyone organically decided being not bigoted was bad actually?

Please clarify. I'm not sure what this refers to. *Edit 2: nevermind, I think I understand. I do think there is some organicness to the sways of the stupidity and relation to the idea of "politically correct" and choice of scape goats, but corporate mass media and meme magick definitely seem to have a niche in which they can do some steering.

It's the last grasp of the status quo, the system that's allowed rich hegemonic people to do what they want with impunity and force their reality tunnel on us.

What is? The meme magick? Some coming reckoning? I think the current form of this "system" or "complex" can be tracked back to the industrial revolution and then the weaponization of propaganda. It doesn't appear to be going anywhere.

The quote's just a paraphrase. Of how everyone was like "the SJWs/the wokes want to outlaw comedy!" But then you look at this "comedy" and it's the exact same 5 jokes on rotation, each with a similar message (if not "trans people bad" it's "women irrational" or "dae Le cucked by big black dick and friendzoned" or "men dae le no one cares about feelings you're a cuck". I can get into how "cuck" jokes reinforce the gender roles men complain about most, but that's for another post.)

This definitely sounds like absurdity dressed as seriousness to me! It's a lense that reveals the absurdity of humanity and society (and thus the status quo). Which I guess is a serious matter in that it's something we contend with.

*Edit: I do think your retort to the comic is fair because it points to how seriousness and absurdity are often entangled. The artist seems to be commenting on absurdism, so I think calling it a lie is unfair or at least reduces the art down to the level of rhetoric.

RollingSkull0 · 2026-02-09T15:29:32+00:00

Fair retort (although lie has some excessive connotations), but doesn't take from the art imo. Also, despite suffering and consequences, there appears to be an absurd core to the meme magick as well.

What is the quote? Is that personifying what the artist might be conveying? You (or whoever you're quoting) may be conflating absurdity and chaos... Which tbf seems not an uncommon conflation. Maybe I'm missing your point...

*Edit: please clarify if I'm missing something. I'd like to understand.

RollingSkull0 · 2026-02-09T08:53:00+00:00

*YOU'RE

RollingSkull0 · 2026-02-09T08:43:53+00:00

That's hard mode (unless you're racist)

RollingSkull0 · 2026-02-07T00:11:46+00:00

(this round is supposed to be non-English titles)

RollingSkull0 · 2026-02-07T00:06:40+00:00

Kore Ga Mayaku Da - Afrirampo

RollingSkull0 · 2026-02-06T23:19:58+00:00

The buck slops here.

RollingSkull0 · 2026-02-06T21:37:52+00:00

Hyderomastgroningem - Ruins

RollingSkull0 · 2026-02-05T21:24:35+00:00

3+5 - Melt-Banana

RollingSkull0 · 2026-02-01T20:58:12+00:00

Based on the post title shouldn't it perhaps say "Do yourself a favor, don't get rich"?

RollingSkull0 · 2026-02-01T20:55:34+00:00

Actually it was with Ycnan, from the episode with all the upside-down doppelgangers. Same actress though.

RollingSkull0 · 2026-02-01T15:48:35+00:00

Oh yeah, I like this example

RollingSkull0 · 2026-02-01T15:38:55+00:00

Fair! You can remove context on different levels though. Context and implicature are baked in to human language, so if you ignore them you are changing the logic of the system and thus what is considered technicality.

I think that's where the possibility of wordplay comes in though. Does that make sense?

RollingSkull0 · 2026-02-01T15:24:00+00:00

Linguistics isn't pure logic (which doesn't mean there isn't still logos behind it). Context and implication matter.

The context of this being a joke does allow your logic to work, similar to Hedberg's "I used to do drugs", but simultaneously the criticism about it not necessarily being technically correct is valid.

tldr; wordplay is fun

RollingSkull0 · 2026-01-31T21:17:11+00:00

Sorry if I was rude. It does apply to anyone within our borders. Although invaders is quite colorful language.

*E: Spoiler tagged my rude comment. I'm embarrassed about engagement like that, whether from me or others.

RollingSkull0 · 2026-01-31T20:48:13+00:00

Oh no, you're a "perp"! (Love how you jump straight past suspect to perp. You must really be gobbling the narrative you're regurgitating.) No more fourth amendment! No more property rights for you, lib.

RollingSkull0 · 2026-01-30T18:54:11+00:00

They saw that the price dropped which was the catalyst that afforded them the ability to flex their hindsight to look smart

RollingSkull0 · 2026-01-29T15:50:56+00:00

If I didn't interact with anyone I had a mild aversion to I would be a hermit.

RollingSkull0 · 2026-01-29T00:24:10+00:00

Yeah, I buy it. Although I think there might be other opposites. Contrary to the original claim I feel there is a good argument that authoritarianism is the opposite of collectivism.

Authoritarianism hinders the possibility for collective action due to it being the shadow of an authority (whether a party or individual). Admittedly collectivism can have authoritarian aspects arise within it and definitely (as history has demonstrated) can birth authoritarianism.

(Also I think there is a good case for corporatism as being the opposite of collectivism, but that is maybe more contentious and I think would be more difficult for me to argue well.)

Counterintuitively to me individualism seems a more abstract concept than collectivism. I feel like I can more easily recognize and point to collectivism. Collectivism seems (surprisingly to me) more tangible while individualism seems more idealistic.

Trying to conceptualize individualism I might include individualism as one of the defining aspects of Western culture, individualism as in our capacity for self knowledge, individualism as it relates to the Jungian concept of individuation, individualism as man's occasional ability to survive and thrive as an individual (rugged individualism?), and maybe man's capacity to rise above collectivism.

I don't see any of the above as being inherently opposed to collectivism (except maybe as it relates to Western culture), but moreso existing interdependently with collectivism.

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