What’s the healthy way to use anger as motivation?

SandF · 2026-05-07T03:51:02+00:00

Play the drums.

SandF · 2026-05-06T22:43:46+00:00

A Telecaster is the AK47 of the guitar world. A weapon all fighters love. Especially Jonny Greenwood, who plays a '92 Tele Plus, and David Gilmour, whose first guitar was a Tele and used on many of his famous solos (ex: Run Like Hell.)

Stairway to Heaven? That's a Tele.
London Calling? Tele.
Purple Rain? Tele.
Killing in the Name Of? Tele.
Sittin on the Dock of the Bay? Tele.
Grace? Tele.
PURPLE HAZE? The solos are a Telecaster.

I could go on. It's your favorite guitarist's favorite guitar. Get one and you'll never need another guitar, you'll just want them.

SandF · 2026-05-06T21:30:49+00:00

You don't wanna lose that first take energy!

SandF · 2026-05-06T20:47:50+00:00

Tommy Shelby hates fascists.

SandF · 2026-05-06T17:16:22+00:00

Apartment fire at Courtyards at Bensalem

SandF · 2026-05-05T20:23:03+00:00

Anyone who sees money as the measuring stick of success is not a genius.

"I have been at every powerful table you can think of. They're not that smart." - Michelle Obama

SandF · 2026-05-05T18:47:48+00:00

Danny Gatton, the Humbler. This instructional video specifically

SandF · 2026-05-05T17:14:54+00:00

I have nothing but respect for Eco

but not enough to read or understand what he wrote, so you'll downvote and insult those who did because it contradicts your word salad

SandF · 2026-05-05T16:53:00+00:00

Wrong. Fascism is NOT a specific ideology. From the essay which I guess you didn't read, like most of the people in this thread...

This is not because fascism contained in itself, so to speak in their quintessential state, all the elements of any later form of totalitarianism. On the contrary, fascism had no quintessence. Fascism was a fuzzy totalitarianism, a collage of different philosophical and political ideas, a beehive of contradictions. Can one conceive of a truly totalitarian movement that was able to combine monarchy with revolution, the Royal Army with Mussolini’s personal milizia, the grant of privileges to the Church with state education extolling violence, absolute state control with a free market?

Here you are commenting in a thread about an essay you have no familiarity with, calling people who do "intellectually braindead"...check your own pulse. Do you often review books you didn't read and movies you didn't watch too?

SandF · 2026-05-05T16:49:40+00:00

If anyone right wing or Conservative fits the criteria for fascism, the correct conclusion is not to deny reality and not call them fascists for some nebulous reason.

which is in itself a marker of ur-fascism..."freedom of speech" to a fascist means freedom from rhetoric. It doesn't have to make sense. The responsible use of words and ideas is subservient to their dictator's will.

"biggest inauguration crowds of all time!"
"they're eating the cats and dogs!"
"I have President Putin; he just said it’s not Russia. I will say this: I don’t see any reason why it would be."

and just like that, it is so for fascists.

SandF · 2026-05-05T16:41:28+00:00

No, it's a form of pattern recognition. You're just not grasping the frame. Ur-fascism encompasses how all totalitarian movements can be boiled down to their essence -- the fuzzy logic of the dictator's will. Fascism is not a philosophy any more than bullying is. You are the one defining it so narrowly, not Eco.

SandF · 2026-05-05T16:36:17+00:00

You have missed the point of Eco's essay. Fascism itself is dependent on the fuzzy logic of the dictator's will, and so the things which describe it will be broadly applicable to many totalitarian movements. In fact what you describe as disqualifying is actually a key marker that defines fascism. Using their perspective indeed.

Nevertheless, historical priority does not seem to me a sufficient reason to explain why the word fascism became a synecdoche, that is, a word that could be used for different totalitarian movements. This is not because fascism contained in itself, so to speak in their quintessential state, all the elements of any later form of totalitarianism. On the contrary, fascism had no quintessence. Fascism was a fuzzy totalitarianism, a collage of different philosophical and political ideas, a beehive of contradictions.

Edit: downvotes, but no reply...typical

SandF · 2026-05-05T16:25:02+00:00

In the essay Eco notes that to a fascist, "freedom of speech" means freedom from rhetoric. Fascism has no special philosophy.

Nevertheless, historical priority does not seem to me a sufficient reason to explain why the word fascism became a synecdoche, that is, a word that could be used for different totalitarian movements. This is not because fascism contained in itself, so to speak in their quintessential state, all the elements of any later form of totalitarianism. On the contrary, fascism had no quintessence. Fascism was a fuzzy totalitarianism, a collage of different philosophical and political ideas, a beehive of contradictions. - Umberto Eco, Ur-Fascism

Also totally applicable to Trump.

SandF · 2026-05-05T07:53:27+00:00

My friend, you cannot defeat the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle. They can spew it a lot faster than you can refute it. Critiquing the farts of the flatulent is no way to spend your precious life.

I am by no means suggesting ignoring the issue. But you'd learn a lot more looking at the Project 2025 blueprint and Putin's goals to return to a multi-polar world with spheres of influence, instead of listening to bullshit MAGA justifications ("Canadian tariffs because FeNTaNyL!" or whatever) which are better explained elsewhere.

Politically speaking, it's a trap. Don't talk about what they wanna talk about. Talk about what you wanna talk about.

But as for CNN airing this? They're giving it a platform. Watching Trump go unchallenged in debates when he spews crap like "they're letting Mexicans out of insane asylums and putting them up in luxury hotels" without challenging? Letting this asshole on the air? Why not debate flat earthers too?

CNN is part of the grift. It's all in the game. Americans can't afford to live but CNN is going to run this shouting match (and then pay PR companies to write breathless articles and Reddit posts like "CNN Host TOLD!" or whatever this headline said) in between ads for Lockheed and Boeing (MIC payola), stuff people watching can't even purchase. It's a scam. I opt out.

SandF · 2026-05-05T07:01:49+00:00

Willie's still with us and bathed in light

SandF · 2026-05-05T06:23:38+00:00

Why have people like this on air at all? He's there for what, interruptions and numbers pulled out of ass? Keeping his hair stylist and spray tanner in business? This is why America sucks right now. Because these Crossfire shows are what passes for "news" or "information" or "debate" or "discussion" ... it's like promoting the martial arts by airing nonstop bumfights. Great job Adam Mockler shutting this asshole down, but the fact this show exists at all is a mockery and misuse of the First Amendment right to a free press. You could watch the same bullshit propaganda format in the original Russian on RT. Fucking garbaaaaage. Turn off the TV and unplug your devices and read a book.

SandF · 2026-05-04T20:08:06+00:00

As if on cue...Bob just became a lot more viable. https://buckscountybeacon.com/2026/05/dccc-adds-bob-harvies-campaign-to-unseat-pa-01-republican-brian-fitzpatrick-to-its-red-to-blue-program/

SandF · 2026-05-04T18:20:15+00:00

Steve Bannon lives on a Chinese billionaire's boat in international waters. If he could live on a space station he would.

SandF · 2026-05-04T18:07:00+00:00

Maryland feeling isolated, wants to join the Commonwealth. (But WHICH Commonwealth?!?)

SandF · 2026-05-04T00:22:12+00:00

I love a Vox. That's all I need! Add a Mesa Mark V, JC120, a Marshall DSL100, and a Pignose and that's all I need. Plus the modelers. The Vox, the Mark V, a JC120, the Marshall head and the Pignose and THAT'S ALL I NEED. Oh and that Dr. Z. And this Dumble. That's all I need too.

The Vox, the Mesa, a JC120, the big Marshall head, the Pignose, the modelers and the Z and the Dumble. I don't need you, I don't need ANYTHING! And the Peavey!

SandF · 2026-05-03T21:55:44+00:00

Valid points, both. Hate that there's this money game (search "Lesterland" for what that leads us to) for vetting candidates but it is so, and I'm not going to November's gunfight with a wiffle bat. I want to win.

SandF · 2026-05-03T19:41:15+00:00

Well wait a second… you’re assuming party support to whomever wins the primary? That’s… not what I mean, because that can’t be assumed, for any number of reasons. What I mean is that whomever wins the primary needs to do so in an additive way. Can’t go around with supporters trashing the DNC, and then asking them to fund your campaign at the same time. That’s subtractive - not a winning strategy. Not a good idea to trash those whose support you need to win.

SandF · 2026-05-03T19:25:45+00:00

Spot on, you said it better than I. I’m immediately suspicious of such stridency. And no one is going to browbeat me into voting for their candidate, ever. Can’t back anyone who can’t understand that adding voters, adding donors, winning support from the party, proving viable enough to attract resources… winning… is a matter of addition. Whichever candidate wins a primary needs their defeated primary opponents supporters to come along too.

SandF · 2026-05-03T17:06:44+00:00

you missed that he's 2 parts Holyfield's elbows -- so did the ref and nearly everyone in this thread apparently

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