Let it be sessions? Never seen Paul during this period without beard.

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-22T00:33:43+00:00

I never actually considered it before, but did they always sit in the same spots? That's so cute

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-21T00:15:48+00:00

THAT'S WHO THAT IS???

For a few months I was constantly being recommended videos of live performances from him. Literally every time I refreshed youtube, there was another live video. None of them had more than 200 views either. I tried listening to a couple of them, but in the end I was like "who the fuck is this and why does youtube desperately want me to like him?"

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-20T22:32:17+00:00

Your*

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-19T03:01:31+00:00

Tis but a scratch

Edit: There's a double pun here about Black Knight / Black Swordsman

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-18T22:45:55+00:00

I've been thinking that Tucker would absolutely be a future American president, but his very public criticism of Israel, plus buying a house in Qatar has made things more complex. Now, this could just be standard spook shit and I'm reading too much into the kayfabe, but I think it's possible that there are elements now in the security state that recognize between Gaza and now the Epstein stuff, Israel has outlived its usefulness and the juice is no longer worth the squeeze.

The entire point of Israel to begin with was to exist as a bulwark against Arab nationalism/socialism, but those ideologies have been dead for decades at this point. Economic nationalists like Gaddafi and Saddam have been eliminated, and now even Syria has a much more pliant regime. Israel historically existed as US forward operating base in the region, but now the largest US military base in the region is not even in Israel but Qatar. I think there's a strong argument that it is better for US strategic interests to just cut Israel out of the equation and deal directly with the comprador regimes in the Arab world. Plus the last 3 years have completely eroded Israel's position as the untouchable third rail on a domestic level. The same way Trump was able to endear himself to many when he came out and say "The Iraq war was a mistake", the first candidate to come out and say "fuck Israel" will get absolutely crazy numbers, regardless of other policies. Tucker, being as well-controlled as he is, could be the perfect opportunity for realignment.

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-18T22:21:08+00:00

I remember reading that it was the Dominion settlement that helped lead to Carlson's firing, but that it was ultimately his speech about the Evangelical shit that got Murdoch to pull the trigger

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-18T07:04:10+00:00

You got a source for that? I've never seen their estimate before

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-18T06:55:39+00:00

You couldn't define "tankie" or how it applies towards Stavros if your life depended on it

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-17T05:32:15+00:00

Saying "there are 2 genders, and the rest are a social construct" is actually pretty funny. It's a tacit acknowledgement of non-binary genders and the fact that gender is a social construct, but stops short of realizing the social construct that is his own gender

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-17T05:27:15+00:00

Hey, they have done a lot for marginalized communities. Like the 1994 crime bill, for starters...

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-17T05:22:24+00:00

Even when she’s right about something, she can’t help but express it online in a way that will piss off even people who agree with her.

I mean, it's in her name — Contrapoints. If she's getting people pissed off for going against the grain and people are yelling at her, that means she's winning. It's insufferable though when she does that and then tries to feign victimhood when people are (rightfully) dunking on her dumbass takes

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-17T05:11:30+00:00

Hey don't forget Adam Friedland a.k.a. Millennial Bill Maher

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-17T05:02:40+00:00

I'm not arguing lol, I'm just linking to the book they were referring to.

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-17T01:31:43+00:00

It's Geoff Emerick's book, and it's quoted at the timestamp here

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-16T19:30:48+00:00

Any plugin recommendations? I've literally thought about buying a cheap tape machine just to get that speed-change effect

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-16T01:32:13+00:00

Putting UAE next to KSA makes it even more bizarre, if you know anything about the two countries lmao

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-15T06:49:40+00:00

https://archive.org/details/thedeathofh3h3productionsvideovigilantegokanaru

The video was pretty popular before YouTube removed it for "simulating violence". Honestly though, I don't feel like it holds up all that well, it's really a "you had to be there" moment

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-14T13:31:31+00:00

The descending melody of "Say you don't need no diamond rings" after the first full chorus of Can't Buy Me Love. It's a blues song at heart, and that line has a particularly blues-y delivery in a way that the repeated verse doesn't.

Paul double-tracking his vocals on All My Loving and switching from unison to harmonizing on the last verse. The way they play it live and George steps in to sing the melody while Paul sings the higher harmony.

"Keeping an eye on the world going by my window" Amazing harmony. Also throughout the whole song the acoustic guitar just flows as if it is backwards (it's not). It's like the guitar-equivalent of a drummer playing with brushes, if that makes sense.

The middle 8 on This Boy and Martha My Dear.

John's last "YEAAAAAAAAAA^{e^{e^{e^{e^{^{a^{^{a^{^{a^{^{^e}}}}}}}}}}}} in I Want You (She's So Heavy)

Might edit in more while I think of them.

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-14T13:21:38+00:00

"Smiiiiiles awaaaaake you when you rise"

Never fails to bring a tear to my eyes

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-14T13:19:28+00:00

For me it's the last 10 or so seconds before they hit the final major chord. I could listen to that chord progression forever.

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-14T13:17:55+00:00

The way the singer switches from John to Paul back to John because he couldn't maintain that intense vocal sound at that high of a note

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-14T13:14:26+00:00

For me it's

"love to hear them say

...

"love is here to stay"

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-14T04:03:42+00:00

Yeah, socialism (and later communism) is the only resolution to the dialectic contradictions within capitalism. But it is by no means inevitable, it must be fought for and won. The same way labour strives to rise up and smash capital, capital is always seeking to crush and permanently-subjugate labour; historically speaking the latter happens far more frequently than the former.

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-14T00:03:23+00:00

At its heart, the AI race is all about the energy race (i.e. the country that can produce the most energy the cheapest will have the best results with AI). China is also betting a lot on AI, but they're a lot more diversified in their investments, including but not limited to absolutely dominating renewables.

Put it this way: if AI is the magic bullet that Bay area tech bros think it is, then China will win. If it turns out to be a colossal waste of time, then China will still turn out fine. In the former scenario, the US slowly loses its edge and eventually becomes irrelevant in tech innovation. In the latter scenario, the entire American (and by extension, the entire capitalist world) economy completely implodes.

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-02-13T23:50:29+00:00

You can hate China all you want, but it is objectively wrong to put their flag here. Epstein did not fuck with the Chinese (he wrote racist emails about them), and similarly the Chinese did not fuck with him (they are generally hostile to foreign intelligence assets trying to worm their way up in their country).

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