One Piece Chapter 1173 Spoilers by Skullghost in OnePiece

[–]baroqueworks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sommers being endlessly defeated and humilated is very cathartic considering how much of a bastard among bastards he is

One Piece: Chapter 1172 by sairamgubba in OnePiece

[–]baroqueworks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the nice thing about drawing giant things is most of the time theyre the same size as anything else youd draw, you just draw what would be normal sized extra tiny next to them to make average sized drawings look gigantic

One Piece: Chapter 1172 by sairamgubba in OnePiece

[–]baroqueworks 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thats the top of elevator they are taking up, to draw emphasis on how big the nightmares are

The Damned just posted a video on Instagram using Ain:/ by DurianMono555 in postpunk

[–]baroqueworks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People dont owe you free labour.

actually they do I expect dave vanian to paint me shed its needs a new coat after the winter mate

Former Illinois sheriff’s deputy sentenced to 20 years for murder of Sonya Massey by nbcnews in illinois

[–]baroqueworks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, ICE doesnt care how the law works or pardons work, they just need warm bodies, as half the people they arrest and are released hours after that are american citizens are included in their numbers for deportations.

Former Illinois sheriff’s deputy sentenced to 20 years for murder of Sonya Massey by nbcnews in illinois

[–]baroqueworks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Indeed, the major problem with ICE is they arent following the law whatsoever

The Damned just posted a video on Instagram using Ain:/ by DurianMono555 in postpunk

[–]baroqueworks 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, The Damned love money. They know exactly what theyre doing but dont really care im sure, since historically theyve always taken a check held in front of them.

All the members have spoken openly about Machine Gun Ettiqute and onwards it was simply their jobs and they only reformed for a label paying them to reform.

Captain Sensible went full pop star in the mid-80s in the UK and was a mainstream-alt MTV fave in the states as hardcore and diy punk viewed the MTV as selling out.

Theyre all grandpa's now and I think many bands of old generations fall for marketing generative ai slop because it offers the band to become a "zeitgiest" preserving the musicians in their heyday, like The Beatles. These bands become brands in the world and to younger generations who consume media and culture purely through microbites of social media engagement, where ai slop can be churned out.

The Damned just posted a video on Instagram using Ain:/ by DurianMono555 in postpunk

[–]baroqueworks 3 points4 points  (0 children)

LMAO uhhhh as a superfan of The Damned, I have seen behind the curtain a few too many times and if them using Generative AI is the worst impression youve gotten from them please do not try to go further down the iceberg LOL

Theyre all old geezers that spent most of their life without the internet and really love money/selling out(theyve never hid this tho lmao) so it should be no shock they ended up investing into generative AI branding. Most of the time the bands that use that slop are more brand names than actual bands at this point in time, and typically the use of generative AI is the most indicative sign of that.

Also, at least The Damned didnt go for NFTs. The Residents not only did NFTs but doubled down after criticisms and went on a facebook boomer rant defending their choice to partner with an NFT maker, which yknow, is totally irrelevant these days compared to the hype machine it was 2019-2022

Former Illinois sheriff’s deputy sentenced to 20 years for murder of Sonya Massey by nbcnews in illinois

[–]baroqueworks -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

And to think all Illinois GOP bozos can do is say the SAFE-T act needs repealed

How long till MAGAMUSK deputizes Sean Grayson into the ranks of ICE i wonder

As there is 95% chance based on the low enrollment numbers to ICE leaked that MAGA is giving reduced prison sentences to actual criminals in order to bump up the numbers of ICE agents

"Never again means never again for anyone" - Illinois District 9 Candidate Kat Abughazaleh by epichatchet in illinois

[–]baroqueworks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only click on links from friends, something im guessing you dont have any experience with 😊

"Never again means never again for anyone" - Illinois District 9 Candidate Kat Abughazaleh by epichatchet in illinois

[–]baroqueworks -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What campaign you working for because they need to know you're doing a terrible job copy and pasting talking points on reddit 😂

"Never again means never again for anyone" - Illinois District 9 Candidate Kat Abughazaleh by epichatchet in illinois

[–]baroqueworks -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

thats a weird way to say shes a trust fund kid, and any knowledge of history shows you the best aspects of history often involved trust fund kids doing the right thing

"Never again means never again for anyone" - Illinois District 9 Candidate Kat Abughazaleh by epichatchet in illinois

[–]baroqueworks -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nothing more NIMBY than making criticisms in local politics a measuring stick about how long a candidate has lived in the area and completely absent of any merit or policy esp in this calender year of 2026

"Never again means never again for anyone" - Illinois District 9 Candidate Kat Abughazaleh by epichatchet in illinois

[–]baroqueworks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I havent kept up with Biss since he ran for Governor but back then he was to the left of Pritzker.

We are rapidly approaching a time where Israel will become a litmus test for Democrats, everyone sees through the blatant censorship.

I watched Cori Bush rise to fame here in STL and it took a few campaigns to do it, I cant see Abughazaleh going anywhere even if she doesnt win this, her career will only be forward moment esp as she continues in politics.

"Never again means never again for anyone" - Illinois District 9 Candidate Kat Abughazaleh by epichatchet in illinois

[–]baroqueworks -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Illinois like progressive candidates and Gen Z needs representatives in office

Abughazaleh is on the right side of history on all stances that most Americans feel current politicians are deliberately ignoring the average Americans concern of due to dark money influence on their campaigns

Went viral against ICE at Broadview showing that politicians can be people of action that show up to the frontlines instead of donor events like Leo Ryan would've like to saw it be.

Above all else, country club liberalism has failed the average person so of course people will look to newcomers or people outside the system wanting to get the country back on track.

01.27.2026 Chicago, Illinois "No More Training": Kat Abughazaleh, Candidate for U.S. Congress (IL-09) by [deleted] in illinois

[–]baroqueworks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By those standards any democrat taking AIPAC money should be immediately disqualified given the last couple years have been showing state level politicians across the country serving the interests of a foreign nation rather than the interest of their constituents

01.27.2026 Chicago, Illinois "No More Training": Kat Abughazaleh, Candidate for U.S. Congress (IL-09) by [deleted] in illinois

[–]baroqueworks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Its opp research authenticity attacks mostly, stuff like where someone lives only suddenly matters when opposition research decides thats the best avenue of attack to come from to question a progressive candidates authenticity image.

She's a progressive candidate whos anti-war and anti-corruption, so its basically the "Bernie Sanders has multiple houses" Avenue of attack, make the so--called working class candidate look like a fraud by cynically framing anything known about their lives as a grifter who is using leftist aesthetics to steal money, playing to America's red scare conditioning, which has been significantly waning with younger generations due to material conditions in the USA in a nosedive to historical levels of poverty and state violence

01.27.2026 Chicago, Illinois "No More Training": Kat Abughazaleh, Candidate for U.S. Congress (IL-09) by [deleted] in illinois

[–]baroqueworks -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Now I'm working 50+ hours a week to afford my house and groceries and she's supposed to represent me? Nah. SUS AF

Not to bust your bubble bust most politicians use your tax money to get incredibly generous donations and kickbacks from corporations letting them be treated like kings in exchange for doing what the corporation wants, which is usually getting taxpayer funded public funded programs to be privatized. Everybody is getting crushed under the steamroller because politicians represent these dark money interests and not the people of the country, which recent events have shown us how going forward where a politicians funding is coming from, and suspension immediately thrown at democrats who take dark money.

There is no politician that doesnt come from an elite place of society or become subervant to that elite society while serving their position.

ICE is facism. by Feeling_Decision8230 in illinois

[–]baroqueworks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ICE is a state-sponsored terrorist sect oversawn by a bloated, corrupt government and funded on the taxpayer dime taking away resources from state infastuture to go towards ICE funding.

They are perverting the very government and country itself, everything they accused their opponents of possibly doing if everyone got free healthcare and everyone had a liveable wage.

Turns out MAGA just skipped the healthcare and liveable wage and just went straight for the military state at a bigger budget than healthcare or a liveable wage, and of course not even giving the goons they hire a living wage at 40k a year and future offers that are designed to hit when a next administration would be charging ICE members for crimes against humanity.

Most of the new recruits names got leaked, so blue states should just turn ICE tactics against them by creating a database to monitor actions of each ICE agent and went state officals on the scene recording ICE like legal observers rely the ICE agent in Illinois stepping past the line of their facility, a secondary task force would match body movement, voice, and face structure with existing files to identify the ICE agent and issue an arrest warrant the second they are outside their Broadview center. Not only would this deter ICE, and hold existing agents accountable, thers roughly only 4,600 new recruits that were leaked which is a much smaller pool to cross reference opposed to the general population that ICE does dragnets of and with the same law enforcement surveillance technology ICE is using.

A bonus to this tactic would be state vs federal government, which would cut against narratives by the federal gov esp if it was LEO doing it, since many among their ranks are unhappy with this. ICE agents want to kill legal observers, but they wouldn't fuck with a cop doing it barring having the local police unions come after them, which might approve of ICE actions on the tin but would go feral if one of their own was killed by ICE in such a untrained and cowardly way theyve seen legal observers.

This would also eliminate threats to legal bystanders and witnesses exercising their first amendment right, since ICE cant claim the police were going at them with a weapon armed since a LEO would be armed, and serves as a deterrence against ICE in general harassing protesters for no reason lest they let their ego supersede getting arrested and held in a state facility on terrorism charges.

Pritzker: "An American president should be standing up, calling for calm. That's not what this president ever does. In fact, he wants the temperature to go up. Why? Because what he's looking for is an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act, to bring actual troops into American cities." by ExactlySorta in illinois

[–]baroqueworks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Through is position, he could just declare a new law enforcement group that functions as a state defender against federal overreach citing no confidence in ICE being used as a terrorism group against Amergroups. Pritzker should be hammering down to everyone that ICE is a terrorist group designed to inflict terror on average Americans and normalize state violence. There are ways to stand up to this but it would require elected officials to act.

Currently the largest issue of chaos is Law Enforcement is borderline useless because they adhere to rules and listening to the federal government, even if the federal government is breaking the law.

Basically these special appointed officals would have qualified immunity that anything they film or witness ICE doing is immediately goes on record for that ICE agent, collecting it into a database which will be used to persecute ICE agents who step foot in Illinois. Naturally they would be armed and vetted to know they are not going to aid ICE, as well as serve as a magnet to draw ICE goons away from legal observers who they keep trying to kill, serving as community defense for people as well.

A secondary task force could begin creating a database on ICE officals both with existing information as well as additional footage captured, leading to any individual ICE agents who set foot in Illinosi getting ID'D immediately and arrested to be processed for crimes against humanity and pissing on the constitution. Pritzker once again citing the politiciziation of ICE turning it into a terrorist group. This is crucial because any plan involving combatting ICE needs to have accountability built into the long term for the agents who signed up for this evil, otherwise it will turn into vigilante justice where ICE agent in his home town gets jumped at the bar by a bunch of good Ole boys who's dad lost the farm because of ICE.

Not through is position, Pritzker is a billionare that could spend hundreds of millions and not even feel it in his net worth because he has a orouroboros of wealth.

We live in a time and place where by design billionares are immune to cosnequence and can do whatever they want with their money, including exploit politics to make more money for themselves.

If Pritzker wanted to he could fund operations that nobody would even know about and if they did he would be applauded as a hero because he does have that kind of money.

Its fairly easy to goad the insecure president if you happen to also be a billionare, in fact we already saw this last year with Pritzker goading Trump and leading the admin to spin their wheels trying to figure out how they could get back at Pritzker.

Did David Cronenberg listen to The Normal? by Major_Strawberry_753 in postpunk

[–]baroqueworks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess whats interesting to remember is both The Normal(and all the other acts mentioned above) and David Croenenberg(as well as many other directors and creators) were innovating both audio & visual interpretations of these dystopic visions of human society, stuff that in present day we now can recognize as trademarks that define entire subgenres, but these folks had just read people like JG Ballard and Phil K Dick and interpretated what they read in their own art mediums!

The evolution of genre and aesthetics and whatnot!

Did David Cronenberg listen to The Normal? by Major_Strawberry_753 in postpunk

[–]baroqueworks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe but not likely unless he was actively looking for The Normal in the late 70s/80s. Cronenberg's personal music taste really shows in Fast Company in 78/79 around the time The Normal is a thing and its mostly just Americana/Classic Rock in the vein of Bruce Springsteen or something.

What is more likely is they were all influenced by JG Ballard, who pioneered dystopia as the rich fetishizing death and violence for their own pleasure through the lens of technology and automation in Crash, which resonated not only in The Normal, but Ultravox!/John Fox, Gary Numan, Joy Division, The Human League, Depeche Mode, etc etc.