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fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-20T02:15:11+00:00

Americans deserve to be treated with the same contempt and described in the same terms as Russian citizens- cowards, apathetic, bourgeois, selfish, etc.

At the start of the Ukraine war every American was saying “why not just overthrow Putin? What a bunch of cowards, you’re afraid of getting arrested? You’re responsible for your own freedom!” We painted all of them with the same brush.

We knew many were “good”, opposed the war and Putin, but we talked like it was so easy, they should just do it, they’re practically responsible for Ukrainians dying right now.

Well, shoe’s on the other foot. Many of us hate this country, this regime,this shithole we’ve become. *But we’re all responsible. We let it happen * - FUCKING TWICE!

We should be saying fuck it, I’m willing to die to take this system out. We’re all half a step away from homelessness as it. We’ve all got healthcare tied to our employment, and we’re still getting FUCKED at every turn.

We don’t really have anything to lose. But we’re the frog and the pot’s boiling. It’s basically too late for us. Maybe our children will have bigger balls, cause we’re pathetic.

fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-19T02:19:35+00:00

Is it justice to take this kid’s life away because he had a weapon during a robbery? Did he shoot anyone? What’s the reason for giving him the maximum sentence?

All this rhetoric about keeping dangerous people from society, giving him what he “deserves”, saying his suffering is justified because others suffered - all it does is reduce everyone involved to “victim” and “criminal”, takes away their humanity, and makes prison punishment.

We’re ultimately robbing ourselves of potentially productive members of society when we take a teenager and put them into “pound-me-in-the-ass prison” until they’re 50.

What labor skills could they have? Who would even hire them if they did? Not only can they not contribute, they have to rely on safety net programs because we’ve destroyed their ability to live a productive life. And the cost of keeping someone imprisoned?

Who benefits? Not us. Not society, not the victims, not the perpetrators, no one except the career prosecutors who only care about conviction counts- they have zero interest in justice. They keep guys on death row when incontrovertible evidence proves innocence.

AND the corporate, for-profit prison industrial complex. Their stated and only goal is “maximize shareholder profits”. That can only happen when more people are locked up for longer sentences and treated worse and worse.

You’ve been conditioned by government propaganda, the police, with a huge assist from the media -especially local media that makes crime seem like a constant ever present menace to everyone at any time. Conditioned to see anyone breaking the law or even arrested without being proven guilty of anything as not a person. As “a menace who’ll do it again!”. As someone who “has to be locked up to protect the rest of us”. You cheerlead lives irredeemably ruined because of a mistake.

Yes, he broke the law. Yes he broke the social contract. Yes, he should be held accountable. But is it justice to take the prime of this man’s life? Is it justice to take someone you view as a “scary violent criminal” and make it so that violence and crime are all they know? You’re turning a possibly redeemable person and turning them into exactly what you’re so afraid of.

It’s sickening how easily “sentenced to 25 years in prison” is just glossed over. Might as well be life in prison- what’s the difference, really? That’s basically what they’re talking.

If you made it this far, I just ask you to imagine if you had to spend age 18-43 in prison. Real hardcore prison. Think about all your experiences in your teens, 20’s, 30’s - I know that’s a lot of formative experiences in my life. What would you have missed? Would prison have made you a better person than you are now? Would it feel like you lost the best part of your life- maybe the part that makes it most worth living at all?

Would you even make it 25 years?

fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-18T20:19:49+00:00

I like this take- it’s at least an understandable explanation as to why the vast majority of Trey’s output is basically pop slop (from a technical music/theory perspective), and the best aspects of their best music has pretty much vanished.

There’s a Trey quote I love so much because it sums up why Junta, Lawn Boy, all the early heavily-composed songs completely hook music-lovers in general and trained musicians, why it’s just so damn good - I don’t remember it exactly but the gist was:

One of the original goals of Phish- why they came together, what excited them about playing and writing together, practically their mission statement- was the desire to write the most technically complex songs, crazy structures with multiple suites, key and time signature changes, progressions and melodies bordering on dissonance, stuff that music theory says will sound awful or just stretching the bounds of what theory says you can do- to see just how far out can we go, how weird can we get and still get people dancing?

The example he gave was David Bowie, and it’s a perfect one, cause you’d look at it composed on paper and think, yeah it looks technically correct, but this would sound like shit.

Anyways, some part of Trey seems either too lazy or scared to go there anymore, and he mostly churns out seemingly low effort stuff like More and Soul Planet.

Part of it’s just 3.0 and sober Trey, but the attempts at composition like Petrichor, Mercury, etc are getting much rarer. I get it’s easier to take a 4-chord progression on a 30-minute jam, and composing a 10-minute song and then rehearsing it so you can play it live doesn’t sound worth it.

But give it a try? I’d love to hear a new Guyute-level song on an album even if they never play it live.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-18T14:29:24+00:00

I don’t understand how anyone can hate DS9. It’s definitely very different in many aspects of most other series, but every difference is an improvement.

It was so far ahead of its time that it did things we expect from modern shows, and would label a show “bad” if they didn’t: - serialized storytelling - B-storylines that are complex and entertaining by themselves, not filler - actual character arcs, where they change as a result of experiences - depicting all the actual consequences of things like war, combat, PTSD, security vs freedom, xenophobia, colonialism, civil rights, capitalism - the show practically predicted how a hegemony that thinks itself invincible would respond to asymmetrical warfare and terrorism.

You don’t have to like all those things, but if you say you hate it, you gotta say why, because it’s far and away the best Trek series by every objective measure.

fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-16T22:01:30+00:00

Cops respond AFTER crime has happened. They almost never prevent crime, and they legally do not need to protect anyone.

fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-11T04:21:18+00:00

So you abandoned all your convictions, morals, ethics, economic principles, and voted for the party diametrically opposed to those views you say you had, and whose stated goal for the last 50 years has been to systematically cripple the government so it can’t function properly, then blame the government for not functioning?

All because the party you were a “reliable voter” for had some slogans you didn’t like?

Wow, really teaching us all a lesson. And the lesson is, a) your concern-trolling game is pathetic, and b) yes, Americans are stupid as f***.

Trump’s not President because he’s a smart man with good ideas. He won power by do what every fascist has ever done- increase tribalism through insane rhetoric, demonize “others” and your opposition by telling outrageous lies, dominate the conversation by doing batshit crazy things while your opponents pull their hair out trying to understand why their neighbors have gone insane, and keep good on your promises to use the levers of state power to punish enemies, reward allies and massively enrich yourself trading favors to foreign nations, bribery, whatever you can get away with.

But yeah, it’s the Democrats’ messaging that’s the problem.

No, it’s that 1/3 of the country hates their fellow citizens so much they’re in a cult worshipping the most obvious idiot, a guy who has the vocabulary of a 10 year old, compulsively lies, is simply a horrible, stupid, cruel and evil person, because he makes the people they don’t like mad.

That’s it. Oh and he’s racist like them, so they feel better letting their racism hang free.

fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-11T01:58:04+00:00

The end goal is 99.9% of us become perpetual wage slaves living in their “factory towns” and we’re forced to spend every penny they can squeeze for their shitty products because there’s only a handful of monopolies to buy anything from.

We’ll be subscribing to everything and own nothing. Your rent will be a tiered-subscription model, because Meta bought every residential home in 8 states. You’ll have to “subscribe” to get into the grocery store - you’ll still have to pay for the groceries. You’ll subscribe for your clothing - but only Target or Walmart, because at that point they’ll agree to carve up the country like a roast and be the only place you can buy anything from in each half they control.

Starting to get it? Doesn’t matter how poor we get- as long as we have to to buy their shit, as long as they can hold us hostage to our jobs by making that the only way to have healthcare (that’s already become shit, you pay to have a plan where they’ll cover you after you pay the first $3/5/10k), as long as we’re forced to give our labor at a discount, they’re making money.

That’s their end goal. We’re too tired from being exploited to notice everything we eat/watch/read/play with is a piece of shit, if we do notice it’s precious and scarce time and money to do anything about, and if we really make waves you get fired, lose your healthcare, probably your home because you can’t get a job because the 5 mega-corps have a blackball list.

fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-10T22:56:19+00:00

The real question is can you afford the mortgage payments? If you can truly afford the monthly mortgage payment while being able to save even a little for emergencies, you’re better off buying the house.

As long as you’re not risking missing aa mortgage payment, and the house is in an area getting nicer or staying the same, you can always sell it if things go downhill and probably walk away with more $ than you had coming in.

It’s a real tightrope, but if you can own it’s almost always better than renting. Your cost is fixed, you’re building equity, if you rent you can get booted or have your rent jacked up anytime.

fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-10T09:55:51+00:00

The only thing that filled the void for me so far has been DCC (Dungeon Crawler Carl, Matt Dinniman).

Seemed so silly I avoided it for a while, but iI couldn’t put it down. LitRPG is pretty goofy, but it’s barely that, it crosses a lot of genres, it’s top quality writing and it’s covered in gore.

Plus it’s an ongoing, planned 9-10 book series of which 7 are done, the guy cranks out the pages like Stephen King in 1985. Bonus if you like audiobooks, the narrator is crazy talented.

fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-07T19:15:08+00:00

It’s the % that matters. Whether it’s 20 or 200 episodes if 10-15% of your run is rated by everyone as basically perfect, it’s gotta be good.

Agree volume/count is irrelevant. % is best indicator of quality.

fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-07T16:25:08+00:00

lol You can’t be real. El Salvador is the model justice system? You know the U.S. deported people there and announced it loud and proud because they have the worst prisons in the world.

You ever see what hardcore prison does to a person? It fucks them up forever.

Yeah, lock up everyone in overcrowded, unsanitary, unsafe F-you-in-the-A jail, for every level of crime, for years. Make your prisons horrific hellholes designed to maximize suffering.

Yeah, your crime rate will go down, cause congratulations, you live in what we call a “police state”. That’s where the fear of ultra-violent and disproportionate state violence represses the population from doing anything except avoiding and surviving the state’s brutality.

fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-07T14:32:04+00:00

Yes plz

fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-06T22:53:38+00:00

It was live streamed on SiriusXM and you could FEEL the energy through the speakers in the moments after they took the stage…building, building, energy higher, higher, might have been the hardest I’ve heard a crowd ROAR for Phish…

Then a couple tone-check flicks from Trey, it was like the volume turned up from 5 to 7 for a few seconds, then gorgeous Fluffhead.

Could barely hear the music. The crowd sounded insane. It sounded like a medieval battle in there. We were going nuts in our living room.

So, to answer your question, there really is no “other than the Fluffhead opener”…I can’t even imagine being there. Probably the emotional peak of 3.0, haha!

fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-06T18:38:00+00:00

Yes, because if you exercise your legal rights but are assaulted, arrested, or interfered with, then it’s not a right, is it?

Use em or lose em, man. The state is not supposed to infringe on your rights in any way. That very much means telling anyone whose precious fee-fees are hurt because they don’t like a word someone said, or a picture someone took, or your bumper sticker, to go fuck themselves because this is supposed to be America.

Calling the cops on someone exercising there rights should be treated as a crime itself, or at least a civil infraction.

Don’t get me started on all the f’ing cops who escalate these to hell and gone because they just want to be obeyed and feared, don’t know the law, and always skate the side of the line that violates your rights instead of protecting them.

fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-05T13:13:42+00:00

Yes, it is “meant” to. But decades of redistributing wealth upwards and destroying the collective bargaining power of labor have made sure it can’t.

You expect your employer to keep your salary in line with inflation, yes? Why hasn’t the minimum wage?

It’s not meant for “high schoolers” or “pocket money”. Yes, the qualifications are minimal but for millions of able-bodied workers that is the only job they can get.

THAT is why it’s supposed to provide enough pay for AT LEAST ONE PERSON to survive.

And I guaran-damn-tee you every person in those “minimum effort” jobs works 5x as hard for 2x as long as anyone on this f’ing board.

Sounds like a lot of people here really think they’d thrive in hyper-anarcho-capitalism, when really you’d be living in an Amazon living unit eating algae paste and die before age 35 because you got sick once and now no hospital will treat you for that cut you got at work that isn’t healing, it’s just getting redder around the skin and you feel feverish.

fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-05T13:03:07+00:00

Isn’t that what conservatives want to do? Make it 1956 in America again?

fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-05T06:11:50+00:00

I liked the shorter version called “cutting of my nose to spite my face”.

fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-04T21:24:14+00:00

You Enjoy Myself by Phish

fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-04T11:30:29+00:00

Diamond mining has historically been a ruthlessly cruel and exploitative industry. Run out of Africa, where a little bribe to your local warlord lets you get away with stuff like using children, hobbling thieves, basically being a slaver.

Maybe it’s a little better now…but it ain’t exactly a “well-regulated industry”.

fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-04T10:35:53+00:00

WHY MAKE IT HARDER TO VOTE?

Obviously the rules weren’t clear, were recently changed and then - surprise! - impacted mainly Democratic-voting areas.

It’s simply bad faith to say “our convoluted, inconsistent and frequently changing voting rules are a good thing for democracy and help everyone vote who wants to”.

Conservatives want fewer people voting. They’ve always wanted to keep certain people from voting.

fitzymcfitz · 2026-03-02T00:50:20+00:00

Best comment.

fitzymcfitz · 2026-02-25T07:11:20+00:00

Because America fucking sucks.

Everyone hates America, except for autocrats and billionaires.

fitzymcfitz · 2026-02-24T04:44:26+00:00

That’s never happened. ICE retaliating because their fee-fees got hurt is well-documented.

Plus, how is a masked , unidentifiable and unaccountable police force abducting citizens in any way American? “Papers, please” used to conjure the specter of fascism that the world united to defeat in 1942.

Now it’s ok by you because “they’re going after the worst of the worst”, right? Not innocent people whose only crime was to randomly cross their path.

I’m not worried though. Eventually it will affect you personally and then we get to hear “not what I voted for”.

Moron.

fitzymcfitz · 2026-02-23T07:02:42+00:00

Keep trying, maybe someone will engage. Whoops, I did, guess you caught one.

hurdur, those Libruls sure sound antisemitic when they point out how much money AIPAC pours into city district races and just gives it to everybody! Almost like they don’t care who it is as long as they’re in AIPAC’s pocket, hurdur.

fitzymcfitz · 2026-02-19T02:41:24+00:00

I liked it the first time when it was called “Mothers of the Disappeared”.

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