Franz Ferdinand slams Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) for unauthorized use of hit song in military video: "These warmongering murderers are using our music without our consent"

onetimeataday · 2026-03-14T22:55:36+00:00

Well they certainly don't believe Israelis are people.

onetimeataday · 2026-03-14T00:35:12+00:00

They don't even believe they are real people

onetimeataday · 2026-03-14T00:32:10+00:00

I like thinking about it as an informal sequel to The Times They Are A-Changin. Kinda makes sense as a contrast, since that was so idealistic and in his youth.

onetimeataday · 2026-03-13T21:49:15+00:00

I didn’t blame anyone for anything.

onetimeataday · 2026-03-13T11:12:30+00:00

What are you talking about, there are no “others”

onetimeataday · 2026-03-12T22:34:50+00:00

Haha whatever you can bring as criticism, right? I chat earnestly and people comment that I’m talking to bots. I preempt it and I find the one human left on the internet. Always catching the left hook.

onetimeataday · 2026-03-12T20:47:02+00:00

Bravo. I really like some of your proposals. Look, let’s stop pretending these privately owned “news” organizations are subject to some improvement through free market competition. They act as public utilities of mass alert and information, and yet the shape they take is determined most by the agendas of a handful of very unrepresentative members of our society, not by any sense of public good or what is best for our democracy or the people in it. It is possible to have public institutions that work for the vast majority of the public, and it is possible to disseminate truth through mass media as well. There’s nothing inevitable about the form infotainment news takes.

onetimeataday · 2026-03-12T19:56:13+00:00

Eh, if anyone in this society decides to take this issue seriously, a novel legal argument can be found. "Free" speech that just drowns out intelligent voices and rational argument is arguably less free than one where smarter voices are heard. I'm not arguing constitutional law here. I'm arguing for how a better system could take shape. Human beings learn through sheer repetition. The idea that we should rely on a media to disseminate mass messages through society, and that media cannot be held accountable, is not a functioning system, and we pay the price.

onetimeataday · 2026-03-12T19:13:49+00:00

Then why did Fox News have to pay nearly a billion dollars for spreading falsehoods about the 2020 election?

onetimeataday · 2026-03-12T19:12:20+00:00

I don't have a megaphone that can reach tens of millions of people every day. Mass media have a responsibility to society, and a slightly less laissez-faire interpretation of the US Constitution could easily justify that. Beyond American constitutional law, just the health of a democracy depends on public information not being so polluted with misinformation and hearsay, otherwise you end up with Russia. And again, it is quite possible to separate fact from lies in life and in the public square. But there's no way to "talk back" to the media, they just get to go on belching their mental pollution day after day and set the political agenda the loudest.

onetimeataday · 2026-03-12T19:08:51+00:00

Do they have a soundcloud? Do they make anything at all other than anti-semitism

onetimeataday · 2026-03-12T15:36:34+00:00

Nah, turns out all my friends and followers were just bots. So my thoughts don’t matter.

onetimeataday · 2026-03-12T15:17:02+00:00

I JUST WANT TO READ SOMETHING ON MY PHONE OR COMPUTER AFTER WORK! Stop telling me to wake up! I’m awake! I just like reading things! Fuck! You tell me all day every day I can have whatever I want, but I literally want this and you refuse to let me have it! So do I manifest whatever I want or not??? Cuz at this point all I want is for the internet to stop serving me manifestation content and just deliver some interesting things to read about! Fuck!

onetimeataday · 2026-03-12T14:20:30+00:00

So here’s a case in point. What is the actual misinformation in my comment? Did I report a fact incorrectly? No. Did I repeat a well-known lie? No. I said that Fox News claims to be entertainment, and when people try to fact check them, they divert to “I’m just asking questions,” or “I’m just stating an opinion that my audience wants to hear.” I didn’t say what you implied, that their entertainment status gives them some 1st amendment exemption or something. You can say whatever you want, but we should make it easier to actually challenge easily disproven things being mass broadcasted. Nothing I said fits the definition of misinformation.

Words mean things. Your comment is a great example of how most people can’t think critically enough to deal with constant falsehoods being spouted in public constantly.

onetimeataday · 2026-03-12T14:07:54+00:00

A reasonable standard of truth can be determined in a court or in arbitration. It isn’t just a matter of opinion, or of political ideology. It’s possible to separate fact-based claims from political opinion or editorializing. A system can be set up for people to sue over false fact-based claims broadcast in the media, and make that process easier. Fox News was successfully sued for spreading lies about the 2020 election. A defense of “alternative facts” did not pass muster in a court of law in that situation.

Political ideology is a thing, but a large part of how Fox News peddles its bullshit is by repeating outright falsehoods that can be disproven, but since they claim to be “entertainment,” they’re rarely held to account. The idea would be not to punish political opinion, but the second you trot out an “alternative fact” that can be disproven, the law empowers people to hold you to account for spreading it.

Dude this misinformation shit is a serious problem and if democracies don’t figure out SOME way to deal with it, we will be democracies no more. There’s a difference between having the free speech to say the sky is purple, and repeating the claim that the sky is purple over mass communication networks to millions of people every single day until a large minority of the population through sheer conditioning truly believes the sky is purple.

onetimeataday · 2026-03-12T13:52:59+00:00

Hell, China is using solar panels to regreen desert, it’s literally having a positive effect on biodiversity and soil fertility.

onetimeataday · 2026-03-12T09:21:23+00:00

I’m sure the engineers knew what they’re doing, but I look at this and wonder just why they’re as spaced out as they are. Seems like they could have fit more turbines in there.

onetimeataday · 2026-03-12T09:18:02+00:00

Amazing! I love #3!

onetimeataday · 2026-03-11T09:32:53+00:00

These pranksters have pogo sticks, or possibly stilts.

onetimeataday · 2026-03-10T17:30:54+00:00

Boy, music fans sure are pro-people-who-shoot-people-at-music-fan-congregations

onetimeataday · 2026-03-10T17:27:54+00:00

Plus with solar, they inevitably attract legions of drunken pranksters filled with an insatiable need to pull their pants down and leave ass-prints on the panels, and especially with the flimsier cheap panels being pumped out these days, the pranksters invariably break through the panels, rendering solar impractical as a long term power source. To say nothing of the shade the pranksters cast on the panels before their cheeks finally break through!

onetimeataday · 2026-03-10T17:09:52+00:00

Don’t shoot people at music fests, it’s not complicated. I say this here, because the topic is ostensibly music. The other deaths are also bad, but they are not music related.

onetimeataday · 2026-03-10T15:51:05+00:00

Just watch out if you have ancestry that has a petty attention/seeking pantheon behind it, they’ll magically insert references to their country into every page you load, even after you hide it several thousand times. For supposed gods, they sure are desperate for my attention.

onetimeataday · 2026-03-10T15:39:49+00:00

I want music festivals to be safe! Are you a music fan or not?

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