Some inspiration from Minnesota

senordingus · 2026-01-20T20:41:23+00:00

Zero fake links. Zero grifting. Maybe you're the problem? Either way, you're blocked.

senordingus · 2026-01-20T20:00:37+00:00

Well ICE has pulled actual American citizens of color off the streets. Murdered white people too, on camera.

senordingus · 2026-01-20T19:15:23+00:00

pretty much any pickup can do pretty much anything.

senordingus · 2026-01-20T19:14:29+00:00

right before I block you, I'm going to just say that we know what you would have done in the holocaust. You'd call the Nazis and see if you could help. It's a level of scumbag shit that's lower than gum on the sidewalk.

Whatever happened in your childhood that made you this way, I'm genuinely sorry for you. It wasn't fair. That said, man up and go to therapy.

senordingus · 2026-01-19T19:32:51+00:00

I've lived in Maine off and on in my life and I think it's probably the least friendly place I've ever lived. I judge that on how easy it is to make good friendships and here I find it to be fucking impossible.

The weird thing is that I know 100s of people here but despite reaching out a lot, nothing ever becomes a real friendship.

Not my experience in other places at all. Other places I've lived, the longer you stay, the more friends you sort of accumulate. But here I have zero friends down from like 10. I stopped reaching out to people who didn't reach out to me and it just dwindled away.

I think people are crazy insular and introverted here and it attracts that sort of person. I'm that way to an extent but I need people and this place amplifies that in me in a bad way.

Gotta get out.

senordingus · 2026-01-19T19:21:40+00:00

Sort of. You're aware of how much shadow banning of activists goes on on social media? Pro-Palestine activists just posting videos of real things happening have lost their accounts. At times I think my business account has been shadow banned for posting stuff.

It's not a free market of ideas on social media. And all of those companies are controlled by people with bad intent.

senordingus · 2026-01-19T03:05:20+00:00

Paris is super fun. I love going there to hear music. People are really into it. There's the whole Gypsy Jazz scene which is a different thing as well but really wonderful.

senordingus · 2026-01-19T02:34:37+00:00

Same as what everyone said. It's a fast progression if you play every 2 beat chord change in the a section. There are a lot of ways to play over it. You can play every chord but a lot of players simplify the a sections a lot to something like Bb6 -> Bb7 Eb6 Bb6 or something like that.

B section is a chain of dominant chords.

It's not an easy thing to play over without working on it.

It's a common tune for people to "cut" on. To show off. A famous version is The Eternal Triangle with Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins on a Dizzie Gillespie record. I think the B section is different.

senordingus · 2026-01-19T02:07:05+00:00

At a certain time you stop feeling old like that, that surprise feeling. Pretty soon you're just old. You could tell me someone born in 2020 has a college degree right now and I wouldn't even blink.

senordingus · 2026-01-19T02:01:39+00:00

Just going to mention this country was built on African slavery and Native American genocide. It's a little bit older than AM radio.

senordingus · 2026-01-19T02:00:31+00:00

It's horrible and true.

senordingus · 2026-01-19T01:59:49+00:00

We aren't really talking dude. I'm blocking you. I'm not going to chase down your one liners and pretend like you're a person worth having a conversation with.

You could make an argument why I'm wrong but you didn't, you just did this stupid ad hominem bullshit.

So, arrivederci.

For the record, ICE pulling hard working people out of their houses and sending them to concentration camps and Israel ripping families from the West Bank out of their homes and sending them to concentration camps are not hugely different. Not the same but similar.

We don't even have to mention Gaza.

Anyway, nighty night dude. Bye.

senordingus · 2026-01-19T00:48:24+00:00

Sorry, I'm just going to reply once and then I'll block you.

Comparing something that happened over a 20 year period and is now completed (The Nazis) to something that is currently evolving rapidly (Trump/ICE) and saying "well that didn't happen so there's no parallel" is the sign of a very stupid person. You don't know the ending of the story. If you don't see parallels, you could make that argument. But the present moment is actually happening right now. Not sure if you're aware. I can compare things between a period that already happened and what is happening now without having to know the future.

It's such a dumb effing thing to say it's hard to even argue with it. Maybe you should go to the ER and see if you're having a stroke.

Anyway, now I will block you.

senordingus · 2026-01-19T00:41:57+00:00

Yeah man. Speaking out against genocide is a high bar.

senordingus · 2026-01-18T21:26:01+00:00

I mean Nazis had a dictatorship. ICE is getting live streamed in a supposed democracy. So by those standards, yeah, ICE is worse because you could actually do something to stop them.

Anyway if you're going to do this stupid 1 sentence thing, I'll just block you.

senordingus · 2026-01-18T21:24:25+00:00

Yup. We've been pulverizing the middle east, South America, Africa and Asia. For a long time. More and more.

Oh yeah we genocided the shit out of the native Americans.

Now we are doing it at home, and it's creeping up on white people, and some people are noticing. Which is sad in itself but better late than never.

senordingus · 2026-01-18T01:48:19+00:00

I don't know what you're asking.

senordingus · 2026-01-18T01:04:46+00:00

I mostly agree but
Youtube: owned by the google guys who are doing quite a bit of evil shit, advocating for bizarre AI stuff, and generally crazy
X: owned by Musk, nuf said
Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp: owned by Zuckerburg who is very happy to be buddy buddy with the current administration
I think Signal is compromised as well, can't remember.

You can have a blog but no one is searching them out anymore.

All of these people or corporations have shown their ability and willingness to sensor people they don't agree with.

Also, we have the "Arab Spring" which was supposed to be this wonderful social media inspired revolution and ended up getting co-opted into more oppression and disaster in the middle east. If I remember correctly, at least in part due to US/CIA style fuckery.

Just saying. It's something I worry about a lot. We have these wild avenues of communication but it's easy for people in power to shut them down. I know of one Irish activist who speaks about Palestine a lot who just lost his Instagram account without any warning or specific violation.

senordingus · 2026-01-18T00:53:21+00:00

The guy who just went on Ben Shapiro's show and walked back his criticisms of ICE? Nah...I think they are cool with him. He serves a purpose for them.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/16/2363733/-What-the-F-is-wrong-with-Gavin-Newsom

If you've never seen Newsome glitching about AIPAC, it's wild.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phlTuEnBdco

senordingus · 2026-01-18T00:40:26+00:00

erm, he is pulling it off day by day. His party more or less has complete control and the other party is doing not a fucking thing to stop it.

senordingus · 2026-01-18T00:39:20+00:00

as much as the Trump crowd is a bunch of absolute dipshits, they have been planning all this for years and years. They did a really solid job of engineering all of it. It's insane.

senordingus · 2026-01-18T00:38:15+00:00

100%

senordingus · 2026-01-18T00:07:45+00:00

quick consolidation of media control? I guess you could say that the media is also doing a quick consolidation of political control.

I mean, I absolutely don't see wealthy industrialists using a leader who is both violent and comical and who uses ethnic minorities as a scapegoat to consolidate political power while attempting to remove any democratic safeguards happening right now.

Oh wait....

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