if this is supposed to be a crazy book-hoarder house i have terrible news for me

check back with him in a few months and see how it worked

if you don't wanna talk about a thing, don't don't type it into the talking about things website

I could just take a cheap shot and point out you are attacking and insulting me after saying that's not progressive, but more to the point: no, i do not think it is dumb at all. Sometime there are bad guys and they need to be attacked in some fashion by progressives

then i'm glad you weren't in charge in world war 2

Attacking people is often progressive (like, say, Mussolini) & insulting them is often fine (like, say, the president) the problem is being tetchy abt a popular celebrity expressing the reality that a lot of older (and wonderful) forms are on cultural life support rather than, like, important shit

its just a more PBS-vibes one

1)People do care about opera and ballet (findabe w/research) 2) a steelman version of his claim is they are no longer popular and economically self-sustaining forms (findable w/reearch). Neither require worrying about up or down.

If you want to avoid all that rigor but still write usefully, a subjective approach like Maggie Nelson's "Art of Cruelty" is a good one ("X makes me think about y or feel z")

"Art form a leads to b" can be tested. "Art form x expresses the author's belief in z" can be researched. Basic stuff, really

the usual post-enlightenment left way: facts, experiment, burden of proof on the accuser, confrontation between accused and accuser, all that other good stuff the internet hates

its almost as if the whole "punch up"/"punch down" heuristic was a stupid idea and people should just punch fair.

well the reason it is underrated is because these niche communities work in such lockstep that they act as an amplifier for the opposite POV: that everything they do is right. So what you have instead of contrasting views is loud unilateralisms that can't hear each other.

not going to rain on anyone's parade because I, too, listened to them wall-to-wall the second i found out they existed but these've been on YouTube for a long time AND Albini and the band agree they're not as good as the album versions AND they're right

people who talk like that can't do what you do

Alektra twerking on her best friend while urging me to call my ex

Alektra twerking on her best friend while urging me to call me ex

Each GOP boss must appear to be the worst and the next must somehow be worse than that

i love this painting

drawing. blood, helicopter, trouble

more drawings of alektra in the hotel

more alektra in the hotel

a number of increasingly common gestures people feel the need to use to express that what they usually are or hear is default full of shit--realtalk let me be real for a second "that's real" real keeping it real mask-off truth

alektra blue et al in the hard rock hotel(drawing)

alektra blue et al in the hard rock hotel

alektra blue in vegas

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I think it is because people in a position to genuinely know about them but are not part of them now ALSO know that they are among the most risky creative communities on earth to comment or report on.

Do people not know that was/is a thing? It's like the only thing half of Bluesky does

Do people not know that was/is a thing? It's like the only thing half of Bluesky does

yes

The thing about the sex conspiracy is that it was full of people whose public profile was not sexy. Thats why they had to make an evil island to fuck on.

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