Basically any tweet about the race being called too early.
It seemed like what this guy didn’t understand was different states get called certain ways because of different laws between states about how the electoral process works. The electoral college doesn’t even really do the vote until December anyway so it’s normal for states to get called “early”, every presidential election ever has been called “early”.
lol
I think you’ve told me this at least 4 times
Maybe not federally, but the New York state AG has already declared an intention to investigate the Trump Organization. It’s completely out of the hands of the Biden Administration.
Twice, this being the third time
Haha I stand corrected. Well anyway props to you, I think you’re the only person that figured out what my name means
Despite the risk of sounding racist, I have to say that “international observers at elections” is a phrase usually associated with shithole countries or tin-pot dictatorships.
Exactly. You’re like one of the only ones here who really speaks my “language”(as in immediately understands what I’m saying what I talk about shit like this) lol. I thought the same thing of the Kavanaugh fiasco. Only shithole countries would have pulled off a stunt like that but no one understood what I was really saying.
I think @brickhead did too quite some time back.
Yes, I did. 
@Facepalm_Death
I listened to metal for nearly 30 years and I think I’ve thankfully and finally dropped my penchant for extreme metal this year.
While Trump’s supporters somehow think he’s the ideological leader for small, fiscally responsible government and state and local control. That IS still what the Republican party stands for, isn’t it?
The whole thing is just so fucking sad and dismaying. This is actually where we are! How is this happening in America?
I had to search out a hip-hop dance movie to soothe myself last night. My goal for today is to only refresh Twitter, CNN, Fox, and this thread hundreds of times rather than thousands. I will also try to limit myself to a dozen AP and NYT articles. I’ve already read a couple this morning, so that one may be tough. Still, one was about a little girl in England challenging Dave Grohl to a drum battle. I’m not sure that counts.
May I ask why? It seems like you had to work to drop it.
At one point I came to the conclusion that I was listening to too much rap…it was altering the way I thought. I didn’t behave any differently, and there were positives - I worked in an inner-city high school and it was what my students listened to, and the tempo worked for my running and lifting - but I didn’t like how quickly my mind jumped to aggression or filth. So I pulled back. (TNation, back in the day, was a bit of the same.)
Before you two get worked up
I only really listened to this kind of metal for the riffs, weird, constantly changing time signatures and crazy drumming. I wish someone would come up with a way to release all these songs without vocals. I even hate the Dream Theater singer’s voice. And don’t get me started on Mustaine. He sounds like fucking Bart Simpson while Marty Friedman is playing his ass off with seamless shifts between some weird but amazing combination of variations of a “Japanese scale” and pentatonics.
I used the ones with the really low tunings and growling vocals to help me fall asleep in Uni. The were like the equivalent of those White noise machines you see on sale now to me. The Beneath the Remains album by Sepultura was best for this.
Why thankfully? The elements one might consider to be “toxic” within said music are particularly only present in abundance with black/death metal and some thrash.
Furthermore, metal has less “sacreligious” ideology conveyed in comparison to many contemporary, mainstream hip-hop bands and singles. Metal has borne the brunt of media hysteria/stigmatisation due to a small portion showing off satanic symbolism and/or graphic lyrics.
Granted a fair portion of the metal I listen to is anti-religious/sacreligious in nature as I am not particuarly pro-religion. I’ve outlined my thoughts/opinions regarding organised religion on other threads though.
As to the argument stating metal is too “angsty” or “edgy”. I disagree, I don’t think singing about aggression/violence, negativity or politically charged topics is as edgy as going on about girls, drugs, materialistic possessions and money as can be seen in mainstream hip-hop and pop.
BLACK metal on the other hand, super edgy… aside from thrash/black metal crossovers like toxic holocaust.
There’s nothing wrong with liking a style of music. It doesn’t make you a degenerate, a sinner or a heathen to like punk, rock or metal. It’s not as if you’re listening to a guy singing about anarchy and subsequently throwing Molotov cocktails and rioting out in the street.
I think the only band with a singer who could actually sing was Death. The sacrilegious shit was probably just to pander to their market of angry kids, just like The Clash kept claiming they were socialists but that was just something their record label told them to do.
Black metal is sacreligious/satanic. It was developed through a bunch of edgy, angry, angsty kids trying to out edge one another. The genre garnered notoriety following a few murders/church burnings in Norway.
They made a film on it, and whilst not an entirely accurate account of events it isn’t a bad film. “Lords of Chaos” based off a book published under the same title.
A doco on black metal “until the light takes us” paints a more accurate depiction of events, it’s not for the faint of heart though.
Yes, but this works me up, actually. This is its purpose:
During the Cold War, the United States hoped the OAS would be a bulwark against the spread of communism.[1]
And this is its history:
against the regime of Rafael Trujillo in Dominican Republic
suspends Honduras due to the coup which ousted president Manuel Zelaya.
intervened in the Haiti 2010 Presidential election
what it alleged was OAS interference in Venezuela’s political crisis.
OAS concluded that the 2019 Bolivian general election was fraudulent
And these are its goals:
- To strengthen the peace and security of the continent.
- To promote and consolidate representative democracy, with due respect for the principle of non-intervention.
So
Is exactly right.
Hehheh I’ll take your word for it.
This song was by an actual schizophrenic dude. It’s distasteful but I find it absolutely fascinating.
More or less founded and funded by the US.
I like metal but I hate a lot of metal fans with their constant in-fighting: “x band isn’t metal/heavy enough, you have to listen to y band that growls, burns crucifixes and bangs garbage lids together out of time. x band is basically just Nickelback.” Reading the FB comments on any article about a metal band is pure cancer.