Abducting black families and ziptying toddlers? That's good domestic policy.
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I fully agree on your points and appreciate your support.
I couldn't find the exact citation for CommunistBear's comment but if Welles maligned a brave and noble freedom fighter who died valiantly in battle against genocidal fascists as someone who just "worshipped death"... I find that really inexcusable. That's the problem with his politics, liberalism, in a nutshell. Doesn't mean I think he's evil, but it's an example of this sort of surface-level vibes-based politics being worthless, pointless, liberals preaching to the choir and trying to take more radical ideas and water them down to be palatable and nonthreatening.
https://hexbear.net/comment/6387700
And the song being referred to is War is a God, iirc.
Another song I was referring to where he both sides the Israeli genocide is Dead Diplomats.
Maybe I should have created a written discussion topic than linking this video.
I see what you are saying. Should I delete this post? I believe I overlooked a lot of the ugliness and hypocrisy of this video. I don't mean to spread misinformation, there were just some elements of this video I agreed with, but most of it is just name calling and not very constructive.
I do agree the song was mean in some areas, especially regarding the insults of appearance and height. I didn't really like those parts, tbh.
as redwizard pointed out, most people are libs. that doesnt mean some libs aren’t better than others or that it invalidates all his music and the criticisms they make because his politics aren’t radical enough
it would be cool if he were more to the left but still
My problem is that Welles is a career opportunist. I really tried to give him the benefit of the doubt for a long time, but he doesn't seem to want to take a few more seconds to look at current hot issues from a more critical lens. He just wants to make "safe" and pacifist songs and have his fans cheer him on, and his fans are beguiled to believing he's some profound thinker. After hearing more of his songs, a lot of them tarnish his old songs, and I'm realizing he isn't geniunely writing songs for the oppressed but more so just to merely call an end to violence without understanding where the violence comes from.
I'm starting to believe his music is harmful, though. He basically brings every issue down to its lowest common denominator and turns it into "killing bad, let's all--fascists, libs, and commies--get along". He even both sides the Israeli genocide in one of his later songs. His commenters and fans still continue to uplift him and treat him like some wise man hero.
I'm not denying Welles is talented nor am I saying you shouldn't listen to him. I just believe he cares more about his career than to actually create songs that involve critical thinking, nuance, and understanding of materialism.
Autism is genetic, so a cure would be eugenics. However, eliminating genes linked to Autism would also eliminate the same genes also linked to higher intelligence, giftedness, perception, etc.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4927579/
Some of the findings mentioned
The finding that autism has many causes (Happé and Ronald, 2008) should direct attention to improved means of differentially diagnosing its personalized bases. This process, in turn, centers on determining what adaptive neural and psychological systems has been altered, and how, to result in some set of autistic traits in some individual. Autistic phenotypes have been linked, for example, to increased protein synthesis at synapses (Bourgeron, 2009), higher excitatory to inhibitory neurotransmission (Rubenstein and Merzenich, 2003), enhanced local compared to global processing and connectivity (Happé and Frith, 2006), a bias toward systemizing over empathizing (Baron-Cohen, 2009), and enhanced perceptual functioning (Mottron et al., 2006).
Four studies have used data from the Psychiatric Genetics Consortium (PGC) on polygenic risk for autism (Cross-Disorder Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, 2013) to assess overlap of autism risk alleles (identified from over 5000 cases) with alleles for aspects of cognitive ability and intelligence. All four of these studies, which used diverse, independent populations and tests (or correlates) of cognitive abilities, have reported significant, substantial genetically-based positive associations of autism risk with intelligence, notably including full-scale IQ and a PCA-based measure of g (Clarke et al., 2015), childhood IQ, college attendance, and years of education (Bulik-Sullivan et al., 2015), cognitive function in childhood and educational attainment (Hill et al., 2015), and verbal-numerical reasoning and educational level reached (Hagenaars et al., 2016). These studies indicate that polygenic, small-effect size alleles that increased risk of autism are also associated with increased intelligence (and strong correlates of intelligence, such as education level; Davies et al., 2016) among neurotypical individuals.
Large brain size and head circumference, especially in childhood but also adulthood, represent some of the best-substantiated phenotypic correlates of autism (e.g., Fukumoto et al., 2011; Foster et al., 2015; meta-analysis in Sacco et al., 2015). Autism-linked increases in brain size have been shown to involve higher numbers of neurons (Courchesne et al., 2013), a thicker cortex (Hardan et al., 2006; Karama et al., 2011; Ecker et al., 2013; Smith et al., 2016), increased hippocampus volume (Barnea-Goraly et al., 2014; Maier et al., 2015), increased brain growth rates in early childhood (Campbell et al., 2014), increased rate of cortical thinning in adolescence (Hardan et al., 2009; Mak-Fan et al., 2012), a combination of “accelerated expansion in early childhood” with “accelerated thinning in in later childhood and adolescence” (Zielinski et al., 2014), and increased processing of more-local, detailed information (White et al., 2009).
Note this is somewhat cherry picking from the study, and I am not saying Autistic people are savants, but I am pointing out the issues with the "cure" ableist people want to create for us. Sadly a lot of people, including those who don't realize their ableist beliefs, want us ~~eradicated~~ fixed because we are a nuisance to them.
I'm probably going to start carrying 3 phones. A burner stock old Android phone for likely my phone calls and Android apps I still need from the Play Store, especially for work. A Google Pixel which I will install LineageOS and avoid GApps for other Android features I need with F-Droid (and perhaps maybe using as my regular phone instead). I'm avoiding GrapheneOS because of the terrible leadership. Then I plan on getting a Pixel 3a for postmarketOS to use whatever features I can get by on mobile Linux and wait as it develops so I can slowly switch more to it. I'm currently using a OnePlus 6T that I have had for over 5 years and currently running LineageOS. I'll probably switch it to postmarketOS, too, and just leave it home to tinker with and avoid as much damage as possible.
The reason why I am dependent on Google Pixel phones is because I need a phone that still has rugged cases built for them, like from SUPCASE. I would keep using my OnePlus 6T, but I have one rugged case left (I've broke the remaining ones), and nobody makes decent ones for older phones like this anymore. I went on eBay to buy any ones I can find, and many orders were cancelled because they were out of stock. There's essentially planned obsolescence even if you manage to make your phone still work to this day as parts stop being developed for them, and a rugged case is a need for me in order to keep my phones nice and not cracked.
Google Pixel 3a still have cases on eBay from SUPCASE, so I plan on buying multiple of them to last me a while. I've checked other rugged case brands and multiple different phones supported by postmarketOS and/or LineageOS. Essentially either a rugged case doesn't exist (99% of the phones), or for phones that do exist, they are expensive or don't match in features or support (working hardware features from postmarketOS) like the Google Pixels, or there are no more used phones in the market. The OnePlus 6T and Google Pixel 3a are probably the best phones you can get for postmarketOS/mobile Linux at this time.
I need to get my 3D printer working and start designing my own rugged cases.
you’re rubbing it in.
The cruelty is the point.
I typically go through the tutorial once in Paradox grand strategy games, even if they suck just to fulfill the completionist in me. I usually watch a lot of playthroughs and read the wiki to get an idea of how to play the game. So far I've played Vic3, Stellaris, and CK3 (still finishing my tutorial run in CK3). Only played the tutorial of EU4 and I believe I finished the tutorial of HOI4.
Works for me. Here's an original link just in case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poc6t6qO1VM