[-] TheBucklessProphet@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The problem isn’t that anyone can sue anyone, the problem is that these laws give legal standing for anyone to sue anyone. Normal lawsuits have to pass a certain bar to establish legal standing, and if you don’t pass that bar your case gets thrown out. These laws essentially skip that part by giving blanket legal standing. I don’t know if that would stand up in a higher court, but it’s a dangerous precedent that they’re establishing.

I’ve been testing out Bluesky. Too early to give it a final rating, but it’s been cool (if relatively empty) so far.

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Milo Goes to the Cardiologist

[-] TheBucklessProphet@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's more accurate to say that the British prevented either themselves (through inaction) or China (by treaty/law) from having any practical control. If you'd bother to read the wiki article OP linked you'd know. China should have had jurisdication, but Britain techincally had (imperialist) jurisdication. The result was a no-man's land until Britain finally gave up.

EDIT: missed a word

[-] TheBucklessProphet@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

What the fuck are you talking about? In actual reality it was a product of capitalism. Specifically British imperialist capitalism in China. It took until the mid 80’s (40 years after the Communists came to power) for the British to allow China to have control over the area and it was turned in to a park less than a decade later, clearly indicating that the Communists were in no way interested in continuing the existence of the dystopian walled city.

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They may be known mostly as a ska band, but this song is pop punk through and through. IMO one of the best pop punk jams ever written, though I acknowledge that’s probably a red hot take lol

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Apparently Anti-Flag broke up last week (missed that news somehow) after allegations of rape were made against an unnamed lead singer of a political punk band on the enough podcast. Based on details in the victim's story, people quickly pointed at Anti-Flag's Justin Sane as the culprit.

Not helping his image was the fact that he nuked all of his and Anti-Flag's social media and announced the band's breakup on Patreon shortly after the podcast episode dropped.

A good breakdown from a Reddit comment by /u/chawth:

Circumstantially, her story seem to point to with Justin Sane.

Rapist in question was the singer in an active political punk band she saw in Brooklyn. She's young, so was recent or relatively recent She met the singer in question after the show and they shared numbers because he would be "in her area for a film festival about political activism by musicians"

There was a 2010 documentary called Sounds Like a Revolution that Justin Sane was featured in, including other punk luminaries like Jello Biafra, Fat Mike and Henry Rollins. I don't think any of these other punk vocalists would qualify as being in an active political punk band at that time The website for this documentary shows that it was a selection at the Woodstock Film Festival, which is one town over from where this woman lives and/or works (quick google search, no creepiness involved) She claimed the singer is straight edge (or was, as drinks feature in the story)

The rapist's angle was to get her alone by saying he just made a recording with Billy Bragg. I haven't paid attention to Anti-Flag in over 20 yrs, so I don't know if this corroborates anything, or if it was even just a ruse to get her alone.

She also said this happened with she was 21 or 22 (I think). Her LinkedIn points to her graduating college in 2010, which lines up age-wise with the release of the documentary above.

/u/Friendly_Law9818 adds detail around the first point, confirming that Anti-Flag had a show in Brooklyn in Sept 2020, aligning with the general timeline of the rest of the story

In addition, Anti-Flag played Brooklyn in Sept 2010. Woodstock Film Festival was held shortly after, Justin attended because of the film, and he was on a talk panel and did a performance.

Additional info on the Billy Bragg bit from /u/chinsedentist:

Anti-Flag played the Harvest of Hope Fest 3/13/2010 with Billy Bragg and performed at least two songs on stage together including covers Police On My Back and Should I Stay Or Should I Go. The accused may have been talking about footage or a board recording of that performance and not necessarily an unreleased studio recording. Video here: https://youtu.be/ZGBsU0TNfy8 and https://youtu.be/JBkYXpNoZrI

This at least establishes some form of collaboration between Bragg and Justin Sane that year. If it was a studio recording, I wonder if it was the songs Sane released solo as the Gas Land Terror 7" in 2011. There are no credits listed on the art for that so who knows if Bragg helped in some way. Or it could also be something unreleased or not yet identified.

Link to the podcast episode (I don't have a timestamp, sorry)

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In my view a totally overlooked jam from some pop punk pioneers.

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Saw these guys live a few years back and they killed it. I think the future of pop punk is in good hands.

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Was lucky enough to see this live last year at Riot Fest in Chicago. MCR put on a great show, even if the crowd was a tad out of control (and not in a normal, good, fun, moshing way).

You're preaching to the choir haha that's not even close to my favorite Isbell song, but it is great. He's a rare talent who can make non-country fans like me enjoy country. Him and Sturgill Simpson.

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Wasn't in love with this song the first time I heard it, but it's really grown on me. Especially after seeing it live last summer.

Thanks for the list! (Although Isbell is decidedly not pop punk despite being very good lol)

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Descendents out here still putting out great records after 40 years. As much as I love other bands from the same era, Descendents might be the only one where I don’t find myself thinking “please don’t put out another album”.

[-] TheBucklessProphet@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

For real, who seriously had the thought “you know what, we need another adaptation of that one book from decades ago. We could try adapting some of that guy’s other work, but why bother? I know we tried the goofy, fun spin and the dark, gritty spin, but I’m sure we missed an angle on that one kid’s book.”

More importantly how did the guy who had that thought not get kicked out of the pitch meeting immediately?

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Definitely the best (only?) song anyone’s ever written about their horny grandparents getting it on during the Holocaust.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TheBucklessProphet@lemmy.world to c/poppunk@lemmy.world

A bit of an old school choice, but I've got to go with Green Day's Dookie. Not only is every song a banger, but it holds a special place in my heart as one of the first CD's I ever bought with my own money.

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Is this the greatest pop punk music video of all time? It definitely gets my vote, but I’m curious to hear what others think.

[-] TheBucklessProphet@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

“Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now controls the past.” - “Testify”, Rage Against the Machine (also Orwell in 1984, but I wanted to mention the RATM song since it slaps so hard)

I thought I replied to this message, but it doesn't appear to have posted.

I'm thrilled that the worker's got sick time and credit where it's due to anyone in the admin who helped make that happen. It doesn't change the fact that the admin, with the help of AOC and others in Congress broke a strike. That's a terrible, dangerous, anti-worker precedent to set, and shame on anyone who voted for it and Biden for signing it.

If I ask someone for $20 bucks for lunch and they kick me in the shin before giving me the money, am I supposed to be thankful and forget the fact that they just kicked me in the shin? Congress kicked workers in the proverbial, collective shin by blocking them from their right to strike.

Here's a decent article from Jacobin written by an RWU representative making exactly that point: https://jacobin.com/2023/04/railroad-workers-united-aoc-strike-vote-rank-and-file

And here's a decent rundown of the situation from a decent socialist source (even if it is Trot): https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/19/jaco-a19.html

Try working out to the Gimp version. I imagine the experience will be significantly different lol

That seems….unlikely.

[-] TheBucklessProphet@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I for one am shocked.

The only Tesla owner I know is a Musk-loving, ancap, STEM-bro who probably makes around $160k.

As an engineer, I often find being surrounded by engineers to be exhausting lol

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