ElectroPolitics

I like electro and I dig politics

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Not exactly dubstep but this girls fun K. real fun k.

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Live Guitar Dubstep. FReaky.

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This girl won Diplo's Express Yourself contest. She's winning hard.

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Mojo is really good. 

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blew. my. mind.

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MTV is now so goddamn NOT hip that they've circled all the way back to...being hip again. I think that maybe, just maybe, there's a little bit of Tim and Eric production here.

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WeirdWilid Hard in Da Paint remix

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Dreadsquad remix of Skrillex n Damian Marley Make it Bun Dem

Damian is the only Marley keepin the flame alive for Marley family music anymore. Love that he's working with different musicians from Skrillex to Nas. I wanna work with Skrillex n Nas, at Tuff Gong, in Jamaica. Amirite?

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Partysquad is great.

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Not quite a diplo but close

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Borgore is mad at girls. Borgore smash.

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Rusko has bad teeth, but thats not the point.

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Flosstradamus and DJ Sliink make pretty sounds together. 

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Big Freedia. Gay transvestite New Orleans bounce rapper. bad. ass.

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I don't like to use facebook as a box to stand on. Whether I'm thinking about music, food, relationship statuses or even (gasp) politics, I put what I like or think is interesting out there and try not to worry about how others will take it

. My point being, I don't seek out icky, inflammatory, and generally misleading articles, graphs, op-eds etc. that only serve to dig everybody into deeper trenches.  I like to think that our different ideas about whats right, wrong, and necessary are the very things that keeps our political society in balance. Here's where things get a little weird. Politics (as one of my teachers hammered into my brain) is the relationship between groups and individuals in a society as to how the society should be run. I know, I almost fell asleep writing that sentence. Here's how I think of it: politics runs like a sport. Let's say it's (American) football. Two teams with seemingly diametrically opposed goals still have to work together to make the game work. If the players play hard, within the rules, then the winning team feels good about the win and losing team feels like they fought the good fight. Then everybody goes back to the practice field, drawing board, coaches room, playbook etc. and tries to figure out how to make next week's game a success. Let's say a player on one team (the Raiders probably ;0) does something really dirty like sack the quarterback well after the play is dead. Well, there are rules for a reason and in most cases an official will give a penalty to the offending team. Harm=foul. The team who just had their quarterback smashed into the grass won't be happy but at least the other team lost some ground because of the penalty.  What if an official doesn't flag the guy who pancakes the quarterback? I bet the defense will make a note and wreck the quarterback again in a few plays. Still no penalty? Well, now both teams know something is different. Now every down somebody is gunning for somebody. Pretty soon it's not football anymore, its just a bunch of big guys trying to hurt each other. Pretty soon everybody hates each other, there's no competition, and the league stops being a sport and becomes violent theater.  I don't want to torture the metaphor but look, when the game get's played mostly clean it's better for everybody. And we're the refs. You, me, everybody. That's why I don't bother replying when somebody posts the obligatory "Obama's a socialist who wants to murder your babies and grandmothers" infographic. Those kind of things just aren't true and they hurt the process.  I think that politics really used to be about everybody trying to get the best done for their people. Congresspeople worried about their district. Senators and governors worried about their state. Presidents worried about the whole country because they represent the whole country. Now it's about winning at all costs and it's our fault. We don't throw our flags when somebody says something stupid. We ignore it or (even worse) we believe it. They're all lying! Maybe not all of the time but a lot of the time. I tend to think that lately the republicans have been lying a bit more frequently because I'm liberal and I think that the republican machine has been playing dirty pool for a while now. But ya know what? It's been really effective. I can't ask them to stop lying because its been working. Is an NFL team gonna stop cheating out of the goodness of their hearts? No. They're gonna keep pushing and see how far over the line they can go. So what can I/we do? We can sure as hell throw a flag and call some punkass defensive lineman out for going after the quarterback's knees.  Today that d lineman is Romney. Cheap shot in the middle of an international incident. That's some dirty dirty stuff. Tomorrow it might be President Obama. I'd throw my flag on him too. Politics and referees are both necessary evils but they're both even worse when they're dirty.