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It's a gas

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This performance is like when all the mutual are online at once

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Trinket Box Purveyors Are Melting Down | Defector

Who among us has not attempted to start a whimsical community-oriented project, only for it to devolve into a site of small-scale authoritar

"This is my trinket box," the Indiana trinket-box purveyor says, in her video. "So I get to decide if the rock should be something in the trinket box. For me, this was about bringing community together. And also, other people enjoying things that I enjoy."

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Sorry for making this meme at minute 80 senegal

Fortunately I have a feeling Belgium will fuck it up down the road so I can use it again next week

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sorry illusive man I can't go get that reaper IFF yet I am still making friendship bracelets for my entire crew

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7 straight!!!!!

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Yanks got food poisoning! I don't want to make fun of that man, shit sucks, I want them to lose on their own merits

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7 straight!!!!!

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One more thing about the Nice punk discourse... it sounds like you're talking about hippies. That is so funny, tht we are currently conflating hippies with punks. That's like conflating Blofeld and James Bond. Yankees with the REd Sox. Monster Energy with Red Bull. You've found a way to piss off both sides. Hippies are supposed to be the peace love and music people who are all about putting flowers in your hair and fucking without rubbers on the first date. Now some of the nicest people I met in the world were punks. If you ever need cigarettes there's a guy with a leather jacket offering parliament lights outside. But once you go inside, it's all anger. It's all pushing and shoving and kicking the shit out of each other. Sometimes the guy on stage will spit on you. I am of course talking about good and proper punk and not the sugary sweet stuff kids listen to nowadays which is about breaking up with your 16 year old girlfriend and ethering her for 2:49.

I think its because "hippy" is a pejorative term in people's eyes. Hasn't really overcome the reputational damage of seeing Anne Coulter hanging out at a grateful dead concert among other things. Meanwhile Punk is still currently hip. People call themselves punk with all the grace of a Country Strong bumper sticker parked in a Lowell Mass gas station. Everybody wants to be a punk, despite the fact that if you've met some of the punks I've known, you'd hurl.

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Hooooo eee, I'll tell you whoooat. It is hotter than two dogs in a west texas cathouse right about now.

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FISH FEED FISH FEED FISH FEED

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theres smth that really kills me about these children whose lives got ruined reassuring the adults who tried and failed to help them

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The Wire S05E01: ‘More with Less’

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GOLDFINGER (1964) dir. Guy Hamilton

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Here's the thing guys, I have to believe at this point a lot of the "Is this Punk" shit is just trolling, knowing its going to get a lot of frothing idiots online to take the bait. But some people take things seriously, and here we are. It's liek I've said before, the most punk thing about any of this is people arguing about what is and isn't punk. Part of the annoyance with the conversation is that it's on the same leyline of conversations we've been having for at least my livelihood, and based on several books about everything from CGBG's, or fucking Ragtime, it's probably happened for the entirety of human existence.

But if there's something I can tell the senior class of 2030, well first thing, good fucking luck. But second thing is, carve this into stone, tattoo it on your wrist so you can reflect on it every day... The genre isn't the movement. The genre isn't the movement, and the movement isn't the genre.

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The movement does influence the genre. The genre in turn influences the music. But they're not the same things. Usually, theyr'e just some things that happen simultaneously. Being sold in the same marketplace of ideas on a 4th of July sale. But you got to know how to separate these things. It will save you on a lot of cognitive dissonance. At the very least it will spare you a lot of embarrassing childhood photos from your "Goth" phase.

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Here's the thing guys, I have to believe at this point a lot of the "Is this Punk" shit is just trolling, knowing its going to get a lot of frothing idiots online to take the bait. But some people take things seriously, and here we are. It's liek I've said before, the most punk thing about any of this is people arguing about what is and isn't punk. Part of the annoyance with the conversation is that it's on the same leyline of conversations we've been having for at least my livelihood, and based on several books about everything from CGBG's, or fucking Ragtime, it's probably happened for the entirety of human existence.

But if there's something I can tell the senior class of 2030, well first thing, good fucking luck. But second thing is, carve this into stone, tattoo it on your wrist so you can reflect on it every day... The genre isn't the movement. The genre isn't the movement, and the movement isn't the genre.