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I dedicate this post to St. Expeditus, thanking him for once more coming through for my family in regards to financial matters. I asked for his assistance to help with navigating the lovely bureaucracy of some government systems, and while it was a longer working, he came through in the end.
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anti-egg vegans are always a hoot. like, sheās not using it. itās not fertilized. itās going to rot and attract predators. you want me to just throw it in the trash??
its still animal exploitation, is it not?
do you think a chicken with zero emotional attachment to the egg she popped out feels exploited when that egg leaves the coop?
if that unfertilized egg cracked in the pen thereās not a chicken who would wait 0.002 seconds to slurp that shit down raw and unseasoned but Iām supposed to exploit foreign children farming for slave wages and ship all of their staple crops across the world to me instead. and this feels like the moral high ground to them. alright
i feel largely similar about plastic ""vegan leather"" -- in recent years, each year, millions of pounds of cow hides have been thrown out as offal because there's less demand for real leather. none of the "cruelty-free" shit saved those cows. it just created more waste out of them.
honestly this is how i feel about plastic versions of things we used to make out of bone, like needles, childrens cutlery, etc etc etc. i think if we're going to have cattle (and theres no ethical path to Not having Some cattle anymore) then we should use the entriety of the beast or its disrepsectful, also using the whole animal means that theres no corners to be cut, if the skin is scratched you loose money, if the bones are weak you loose money, its just a good way to ensure the systemic health of the cows.
To add to this: Anti honey vegans.
Like, my friend, there is not anything keeping the bees there. If they did not want to be there they could leave and make their own hive. Beekeeper canāt do anything to stop them. They stay because they want to. Honestly giving up some of a resource they have in extreme surplus in exchange for a really nice home and a giant that protects em from predators is a pretty sweet deal for them. Itās a mutualistic relationship babey
veganism is full of the sort of racist white woman that doesn't say slurs but golly they sure do use the term "those people" a lot
Yeah, cutting down even more rainforests and inserting even more palm oil, rapeseed and soy monoculture is definitely a cool idea.
The PETA type folks just can't handle domestication at all. They either anthropomorphize farm animals or expect them to have the same behavior as wild animals.
But chickens aren't people OR the same as wild birds. Domesticated animals have been shaped over countless generations to have a mutually beneficial relationship with humans.
All of this. And it certainly doesn't help that PETA intentionally spreads misinformation about this shit.
The example I always go to is the wool and sheep industry.
As taken from the PETA website,
"but without human interference, sheep grow just enough wool to protect themselves from temperature extremes."
And this is just categorically untrue. Do you know what happens if you don't shear a sheep? They turn into a giant matted wooly pom pom and die from overheating. And yet, PETA routinely stages targeted harassment campaigns of death and doxxing threats towards prominent sheep shearers, which is just fucking insane.
ok so i do have adhd but i feel as though this somehow transcends it. I just made a cup of tea 10 minutes ago. Im in a very small room. It has disappeared. I didnt leave the room. It just escaped. It is gone. It never was. Wheres my tea. It couldnt have gone anywhere and yet it has. Did i drink it and eat the cup and forget? Where is my tea. I miss her. This is fucked
I am ashamed.
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Original handwritten lyrics, Psycho Killer by Talking Heads, c.1975.
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100% Disagree
Itās an underdog story about classism in which the folk hero (Johnny) is confronted by a powerful man (the Devil) who tries to exploit the heroās perceived ignorance and inferiority by offering a great reward with impossible odds. Although Johnny warns him that looks can be deceiving, and that heās going to regret the dare because Johnny is the ābest thereās ever beenā, the devil is blinded by his greed and arrogance.
The devil creates an awful cacophony of technically excellent fiddle playing that would be impossible for Johnny to replicate. Itās a trick.
But Johnny just grins at him and starts to play āsimpleā classic country fiddling songs - Fire On The Mountain, House Of The Rising Sun, and Daddy Cut Her Bill Off. He doesnāt rise to beat the Devil - he simply creates his own music from his home, in the style that he knows, and his love of it and the familiarity of the music make his ābackwoodsā fiddling more perfect than the Devil could ever achieve.
It is thus the devilās pride, not Johnnyās, that allows Johnny to Bugs Bunny his way into a golden fiddle.
(In that sense, I do agree that it is the most American song: in a land of prejudice and inequities, great power lies - dormant but ever-present - in those we underestimate and attempt to exploit.)
Itās so easy to underestimate the significance of the fact that all of Johnnyās songs are classic folk-americana tunes, honestly! Like, of course thematically what matters is meetingĀ ātechnically challenging but obnoxiousā withĀ āgenuinely skilled and beautiful, you just didnāt expect him to be good because heās poor,ā but the music choices are significant for another reason.
Bluntly: Standards.
Sure, the Devilās portion of the song is extremely technically challenging to replicate....but thatās only relevant to us, retelling the story and trying to replicate it. He didnāt have that standard to be judged against. He just did a bunch of complicated lightning-fast screeching, and tried to set Johnny up to match him, and lost when the kid refused to play that game. The bargain, after all, wasnātĀ āanything you can do I can do betterā. It was justĀ āIām a better musician than youā and Johnny is the one who actually understands what that means.
But also: all of those name-dropped tunes are incredibly iconic. Theyāre at least as extremely technically demanding, but more importantly, if Johnny had fucked up even one note it would have been immediately obvious. Every musician in that area knows those tunes. He had to play them perfectly, blend them seamlessly together, and put his own spin on them in order to meet the challenge, and there were no imperfections for the Devil to claim victory over.
All the Devil had to do was make noise. Nobody could tell him that he did it āwrongā because the obvious retort is āno, thatās exactly what I was trying to do, if you think I did it wrong then letās see you do it betterā and that, right there, is the trap.Ā
Johnny had more heart, of course--thatās the point, that lightning-fast fretting work is nice and all but if you donāt understand and respect the history and culture and the interplay of music youāll always be lesser than those who do. But he also gave himself the better demonstration of skill, because he did the harder thing, and held himself to a pre-existing standard.
(Also he didnāt summon an entire goddamn backup band to do the heavy lifting for him, but like. Of course this is the American folklore Devil, the trickster-spirit archetype figure who is really more akin to the Fae and not the actual Christian concept of Satan, but āthe Devil cheatedā still isnāt exactly an instant disqualification. Thatās kind of a given. He is, after all, the Devil.)
I would like to note my mother got to see Charlie Daniels play this live, and thereās one more reason the Devil lost:
Care.
See, apparently Charlie Daniels actually kept extra fiddles on the stage for this song, because playing the Devilās part WILL snap the fiddle strings. Yes, both Johnny and the Devil have longer solos in the live version because this song is really just Charlie Daniels showing off (earned, though, lbr), but my mom said his fiddle strings were literally SMOKING long before he got into the extended part. And so by necessity, when one set of strings snapped heād drop the fiddle and pick up another.
The Devil is using his fiddle the same way he uses people: heās abusing it, treating it as something worth nothing but disdain. I want to pause here briefly and note that when this song was originally written, the best violins in the world were considered to be the Stradivarius violins; there are now modern violins that match or beat their sound, but thatās an EXTREMELY new innovation. This means the Devil is likely playing on a violin worth tens of thousands of dollars; even if heās conjured an infernal violin for himself, the contempt he shows for Johnnyās (implied) poverty and simplicity says it doesnāt look like just any old violin. And yet, he treats it like garbageāand thatās exactly what comes out of it.
(If youāre wondering where the violin comes into this, a fiddle is a violin played differently, and this is one great way to show the difference between āhighā and ālowā art is spelled B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T.)
Meanwhile, Johnny is some backwoods hick whoās probably never even heard the word Stradivarius, wouldnāt know what to do with one if he had one, and likely plays an absolute shitkicker that looks like hell and cost him fifteen bucks at the pawnshop.
But Johnny VALUES his fiddle. He doesnāt so much play it as make love to it. What we hear is beautiful because he understands heās not the only one with a soul; instruments have souls, too. Heāll take that solid gold fiddle because he can use the money, but heāll go right on playing his cheap beat-up old thing until the day he dies. He loves it like he loves his home and his music, and that love makes magic.
The Devil loses because he doesnāt understand the concept that love will beat out greed every time. Johnny wins because he values and respects what he has.
[Image description: screen shot of a social media post from Brendan Frasier Crane (@bf_crane): "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" is the most American of songs, because it's set up like a cautionary tale about pride leading to a fall but it turns out the fiddler actually is the best and his vanity is justified. 9:23 PM. 05 Jul 23. 137K Views. Description ends.]
Also, the Devil values his fiddle because it's made of gold. But and actual golden fiddle would sound terrible -- not like a handcrafted instrument carved from wood. Like other Capitalists, the only value the Devil can understand is monetary value.
BTW, for those interested, here are the fiddle tunes referenced in Charlie Daniel's song:
Fire on the Mountain, run, Boy, run. Devil's in the House of the Rising Sun. Chicken's in the bread pan, pickin' out dough. Granny, Will Your Dog Bite? No, child, no.
Fire on the mountain (some eye contact):
House of the Rising Sun (some eye contact):
Chicken in the bread tray (pan):
Granny, will your dog bite?
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I love how it's assumed in this thread you've heard this song, but I'm just gonna drop it. It's not only worth a listen, but look, there he is, fiddling away. There is no second fiddle. He done play the devil too.
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Things are already turning around.
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thinking about when my friend found a book from the 70s in a church office with truly some of the most insane prayers I have ever heard
This past week has proven to me that the majority of us do not want these far right fascists to gain power and when push comes to shove, we can and will make the right decision, even if it's a hard and imperfect one. Proud of Britain. Proud of France. Looking to you, America.
jd vance is no hillbilly, heās that wolf in sheepās clothing your grannies and preachers warned you about. one man does not represent Appalachia. we canāt let him be the face people think of when they hear of our beautiful region.
VOTE!
JD Vance places blame on Appalachian poverty in individual laziness instead of the systems that have decimated the region for decades.
JD Vance only claims his grands were decent folk.
JD Vance believes addiction is a willing state of being.
Let this man rot.
I know we all hate Donald Trump's guts but we gotta understand that turning him into a martyr would solve absolutely nothing. This little nick on his ear is going to get Republicans fired up like hell as it is, and we're going to have to work all the harder to keep his ass out of office again.
Actually, Iām not sure it is. I work in Trump country and Iām noticing a lot of them are going full conspiracy theory with this one. I would say about a solid third of the MAGA folks in my area are convinced the whole thing was staged and are now talking about voting third party or how voting is pointless anyway. I think one of the main attributes of the far right is the proclivity towards conspiracy and fear so something like this doesnāt unite them so much as it scares them away. Donāt get me wrong, show up and vote blue to keep the fascists out of power, but I donāt think this is the game winning event people seem to think it is
What??? For real?????? Oh my fucking god?????????? Holy shit???
i cannot explain why mushrooms are sacred to Pan but they are. i look at a mushroom and i immediately know Pan needs it, loves it, and cherishes it. His funky lil forest fungi
This is treason.
If I have to see the Rishi Sunak UwU face, then you fuckers have to.
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I did not deserve for this to be one of the first things I saw upon opening this godforsaken app after spending 17 hours in a dark room clutching my head in agony.
Jim Everett-puralia Meenamatta refusing to show in court stating he doesn't recognise any Australian court.....iconic
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