A-Bone (of TGP fame ) has a go fund me page for a serious uninsured illness

FokenBusker said:
You're Appalachian? What's your take on the Mountain Metal movement? I'm a huge fan.





Outsiders wasn't a great show IMO but the soundtrack absolutely fucked. Ben Miller's fuzz tones are glorious. Certain songs even plugged acoustic electric banjos into fuzz. What a fucking fantastic sound!
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I’m one of your resident hillbillies here. Dead center of west by God Virginia…
 
FokenBusker said:
I don't like that Palestinians are dying en masse, but they sure don't leave good impressions on others, including Saudi Arabians. Discord is literally strobing with online arguments between people of Palestine and literally everybody else, and usually not pertaining to the subject of this current conflict. Freakin' confrontational through and through. It's not a great way to generate sympathy and I worry what that bad interpersonal PR on a micro level will do for the macro.
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What are you talking about regarding the Saudis? …I’d be very skeptical of whatever you see online/discord as a source for generalizations about a people.
 
acceptance said:
What are you talking about regarding the Saudis? …I’d be very skeptical of whatever you see online/discord as a source for generalizations about a people.
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I'll try to dig the articles up. There were rumblings in a few neighbouring countries about Palestinian refugees starting fights. I'm willing to grant empathy pertaining to the immense duress they're under, but I fear the bad optics may work against them in time.
 
FokenBusker said:
I'll try to dig the articles up. There were rumblings in a few neighbouring countries about Palestinian refugees starting fights. I'm willing to grant empathy pertaining to the immense duress they're under, but I fear the bad optics may work against them in time.
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https://www.politico.com/news/magaz...-states-wont-support-palestinians-qa-00142277

The above article provides a lot of insight into the historically-murky relations between Palestinians and neighbouring Arab countries. Even before October 7, there were already tensions with Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, including an explosive armed conflict at a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, link below:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023...-ein-el-hilweh-in-lebanon-after-fatal-clashes

Furthermore, both Egypt and Jordan refused to allow refugees from Palestine into their borders, citing "doing so would encourage permanent displacement," but that language is very vague and looks past the absolute slaughter the people of Palestine are currently undergoing, link below:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politi...-are-hesitant-to-take-in-palestinian-refugees

The history of Palestine's relationships with other Arab nations is independent of their obvious aggravations with Israel. Unfortunately, it's quite the rabbit-hole.
 
acceptance said:
I think your beliefs and values are among the worst I’ve encountered with your rationalizations and support for genocide, white nationalism/racism, biomedical totalitarianism and so on. Yet I am not mortally offended and I am still able to engage with you 🤷‍♂️ …I don’t personally care whether you stay or leave but in general I think more voices — even those I personally find repulsive — make for a more interesting forum experience. And you’re a good guitar player who’s into different music than others here which I think is worthy.
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That is a misrepresentation.

1. I support Israel's right to defend itself against terrorists which are harboured in Gaza. As far as I know they still haven't released the hostages. Muslim terrorism has consequences so no sympathy from me.
2. Championing saving my own culture and not supporting multiculturism isn't racism. I don't think I'm superior or better however I don't think western nations should have been "invaded" by large amounts of people from foreign and incompatible cultures thereby effectively destroying themselves, their demographics and in turn their shared values. A lot of people agree with me.
3. Not being an antivaxxer and agreeing with the medical profession is hardly medical totalitarianism. It is also the position my Government took and support their decisions on this matter.

Lastly I don't support our enemies like Russia and Islamic Terrorists unlike you. All of which is perfectly normal and more of a patriot than you are despite not being from the US.
 
FokenBusker said:
Since when do leftists support Russia? I wanna write a bro country song called "Shootin' Putin"
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And more to the point since when do Republicans support Russia. I've said that before... Trump is a fruitcake with his own agenda and none of his republican supporters even question this sudden shift.

I am more republican than the current republicans it seems when they suddenly support our enemies and despots.
 
Thumbpicker said:
And more to the point since when do Republicans support Russia. I've said that before... Trump is a fruitcake with his own agenda and none of his republican supporters even question this sudden shift.
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I think the only Americans who support Russia are diehard Trumpists. I haven't read of other people throwing support Putin's way. I guess if you stan for a Putin stan you're fucking yourself twice.

I'm glad more of the US Republican voters are speaking out about their frustrations with the direction the American right wing has gone in. There are definitely still sensible people on the right, but the loudest voices always get the most attention, regardless of what side of the spectrum one finds themselves on.

I fucking hate the LA rich shitheads who made the left look so embarassingly disorganized in the mid 2010's onward, and will never declare them as an ally. They cannibalized a flourishing movement and shat out nonsense. They parroted our vernacular without any real understanding of its meaning. And it was never for a cause, it was for their own individual benefit, which flies in the face of the actual intentions of said movement.

I view Neoliberals as the biggest threat to the left in decades. Their selfish, solipsistic, sloppy leftover New Age bullshit has fucked us.
 
Thumbpicker said:
However traditionally when Russia was full on communists the leftists supported Russia because it's bloody commie and so are they.
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I am not a communist. Fuck authoritarianism of any sort. I want Democracy, plain and simple.

I can't speak on the generation that grew up during the pique of the Cold War, as I wasn't alive back then. But FUCK communism. Seriously.
 
FokenBusker said:
I am not a communist. Fuck authoritarianism of any sort. I want Democracy, plain and simple.

I can't speak on the generation that grew up during the pique of the Cold War, as I wasn't alive back then. But FUCK communism. Seriously.
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but I don't like socialism either which is the next best thing to communism. I don't agree that's equitable whereas they think everyone should be eequalised no matter what they've done. There's no incentive to work and get ahead. People should not be equalised. Some study hard while the others party. Then the money from the people that work has to equalise the do nothings. Fuck that. Then they call that wrap that philosphy up in jargon to beautify it like "social justice"? Except stealing from Peter to pay Paul isn't justice at all.

There are people here that have called me a lefty. How is what I said their leftwing? It's nothing like leftwing at all.
 
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Thumbpicker said:
but I don't like socialism either which is the next best thing to communism. I don't agree that's equitable whereas they think everyone should be eequalised no matter what they've done. There's no incentive to work and get ahead. People should not be equalised. Some study hard while the others party. Then the money from the people that work has to equalise the do nothings. Fuck that. Then they call that wrap that philosphy up in jargon to beautify it like "social justice"? Except stealing from Peter to pay Paul isn't justice at all.
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Inversely, the only people who can afford to party that hard nowadays are the heirs to wealthy families. Capitalism has its own set of side effects that can lead to extreme inequity of overall work output.

I don't believe in a fully-socialist nor capitalist model, as a combination of the two can prevent an overpowered Rich Elite via both policy and economic performance. By allowing both's strengths to amalgamate, that only adds potential to keeping people like Musk from owning nukes and shitting the whole world's bed on us.

Essentially, the checks and balances offered by both will net better gains for all citizens by virtue of ensuring the super-wealthy are not given more power than people should have in a free society.
 
Fuck Russia and I’m a Trump supporter…and fuck Ukraine. And fuck all the traitor politicians everywhere. They have to be satanists. World is crazy and getting worse. I blame the suffrage movement. Islam is right about women…


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FokenBusker said:
Inversely, the only people who can afford to party that hard nowadays are the heirs to wealthy families. Capitalism has its own set of side effects that can lead to extreme inequity of overall work output.

I don't believe in a fully-socialist nor capitalist model, as a combination of the two can prevent an overpowered Rich Elite via both policy and economic performance. By allowing both's strengths to amalgamate, that only adds potential to keeping people like Musk from owning nukes and shitting the whole world's bed on us.
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Why should my family's wealth go the countless fucking immigrants. Fuck that.

If you can call it wealth. Really my family is just middle class. Still the leftwing grubs want to get their mits on it to pay for the third world that they've let flood in.
 
FokenBusker said:
When has this ever happened?

You're in Australia. Your family's wealth goes to the Windsor family, the same as mine.
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They are talking about inheritance taxes over here - it hasn't happened yet... It's just a matter of time. Also how about self funded retirees being made to pay for everything in retirement while age pensioners who didn't provide for themselves get a free ride. Also proposals to make self funded retirees pay more for aged care equalising those who didn't save their money. So it rewards poor judgement and profligate spending. Why are we equalising people? I spend my life budgeting and managing my spending and those who don't get rewarded for their bad stewardship of their finances. Fuck them.
 
Thumbpicker said:
Why are we equalising people?
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I'm not going to acknowledge the rest of that. It is rife with bias.

As for this question, wealth equity across the board can only benefit a capitalist society, as it means more people have more spending power, which in turn drives better revenues for businesses because more people have more disposable income to spend on them.

You know, like in the 1990's.
 
FokenBusker said:
I'm not going to acknowledge the rest of that. It is rife with bias.

As for this question, wealth equity across the board can only benefit a capitalist society, as it means more people have more spending power, which in turn drives better revenues for businesses because more people have more disposable income to spend on them.

You know, like in the 1990's.
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By equalsing them you realise that's fucking socialism and it's the next best thing to communism. The people that can spend should be the people that have earnt it. Not steal from them so everyone can have a free ride. This is why I hate the left - they are so entitled. They think us bunnies should pay for every minority under the sun.
 
Thumbpicker said:
By equalsing them you realise that's fucking socialism and it's the next best thing to communism. The people that can spend should be the people that have earnt it. Not steal from them so everyone can have a free ride. This is why I hate the left - they are so entitled. They think us bunnies should pay for every minority under the sun.
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Your emotionally charged rhetoric is duely noted.

I can't fathom how you think I'm selfish for wanting marginalized groups with less opportunities than myself to have institutionally-protected opportunities, as that's not money going to my pocket.

You started off so cool-handed, too. How disappointing.
 
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