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Half way through the book the wall collapses, and having no job, he shoots David Bowie in Berlin after discovering he has underage groupies. The rest of the book is him being put on trial with all the teenagers and real life musicians he beat up testifying against him.

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[-] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago

Folks when our turn comes we have to not be dickheads about youth culture.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago

I'm banning Tiktok and you can't stop me

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

i unironically think that the 6 second video format is inimical to in depth thought or criticism. its had a toxic influence on other mediums as well, youtubers all have tiktok editing (changes every 6 seconds) now, even movies and TV shows have been SEO optimized with stupid quips and memes that are stale before the movies release.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Banning it is one thing. But you need to replace it with something good. So many nerds get mad at children for enjoying shitty content but offer nothing in return. All you accomplish is looking like a hateful boomer no one likes being around

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Oh fuck no, the old people in the Soviet Union were absolutely right to hate rock and roll and blue jeans. Shit is corrosive towards the soul.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

Joined 5 days ago

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

Damn when did we start siding with the Moral Majority

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

First of all, I won't allow anyone to say "Jerry Falwell" without the title “comrade”.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

true. After The Revolution the only music allowed by the state will be free jazz and wall noise, and the only clothing will be latex bodysuits, bolo ties, and religious garb.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

if i can't wear a baggy utility jumpsuit after the revolution whats even the point? i guess i can deal with the religious garb thing, i love robes.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Baggy utility jumpsuits are actually really cool and I want me.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

We should return to tunics as the main garment. Trousers are just PPE for horseriding.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Tunics are awesome. they're like t-shirts if t-shirts weren't shit.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Can't ever trust a guy in a tunic.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

let them cook

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

blue jeans are at least corrosive to the balls, who tf puts a huge rough thick seam right there

also corrosive to hip mobility, never try to do parkour in jeans.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Who? I do. I do it for fashion, and because because I'm used to it and honestly don't know what other pants to buy. But it does suck.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

Ok could you like actually explain why then

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

no that's silly. Rock and roll is literally just a way of structuring the beat of a song. It makes just as much sense to say doo wop is corrosive towards the soul

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Besides nobody listens to that shit anymore.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

👖 🪨 🥖 = death-to-the-poor

I see your point, comrade. We must unleash the terrorsphere on the rock and roll hall of fame.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

When our turn comes, we will make no excuses for the terrible music

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I-was-saying

i'm gonna be a dickhead about youth culture

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

it's what the youth want part of the fun of it is rebellion and defining their own thing.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

it's not rebellion unless there's an old curmudgeon scolding them. It's dialectical

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

oh he'll yeah new disco elysium game just dropped

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

dubois-depressed Hardcore? To the mega? Anodic dance music? Just help me solve this murder, dammit!

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

This music, if one can call it such, is created from the sect of ‘shakers’ – dance that induces people to ecstasy, trance and makes them into wild animals ready for any wild action. This type of music is created with the help of psychiatrists so as to influence the brain and psychology of the people. This is one type of musical narcotics under whose influence a person cannot think of fresh ideas and are turned into a herd. It is useless to invite such people for revolution, for building communism.
- Stalin

badeline-scream ☁️

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

how many successful revolutionaries were ravers lmao, my man joe steel never misses

seriously tho look into CIA funding for the arts back in the day, we propped up mr. soup can painter to prove that capitalists had 'better culture' than the soviets, we propped up 'show don't tell' style writing/analysis to prevent the masses from having detailed and abstract thoughts/criticism. even if whatever specific music mentioned isn't a CIA op it would have been a safe bet to assume it was in that historical context lol.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

we propped up 'show don't tell' style writing/analysis to prevent the masses from having detailed and abstract thoughts/criticism.

Do you really want the alternative of "tell don't show" though, because that's how you get Atlas Shrugged's infamous 60-page John Galt speech

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

its also how you get Dostoevsky afaik

edit: which as an american i obiously haven't read lol, my bookshelf here is like 80% trashy warhammer 40k novels

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah but it's also how you get Brecht, and Brecht is worth it imo..

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

we propped up 'show don't tell' style writing/analysis to prevent the masses from having detailed and abstract thoughts/criticism

the point of promoting show don't tell was to prevent people from making direct calls to action. i'd say valuing metaphor and allegory probably makes people more adept at the abstract if they're proficient at reading it

we took care of people reading & thinking proficiently with school privatization, don't get the two phenomena mixed up

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

sankara-bass played electric guitar in a jazz fusion band. I couldn't find any clips of their songs but this group was one of their inspirations, definitely the kind of thing that would have horrified stalin in 1946

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1gJXGHvMwyc

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Stalin was a lot of things one of those things is a man raised in the 1900's who liked to watch western movies

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

Was in Berlin in my younger days and spent a whole afternoon in the "ddr" museum. the fact that I wasted a wasted a whole afternoon on liberal propaganda, and not w my German lover, I'll never amend.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Me, an old bitch from c/all

“in the Dance Dance Revolution?”

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

It's wild how accurate this is three decades later. Metal still with neo fascist attitudes, too many punks seem to just oppose everything and anything ("you can't tell me what to do" attitude)

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

this document don't miss, pretty astute in its assessments I would say

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

It is quite interesting the way this policy developed as intitially the east german state wanted to have everyone have a stable job, hobbies etc but found that while a lot of people could be helped with that a subsection of society basically don't want that they want to drink and fight and play loud music

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

The "heavy" listing tracks with a lot of metalheads I had known. yea

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