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.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 year ago

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

      • TraumaDumpling
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        1 year 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.

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        1 year 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

    • disownthelibs [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      1 year 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.

      • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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        1 year 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.

        • TraumaDumpling
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          1 year 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.

      • TraumaDumpling
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        1 year 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.

        • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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          1 year 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.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        1 year 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

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        👖 🪨 🥖 = death-to-the-poor

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

        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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          1 year ago

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

          • disownthelibs [none/use name]
            hexagon
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            1 year ago

            Unfortunately the left doesn’t have a monopoly on the concept of rebellion. Plenty of young people end up right wing with old leftists scolding them

            • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              i'm not even talking politically. I just want to complain about the new words and strange music I don't understand

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    • oregoncom [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      if the USSR was around today and soviet youths could see how stupid their western counterparts are via the internet they'd probably all be patsocs.

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

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

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    • TraumaDumpling
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      1 year 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.

      • BeamBrain [he/him]
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        1 year 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

        • TraumaDumpling
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          1 year 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

      • Dolores [love/loves]
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        1 year 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

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    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      1 year 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

  • RonPaulyShore [none/use name]
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    1 year 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.

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  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year 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)

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    1 year 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

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    • disownthelibs [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      What if the youth are literal nazis? It would flip the dynamic of the old being reactionary and the young like not on its head.

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