I put on Rumours just last night. It always blows me away how every track is incredible

I’d like to add that I do union work as well, and that’s about the biggest source of sustenance in my day to day life. At work I can barely have a conversation more than a few minutes without turning it to wages, our benefits, and general working conditions. A lot of people are pretty receptive, although often hesitant (tying into the comfortability I mentioned above). Homelessness is bad in my city and it’s definitely functioning as a threat to a lot of people (as I think it’s pretty much intended).

It’s a weird mix of resignation, anger, sadness, and depression most days, but sometimes you’ll have an off-the-cuff conversation with someone and they’re a lot more clued in than you’d expect. Stuff like that keeps you going.
At my old apartment I used to run into my 70-ish year old neighbor every few weeks or so. His main source of income was from selling scrap metal he’d scrounge from dumpsters around town. He still believed in the Democratic Party, but had sharper analysis than I think a lot of people would give him credit for, just from looking at him. He definitely had some real class consciousness.

There’s opportunity for agitation out there, but I think ultimately a lot of us are relatively comfortable and have a lot to lose, which stifles a lot of potential activity here in the belly of the beast.

Probably a bit of a stretch based on the bands you listed, but if you want something more hardcore, check out Mindforce. I like to say they're a hardcore band that got a metal guitarist. Excalibur is one of their best

Watching the shotgun house get gentrified right in front of me, in my own city, has been crazy to watch. Ridiculous what people will pay for

Yeah, it’s definitely strange to me how everyone is just buying that this guy is legit and not some patsy

If you (anyone) have the chance to see them live, do it. Crazy show and stage presence, and loudly support Palestine

Here I am riding my 2006 SUV until it blows up with me inside, when all I want is one of those new BYD hybrids that go like over 2000km on a single tank+battery charge and only cost like $15k new. I hate it here

GMB!TE

This plus the city named Magnitogorsk get me through the day

#realnepotismhours

I use it to help me troubleshoot my python code, or give me a framework for some tedious data analysis stuff, but I always try to go back over it to make sure it's not fucking up somewhere I don't immediately see. I never use regex though, it could probably be pretty bad for that

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That's wild, I've never heard this side of the story!

Lol beat me to it

We actually did have unemployed (a lot of homeless as well) veterans revolt back in 1932 during the Great Depression, demanding early payment of their service bonus certificates.
About 43,000 of them camped with their families on the White House lawn for a while, and the president at the time, Herbert Hoover, sent tanks and bayonets in and they killed a few people and injured dozens. Patton led the charge and Eisenhower wrote the military report endorsing the action (though he claims he told Patton not to do it). It was called the "Bonus Army" if you want to do some more reading.

We had a bridge in my town get shut down last year to both vehicle AND pedestrian traffic because it's so structurally unsound. Aaaand it's been sitting there closed ever since. Double whammy: it had some of the best pedestrian and bike infrastructure in town.

I don't think anything will go as hard as Furr's 'Blood Lies: The Evidence that Every Accusation against Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union in Timothy Snyder's "Bloodlands" Is False'. Say whatever you want about Furr, but his titles crack me up

Legitimate truth nuke🤯