The only time I’ve encountered VGA was my first year as an intern, my office had given me a 4:3 flat screen monitor which frequently gave me migraines. Thing had to be older than me. That was 7 years ago.
If I encountered it before that, I wasn’t aware of it because I was a child and wasn’t responsible for plugging in the monitors I was using.
Just so you know, this link shares your substack username with everyone who clicks on it, and more than likely links them to you in the background. Everything after “?r=” is a unique hash linked to your account.
PSA for everyone else: You are sharing URLs with Tracking Links. Please stop.
lake Superior lookin pretty lush
Ironically enough I know it as a 2014-era tumblr meme
You mean like ICE is doing right now?
Money doesn’t buy talent, and sure doesn’t buy culture, but it does buy expensive instruments and production equipment. More often than not it also buys industry recognition and other privileges above others that don’t have the same means, but that’s besides the point.
His entire career is built upon the appropriation of black culture; he started on the hip-hop scene. Only to take what he gained from that, strip black people and as much of their culture out of it as he could without making himself irrelevant, and use the resulting “rap rock” sound to pander to a broader more racist audience that would then cheer as he performed underneath white supremacist hate symbols. Once his fame was secured he would cleanse rap out of his sound entirely, and revert to country rock
He’s a cynical and talentless hack that formulated his music not as a tool of cultural or self expression, not for the sake of doing anything new, but for the purpose of self enrichment. To have the broadest appeal to an audience that wanted black cultural touchstones without black people involved in it, and would have rejected it if it were a black man in his place. He uses the spoils of his theft to support policies and politicians that are directly harmful to the people of the culture that he got his start from, and the city he takes credit for as a claim to fame. None of this points to him having any appreciation for music at all, other than as a scheme to become rich and famous.
So yeah, it’s no wonder his music has broad appeal within a certain audience, it wasn’t made for any purpose other than that. That doesn’t make it good. It’s a lifeless, blanched corpse of the culture he owes his career to.
That is what it has to do with music. Like it or not, all of these things are interconnected. Nothing exists in a vacuum. Music is culture is status is politics is history and so on.
The Wikipedia page for neoliberalism has more thorough real-world context for liberalism as it is applied today.
He isn’t even from Detroit. He grew up on a fucking apple orchard in a 1.3 million dollar home, with a guest house and a horse stable. Of course he’s a shithead.
it’s clearly a chunk out of Michigan if you look at the maps
I suppose there’s no honor among thieves colonizers
It seems the connect was, in fact, cut
Michigan has unfortunately always had the displeasure of sharing q birder with ohio. Kinda had a whole war about it.
Please,
It was cute the first time I saw it, but I’ve had enough snootposting to last a lifetime.
Invasion by train doesn’t seem very effective
How about nationalist?
Is this about windows always turning on/waking my computer for no god damned reason every few hours, thus ensuring my computer is always on?