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by twixfel 2y ago
I mean it's fine to not like the Beatles but they weren't derivative (literally the opposite), and not liking the song that is considered by many to be their worst or most controversial isn't saying much (and actually it&#x27
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I agree in and I think the Beatles can never happen again for reasons that are completely independent of the music itself. There was huge change happening at that time, you had this huge youth culture, that for demographic reasons the West
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Rubber Soul onwards are all masterpieces (except maybe Let it Be) and feature among the greatest music written by anyone, ever. You are seriously underrating them just by virtue of the fact that you don't personally enjoy listening to
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The Beatles and the 60s really were special. You may not like their music and that's fine, but that period and that band has not been replicated in later decades by later generations. What the Beatles achieved in particular is arguab
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The mask really fell with the second trump campaign and yes YC and the broader capitalist class have shown themselves to be enemies of civilisation at this stage. Far from being techno utopians the YC ilk and associates are just your borin
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If anyone is fair weather it’s the USA. You have betrayed western civilisation. Good for you. But to then call us fair weather friends is too much on top of all the rest.
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Already achieved, easily.
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Electing Trump twice makes Brexit look relatively wise.
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It’s just a conspiracy theory. Of course the UK can launch its nukes.
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I assure you your allies see it. What’s funny is what did the US give up its leadership of the free world for exactly? The price of eggs? It took the British Empire fighting two world wars to lose its place! The US is collapsing and the
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We just witnessed the fall of the US led international order and the end of its leadership of the free world. It’s interesting.
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It’s lost all respect from its allies and its enemies are excited at the new world order that has been built. Frankly I had admired the US my whole life and I now detest it and want Western civilisation to shun it completely.
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The US has sided with Russia against European and Western civilisation. Don’t understate what we are witnessing. The betrayal of civilisation is almost complete.
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The betrayal of Ukraine by the American people will be a stain on their history forever. Americans just don’t really understand what is happening.
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It will be tough. America is now trying to export American-style fascism to Europe as well. So we have a new enemy, a former friend who has betrayed us. As I say, it'll be tough.
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Flagged again. It's really pathetic how the Americans here are burying their heads in the sand about what their country has done to the West and how it has betrayed Western civilisation.
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We don't trust the US any more and consider the US to be indifferent to us at best, and actively hostile and seeking to spread American-style fascism to our countries at worst. Signed, a European and erstwhile committed Atlanticist.
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There are limits to speech in every country, including the US. What I always find baffling is the sheer arrogance of Americans, that the only way to be a free and democratic country is their way, to the extent that they send their elected
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Then share the reasons. We are witnessing the end of the era of American global dominance. The four years of Biden were but a reprieve. Trump 2.0 is here to finish the job and end it all once and for all. The American Experiment has fai
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America is exceptional in that it is the global hegemon self destructing before our eyes and for largely nonsensical domestic reasons. That is exceptional. And I don’t know about triggered, but rather just sad, because I was one of those p
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It matters in combination with the tax rate on the working population. There are huge transfers of wealth ongoing from the working class to the retired class of people, who are the richest generation in history. People need to wake up and
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Yes the US is uniquely fucked, really. At least the previous global hegemon fought two world wars to lose its place. The US is basically committing geopolitical suicide at the top of its powers because of gender neutral toilets and the pr
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He's a rapist too, isn't he?
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Back when the life expectancy at birth was forty you mean? And the system has expanded greatly since then. Handouts for almost everyone except normal workers who pay the highest taxes on labour in the world after Belgium. And yes the syst
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Yes it makes sense, certainly on paper, and in a world in which the older generation actually are disadvantaged by their age and younger people are not. Actually it's the other way around. Like so many things in Germany, it's ju
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I understood the logic to be instead that older people nearing retirement find it much harder to get new jobs. And I agree there is logic to all of these things we are discussing. The problem is rather that everything is falling apart in o
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I don't think any generation is better than the other. They are just the biggest. If Gen X were the biggest then there would be some big political distortion in their favour instead. And no they are not on the way out, they are still
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Yeah the system doesn't work. Nothing has convinced me more of that fact than living in Germany has. If your system only works for a single generation in which you have an unusually large working population and relatively few childre
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I understood the claim to be that if you are at the bottom of the social points scale then you are sufficiently vulnerable for it not to matter. That the people who really benefit from Germany's strong labour laws are those with kids,
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The games did suck (somewhat) arguably but I loved them because I was young enough that I wouldn't have even known what you were talking about if you said the game was "1D" and the lore and world building was cool. I really

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