You’re probably right in your prediction but there’s plenty of counterculture artists who didn’t go down that path.

There’s a whole wiki page of artists who have spoken out against Trump specifically for using their music

It’s notable when a respected artist flips. It’s not newsworthy when one speaks out against MAGA and it’s even less newsworthy when they don’t make a public statement

I’m a white guy and soo guilty of this. I’m immediately suspicious of white male politicians especially if they’re older and thus much more inclined to preemptively support a gay brown woman.

That said, I’m not convinced Platner is Fetterman 2.0 and I kinda feel attacked when people bring up his “questionable” post history because I would HATE for someone to define me by the dumb shit I posted before something clicked and I went hard left. My friend grew up in the southern sticks with opinions so bad, he’s too uncomfortable to discuss even now.

The biggest mark against him is the tattoo thing. I believe that he didn’t know what it meant at the time but I don’t believe no one told him in the X years since. Yet at the same time, I’m unconvinced that he kept it for any reason beyond laziness.

“we knew this 30 years ago” doesn’t get clicks

(It rhymes with “female mathematicians”, btw.)

…The male mathematicians? Retail statisticians?? Detailed staff positions???

Who invaded who again

This community is for news, not ridiculous propaganda.

WE ARE LIBERATING YOU. PLEASE STOP RESISTING

It IS a cool feature but the privacy concerns kinda override any positivity I might have toward it. If it was completely offline with available source code, I’d be on board.

“Find” one? Like just pluck a candidate off the street?

I’m sure we’ve all met someone who we instantly didn’t trust. And I’m sure we’ve all been right to at least some of those times. So while I’m not saying that evil is a physical trait…Smotrich looks evil. Every single picture of him.

I grew up Christian and he’s just…so close to how I pictured Satan. The first time I saw him, I practically gasped despite being for 20+ years removed from it. He’s nowhere near the worst in the Israeli government but he is the most evil-looking. To me, anyway.

And before I get any accusations, he doesn’t really have any of the antisemitic physical stereotypes. If I didn’t know him from his politics, I wouldn’t have even guessed he was Jewish.

[EDIT] JD Vance is another one but I thought the reason that I instantly didn’t like a guy who (at the time) was insulting Trump was because he looked “too similar” to a friend of mine.

Wow well if Lord Byron thought something…

Just because you’re obsessed with this doesn’t mean everyone is.

Doesn’t matter who he was before or why he was cursed. Narcissism refers to what happened to Narcisuss. End of story.

No one gives a shit about the sexual orientation of a character from Greek mythology except you. Sounds like you based your entire opinion on a tumblr post titled “uhm actually, Narcissus was queer”

You’re trying so hard to be the victim here and it’s just not working. Because nobody is even thinking about the sexuality of, again, the FAKE PERSON whose sexuality is NEVER DEFINED from GREEK MYTHOLOGY.

You want him to be asexual so you can feel oppressed. Absolutely insane behavior. To quote the Germans: hobbyless behavior.

They’re thinking about neither, dude. No one gives a shit where the word comes from

No one’s dunking on the fictional asexual child, bud. Plus People aren’t thinking about Greek mythology when they use the word.

Nice deflection at the end there, though.

I’ve made a similar “rant” before on this in the hopes to change someone’s mind so I’ll give you the shortened version. And I don’t mean this negatively, I mean it as encouragement!:

Music can be an active or passive hobby. Most people fit the latter category and the older you go, the more it skews that way. Adults have a lot less time to experiment and if you aren’t actively seeking out new music, you can fall into the trap of “they don’t make it like they used to”

But they do! It’s out there! You’re just less likely to stumble upon it because not only do you lack the time, the people around you are in the same boat. We’ve also heard a LOT of music since our teens so fewer songs feel fresh. There’s no such thing as “derivative” if you’ve never heard the original!

I’m an active hobbyist who listens to 20+ hours of music I’ve never heard before on a weekly basis and can guarantee that music in pretty much every single genre is still around.

So I would encourage you to spend a couple hours exploring some time. Even if it’s just googling “modern bands like [old band] reddit” and seeing what the music hobbyists have to say, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

I feel like it has way more to do with how knowledgeable you were at the time. Kids generally don’t have the most critical eye for any of those things and most people don’t go back to see what they missed.

I just said to a friend this morning, “every kid’s favorite movie is the last movie they saw”

Things have changed but the music industry is very much alive. The barrier to entry dropped significantly with the advent of the internet which definitely affected the established companies but they don’t represent the industry. The artists do.

There’s more independent labels than ever and live music hasn’t changed significantly (minus the feed for “major” venues). I’d even go as far as to say the music industry is better than it’s ever been.

Victim blaming? This sounds like an early 2010s Tumblr caricature as depicted by an alt-right influencer that 99.99% of the left would call an invented strawman. It is beyond parody.

I’m having such a hard time believing anyone would defend narcissists that I’m convinced you’re just trolling me or you’re a narcissist yourself.

You are conflating so many things right now. For someone who keeps harping on the original myths, you sure seem ignorant to the fact that pretty much everyone in Greek mythology is bi. Siding against anyone in any Greek myth usually means you’re “against” someone queer.

You are stretching SO hard to call me queerphobic while ignoring both the classical and modern definitions of the word. It’s akin to saying I hate vegans because I talk shit about Hitler.

Narcissists and psychopaths are not oppressed minorities. Insulting them is always punching up.

Do you have a horse in this race or something?

“Narcissist” to describe selfishness is from the 1800s. NPD is from the 1980s.

Surely in 2026, you’ve seen what narcissism had done to the world.

No, I will continue calling our narcissistic and psychopathic behavior for what it is. I will also not be showing any empathy for who, by definition, don’t show any themselves.

Not all mental illnesses deserve our collective support. Comparing it to LGBT people is insane (is insane a slur, too?) and insulting. The closest comparison - and I think this is a stretch - is addiction.

It’s just wild to me that you’re defending narcissism in any capacity.

No, it comes from Narcisuss. The word predates NPD by almost a hundred years.

But even if it did come from NPD, it still an objectively negative trait worthy of admonishment. It’s not a slur to describe someone’s persistent selfishness as narcissistic. It’s the definition of the word.

[Edit] it’s as much as a slur as using “psychopath” to describe someone who kills squirrels for fun