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This just further proves how dumb the position on the hot 100 is in factoring what a "hit" is (especially in the streaming era)… You Belong With Me and Love Story are ubiquitous bonafide hits. She and her fanbase definitely game the charts like the BTS fans, but she has a solid array of proper hits second to Rihanna among the 21st century MPG

90% Rihanna for all 3

that being said, Well yes!

Ironically enough… I agree. Western liberal social democracy/capitalist reforms ≠ Socialism even though it's largely ideologically informed by and achieved through pressure from mass movements led by socialists/labor advocates. It's only successful because it maintains an imperialistic global economic capitalist superstructure. We're witnessing the slow roll back of these programs because the fruits grown through resource extraction and mass exploitation of the global south in the era of colonialism are drying up. (Serves you right Europe) This isn't to say that colonialism truly ever went away, obviously, western headquartered multinational corporations are many of the "new" colonizers but they are successfully doing away with the social democratic reforms the West had no choice to enact in the face of the ACTUAL socialism of the USSR and its massive govt programs. The capitalist class is winning the battle because there is no large scale PROPER socialist movement in the West to pressure them into compromise. Heck many of these folks can't even hold Ziohran accountable without reverting to Stan politics… It's why I'm concerned by the sewer socialism of Mamdani and hyper fixation of AOC/Bernie on domestic policy like Medicare for All in the face of having to deflect from addressing the serious policy concerns of bloated US military spending/policing.

Replace Dua with Miley and I would've gone. Love Dua but I'd rather spend money for her actual show because she brings it on her tours. Regardless the festival is trying too hard to be EDC Indio instead of booking more cutting edge non-DJ acts and good legacy rock/hip hop/indie acts.

"Liberal democracy" is a failure of an experiment. It just gives way to fascism.

Loved this absolutely. Whew the renaissance in dance pop music is so amazing rn

She does know. She's smarter than we think. She and Tucker are positioning themselves to capture the politically disillusioned Anti-Israel population (regardless of political alignment), which is only going to increase as the Iran war continues to slowly wreak havoc on the economy/consumer (anti-Israel might not be their most important issue but it's a top 5 problem for them), and funnel them back into a Vance candidacy/the GOP in 2028 when the eventual Dem nominee continues to bend the knee to the Zionist lobby. It's a grift to those of us who know their history, but left liberals seriously underestimate the increasing credibility of Tucker among this big enough cohort that affect the margins in key swing states. (Seriously look at how well his "Israel" clips do…) And it's even more effective when the signaling from alleged "anti-Zionist" "progressives" like Dr. Abdul or Ziohran is to capitulate to Jewish identity politics to get votes from centrist Dems while alienating their leftwing base of support. Idk, my theory is that this is a very clever rightwing opp designed by the people who prop Tucker/MTG up in the first place to keep MAGA populism credible enough despite the contradicting damage neocon Trump/Rubio is doing to the brand with "Israel first"/Iran War.

The genocide cheerleader and apologist has something to say.

He's not the only one!!! Turns out wholeheartedly continuing to support a Nazi terror state committing a Holocaust and mass slaughter of children with only "we hear you, we see you" platitudes to offer to naysayers is a losing strategy! (Not to mention to continue funding ICE, the military, caving to your billionaire donor's interests, etc.) ImgBBIMG 3163 hosted at ImgBBImage IMG 3163 hosted on ImgBB

I mean I'm old enough to remember when Democrats ran $2000 check ads all over Georgia in 2021 to win the runoff elections and said "actuallly jkkkk yall are getting $1400 because trump already gave you $600." Just sit back and enjoy the partisan theater

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whelp he lost my vote…

There's A LOT that's wrong with what he's doing, and the more I read, the more absurd it is that he's doing this.

I don't care, those men are utter scum. The "law" doesn't do jack **** for victims. The "law" is a joke

Marry The Night and The Edge of Glory both need resurgences too tbh.

IMO Their best musical cultural export is a majority of the premier Techno, Trance, Bounce/Neo-Rave, Schranz, Industrial, and German artists dominate these genres. The rest of the world's techno scenes do try to emulate the Berlin/larger German scene/aesthetic. As a current Detroiter, even I will say, there is NO techno without Germany. They embraced all the Detroit artists in a way that the US never did.

this hasn't had a thread yet but Belgian Techno DJ Amelie Lens has been dipping into trance the past few years and just collaborated with Angèle, who gets some attention on here, for the vocals. If you like it check out the whole album which has a good variety of MainStage Techno, Acid Techno, and Tech Trance.

If you seriously think that this is just a simple matter of "combatting bigotry" while he commits an increase of taxpayer $$ to the police/zionist institutions, then I can't really do much for your naivety on these matters. The conflation of Zionism and Judaism isn't a separate matter when he fails to address it while citing stats that deliberately do conflate the two and funnels money into Zionist orgs that also do so… The concern theater from liberals has reached such ridiculous levels it's functionally no materially different than concern trolling about anti-Germanism in 1940s Europe. Yall are seriously losing the plot

This is a pretty inconsistent narrative to craft because you cannot make the same argument in equal weight for both Jews and Muslims. American Jews are beneficiaries of white supremacy through the colonial Jewish Supremacist ideology of Zionism. That same dynamic does not apply to Muslims who are radicalized as an "other barbaric, migrant" caste. Islamophobia is rooted in every facet of Western society to the point that it has destroyed entire nations and cost trillions of dollars. Not even a fraction of this same dynamic exists for the extremely privileged Jewish population, half of whom are genocidal settlers occupying stolen land with the full backing of Western governments and society. Again it is pretty clear cut why folks can spew such vitriol against Muslims through the lens of "Islam" and reinforce ACTUAL systemic discrimination which Jews do NOT face, and yet Anti-Zionists can't even call out Zionist Jews without getting killed, arrested, losing jobs, etc. Like are you actually serious about this point or truly just this ignorant? Is the end goal that in reverse you would like the anti-genocide movement to begin saying the Iran War is the result of "a Jewish cancer on society" but it's okay because my intent is just the religious ethnonationalist? I'm confused what your point is? I've advised you to read more into the works of Norm Finkelstein, particularly Holocaust Industry, to unlearn some of the Jewish exceptionalism underlying your arguments. Please do so.

I think Mr. "Islam is a cancer on global society" needs to pipe down on conversations pertaining to systemic discrimination vs. individual bigotry. A microcosm of the material difference between Islamophobia and antisemitism can be seen through you, where saying such a thing doesn't get you a ZTP because of mainstream acceptance of such hatred of Muslims but if "Judaism is a cancer on global society" were even uttered by anyone, immediate permaban. Again, we're meant to believe that "rising antisemitism" is a serious issue and that it must be "combatted" because Zionist Jewish Americans are mad that Americans at large are turning against the illegitimate state of "Israel." Mkay…

We'll see what happens, not gonna be a doomer but they're all democrats at the end of the day…