Broadway audiences were not so much seeking a musical about hip-hop per se, but a version of hip-hop that privileged a white liberal audience by allowing them to embrace blackness on their own terms, while including enough lyricism and Obama-era hope to embrace aspirational people of color -- some of whom also see themselves reflected in this play.
Yes, Hamilton is historical fan-fiction made for an audience that hates the color of their own skin, but still has white sensibilities.
The backlash against Hamilton and other important US history is just par for the course in furthering a rootless cosmopolitan society. No people no past, just nomads and products.
Sad but not surprising. VC money is imo a guarantee for a few years of smoke and mirrors with a hard crash. People are way too bedazzled with the billion dollar companies.
If you get VC investment, you are expected to give 20% returns each year, or 6x the investment in 10 years. This requirs the company to make 30x the return. This is not realistic for a lot of companies.
I've read my fair share of software company stories where the owners got the money, scaled fast and large, but their sales could not grow at the same speed. Had to do a lot of budget cuts and just went under. Did not grow fast enough = failure.
This is a heavy blow towards me and my white supremacist brothers and sisters. For the past 6 years we had been using the OK sign to recruit new members to our underground militia during CoD matches. After our original method of spamming chat with "NIGGERS DESERVE TO DIE, Y/N?" was suppressed due to censure, the ok symbol was the next best thing to use. As everyone knows from their kindergarden holocaust studies, Hitlers earliest division was the so called OK-Einsatzgruppe. They were so called since early on, the nazis to hide their intentions behind the ok-hand symbol as well. Symbolically for them it meant shooting the unsuspecting jews with 3 bullets.
This is a dark day for white suppremacist online communication indeed.
Here's to hoping that the conflict with India might put the hurt on China. I highly doubt that HK will not lose it's original deal with China (aka get fucked over and join mainland), but some sort of pushback against China is welcome.
These waypipo are so racist. The pull a gun on my mom, both of them
Fucking disgusting. Start shit with a random woman, get everyone to pile on her. Never deescalate. Don't let people get away from the situation.
Some of these incidents are making me wonder what the relative percentage in minority groups are that want meaningful change where they can live and work without negative backlash from other ethnicities vs straight up agitators, hustlers and "you owe me money n sheet" retards.
You bet your bottom dollar that ITS MAAM type scenarios would have you put behind bars. This is terrible, but also exploitable if a madlad starts wearing skirts and trying to go all out against these sorts of policies.
Lots of leftist friends, lifelong identity as left leaning, maybe doesn't want to "endorse" Trump due to all the baggage that brings would be my guesses. Tim has been very positive towards the right, but maybe he does not want to bet publicly on a horse if losing and being held accountable for it latter would be bad PR as well.
I agree with other comments, Tim's "not voting for Trump" is an act. It's not even a real question at this point, because you're either voting for commie enablers or Trump and his baggage. You take the devil you know (who has actually done a lot of good things for the US).
I think Adam is just more of a honest/heart on sleeve type person. He feels like he's voting for Trump so he says it.
Great idea! Give people another reason to not stop at any time. Not only do you have to fear someone running up to your parked car and shooting you, now you'll have to play 20 questions with Koni over here.