Where's Imp when we need him?
Outlaw country has always been my favorite. The classic stuff like Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Chris Kristofferson. It's making a comeback right now in a big way, with guys like Bryan Martin, Warren Zeiders, Colt Graves and Jackson Dean.
Story songs have always been a good subgenre as well of country and American folk. Darrell Scott, Michael Ray and the Turnpike Troubadours are all good examples.
It doesn't matter how based she pretends to be. As long as the laws and the family courts are arrayed as they currently are, if you marry or even cohabitate with a woman for any length of time, you are risking your future, your reputation, your financial security, your property and the prospect of not being able to raise your own children.
There is no philosophy more totalitarian than utilitarianism taken to its logical extreme. Just ask Bentham.
Even using a 320 kbps format to download mp3s from YouTube, the quality is just shit. That's why I prefer FLAC files, but even 320 mp3s from albums are better quality. YouTube compresses too much of the original audio during upload.
On a related note, the single best resource for downloading free music, Free-MP3-Download.net, just got shut down. They were around for almost 2 decades and had a pretty much limitless catalogue of songs and albums that you could get in MP3 and FLAC format. I still have thousands of files that I got from that site, but it looks like the music industry finally managed to put a stop to it.
Remember, if you don't really own it, then piracy isn't really stealing.
Conservative Inc is an enormous detriment to the cultural pushback against woke ideology and Globalism.
Whether it's because they're there to gatekeep and prevent the start of an actual populist cultural movement, or because they're just stupid, the result of the Boomercon approach taken by guys like Walsh and Shapiro and the rest who look down on the pop culture facet of the culture war is the same. They're not only deliberately giving up ground in the battle for our society's cultural soul, but that they're actively pushing young people into the hands of leftists, who do understand the political importance of this space.
They hold the men's and women's competitions simultaneously, using the same venues, but they're not playing each other. You can't get away with that in rugby. No woman is strong enough to contend with a front line of eight players all in excess of 250 pounds slamming into you at full speed. And there's no padding.
At work today I mentioned in passing that it was the Ides of March when Caesar was assassinated. One of the Zoomers I work with, aged maybe 20, had no idea who Julius Caesar was. This is no diversity hire: he's a white kid.
The rot, fundamentally, is made possible by ignorance, and we've created entire generations of people who just. don't. know anything.
Y u so madd bro?
I still watch and enjoy Gary and Ryan and Mauler and Drinker and some of the others, but that doesn't change my assessment.
I've watched these guys fall all over themselves white-knighting for every fake geek girl who slides into their chat, from Nina Infinity to Brittany Venti to the Canadian feminist power couple behind this pile-of-trash comic. Some are obviously worse than others for that kind of behavior, with Kinel at the based end of the spectrum and Az being a full-on simp.
And whether it's because Eric July is their friend or because they need him around to lend them credibility on the race thing (and frankly I think that's more the reason), they constantly overlook in his work the same poor quality and shitty storytelling that they rightly deride in mainstream entertainment.
Eric has gone full pander. Hired a couple of feminists to write this shit in the first place. The whole alt-culture "Bronze Age" space, including YouTube like G+G and Nerdrotic, are all so desperate to prove they're not racist misogynist bigots that they might as well be the woke mainstream at this point.
I do sincerely hope all their views come from soon-to-be-dead Boomers.
I know I'm banging on the same drum here, but every website, every search engine, every private chat or e-mail server might potentially be a host for pornographic content. These laws are a recipe for requiring ID to access the internet at all. This isn't about protecting children: it's about stripping you of your anonymity, and the right needs to stop encouraging it.
So far it has been pretty faithful to the book. They've obviously had to cut some stuff out, because even a 10-hour season of television is not enough to portray all of the material in a James Clavell doorstopper. But the scene with Mariko picking up the naginata and attacking Ishido's men is in the novel if I recall.
The only thing they have to combat their own irrelevance is the spectre of GamerGate. They're never going to win gamers back as an audience, and so their only potential source of revenue is left-wing outrage, and any callback to GG provides the motivation they think they need to attract that kind of traffic to their sites.
We just need them to feel emboldened or desperate enough that they start doing it en masse. Right now they're boiling the frog by only going after a few more vocal rightists, but if they do it to too many people at once, they'll only succeed in creating a parallel economy.
While I am in no way condoning this sort of vexatious ideological enforcement, I would still like to point out that this is an example of Rowling getting a taste of her own medicine
Red vs Blue, back in the day. That was them.
Reminder that a lot of this is being orchestrated by the biggest national banks in order to consolidate control over the financial sector.
They still might do that. SCOTUS just ruled that individual states don't have the authority to do it on their own. Congress or one of the Federal prosecutors may still try it.
And yet every time he tries to talk about legal issues or current events or anything else, there they all are in his chat, demanding he talk about the drama, whining and bitching when he doesn't address the drama, shrieking and wailing and even sending him money in order to force him to engage with the drama.
You can try and deflect from that all you want, but I'm not the one on NPC mode. I guess I'm just not terminally online enough to stoke my impotent anger by reading endless pissfit threads about all of the evil horrible very bad things Nick Rekieta did and then infesting his channel in order to insist he address my concerns. I don't even give him money. I just enjoy his content, and I'm sick of wading through kiwi-scented feces in his live chats when he's the one trying to talk about something else.
I said in my first comment that he's been making all of this worse by engaging with it. Doesn't change my assessment of the kiwifarms dramafags. They start these fires for fun, and then pretend it's not their fault the shit's burning. If you spend months on end flame-roasting a guy in his every comment section and live chat, you don't get to pretend you weren't asking for it when he lashes out.
He literally kept telling the guy not to harm himself.
Immediate. Fucking. Impeachment.