aphlamingphoenix

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well, see... The president he supports withholds funding unless the municipalities affected by disasters pass a purity test, so he assumes the president he doesn't support will as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

You like em tongue-in-cheek? You might try Chopping Mall (1986). Shopping mall management invests in a killer robot security system. A group of horny teens decides to spend the night there, but a lightning storm takes out the main killer robot controller! It's funny, a little gory, has topless men and women, and it's hilarious. A spook night favorite of mine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Grindr... That's that app for finding hot hoagies in my area?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

half the ~~marines~~ general population are bi and closeted

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've had a guy tell me he votes for Trump because he's trying to take a balanced centrist view of things. But dude, if Trump is the center, wtf are your extremes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

We clench among you...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Iamblech pentameter

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Isn't the core of jazz improvisation and breaking the "rules" of music? If that's what they're doing, why would we disqualify it as jazz? A lot of folks had this opinion of Miles Davis doing jazz fusion in the 70s on Bitches Brew and Live/Evil with his squeaky, borderline abusive trumpeting, or of Herbie Hancock doing weird space synth stuff on Sextant and funk fusion on Headhunters. I don't see how what you're saying isn't just gatekeeping that's not really in the spirit of jazz.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Awful take. Last weekend I saw Mike Dillon with Phunkadelick playing with Brian Haas on the Rhodes organ. They played a wild punk-jazz show that is one of the best shows I've ever attended. There was a mosh pit at a jazz concert where a primary instrument was a vibraphone.

In recent years, I've greatly enjoyed things like AKU!'s album Blind Fury (drum/trumpet/baritone sax trio) and Ambrose Akinmusire's Origami Harvest. A lot of modern jazz is blending in electronic influences, like Sungazer. Maybe you don't like these things, but I can't imagine calling jazz dead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Or even the corollary, that the Abrahamic religions grant authority to men, so men who feel as though they command no authority flock to the religions to achieve it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You're right, of course, which is dismal, but I guess it will at least be on the record that we knew? That we saw it coming?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Sounds illegal. They're not supposed to endorse candidates while not having to pay taxes. IRS should end this church.

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