
writer for @LightArcStudio, pod boy for @PodPeoplePod, metal enjoyer, a scary snake
Durham, NC
Joined May 2011
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punished snake retweeted
imagine if this guy did his crimes in the US where we have the death penalty and you never had to read shit like this
Yes, reading comprehension and text understanding are, as expected, not your strong suit. I did not say that I don’t want political texts in music - I said I don’t need them. The music I listen to doesn’t have to be political as far as I’m concerned. And among nearly 700 releases on DTB, you’ll only find a fraction that is NSBM and, on top of that, somehow interpretable as political - which I would also say about the lyrics you quoted.
For you there may be a straight line from the lyrics to the deportation of foreigners, but for me this lyric also corresponds to the canon of tropes that have been common in Black Metal for decades: it is about the glorification of heroes and their battles, and the rejection of foreign infiltration and mixing. So are lyrics in which people sing about pagan warriors and their struggle and the rejection of Christian invaders, in your eyes, just as political as a song text about the Second World War and the defense against mass migration? If you honestly hold this opinion, fine - then of course everything about Black Metal is political for you.
I, however, do not see it as politics; I see it as a legitimate artistic expression of thoughts and feelings that matter to the musician and lyricist. From this, first and foremost, nothing else follows than song material that is undeniably to be classified in the realm of art and culture. Whether politics then also arises from it - that is, in the form of someone, as a political activist, also working to ensure that there is no more mass migration - that does of course happen, also in NSBM, but it is simply something different from art that arises from introspection and reflection.
The dream of a National Socialist Reich is originally escapist; only the actual and energetic effort to create such a Reich becomes politically activist - and one is usually very far removed from that even in NSBM. In any case, I find it very strange when it is insinuated that such song lyrics are preparing the next Wannsee Conference. Art doesn’t work that way; one should actually know that. Otherwise the polemical claim that Death Metal lyrics about the rape, mutilation and murder of people are the cause of murder and manslaughter would also be permitted (even though it is equally false).
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“Twitter cannot be a place where fruitful conversations happen, especially about socialism… It is an anti-dialectical space.
It leads you to competition, rather than cooperation, because your ego is guiding the process… There are real conflicts, but they cant be resolved here.”
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Yes, I know things can look a little glum at present. But , for now cheer up. From us.
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just saw an email come through with URGENT in the subject line and shut my laptop. it's 5.10 on a Friday grow up
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Love how Banana Man discourse has somehow turned into Death Grips Were Bad Actually discourse. Couldn't be me.
Death Grips Were Always Great Actually, sorry to report.
open.spotify.com/track/5fDj1…
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You are totally allowed to have opinions about Slop without engaging with Slop. But this doesn't apply to Good Things. You can totally write off Marvel Slop without watching it, but you do need to watch Persona before having an opinion on it. Goes for all artforms at all times.
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Listen, we are not going to leave the Earth. The Earth is life. Bezos & Musk are against Life, they are against the Earth. The quest to leave the Earth is an ego trap for men who are too dumb to grasp their own immortality as children of the Earth. That way lies nothing but Death
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it's really annoying how this website is designed to only show you things that make you mad, so people just act that any post that shows up in their feed has to be read as antagonistically as possible. you all let elon turn you into the monkey from 28 Days Later!
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INLAND EMPIRE - A tremendous loneliness comes over you. Everybody in the world is doing something without you.
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as a filmmaker, you should always look down on your audience. they are lower than pig shit and dumber than worms. they are not on your level. belittle them accordingly
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VOLITION - No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it’s still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You’re still alive.
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the only lasting 9/11 memory i have is when the budweiser ad with the kneeling clydesdales came on during the super bowl and i said "those horses are praying to mecca" and my friend's uncle got so mad that he had to go in the backyard

























