The video was taken from surveillance cameras. Three girls on the Paris metro were exposed to “harassment” (group sexual assault), which is a common crime in Paris by some young men to lure girls into these places… but unfortunately for them, the girls who were attacked this time were from the special paratroopers squad. In the French army… and well trained! (refreshed post)
The kids on TikTok think that just because he was a classic country singer, Johnny Cash was conservative??? My babies he covered a Nine Inch Nails song in his seventies.
Classic country singers (the majority of which came from poor roots) were always talking about how much The Man sucked because they were taking money from poor rural folk. You’re gonna tell me that’s conservative?? Get outta here.
And somehow on the opposite side of the scale with the same exact opinion the conservative kids say “I like the old country music, because there’s no politics to it” Woodie Guthrie’s got a “this machine kills fascists” sticker on his guitar? You think there’s no politics in 9 to 5 or Folsom Prison Blues?!
For anyone confused there was a sudden and dramatic shift in the country music genre. It used to be a genre fixated on the experiences of people. Lived or common experiences that resonated with the common people. It was music that you listened to and it thrummed in tune to your soul because you had lived it yourself. And a lot of that was about ordinary people getting ground up in the gears of society.
The hyper patriotism, beer, and trucks chimera we have now didn’t show up until after 9/11 and the world is lesser for it
Allow me to post the entire lyrics to the Johnny Cash song “Man in Black”, released in nineteen goddamn seventy-one and written about why he always wore black onstage:
Well, you wonder why I always dress in black
Why you never see bright colors on my back
And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone
Well, there’s a reason for the things that I have on
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down
Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime
But is there because he’s a victim of the times
I wear the black for those who’ve never read
Or listened to the words that Jesus said
About the road to happiness through love and charity
Why, you’d think He’s talking straight to you and me
Well, we’re doin’ mighty fine, I do suppose
In our streak of lightnin’ cars and fancy clothes
But just so we’re reminded of the ones who are held back
Up front there ought to be a man in black
I wear it for the sick and lonely old
For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold
I wear the black in mournin’ for the lives that could have been
Each week we lose a hundred fine young men
And I wear it for the thousands who have died
Believin’ that the Lord was on their side
I wear it for another hundred-thousand who have died
Believin’ that we all were on their side
Well, there’s things that never will be right, I know
And things need changin’ everywhere you go
But ‘til we start to make a move to make a few things right
You’ll never see me wear a suit of white
Ah, I’d love to wear a rainbow every day
And tell the world that everything’s okay
But I’ll try to carry off a little darkness on my back
'Til things are brighter, I’m the man in black
That right there is an anti-war, anti-bigot, anti-mass-incarceration, anti-war-on-drugs (Cash was an addict in various stages of recovery who was pissed as hell about how this country treats people with substance issues), eat-the-rich protest song. And it was arguably his signature song, his personal manifesto. Notice that even the Jesus reference, which today would be a signal that the song is about to drop some racist dogwhistles, segues immediately into a line about “the road to happiness through love and charity”. As in “Motherfucker, our shared god said love thy neighbor and care for the poor and the outsider, and we both know he didn’t fucking stutter.” He’s throwing shade at self-described Christians who use his religion as a cudgel to beat people with.
Johnny Cash wasn’t a conservative. I’m pretty sure if he were alive and in reasonably good health today, he’d knock Jason Aldean’s teeth out (or, failing that, write a song so devastatingly memetic about how much Aldean sucks that Aldean would never work in music again).
Johnny Cash was punk rock. He just happened to be punk rock in the body of a country singer.
tfw someone says that Sunnydale Cordelia was nothing but ‘shallow and selfish’ and ‘not a good character until Angel The Series’
Cordelia had one of the (if not THE) best character developments across both shows and Joss did her (and Charisma) so INCREDIBLY dirty… I know I only just finished watching both series like this past year but I feel like I have 20 years of anger for all of you that watched that air in real time
do you ever see a person and you are overcome with incredible fondness? and you just think “oh.” but not in a romantic or sexual way you are just filled with warmth and it makes you happy, it just does. and you think “i’m so happy you exist. i’m happy you are somewhere out there in the world, doing your thing”. it’s love but also not entirely
like people are lovely and i feel it in my entire chest like a burning candle that smells like roses and a sunny day
Anthony Head: He’s [Joss] very generous and knows exactly what he wants. We’ve only had terse words on a couple of occasions, one of which was when I brought something to a scene. Basically there was an episode we were filming which was coming up short so they added this scene where me and Xander were looking for Buffy, and originally it was someone saying “oh we must find her” or something like that, so we’re filming this scene where we find Spike and one of the executive producers called David Solomon who was head of post-production directed it, and basically the dialogue amounted to “Have you seen Buffy”….”No” came the answer, it was filler, and I thought what can we do with this. So I’m walking down this alley and I thought I know, I’m going to step in some dog-shit. Cos basically what I’d learned in class was you can bring life into the scene and the scene will take care of itself, you concentrate on something while you’re talking the dialogue and then the dialogue doesn’t sound like it’s something off a page and it sounds more like part of life.
So as I’m sitting there, we find Spike and I’m sitting on a bunch of garbage cans and I pick up some paper and wipe the crap of my shoe.
And it worked, I suggested the idea to David Solomon who was directing it and he said “yeah sure if you want”, so I did it and then I got this call from Joss saying “What were you thinking?”, so I said “oh I was just trying to bring a bit of life into it” so he said “My show is not about shit!” so I said “oh sorry” and he said “well you’ve painted me into a corner now and I’m gonna have to edit around it because I’m not having you wiping crap off your shoe, what was wrong with the scene?” and I said “Well I just think it was a bit boring”. Anyway when it came to it they cut around it by basically shooting me in close-up and just using all the close-up shots so you don’t know what I’m doing, but I am preoccupied with something. So actually as it happens it works, because I’m not staring at Spike asking him meaningless questions I’m concentrating on something else which happens to be crap on my shoe, so it actually worked.
“Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said the Supreme Court was correct in its ruling to block President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program, arguing that it is not legal under the HEROES Act.
"I personally had over $100,000 in my own student loans, and I just finished paying them off in my 40s, after years. So I understand this intimately. This for me is not about policy. This is not a discussion of whether we should or should not forgive loans. That’s where people get confused. This is about the law,” he said on CNN.“
FUCK YOU GRIFFIN! YOU MAKE A WAGE THAT ALLOWS YOU TO PAY YOUR STUDENT DEBT!
I never once thought I wouldn’t have to pay this shit back but I absolutely thought that after graduating top of my class and working since I was 18 it would be possible to pay it back but you fuckers have allowed corporations to pay us less than a living wage so regardless of how hard I work I’ll never be able to pay back my student loans!
And my debt is HALF of what you’ve managed to pay off by the time you’re 40! In 5 years when I’m 40 the amount I owe will probably be more than it is now thanks to interest!
Fuck you! Something has to give! You either pay us living wages so we can pay off the predatory loans, or you offer us a fraction of debt relief!
I want to stuff these assholes mouths full of quarters and watch them choke! FUCK!
Snoop Dogg expressing solidarity with the writer’s strike and explicitly tying their struggle to the struggle of recording artists to get paid in the streaming music era.
