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We got it wrong. We should make a "non-boycott" list of people who aren't assholes yet. It would be way shorter, and we would remove people when they become so fucking stupid and arse-licking that they have the idea of reworking the national anthems of shitholes such as saudi arabia.
Don't sweat it. I love Hans Zimmer but after what he did to my car, I can't wait to hear the bizarre shits that will be the new anthem.
Zimmer was hired by BMW to make acceleration and engine noises for their "i" line of EVs. What they got was the sound of robots whining and having orgasms. I had to disable the sound on mine.
I thought this comment was about to go in a very different direction
Never letting Hans borrow my car after he used it as an instrument in an orchestral arrangement of Yankee Doodle Dandy
Hopefully he's a nicer to cars than Frank Zappa.
Edit: Sadly it appears that videos of Frank "playing a car" on The Monkees are harder to find than I suspected.
Here you go
Huh, I guess Brian Eno wasn't available.
So, Costco and who else?
Tom Morello is based as hell
I would add Elton John and Tom Hanks, but if I look too deeply they may secretly be British Nazis working for the Queen to overthrow the American government...
Tony Hawk!
Keanu Reeves!
Didn’t he host a show that gave pseudo scientists a platform
Yep: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Apocalypse#Reception
Elton John thinks weed should be illegal because he’s an addict and says it’s a gateway drug.
It might be an unpopular opinion, but it doesn't make him a monster. His reasoning for it is that he doesn't want to cause more harm.
Locking people up isn't right either but he is entitled to a point of view
Reducing other's freedoms because they're bad for you is something I'd consider evil. People should be allowed to make choices for themselves. If you think they're harmful than you should try to educate people, but you shouldn't try to make them having a choice (which you were allowed to make) illegal.
Sure it doesn’t make him a monster. It isn’t going to make me stop loving his music. But it does make me question his judgement.
He’s an addict, so he needs to avoid things that may trigger his addictive habits. He talks about weed leading to worse drugs. But not everyone is an addict.
I’ve been using weed for like, fifteen years. Have never been tempted to try anything harder. Most people I know who partake are the same way. Making weed illegal because addicts might go on to try harder drugs is ridiculous in a world with alcohol in it.
Costco made their CEO a multi-billionaire, that means billions of dollars that could have stayed in the customers' pockets or that could have been redistributed to all employees.
I've heard Dave Grohl is pretty ok?
https://medium.com/the-monthly/the-foo-fighters-aids-denialism-should-be-on-the-record-6e33666fdc3c
Not exactly. Also recently announced a child from cheating on his wife.
I knew it was too good to be true
I remember when in 2018 there was an uproar against Trump using that language
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I'm not surprised to see Lemmy embrace and adopt Trump's language, so long as it's aimed at countries y'all dislike, and so long as it fits y'all's agenda
I have never been to KSA so I'll refuse to take a position on the nation but Trump is hardly the originator of that phrase. He's just the classless idiot who used it on mic. If you are actually fluent in English it would be really weird to think this is "Trump's language"
Trump didn’t invent this expression. Also any country that still cut heads is a shithole. Have a nice day.
No it’s a dictatorship. The people suffering under that US-armed and US-backed dictatorship don’t need the insults.
It's a monarchy and the people generally seem to be okay with it on a certain level. I have been told by associates that is mostly because Islam inherently backs a caliphate and thus monarchy is not seen as undesirable.
Completely false. It’s a dictatorship that jails anyone who publicly disagrees with the government. MBS even locked up his own mother for criticizing his jailing of relatives. The people are NOT okay with it, thats like saying it seems like Saddam Hussein is popular because nobody wants to risk their lives speaking out.
And no, there is nothing at all in Islam that supports a king. A caliph is elected.
Please provide a valid source that backs your claim. Please find any evidence for widespread support for a non-monarchal state.
You’re asking me to prove a negative.
If it’s literally a capital offense to call for a different government, do you think people will freely admit to a pollster that they dislike the monarchy? Stop assuming that the dictator is actually popular.
Racism and bigotry towards: Arabs, Chinese and Russians is still acceptable. They get to decide who is okay and not-okay.
"One of those things is not like the other; one of those things is just not the same"
Russians are not a race. They are a nationality. There are many ethnic and racial groups in Russia. The anti-Russian sentiments are almost never anti-slavic/Turkic et al but are rather directed at the nation itself and the polity vs the sinophobia and antisemitism which tend to be at least partly aimed at the peoples.
I sincerely doubt that there is a way to determine which behaviours/beliefs are good or bad. I, for example, doubt that I will get a rating of "good" beyond 75% (educated guess).
Honestly, my standards for "good" behavior for corporations are astoundingly low; just don't be bigoted, don't actively wreck the planet, and don't kill people.
And yet most of them can't even manage that.
What about don't steal billions from labor?
If I refused to patronize every business that did that, I'd likely starve to death. Which is incredibly sad.
I do try to avoid the worst offenders, though.
I am unconvinced that people / corporations can be neatly sorted into categories "good" or "bad".
I argue that "good" behaviour is entirely dependent on who is the judge. There are numerous edge cases, for example, "don't kill people": one could argue that a company that promotes abstinence is reinforcing sexual shame, which could lead to suicide. Then another can argue that they are promoting degrowth (through abstinence), or even voluntary extinction.
Lastly I want to remind that breaking the notion that sorting people into categories like gender and sex is a similarly bad idea.
Eh, they choose not to