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I just cannot understand why somebody living in a colonial country can truly say they love their country unless they’re brainwashed or completely ignorant to its history.

I’m from Canada and we are not better, there’s just not as much of an issue of rampant nationalism disguised as “patriotism”. Our countries were built on the graves of the native inhabitants, by the hands of slaves. At no point in the history did they stop abusing natives and the descendants of slaves, they just found new ways to hide it and new names to call it (how does a prison make a profit, anyway?).

I love and am proud of my community, but that is the extent to which my pride reaches. I cannot feel proud of a country that was built on the blood of the innocent.

I didn’t know the rivalry between elmo and Kermit ran so deep.

Thank you so much! I really appreciate you going above and beyond to provide me with some literature! :)

Thanks for clarifying!

My understanding is very basic, but from what I understand (please anyone feel free to correct me if you know more), it uses newsgroups, which is, historically speaking, an extremely old computer network communication system (conceived in '79) that was used for sharing news and files (it used to have forums and stuff on it too), and it works by transferring files in parts, then unpacking/assembling them at their end point.

Because they are in pieces during transfer, it’s very difficult for ISPs to know what you are downloading, therefore no VPN is necessary.

There is also no seeding because it’s a server-client model, not P2P.

I’ll have to talk to my brother because he’s the one that set it up, but i think we use dognzb and it seems to work quite well.

I’m working towards a better understanding of it so if that doesn’t answer your question please let me know and I’ll get you a proper answer :)

Or, hear me out for a sec: Usenet?

I made the distinction purely because it was mentioned in the meme. Don’t look too deeply here.

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Your comment taught me a lot that I didn’t previously know so thank you!

Okay commenting again to tell you I just looked this up and was reading the info for the artist and learned the term “filk” (science fiction folk) so I’m soooo in.

Ya can’t say I disagree with you there

Thanks so much! I’m building a playlist so I’m always happy to take suggestions :)

They’ve definitely been one of my faves as well since I was a kid and found them while watching Malcom in the Middle

I’ve been loving the old Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Phil Ochs, Billy Bragg, and Barbara Dane

This music just hits so hard

Propaghandi is a big one for me since they’re from my city, but also Dead Kennedys, NoFX, Stray From the Path, Jeff Rosenstock

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I have more 😈:

• John K. Samson/The Weakerthans
• Nick Shoulders
• Jesse Welles
• The Narcissist Cookbook
• Jason Isbell
• John Prine
• Woody Guthrie
• The Coup
• Larry and his Flask
• Jordan Smart
• Phil Ochs
• Watchhouse
• Warren Zevon
• Elvis Costello
• The Orphans
• Mischief Brew
• The Tillers
• Country Joe McDonald
• Barbara Dane
• They Might be Giants
• David Rovics

Sorry, music and finding it is a special interest.

You could absolutely just replace anti-semites here with fascists, to encompass all the other minorities they intend to oppress

Reminds me of a line from Festival Song by Jeff Rosenstock:

“We’re not stupid people, but this financial depression
Has got everyone believing all that we can do is nothing
'Cause we organize through avenues they lace with advertisements
So the ones we try to rage against are still lining their pockets”