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FB would be at least somewhat interesting if there was also an enemy list.

I am digressing, but there were definitley a lot of leftists applauding Khomeini ousting the Shah, due to the fact he had close ties with the USA. The very same people hadn't much to say about Khomeini and his gang exectuing and hunting down (secular) Iranian communists immediately after seizing...

Being pro Assad has got a lot to do with being pro Putin which has got a lot to do with being against the USA/NATO which is where a lot of people of the political left and right converge. At least thats the case in Germany where right wing AfD and the left-from-the social democrats "Die Linke"...

I am editing the playlists at this john Peel wiki every now and then, an he played a good deal of jungle on his various shows. I will post the youtube links to tracks he used to play I happen to stumble across. Starting off early 1995:

and speaking of musicians - or in this specific case rather producers - the popularity of youtube was also - somewhat - a blow to music-based webforums which often had subforums focussing on music productions. Those countless youtube tutorials on DAWs and whatnot rendered those parts of the...

music critics who aren't musicians themselves are better - although usually focus on wrong things when writing bout music - than lapsed musicians-turned-critics. Those usually are full of resentment and jealousy.

Protest is useless. I feel for you has such a weak melody "hook" it's ridiculous.

Fun fact: Gershon Kingsley ist still alive, aged 92 :)

I liked the debate about EDM. Despite the fact I am thinking EDM is among the most horrible music-movements I have ever witnessed.

He was when he was still djing at big raves.

I am pushing 40 for crying out loud. I would feel idiotic to enthusiastically big up new music. Doesn't mean I am not interested.

His stance on Gaza or Israel won't get him majorities anyways. Meaningful domestic politics will, maybe.

BTW, I don't think it's the "forum format" per se, but the fact most people go online on their phones these days, which was the real web-forum killer.

So, what's the odds of Scotland leaving the UK these days?

There is no way back. Forums "oldschool style" are like vinyl. There will be - some - renaissance - but the times have changed.

A true believer can't be cynical. The cynical ones are the lapsed believers, though.

Except for the fact Corbsy won't win a general election.

question is, is it cynicism. I rather got the impression he really means it, like most of the worldwide "anti-imperialist" brigades.

A few thousand palestinians among them, too.