asRomeBurns1979

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I work at a FTSE 100 in London. My black colleagues reaction to the pushback on DEI from the right has just been so depressing. They’re not remotely surprised and seemed to have suspected that this ill will was there all along. The west really was just putting makeup on a dog all these years wasn’t it.

I love EQD pedals, the Avalanche Run being my staple Reverb/Delay for almost a decade now. Tariffs suck but I do wonder if a lot of this is down to the boutique pedal industry getting greedy and people moving to modellers as a result. The gazillion dollar pedalboard kind of had its time and in an economy where disposable income has tanked, paying $250+ for a slightly tweaked clone is less appealing. I really hope they survive though, great company and lovely dudes.

I love EQD pedals, the Avalanche Run being my staple Reverb/Delay for almost a decade now. Tariffs suck but I do wonder if a lot of this is down to the boutique pedal industry getting greedy and people moving to modellers as a result. The gazillion dollar pedalboard kind of had its time and in an economy where disposable income has tanked, paying $250+ for a slightly tweaked clone is less appealing. I really hope they survive though, great company and lovely dudes.

on Sonicake rig of doom · c/guitars · 1 pts · 265d

Indistinguishable knock off Louis Vuitton bags are everywhere. I think it’s good that the brand who did the R&D is still around and it’s good that entry to those tones has been democratised with Chinese clones. There’s room for both as long as Boss gets the credit.

This has really started turning me into more of a conspiracy theorist. I’m a centre left Labour voter and Kier Starmer’s absolute refusal to engage with any criticism of Israel when children are being amputated… It’s very eye opening on who really pulls the strings of power in the west. The European Parliament has just blocked even debating the ongoing breaking of the ceasefire.

Money talks.

This era of American politics will be studied for centuries. Like the fall of Rome. I’m sure that after he’s gone the truth will come out about who was really driving. His coddling of Russia in the context of Republican history is the biggest red flag. Especially when you take into account his penchant for money (bitcoin rug pull, Qatari Force One etc etc)

What is it the kids say? ‘Cope.’ Just like us in the UK after Brexit, you need to just face up to who you really are as a country. You re-elected Trump in free and fair elections after Jan 6th and Georgia. We voted to leave the strongest most influential trading block in the world because we’re idiots. Face it, accept it, start to fight it.

‘Why don’t you stop us?’ After decades of the US using its financial might to tip the economic and political scales in its favour on basically every front. You’ve relentlessly stripped power from even your closest allies and now you’re whining about the results when they don’t work in your favour. Happy to pursue war and regime change in foreign countries or prop up genocidal lunatics, at the expense of civilian casualties. Just too cowardly to do it in your own country when the risk is yours. ‘Why don’t you stop us?’ You couldn’t write it. Unless you’re American.

We are territorial animals. Creating a shared enemy for your tribe/pack/herd etc to fear/hate works better than anything, even to the extent you will turn a blind eye to your sides leaders blatant incompetence and corruption. He might be shit, but he’s our shit. We did the same thing when Biden was a gibbering doddery oap, and Labour are doing it now in the UK despite Starmer and Co governing from the sodding right.

I think she’s cleverer than most people give her credit for because she’s also batshit. The MAGA movement is going to eat itself as the reality of Trumps policies ramp up and polling tanks. She is distancing herself early so she looks like she was right all along when the bullshit excuses run out. She’s being cordial and making sure not to look opportunist but I guarantee you in 2027 she will start saying the ideas aren’t wrong, just the implementation. She will run on cutting aid to Israel, pulling out of Venezuela and retaining ICE but with some optics only ‘humanitarian’ guidelines.