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• Soul Strut 25: We're Not Done Yet Edition

  Blastman

  October 17
  Preserving this site is awesome considering how old it is. 1999 is an age of internet people want to remember, and see. It gets even better when the people on the site still use it, because then you know it was a good idea and the history of its success is justified, and the people apart of it can remember what was.

  

• Electionstrut 2024

  Blastman

  November 6

  klezmer electro-thug beats said:

  Blastman said:

  I'm not old enough to vote, but I am not dumb, I don't like the feeling i'm getting from Donald Trumps possible plans... I haven't seen enough of you guys to really gauge whether SoulStrut is "left or right" but considering the origins of the genre, I'd hope most of us are really scared for our country. I don't like being political because it is really extreme a lot of the time, I just feel like this is different.

  
  Nah your instincts are both correct. With some exceptions the Strut has not been a conservative crowd; and more importantly, "this is different" is right too.
  
  I think since like 1945 there's been an illusion in the US that "we are the superpower, we control the world, we are competent, we are strong" and it's painful for a lot of generations that lived through what felt like stability provided by those things to face up to the fact that the States is not in a permanent meteoric rise. It's a construction of history just like any other empire. 

  This inability to handle historical change comes from early on in life - how history is taught to us, as if the founding documents, the ideas of a bunch of slavemasters, are tantamount to gospel and can withstand any historical forces. A lot of disillusionment from older generations is turning into ugly instincts. A lot of this has precedent in history elsewhere, it shouldn't come as a surprise really, but "it can't happen here" is rapidly getting proven wrong wherever it might've been applied in the past.

  I think there's a lot more people can do about it than they know though. Voting is something that takes like an hour once every few years. Assuming you're not already worth billions, building political power, group power, the power to defend and support yourself and your community, takes longer than that but can't be taken away as easily. You don't have to be 18 (or a citizen) to start that either.
  

  I really appreciate this sort of commenting, this really helps me understand better. I feel like the reaction is coming across as "they can't do this" in place of what they are actually feeling "how is this possible." I don't really understand how people see the choice between the two as such a hard one, trump is not like a bad person in the metaphorical sense that he "doesn't stand for me or you, yada yada" but in the sense that he is literally a criminal. The amount of people that actually voted is like half of the people that live here, and that was more than normal for this election.