Grafwritah2
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Electionstrut 2024
Electrode said:Grafwritah2 said:I honestly think a lot of that was just Clickbait to drive traffic. What sounds more interesting to read/watch, "Europeans HATE Americans because..." or "European guy loved his trip to St. Louis".
It's very annoying and most of them are garbage, but I do think that drives clicks.
Definitely. The point I was trying to make was that, as stated in the Reddit post ketan linked to, those with nefarious geopolitical intent insert themselves into certain popular topics or social movements, act as outside agitators and get people arguing.
Another example would be how years ago, hashtags like "save the children" and "bring back our girls" were hijacked to spread QAnon/Pizzagate nonsense. Non-profits who work hard to eliminate real-life human trafficking have nothing to do with non-existant "Democrat politicians and celebrities kidnap children and drain their blood", but Russian troll farms made it so.
Point taken. Aside from the noise that generates that obfuscates the real problems (and solutions), does that really take away from the people who aren't morons? What I want to say is does anyone that wasn't born with fetal alcohol syndrome really believe Hillary Clinton was facilitating trafficking of children from the non-existent basement of a pizza shop? Or maybe it doesn't matter - if they stir up enough morons they'll get the result they want, which is confusion and idiots showing up to pizza shops with guns looking for non-existent children.
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Electionstrut 2024
I would say old school Soulstrut was on the woke spectrum before the term woke was coined. But considering that most people were somewhere between college and slightly out of it that's not that surprising. I'd guess most people carried that political view forward, with the occasional exception like whichever one of us turned into an ultra-conservative political pundit.
Setting aside the set of people who just didn't vote as happens in every election, the country has clearly spoken. It wasn't a razor thin margin, and it wasn't a quirk of the electoral college vs. the popular vote. And it wasn't just limited to the President, either; Republicans swept the country and many areas that are Democratic strongholds shifted to the right a bit.
Personal opinion, Democrats went too far to the extreme on a number of their policies and alienated swaths of the populace, ran Biden when that was never going to fly, threw in Kamala at the last minute who was a weak candidate and had no time to develop her own brand, and basically made a mess of everything. Obama was the last strong candidate with a mass appeal that the Democrats have run and don't seem to have anyone on deck to compete against a strong personality like Trump.
I agree with others considering all of the track record of Trump both inside and outside of office that the majority of Americans were like "this is the guy that's going to fix things" is odd. I won't say surprising as I expected him to win, honestly, but that so many people felt Trump is the solution to the errors the Biden administration has made is a head scratcher to me.
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Luke Records (album/mp3-R)
Lol I had that Rock On Crew CD although I have the distinct feeling I threw it out or donated it.
Probably stating the obvious, but have you tried ripping it from YouTube or paying the $9 to macola (if it’s serious)
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Anyone have an e-copy of the Soulstrut Break In the Road Katrina CD?
kicks79 said:Better late than never.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11GEzTVog5MnKS-j5qtlbXPWa9gvYAqoh?usp=sharing
Let me know if this works for you all
Thanks for doing that! Much appreciated. 18 years later I can finally check it out!
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what's crackin' soulstrut???
Blastman said:I always love to bring the past forward, to make people remember, so what's crackin' soulstrut?Everyone's in their 40s wondering why their utility bills are so high and why their wife can't shop at Aldi instead of Trader Joes.
