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As much as Roger Waters lost all my respect back then when he sided with Maduro during the Venezuelan protests, giving the middle finger to Zuckerberg is something I wholeheartedly endorse. The irony is just too thick with his materials in particular.
This is generally what Twitter social media is all about.
People, none of whom I respect nor care about, throwing insults at one another, yet doing nothing of substance.
...and it's why I seldom log into those platforms anymore.
People use these platforms to get their daily dose of dopamine. It's a worthless addiction.
People, none of whom I respect nor care about, throwing insults at one another, yet doing nothing of substance.
...and it's why I seldom log into those platforms anymore.
People use these platforms to get their daily dose of dopamine. It's a worthless addiction.
Yeah, how could anyone not like the US puppet pick. We've been trying to eradicate the socialist government of Venezuela for the last 20 years.
Guaidó has received in indeterminate amount of Venezuelan cash frozen in the US. If that doesn't speak to who is pulling the strings here, I don't know what will.
Guaidó has received in indeterminate amount of Venezuelan cash frozen in the US. If that doesn't speak to who is pulling the strings here, I don't know what will.
This is the original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TGBcAZ55D4
There is a longer version at https://twitter.com/i/status/1404326042777554947
part of Rogers' appeal is his inherent naïveness regarding some issues like Syria/Venezuela and his songs (if you heard ten of them, you heard most of them). But that naïveté also allows him such beautiful expressions of visceral opinions and is part of the reason he remains somewhat loveable regardless of his failings.
Another brick in the walled garden... apparently, over Roger Waters' dead body.
a decade ago, I loved Roger Waters as a singer and musician, I don't know what he did else (I've read some comments that point out things he "wrongly" did) but I can feel something by seeing this video. I agree with his decision but I'm a bit shocked by him being so scathing. I feel like something's wrong with his virulent behavior. Is it really necessary, constructive and efficient to be so scathing ?
Take a listen to the Pink Floyd album Animals. Extremely scathing. The lyrics are simply brutal. Pink Floyd started work on that in 1976, i.e. 45 years ago. He was scathing then and not much has changed in the intervening time.
I should ! The time when I listened to Pink Floyd I didn't know English yet. I will try again now I'm more or less okay with this language
Could've done something more constructive. Zuck will just find another song to license.
https://twitter.com/Digit_007/status/1404689247051866119?s=2...
https://twitter.com/Digit_007/status/1404689247051866119?s=2...
I wonder if donating Zuck's money to the Free Assange fund would've been more useful. But then Zuck would have his song "for free"...
It was viscerally satisfying to hear, but Roger Waters has also made a name for himself as a ‘Syria Truther’ - going out of his way to spread lies about Syria, claiming Assad never used chemical weapons, and maligning the White Helmets. Roger Waters is no hero.
Edit - here’s one source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5621847/Roger-Water...
There are many others you can find by searching “Roger Waters Syria”.
Edit - here’s one source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5621847/Roger-Water...
There are many others you can find by searching “Roger Waters Syria”.
Why not fuck both of them? :-)
The only positive thing about this is, that a fuck you from Waters might be actually heard by Zuck and maybe cause a minuscule amount of sadness.
The only positive thing about this is, that a fuck you from Waters might be actually heard by Zuck and maybe cause a minuscule amount of sadness.
I really doubt that Mark Zuckerberg would care.
He might shrug if off as a missed marketing opportunity, but this man has no understanding of how incompatible the the sentence "We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control." is with any of his undertakings, or what it takes to show some respect to values humanity tries to embrace. He exploits those weaknesses.
He pretends to work towards that greater goal, talks about it but fails to recognize that he's just doing this to increase his hold on power. "Yes, I'm draining our rivers but I do this to deliver the water directly to you, don't you see?"
He might shrug if off as a missed marketing opportunity, but this man has no understanding of how incompatible the the sentence "We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control." is with any of his undertakings, or what it takes to show some respect to values humanity tries to embrace. He exploits those weaknesses.
He pretends to work towards that greater goal, talks about it but fails to recognize that he's just doing this to increase his hold on power. "Yes, I'm draining our rivers but I do this to deliver the water directly to you, don't you see?"
Sources??
Don’t relate someone’s action to previous actions without sources and especially when they are from entirely different domains. It comes across as a shallow attack. I’m saying this as it irked me - and I don’t even know who this Roger guy is.
> claiming Assad never used chemical weapons
You mean the assertion made by western governments without any actual evidence and which was later confirmed to be politically motivated by OPCW whistleblowers? Where have I seen this script before? Oh right, it's because it was the same one used in Iraq.
You mean the assertion made by western governments without any actual evidence and which was later confirmed to be politically motivated by OPCW whistleblowers? Where have I seen this script before? Oh right, it's because it was the same one used in Iraq.
Musicians dont get a seat at the intellectual table
Wholeheartedly
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Promptly censored here on HN.
He is still upset by that Gini deal... #privateJoke
If Rogers Waters says so it must be true, he wrote good songs 50 years ago so he must know a lot about everything.
> "We want to thank you for considering this project. We feel that the core sentiment of this song is still so prevalent and necessary today, which speaks to how timeless a work it truly..." -- and yet they want to suburn, they want to use it to make Facebook and Instagram even bigger and more powerful than it already is, so it can continue to censor all of us in this room, and prevent this story about Julian Assange getting out to the general public, so the general public could go "WHAT? What, no?" No. No more.
> ...
> You think, "how did this little prick who started off by saying 'She's pretty, we give her a four out of five, she's ugly, we'll give her a one'. How the fuck did he get any power in anything? And yet here he is, one of the most powerful idiots in the world.