pjwestin

I'm sure he's in hell now, having a blast.

That's certainly how I feel about Parachutes. Solid little album, even if it's not reinventing the wheel. I feel more mixed about A Rush of Blood to the Head. Some of their best tracks are on that album (The Scientist may be their best song), but a lot of it is forgettable, and Clocks just sucks, don't know how that became a big single. I thought X&Y was pretty meh, and then I stopped listening.

I don't know, maybe? When I was in high school the girls were all listening to emo. Once pop-punk went out of style (pretty much the minute Sk8ter Boi was released), most of the girls I knew pivoted towards Death Cab for Cutie or Dashboard Confessional. I was having a sad-boy period and other sad-boys I knew got me into Radiohead, Interpol, Coldplay (again, those first two albums), the Shins, and the Strokes.

I got the impression they were more of what bro-dudes listened to when they were sad rather than what sad-boys were listening to, but only exposure to them was Chasing Cars. They seemed closer to The All-American Rejects than, say, The Shins or Interpol or any of the other shit I was listening to when I was my most insufferable teenage self.

20 years ago they were what teenage sad-boys were listening to when they got bored of Radiohead and The Postal Service (and I mean that in the nicest way possible). Then after X&Y they kinda became electronic/synthpop for the clinically depressed.

Cut Coldplay some slack, this was the funniest thing that's happened in a while. Plus, Parachutes is...fine...A Rush of Blood to the Head has a couple of good tracks. Everything after that is pretty trash, but those first two albums were good to mid.

The party is supporting him for fucks sake...

It's good to see that Ken Martin isn't attacking Mamdani, but Schumer and Jefferies are refusing to endorse him. You can't say the party is supporting Mamdani when its two highest ranking members, both representatives from Mamdani's city, are withholding their endorsement.

Stop treating random shitty neoliberals as "the party" when their wing was just kicked out of the DNC.

The people you want to "punish" were voted out of leadership in the last DNC election, by the voting members of the DNC....

I'm really struggling to understand why you believe this. The party just kicked Davie Hogg out of leadership for threatening entrenched power, and Ken Martin isn't exactly fighting the neoliberal wing of the party either. One of the main differences between him and Ben Wikler, his main opponent for DNC chair, is that Martin wanted to continue taking money from, "good billionaires." Even in the interview you shared, Martin goes out of his way to defend centrist and even conservative Democrats:

You win by bringing people into your coalition. We have conservative Democrats. We have centrist Democrats. We have labor progressives like me, and we have this new brand of Democrat, which is the leftist.

The neoliberal wing of the party is on the back foot right now, but they haven't been kicked out. Many of them are trying to stage a comeback with Project 2029 and the Abundance Agenda, and plenty voting DNC members will support them. The fight for control of the party isn't over; it's barely started.

First, Bill Clinton is almost certainly all over them, and older Democrats still think of the Clintons as the epitome of Democratic success. Some of the old guard is still trying to push focus away from the Epstien files. Just two days ago, Nancy Pelosi was calling the Epstien files a distraction, which is a bat-shit crazy thing to say about evidence that could prove that your opponent was involved in a pedophile ring.

Second, Epstien probably has some sort of ties to the intelligence community. I don't know that I believe all these stories about him being a secret Mossad asset, but I think its very possible that the someone in the CIA was using him. Alex Acosta, who prosecuted Epstien in 2008, claimed that he was told to back off because he, "belonged to intelligence," and they're clearly withholding a lot of information, there's definitely something they don't want people to know. Anyway, since 9/11, the Democrats and Republicans have had basically the same position on the intelligence community (essentially, abject deference), so if the CIA says that it would be a national security risk to release the files, the Democrats aren't going to release the files.

Yeah, and my point is that's a stupid fucking point. Sexual assault charges are notoriously difficult to get convictions on, even when they're not against wealthy, powerful celebrities. 15 young men accused Spacey, and he was aquitted of assaulting less than half of them in the London trial. 25 women accused Trump, none of them even got a criminal trail, and only one of them was able to get a civil verdict in her favor. You're comparing two men who were both accused by dozens of people of sexual assault and both faced almost no consequences under the justice system, and then saying, "tHeSe ArE tHe oPpOsItE, dOuBlE sTaNdArD mUcH???????"

I mean, Biden's, "Corn Pop," speech happened in 2019 and he was still elected. I'm not trying to say they're the same morally (or even in terms of competency), but if the point is, "Can you imagine if Democrats elected a rambling, senile old man," well...yeah, I can.

If you want to be this simplistic, you could also apply this to the Matrix, Die Hard, at least 3 Star Wars films, most od the James Bond series, and basically every action movie made between 1991 and 1999.