And sometimes it’s an old band with their own, unique music style, history of neither bigotry nor pedophilia, and a modern fanbase entirely made up of 14 year olds commenting “this is what real music used to sound like, before people became gay.”
Lost prophets 😢
its weird playing guitar hero world tour or lego rock band and hearing rooftops
Listening to black metal is a minefield.
same for pornogrind and yes thats a real sungenre that comes from grindcore
hates black people
listens to black metal
hypocrites
I listen mostly to heavy metal and I never enjoyed Iced Earth or Pantera. Sixth sense, baby!
Come back to me once you spent a large amount of your time learning guitar thanks to a band, then the band members first want to give a chance to Trump, then begin using AI (all after they wrote an awful triple concept album on “machine music” building out literally 1984).
It’s not just music. It’s hard to find guilt free enjoyment in almost anything nowadays. Someone involved in its creation will almost inevitably be a turbo-cunt somehow.
I’ve come to the conclusion that being an ethical consumer is probably impossible. I will however still try. Perfection is the enemy of progress and all that.
If you consider it a binary, sure, perfection is impossible. But I would say trying with real effort qualifies as being an ethical consumer.
“there is no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism”
It’s been a known concept in leftist theory for a long while.
While true, many people use that as an excuse to not even try. Even if you can’t stop exploitation as just one individual, this doesn’t mean you get a pass to make things worse.
Have you seen The Good Place by any chance?
Mike Schur wrote a great companion book to the series called How To Be Perfect that details all of the philosophy he got into while writing the show. Very entry-level stuff and quite accessible while still being an interesting meta-analysis of a few branches of philosophy. Definitely worth a read if you enjoyed The Good Place.
Nope, is it any good?
Depends, if you like moral philosophy it’s good, if you don’t, it’s still good.
That’s the right mentality to have there. Do what you can where you can.
I ran into an amazing character creator and animator recently and loved what I saw. I shared it with some friends and they pointed out the person is a complete CHUD. I now blacklist their stuff, as simple viewership of their media gives demand for it.
Guilt-free is impossible if you pay for it. Pirating though, you can draw the line yourself. Like for example Harry Porter the movie is a combination of multiple talented people, i don’t attribute all those to a single cunt, and pirating mean i can avoid paying that cunt while also acknowledging the talent that contributed to this whole series(by watching their other works, but i’m also a massive cunt as i pirate everything and not paying streaming service a single cent)
Don’t really like the series anyway, the setting is pretty nice though. Will still avoid media from people who crossed that line though.
I really think everyone should pirate books and just donate to authors who need it. You bypass all the publishers and any nonsense connected to it, and if the authors suck you can find that out before eonating. Like if you buy Sanderson books you are tithing to his stupid anti-LGBT church.
And if you pirate a new author’s book, you’re fucking them in sales, and donating does not make up for it. New authors don’t need money, they need to sell their book.
no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism
Perfection is impossible, you’ll never know someone is like that until they get vocal about it. But for actual Nazis and their sympathizers, I do what I can to not give them attention or money. It’s like ethical consumption under capitalism, it’s impossible to be 100%. Just do better when it’s obvious.
part of this, not all of it, is if you take the average person and put a microscope on their life, it turns out they are not flawless
Alternatively it’s just made with AI.
Or if it’s made with Grok then it’s a Nazi pedo AI.
I learned about Grimes from her spot in Cyberpunk 2077. Excited at the potential well of new music I looked her up and first result is a divorce with Musk.
Come on, man.
For those saying “it’s a divorce,” when accused of being a Nazi, Grimes replied she was “happily proud of white culture.”
They had enough in common to get married.
Yeah, this ain’t whatshername that had his kid and went from chud to “dark woke”. Grimes has just remained the same
All I really know of Grimes is she collaborated with Poppy on her second album, and they apparently immediately had a public feud. Poppy’s accusations are pretty inline with being having 3 kids with Elon Musk.
At least it’s a divorce
Well, for there to be a divorce, there needs to be a wedding. 😬
People finding out the person they thought they knew/loved is a cunt after marrying them is very common
As much as I agree, I didn’t need to marry Musk to realize he’s a cunt.
She definitely thought he was a viable human being at some point though.
Do people forget that so did the rest of society at large before he publicly went off the deep end?
I would think that she would have a better understanding of him and his character prior to getting married than the public at large. I’ve never been in a room with him, much less had a conversation or spent time together.
For the last few years, plenty of people are finding out their loved ones and close friends have hidden sides to them they did not see before. Why is it that she couldn’t have been one of those people?
I don’t know why you’re running defense for Grimes, but they started dating the same year he called that British caver that saved the kids in Thailand a pedophile. Not what I would consider mature or marriage potential, and that’s what he said in public.
There is a substantial difference between public image and actual personality. Society at large was unaware of his proclivities because he had an ace PR team stymie his worst impulses. It’s much harder to stay mask off when you’re actually interacting and living with someone, and Musk isn’t very good at subtley.
Plus like the other user said, they started dating the year he did that weird pedo accusation at that Thai rescue squad. That was definitely the beginning of a LOT of people realizing he was off.
Grimes got with him when he was sliding off the deep end. She’s also an idiot who has said some dumb shit about other social issues since.
some of us were skeeved from the begining
She did siphon away some money from him, which can only be good. Also, she probably hates him more than I do,
and theres always the polytopia betrayal incident
They divorced, and she’s not a big fan of him now, to be diplomatic about it
But she is still a fan of, in her words, “white culture.” They got along for a reason
I bet she’s a fan of her alimony checks and child support money
That’s the thing. Musk is apparently not really big into paying those
Same thing… Looked up who voiced the lisping rockstar in game because it seemed so peculiar to me. And its just… her. Really soured me on Lizzy.
You can enjoy art without getting caught up on the artist’s views and actions
The way you phrased it makes me feel like this is one of Hitlers…
You don’t have to solely trust your gut. You can also read the bottom right corner.
Heeey, I didn’t notice that. Thanks!
It is, but it’s a bad example because Hitler’s paintings are shit.
This is pretty mediocre. Composition is flat, and the technique is not what I’d call masterful.
I think it’s a good example because art is subjective and liking this picture doesn’t mean you’re a nazi.
And yes his art is shit. But to each their own.
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Which is ironically a Nazi quote.
‘Suum cuique’ predates Nazism by millennia. ‘Arbeit macht frei’ is newer, but is also not theirs.
Yeah but then you also have artists like J K Rowling who have laid out, in no uncertain terms, that significant amounts of their fortunes are going straight to harming marginalized communities.
Rowling, in this example, has started an anti trans charity that does not accept external donations, it is fueled solely by Harry Potter money. The only way I’m going to be able to enjoy anything in this vein is if I know that she’s not seeing a dime out of it.
Okay so pirate it, what’s the biggie
Usually I agree, my one exception is Lost Prophets. Ian Watkins crimes were so awful that now when I’ve tried to listen to their first album (which I loved at release) I just feel sick.
TIL Watkins was killed in prison
From what I’ve read it didn’t begin until, like, after their third album. So that’s how I rationalize it, and I hate saying that. But Fake Sound of Progress and Start Something were utterly formative for me, so I’ve gotta cope.
Noone goes from being a normal, functioning, non-paedophile adult to raping babies in a couple of years. That shit escalates over a long time so I don’t buy that there weren’t signs before then.
The band mates and label etc may have not realised how depraved he would go on to become but there were 100% signs he had an unnatural interest in children.
Yes, but
Sometimes, yes, but then you have this terrible painting and read the name on bottom right say D. Trump
We’ve seen trump’s art style and it’s not anywhere near this skilled
To a degree. Giving seig heils like the pantera lead singer is not ok with me, just as hemingway shooting endangered species is not ok with me.
That’s not even an original art style. I bet if you ask around 1/1000 grandma’s can paint you that.
Black metal bands : nazi
Classic rock artists : pedophiles
Inquisition : both
As a black metal fan… It’s really not that hard to avoid the nazis. There are plenty of anti-fascist sources. I think people are just too lazy or already invested in fascist music.
I know, it’s a joke, I am a black metal fan myself. I don’t believe every old school rockstars out there were fucking minors either.
But there is a reason that everytime I find a new BM band, my first action is to dig a bit oh them. I don’t usually do that for other genres…
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As a black metal fan… I get what you’re saying, but the number of times I turned down music I liked because of the artists is probably in the 3 digits.
It’s cool they can span multiple genres like that
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I also got one of these this week
anon is literally on 4chan
pepe the frog
complains about someone being nazilmao
Maybe they are just sexist instead? /j
Dance Gavin Dance and Crystal Castles are two that I’ve been bummed to find out about relatively recently. :\
Dang whats up with Crystal Castles?
Apparently dude was abusive towards other bandmate.
Yeah, basically this. Sexually (when she was underage) and every other way.
:(
alice glass is still putting out some great stuff last i checked
I guess its not a coincidence that my favorite artist lives a very private life.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, this is part of what I love about the punk scene, it’s all about empowering the downtrodden and telling oppressors to fuck off, and at the same time having some fun while you do so!
Anti-flag and the casualties come to mind off recent examples of the opposite of this.
Really sad to find that out about Anti-Flag. They had such an asexual energy about them that I could relate to. Also they stopped me from becoming a fascist at one of my darkest moments.
Oh snap i’d missed the sexual assault allegations around anti-flag’s frontman. That’s really disgusting
Shortly before kanye’s nazi controversy, Spotify was pushing him hard, lol
