https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o2ufv_c0xI
Six days left before the weirdest presidential campaign I’ve ever seen (or hope to see again) lurches to a halt! And another terrible cover of The Final Countdown. I think maybe these three should have rehearsed a little more.
In today’s BONUS VIDEO, a somewhat more polished performer plays a somewhat relevant hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ8pOXbS8HY
http://i.imgur.com/UyGse03.png
Oh my goodness that’s adorable
Oh wow. They were all in a different key! How does one not hear that?!
And here’s more Erasure playing ABBA:
ETA: Now that GEMA and youtube have come to an agreement I can see all music videos!
That cover hurt my heart… Those poor kids.
Good lord-of-the-dance whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy…?
That’s mostly rhetorical.
Aight, children. Aight…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT90j5-1rXY
Scary
(Can I just have a moment to appreciate the clothing and set design Keith uses? Clean, clear, very distinctive, and suits him perfectly. GQ colours, but not obnoxiously so, and the red stripe on the right third makes everything seem off-balance, keeping the viewer a bit disoriented. Really brilliant stuff.)
@ Scildfreja
re: Godwin’s Law,
… not this time. Horrifyingly, the discussion now STARTS with the comparison….
Godwin’s Law has been invalidated by a new law: In any discussion of far right politics, if a comparison to the Nazis has not been made, it is an indication that the discussion has not progressed far enough.
I will end up breaking a nerve on the (french) friend who are all “Hillary is crooked”.
READ THE GODAMNED CHARGE. BEING THE ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATE ISN’T A GODAMNED CRIME.
@Weird (etc.) Eddie
I’ve always hated that “tradition”. Invoking Godwin should not be a win button, especially when the comparison is apt. I know you’re not advocating it, just pointing it out, but still ugh that whole “you said Nazi so I win” mentality is disgusting.
We should call the reverse Godwin Trump’s Law.
Phrases such as “never seen anything like it”, “unbelievable”, fall so utterly short of reality. His campaign has not just moved the Overton Window, it has torn the Overton Window out, frame and all!
An acquaintance said back in June or July that “if Trump becomes President, [he’d] be glad [he’s] a white man” I wonder how many of those “undecideds” who are not sliding the polls towards Trump and oblivion are of that mindset??
I had lunch with a friend today – a very smart person, but still a cishet white male STEM person – who was hoping that McMullen would win because then it would “shake up politics and help the process of reform.”
Sigh.
Godwin’s law says that, the longer a discussion thread continues, the probability that someone will make a comparison to Nazis or Hitler approaches 1. The point is that people make comparisons to Nazis or Hitler pejoratively without understanding fascist ideology, not that it’s never appropriate to make a comparison to Nazis or Hitler.
Oh god, the stage presence. My heart! 😀 I need to have another wedding so I can hire this band.
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If you’re anything like me, you’ve been numbing your brain with all kinds of drugs and alcohol lately. I’m just gonna post some of the best weed themed songs from recent months, and one fried chicken themed because you also have to eat.
Any Internet law which is distinguishable from Godwin is insufficiently advanced.
@ HistoryNerd
True, and in the overwhelming number of discussions, that’s the case… in this case, there appears, at first to be an appropriate comparison. However, you brought up an important point;
It’s certain Trumpf has stirred up the cesspool and the Nazis are rising to the surface, but I honestly believe Trumpf himself does not HAVE any “idology” other than the obsessive pursuit of affirmation for himself.
Comparison is still valid, tho, as he has made it clear that his agenda will be one that the Nazis will love.
Metagodwin’s Law says that as an internet thread gets longer, the probability that someone will mention Godwin’s Law approaches 1.
I was collecting my drugs from my chemists earlier and they were covering that the (a?) polls has them at 46% each and were showing clips of the Orange Terror telling people who voted for Hillary to vote again for him. Is that a thing? Is that really a thing you can do in the US? :O
I’m wondering if they deliberately played in three different keys as some kind of edgy in joke. The alternative is too horrible.
What happened to those rumors that there was one more big story that would be the nail in Trump’s coffin? We’re running out of time for that.
@ WWTH
With all the awful things he has said and done, I just don’t think there is ANYTHING that could come out that his supporters would care about.
A white, cisgender, heterosexual protestant christian man can support him (if that man has no conscience), but ANYONE who does not meet those requirements is just plain STUPID to support him, not to mention self-destructive.
Olberman: “You know this man… You have ALWAYS known this man”
@Policy of Madness,
A youtuber I follow has just started a new Cities: Skylines series that follows a lot of the ideas you had discussed: pedestrian-friendly, social living spaces, minimization of traffic and a focus on sustainable environmental and social living. He’s a Dutch fellow who’s making his fictional planned city in Bahrain. It’s not just music, but a voiceover as he discusses his thoughts and how he’s planning the city. I saw it and thought you might like to watch!
@Varalys
Wut. He actually said that? Heck no, that’s illegal here–it’s voter fraud. I question if his urging people to do so is even legal. What the hell?
Edit: In regards to the polls, it’s only a couple that show it as being close, but it’s still scary. At one point he was getting close to single digits in the chance of winning calculations and now he’s up to a 30% chance.
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/