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NielsBohron
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I was lucky enough to see Ibram X. Kendi speak on anti-racism in higher education, and it was illuminating to realize that, as a white, cis-het man, I might not be able to work within the system to change the system without actively breaking laws.
The example he used was actually affirmative action and EEO standards and how the best an ally can do in certain situations might be to put your thumb on the scale even when it's technically illegal.
Basically, if you want to be anti-racist, you've gotta be Chaotic Good since the system is literally rigged against people of color.
Don't threaten me with a good time...
Plus, admitting that God cannot create light without dark or good without evil means admitting God is not omnipotent.
I misread the headline as "the right to discontent," which I think is also a good idea to codify, given the way people who speak out are often punished for legitimate complaints
It's like an old-fashioned (usually glazed) more in a bar shape than a traditional donut shape. I would assume that they have buttermilk in the recipe, but I don't don't really know the specifics other than than they have a bit more of a "sour cream" tang than a regular old-fashioned.
To my eternal dismay, all the donut shops in my town stopped making buttermilk bars, so I have to go in with a "stretch" donut and have a safety donut (old-fashioned glazed) as my most likely order.
Check the link OP posted; it looks like there's nearly 400 comics
Like the post said the other day, "paying attention is infuriating and exhausting, but not paying attention seems irresponsible"
It doesn't mean the campaigning will be shorter, just that everything will further turn into attack ads on incumbents
I've got a van, van, van...
I'm hot for teacher
Our Raw Heart by YOB (2018) on the left and Grief's Infernal Flower by Windhand (2015).
For those that haven't heard these bands, they are both are fantastic stoner/doom releases, but within those subgenres, they couldn't be more different, IMHO.
YOB is more proggy and sludgy with some fairly mellow melodic songs and very deep, introspective lyrics. They are known for having pretty long songs, even by stoner/doom standards, with 10 songs over the 10 minute mark on their last three albums. Adrift in the Ocean and Beauty in Falling Leaves are both pretty good entry points.
Windhand is slow and heavy as fuck, with a pretty psychedelic sound and dreamy, reverby, clean female vocals, which I've heard called doomgaze. Frankly, there's not a bad entry point, but Grey Garden and Forest Clouds were two of the first songs that got me into doom in the first place
Time for some epic, doomed Mork Borg TPK's.
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Type O Negative had two albums in the 2000's, and they were only OK (especially compared to their 90's albums), but I'd say they still count as "pulling off something remotely 'goth'"
Plus, Nine Inch Nails has some good stuff in the aughts, and Trent Reznor's brand of industrial rock is definitely "goth-adjacent," as are My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade (2006, I think) and AFI's Sing the Sorrow (2003), which are both great albums.
And in more recent music, the band Creeper is really killing it. Their rock opera Sex, Death, and the Infinite Void is very goth and it's amazingly good (especially as someone who turned his nose up at pop-punk as a kid).
In non-music media, there have been some really good comics with goth aesthetics in the last 20 years, and I can give some good recs if anyone is interested.