Pick one Radiohead is easy. The Bends. After that? In Rainbows, Amnesiac/Kid A- I can’t listen to one without immediately listening to the other. Hail to the Thief? Really? Pshaw.
Goddamn millennials, right?
Yup. No sense of taste. I mean one of the FOH staff used to turn on Girl Talk whenever possible. I mean, wtf is that shit? And get off my lawn.
TIL that “Creep” is the only Radiohead song I know, and after a brief perusal on Youtube I’m really OK with that.
I’m reserving judgement until see his rank of the Guided by Voices albums from Propeller to Half Smiles of the Decomposed.
edit: I may have to come back to him if he lands on the side of Foolish.
Finally, a platform I can fully support.
Really though, the really disqualifying quote from that LA Times article:
Dead to me.
kerzain
1960
No, just no. Stick with what you know, boot edge edge.
Can you elaborate on why you think that? I’ve felt he is fairly moderate, but perhaps I’ve missed something
I’ve always preferred The Bends but I haven’t listened to much post-Kid A.
JonRowe
1964
Me too, his many positions are much more along the lines taking the left wing policies and plans of Bernie and Warren, and dialing them back (and removing any actual policy planning)
A great example is with the voting rights of convicts. Bernie went all in on allowing those incarcerated to vote, a position I think is really honorable. As AC said, he was creating his own opposition ads with that position, but he is fundamentally right, that it is tough to say, but all American citizens deserve to vote, even if they are bad people. Taking away voting rights is a dangerous thing.
Pete’s response was, well, I agree that felons should vote once they have been reformed, or released from prison, but not during.
Thus, watering down a more far left position, or being a diet Sanders.
Like, all of the cool feelings of being neato left wing, without any of the substance.
One of those positions – restoring voting rights to paroled felons – is a tentpole piece of the Democratic party platform.
The other position – allowing incarcerated felons to vote – is not.
Ideologically, they’re different positions.
So then by this admission, your contention that Buttigieg is just Sanders-lite is wrong, because they’re clearly supporting different positions.
Your chance to have input on how the LA Times covers 2020:
Timex
1970
It maybe just simplistic and not well thought through. Six in one, half dozen in the other.
When you commit crimes and are incarcerated, you lose all kinds of rights. That’s what prison is. You lose FAR more fundamental rights than voting. You lose the right to control your own person. You lose the right to move around.
There is no rational argument for why voting is intrinsically an inalienable right, even while you are being punished for committing crimes. If you are going to say that you can’t lose important rights while incarcerated, then prison itself makes no sense. You can’t limit their rights to guns, as that’s a clear violation of the second amendment. You can’t limit their ability to leave the prison grounds.
But of course, none of that makes sense.
Because Sanders didn’t take a “principled” position.
Sanders took a dumb position, that he simply didn’t think through.
