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Judakel
Jul 29, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!

thank you for proving his point

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indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
every cover of You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go tries to be this moody sad song and completely misses the point of the original

Laterite
Mar 14, 2007

It's Gutfest '89
Grimey Drawer
Good Dylan covers begin and end with these



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBHXUOogpOg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
"I don’t know how to break this to y’all because I know they’re well-loved, but the band ABBA played a direct role in preventing Sweden from actually becoming a socialist nation in the 1980’s. This isn’t a shitpost either"

quote:

In the run-up to a general election Sept. 19, [Abba], which numbers its fans in millions all over the world, is fighting a last-ditch stand to keep the financial empire it has built up in its homeland. Abba’s riches flow, appropriately, from such hits as “Money, Money, Money” and “Winner Takes It All.”

A proposal that would allow the trade unions to take over private industry is one of the main planks of the Swedish Social Democratic Party’s election manifesto.

Abba, which runs several of Sweden’s most profitable companies, is a prime target for the Socialist program masterminded by Marxist economists of the Swedish Confederation of Trade Unions, which is affiliated to the party in much the same way as the Trades Union Congress is linked to the British Labour Party.

The plan allows for the establishment of 13 so-called wage-earner funds. Successful companies would be forced to contribute 20 percent of what the unions describe as “excess profits” to the funds. Workers would also contribute with enforced deductions from their wages.

With this cash, the union-run funds would then buy shares in all leading companies.

Per-Martin Meyerson, leading economist with the Federation of Swedish Industry, estimates that within five years the funds would control most of Swedish industry. “The market economy would cease to exist,” he told the Monitor.

Olof Palme, leader of the Swedish Social Democrats, who have swung steadily further left in recent years, says the funds are necessary to raise investment for industry and haul Sweden out of an economic crisis of horrifying dimensions…

The Social Democrats have a commanding lead in all public opinion polls. If they win, it could be the beginning of the end for Abba. The group’s manager, Stig Anderson, is deeply concerned by the threat of a Socialist takeover of his empire. “If we had had these funds today, we would have been forced this year to part with about $2.16 million,” he said. “Why should I continue to work 14-15 hours a day to give money away like this?”

“The funds are just a device so that the unions can get power. They would be disastrous for the country. It is ridiculous to think that they could take care of the money better than us professionals.”…

Anderson is currently organizing a gala concert at Grona Lund, Stockholm’s open-air amusement park, on Sept. 5, to help finance the fight against the Socialist takeover.

And Bjorn Ulvaeus, who has composed many of Abba’s greatest hits, is now penning a leaflet alerting young people to the dangers of the funds.
“We are trying to reach young families,” said Anderson, “It is their children’s futures that are at stake. This election is tremendously important. Someone said to me the other day that it might be the first time that a country will freely vote to go behind the Iron Curtain. Unfortunately, that could be the truth of it.”

Judakel
Jul 29, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
abba makes pop tripe so that makes sense

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

can't wait for 40 years from now when we hear about lil nas x's coordination with the cia and alec

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

at first i thought by "in its homeland" the article meant abba was trying to keep foreign countries from profiting by its work but of course it meant the exact opposite of that lol

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

Olof Palme was assassinated in 1986. Have we uncovered a sinister plot concocted by shadowy Europop bands?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Palme

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

i say swears online posted:

can't wait for 40 years from now when we hear about lil nas x's coordination with the cia and alec

Lil Nas used to have a bunch of tweets critiquing Amazon and when he blew up they disappeared.

Edit: I can't find them at all anymore. Even in screenshot form.

Mr Hootington has issued a correction as of 11:21 on May 25, 2021

mandatory lesbian
Dec 18, 2012

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

bzzzt wrong the covers are with very few exceptions worse

Youre kidding me right, bob dylan has one of the goofiest singing voices in the world

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/MenshevikM/status/1395874116218101763

i spent way too long trying to find this on something awful before remembering that i thought this was too insane to post here and that it would give you all mental breakdowns lol

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Some Guy TT posted:

https://twitter.com/MenshevikM/status/1395874116218101763

i spent way too long trying to find this on something awful before remembering that i thought this was too insane to post here and that it would give you all mental breakdowns lol

bezos bought mgm and now this is the new james bond movie

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Some Guy TT posted:

https://twitter.com/MenshevikM/status/1395874116218101763

i spent way too long trying to find this on something awful before remembering that i thought this was too insane to post here and that it would give you all mental breakdowns lol

https://twitter.com/aligrestecp_/status/1395965359493165059

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


mandatory lesbian posted:

Youre kidding me right, bob dylan has one of the goofiest singing voices in the world

not at all the originals are the best

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

mandatory lesbian posted:

Youre kidding me right, bob dylan has one of the goofiest singing voices in the world

his singing voice is absolutely goofy as poo poo and that’s why it’s good

I’m not a big fan but the songs of his I love can’t be done better by someone else

Toph Bei Fong
Feb 29, 2008



indigi posted:

isn’t there a Fox News host who has a segment where she puts her legs up on the desk

That would be S.E. Cupp, Fox News' pretend atheist and attempt to capture the "Sarah Palin is so hot!" demographic





Clip-On Fedora
Feb 20, 2011


Knowing the right (scary) people and having the right (terrifying) political connections can get you out of any jam!

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011



by what possible rationale is playstation five times the size of nintendo

mandatory lesbian
Dec 18, 2012

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

not at all the originals are the best

This is insane to me but whatevs, you be you

F Stop Fitzgerald
Dec 12, 2010

lol the boomer brain is the least embarrassing of those

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Some Guy TT posted:



by what possible rationale is playstation five times the size of nintendo

I'm thinking about thos corn flakes

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

tony the tiger living rent free in boomer brains

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005


Alexa, please create two terrorists

RandolphCarter
Jul 30, 2005


gradenko_2000 posted:

Season 1, Episode 2 of the Newsroom

The big story of the episode was Arizona's SB 1070, a controversial (anti-)immigration bill passed by then Gov. Jan Brewer.

lol sorkin is so loving dumb

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Nintendo is only good for the Switch but the games are pretty limited, and Xbox exclusives are pretty bad too

Makes sense that Sony is up top

Aglet56
Sep 1, 2011

Some Guy TT posted:

by what possible rationale is playstation five times the size of nintendo

what if i told you that brand analysis is bullshit

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Some Guy TT posted:



by what possible rationale is playstation five times the size of nintendo

The good games probably

Clip-On Fedora
Feb 20, 2011

Some Guy TT posted:

by what possible rationale is playstation five times the size of nintendo

Perhaps Nintendo forgot to stop by their office with a large briefcase full of money. Whoops!

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

gradenko_2000 posted:

Nintendo is only good for the Switch but the games are pretty limited, and Xbox exclusives are pretty bad too

Makes sense that Sony is up top

breath of the wild tho

Bro Dad
Mar 26, 2010


I loving love fords

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

People would sign up to serve for Disney or Nintendo paramilitary forces, and I'm not sure any other brand has that sort of loyalty.

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

Atrocious Joe posted:

People would sign up to serve for Disney or Nintendo paramilitary forces, and I'm not sure any other brand has that sort of loyalty.

Id kill you in a second if Mr. Salty ordered it.

C-SPAN Caller
Apr 21, 2010



Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:

Berserk obviously isn’t gonna get the planned ending now but at least the point it left off is fairly poignant: Guts successfully reaches the fairy island and cures Casca and the skull knight gives him a warning about being consumed by revenge that seems to actually take hold in Guts’ brain, so maybe he gives up his quest to kill Griffith and stones down with his friends a world away

It honestly should just end there with maybe an epilogue chapter showing that happen drawn by the assistants.

C-SPAN Caller
Apr 21, 2010



Atrocious Joe posted:

People would sign up to serve for Disney or Nintendo paramilitary forces, and I'm not sure any other brand has that sort of loyalty.

Is Harry Potter a brand?

Mecha Gojira
Jun 23, 2006

Jack Nissan

C-SPAN Caller posted:

Is Harry Potter a brand?

film rights owned by AT&T, licensed to Comcast for theme parks

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?
I'm trying to think of what brand I'd sling bullets for if I was being pressed into it.

maybe that company that makes the jerkoff cum game

Random Asshole
Nov 8, 2010

C-SPAN Caller posted:

Is Harry Potter a brand?

Thankfully, all but the most diehard have been scared off by Rowling being pulled into the black hole of TERFdom, just like all the GoT fans decided to find a new brand for their life to revolve around after the last season of the show was just pure molten dog poo poo being poured down their throats.

C-SPAN Caller
Apr 21, 2010



Random rear end in a top hat posted:

Thankfully, all but the most diehard have been scared off by Rowling being pulled into the black hole of TERFdom, just like all the GoT fans decided to find a new brand for their life to revolve around after the last season of the show was just pure molten dog poo poo being poured down their throats.

That's good at least

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

I would kill for the Service Games Sammy corporation.

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i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

https://lilfile.com/jbOKeG?fbclid=IwAR0OmtYcFVSW4jt5FkaOdJn3e0Xh3ILenJYkmYUWnvvyi_4Itvsr3-LR5gk

diablo cody wrote a gritty powerpuff girls reboot and the script leaked

this is incredible

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