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this is me with the guitar I want :  but it’s fifteen hundred pingas and that’s too many
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echinopsis posted:this is me with the guitar I want : Wait, Jesus is white?!?
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Apr 24, 2020 19:40
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also want that amp behind me god drat playing a guitar through a huge amp is such an insane power trip it
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echinopsis posted:aids? mate
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Apr 24, 2020 19:43
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fifteen hundo for an epiphone explorer? jeez, the situation in nz is fuckin *dire* I'm thinking of getting a gibson sg standard. gotta get that sweet crunchy sustaaaaaaain also want a boogie mark iic+ or a mark v but I also want to be able to pay rent
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Apr 24, 2020 19:43
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echinopsis posted:this is me with the guitar I want : how the hell does every music store look the same inside?
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Apr 24, 2020 19:54
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i have a beat up fender mexican strat i got used and i play it through a yamaha thr10x. suits my needs. my friend in high school had a 4x12 marshall cab and a tube amp plugged into it. i think that's why i have tinnitus now. i'm all for city living but being able to have a gently caress-off loud amp is the only thing making me question that. not really possible to have that kind of rig in an apartment.
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Apr 24, 2020 19:55
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  what the gently caress how is this in peoples mail
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Apr 24, 2020 19:55
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and just as I suspected its a Falun Gong front and in typical Falun Gong fashion they really love going through the effort to obfuscate that
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Apr 24, 2020 19:56
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Kazinsal posted:fifteen hundo for an epiphone explorer? jeez, the situation in nz is fuckin *dire* arent gibson mostly overpriced garbage these days? and with horrible quality control to boot.
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Apr 24, 2020 20:01
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Arcteryx Anarchist posted:
i hear america is just giving away free money to all its citizens now, so who's the real communists??
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Apr 24, 2020 20:19
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and that's just like a junk mail pipeline thing; its not even targeted afaik -- so that's just going out to a bunch of people
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Apr 24, 2020 20:20
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Arcteryx Anarchist posted:
What's teh deal with Falun Gong anyways, they have some dance show that travels around and they're way into tai chi or some poo poo?
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Apr 24, 2020 20:23
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Arcteryx Anarchist posted:how the hell does every music store look the same inside? its all the guitars op
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Apr 24, 2020 20:26
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Schadenboner posted:What's teh deal with Falun Gong anyways, they have some dance show that travels around and they're way into tai chi or some poo poo? They were a huge cult in China that got cracked down on by the Chinese Communist Party and now they tour the US doing propaganda shows disguised as ancient chinese ballet.
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Apr 24, 2020 20:29
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Apr 24, 2020 20:31
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The other interpretation is that they are a legitimate religious movement with a foundation in Taoism and Buddhism that gained a lot of followers in China in the 1990s who were subsequently violently persecuted and even murdered by the Chinese government, and now they tour the US doing propaganda shows disguised as ancient chinese ballet.
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Apr 24, 2020 20:38
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cult is the only credible interpretation unless u are a spook or chowing down on psyop spook food
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Kazinsal posted:fifteen hundo for an epiphone explorer? jeez, the situation in nz is fuckin *dire* yep second hand market ain’t great either yeah the mark v is incredible. it’s like 5grand here for the head alone I used to have the equivalent of an epiphone but a paul reed smith. it was the tremonti signature which yeah he’s the dude from creed but god it was so nice to play. regret selling it so much. especially because it cost me $1800 when I got it and lost about $1500 of the value and used the three hundred or so to buy an ipad classic
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Apr 24, 2020 20:43
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Stereotype posted:The other interpretation is that they are a legitimate religious movement with a foundation in Taoism and Buddhism that gained a lot of followers in China in the 1990s who were subsequently violently persecuted and even murdered by the Chinese government, and now they tour the US doing propaganda shows disguised as ancient chinese ballet. I’m becoming increasingly intrigued with buddhism
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Apr 24, 2020 20:44
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they had extensive state support until they didn’t because the founder spoke a bit too much about things the authorities didn’t like. it was the tcm of its day.
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Apr 24, 2020 20:44
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1500NZD is like 900usd that being said i have no idea how much those guitars normally go for also i would imagine being a tiny island nation makes everything pretty expensive
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Apr 24, 2020 20:45
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echinopsis posted:I’m becoming increasingly intrigued with buddhism I mean at least you have confirmed that Jesus is, indeed, white? 
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Apr 24, 2020 20:45
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Stereotype posted:They were a huge cult in China that got cracked down on by the Chinese Communist Party and now they tour the US doing propaganda shows disguised as ancient chinese ballet. yeah my wife took her mom to see it a few years ago and she was telling me it was really impressive and beautiful "and then at the end they talked about how a free china was truly possible and atheism is a lie???"
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Apr 24, 2020 20:55
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Schadenboner posted:I mean at least you have confirmed that Jesus is, indeed, white? he’s a Jew
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Apr 24, 2020 20:57
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My job has extended it's wfh order till at least the end of may now with plans for a soft reopening
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Apr 24, 2020 20:59
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freeasinbeer posted:they had extensive state support until they didn’t because the founder spoke a bit too much about things the authorities didn’t like. on the other hand one could say so did bob jones from politicians in California, until one day he didn’t.
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Apr 24, 2020 20:59
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they also put a lot of effort into never really associating their propaganda directly with the Falun Gong organization; like if you greped this newspaper you probably won't find the name anywhere -- same with Shen Yun (though I think they have some slivers of it somewhere, maybe in the programs?)   Just a regular good old American newspaper willing to Speak the Truth, nothing to see here
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Apr 24, 2020 21:00
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echinopsis posted:he’s a Jew No, it's a "increasingly intrigued with buddhism" joke.
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Apr 24, 2020 21:00
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:1500NZD is like 900usd our high minimum wage makes anything that involves customer service expensive the only poo poo that is cheap is stuff at big box stores because of efficiency. anything that requires staff like mcondalds or music stores and plumbers is expensive as hell. raising the minimum wage as much as we are does nothing without attempts at rent control of which we do not have. no one is getting richer for having higher minimum wages except landlords. it’s gonna be like $20/hour next year I think
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Apr 24, 2020 21:01
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Schadenboner posted:No, it's a "increasingly intrigued with buddhism" joke. I’m white as gently caress 
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Apr 24, 2020 21:02
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what's also great is judging by this, the Falun Gong are perfectly willing to stoke anti-asian/anti-chinese sentiment as long as they think they can spite the CCP with it this is obviously targeted at white people and most of them have no real distinction between the CCP, China, Chinese people, and asian people in general
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Apr 24, 2020 21:04
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Schadenboner posted:I mean at least you have confirmed that Jesus is, indeed, white? 
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Apr 24, 2020 21:10
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Cat Face Joe posted:yeah my wife took her mom to see it a few years ago and she was telling me it was really impressive and beautiful "and then at the end they talked about how a free china was truly possible and atheism is a lie???"
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Apr 24, 2020 21:11
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I about had a stroke last year when my mother mentioned that my father had signed up for a free trial of the Epoch Times. He'd always been conservative, but the past several years he's gone off the deep end and I don't think there's any coming back. The sheer hypocrisy of all the stuff he'd railed against, blatantly going on for the past four years, and him being okay with it because it's his guy doing it has really makes me depressed when I think about it.
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Apr 24, 2020 21:13
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TerminalRaptor posted:The sheer hypocrisy of all the stuff he'd railed against, blatantly going on for the past four years, and him being okay with it because it's his guy doing it has really makes me depressed when I think about it.
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Apr 24, 2020 21:14
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Stereotype posted:The other interpretation is that they are a legitimate religious movement with a foundation in Taoism and Buddhism that gained a lot of followers in China in the 1990s who were subsequently violently persecuted and even murdered by the Chinese government, and now they tour the US doing propaganda shows disguised as ancient chinese ballet. i halfheartedly looked into it and falun gong seem to be religious weirdos but largely harmless religious weirdos. Its not like scientology where they're destroying people or some cult that's siphoning all peoples money away or whatever. That's kinda what i got, anyway.
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Apr 24, 2020 21:25
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rotor posted:i halfheartedly looked into it and falun gong seem to be religious weirdos but largely harmless religious weirdos. Its not like scientology where they're destroying people or some cult that's siphoning all peoples money away or whatever. That's kinda what i got, anyway. the thing with the Falun Gong is you have to be able to put on your Soviet hat to be able to interpret them aka using a deeper level of political inspection than most Americans are familiar with You have to be able to tease apart the fundamentalist new age religion aspect, the anticommunist aspect, the reasons the CCP might not like them very much because they are a fundamentalist new age religion, the reasons the CCP might not like them because they're an anticommunist group, and the reasons the CCP might not like them very much because of just the nature of the CCP and a marxist-leninist-maoist organization in general
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Arcteryx Anarchist posted:the thing with the Falun Gong is you have to be able to put on your Soviet hat to be able to interpret them aka using a deeper level of political inspection than most Americans are familiar with 
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