A more germane question, I think, is, What form does “saying ENOUGH” take? Remember that we had to defeat the German military to say ENOUGH to the _last_ fascist dictator of a modern industrial state.
Anyway, here's a MuseScore link, so that you can scroll down to 218 and hear for yourself, in case you don't know or don't remember what I'm talking about:
musescore.com/user/5815319...
But it was only 15 or so years ago that I was waiting for a train while halfway listening to this and my brain said, wait a minute, what the _hell_? That's not a normal thing to do, even by the rarified standards of a Beethoven piano sonata.
We're pretty used to this, since we've been listening to Beethoven, and this sonata, for about 200 years - there are thousands of recordings of it. I've been listening to this since I was a kid. It's how I discovered that I wasn't going to be a pianist.
...and then it's just, here, have 10 million notes tearing up and down the keyboard, like up until now he was telling you a story and now he's just throwing a bucket of water at you.
Nothing in the piece up to that point suggests that it's going to get all weird like this.
Up till that point, his arpeggios have all been accompanying, or advancing, the (very strong) melodic content. Then the main theme builds to its most energetic form (starting at 210 or thereabouts), and it's ascending, getting louder, clearly reaching a climax...
I know it's pretty controversial to say this, but Beethoven's 23rd piano sonata is really pretty good.
Every time I hear it, I'm struck by how, in the first movement, the 16 measures starting at 218 are just...insane.
Anyway, it's almost certain that Platner was denied re-entry into the Marines in 2009 specifically because of the Totenkopf tattoo that he got in 2007.
Source: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Staunch anti-fascists kick white supremacists to the curb, they don't quote them or retweet them or hang out with anyone who hangs out with them.
Fuck, you used to not even have to be a "staunch anti-fascist" to put daylight between yourself and these creeps. That was _normal_.
Alantropa is insufficiently ambitious, as at the time it was proposed we didn't have atomic bombs so they didn't know there was a way to drill a tunnel connecting the Mediterranean and the Qatarra Depression.
It'd depend on whether or not he grew up in a district whose school-choice program allows public funds to pay private-school tuition or not. That's not uniform across Maine. My brother and his wife are paying out of pocket for Bapst, and they are pretty unambiguously working class.
"There's glory for you!"
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"Elevated redemption requests." That's a bank run.
This Nation article is accompanied by a photo of pastors praying with Donald Trump in the Oval Office yesterday.
Here's an interesting question to examine: Of these people, which (apart from Trump, obviously) believe that they're participating in a sham performance for the rubes?
Tired: The US is trying to be Germany in the 1930s.
Wired: The US is trying to be Germany in 1942.
Ah, well, when I played Kerr I was 14 and he was 12, I think. We played 1-on-1. He beat me 20-0.
What I see, "may have been hit" and "the targeting info may not have been updated in over a decade," is not a claim of absolute fact, nor is it inaccurate. It's a correct representation of what the source it's referencing says. "Evidence suggests it wasn't" is accurate.
You don't really want a candidate with no experience with organization or leadership to win. In particular, you don't want a candidate who doesn't instinctively and unfailingly kick white supremacists to the curb the instant they come into view to win.
What you hope for, when you have a candidate like this, is that as he says what more institution-bound candidates will not and draws voters away, the institution-bound candidates pull their heads out of their asses and refocus their attention on what voters are actually concerned with.
_Because_ he's a wealthy failson, Platner can enter this process without being constrained by all these gatekeepers. He can talk directly to the working class and say what nobody else is saying to them. Which he does because, failson though he may be, he's no David Ellison.
Our system selects for political dynasts, hacks looking for sinecures, and wealthy failsons trying to find a little meaning in their lives. It's why AIPAC is so successful: just say the right words, and a lot of the financial challenges of turning your life over to candidacy get taken care of.
Once you start filtering for people who have a lot of spare time - because they're on disability, say, and yet despite being on disability they also have an income they can survive on - the pool of people who aren't professional politicians who could realistically run for Senate dries up real fast.
In fact, no, not a lot of people can do that. The overwhelming majority of Mainers work for a living. The lobstermen, construction workers, plumbers, and shopkeepers of the Maine working class barely have time to see Platner when he comes to town, let alone go to other towns every other night.
Well, most of those guys work for a living. I mean, really work. My brother, for instance would be a better candidate than Platner in just about every respect. But you can't really fit running for Senate into your schedule if you run a restaurant.
Oh, I know the answer to this one! No. No, his party will not listen.
As Myles na Gopaleen said, this is the sound of muddy water squirting from a slit in a rubber ball.
President Donald Trump's ciech of staff, Susie Wiles, is telling his advisers to bring ideas to the Oval Office to lower gasoline prices in the wake of the US attack on Iran, according to two energy industry executives familiar with the conversations. The White House is "looking under every rock for ideas on improving energy prices, especially gasoline prices," said one of the executives, who was granted anonymity to describe internal administration discussions.
Confidential to Susie Wiles: Immediately ceasing combat operations, issuing an apology, paying reparations, and turning SecDef over to the ICC will move the needle faster than anything else you can do.
I played one on one against Steve Kerr. I bet I didn't do any better than you did.
A question we should be asking of many people besides this one is, “Who told you this, and why do you believe it?”
(It’s a good question to ask yourself, too.)
