basically the Gen X hipster bros are dividing into factions: the ones that are actually kinda stupid and sexist / racist / transphobic and the ones that aren't.
― sarahell, Thursday, 14 January 2021 21:24 (three years ago) link
Someone posted a photo of a Vietnamese restaurant that was still flying the Pete 2020 flag months after he was done and then cut to the owner of said restaurant at the Capitol riot. Lots of people seem to have caught the brainworms after August.
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:54 (three years ago) link
His wife donated a bunch to WINRED fwiw
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 15 January 2021 00:13 (three years ago) link
John Maus's wife? Didn't he get divorced in 2019? I recall seeing him perform and literally two weeks prior he confessed to his wife leaving him in an AMA on Reddit
― octobeard, Friday, 15 January 2021 00:25 (three years ago) link
its weird to me that ppl are so invested in a framing of this that casts ariel pink as a charismatic villain and maus as a Good Guy Who Got In Over His Head.
i don't think that's really how i'd frame either of them. ariel has never been charismatic and maus is at best an unsympathetic idiot, just not a malicious bigot like pink. i largely agree with flopson. maus has always professed to be left-wing but the substance of that has always been abstract enough that i'm sure he can believe he is left-wing while having strange positions (like going sanders -> yang -> trump) that reinforce my view of him as an "unsympathetic idiot", and it's not like 'having good politics' was ever much part of his image.
― ufo, Friday, 15 January 2021 01:44 (three years ago) link
rights for gays -- oh yeah
― sarahell, Friday, 15 January 2021 02:23 (three years ago) link
"On FEC you'll see John Maus donated to Yang and Sanders when he was living in Austin, MN. It appears he then reconciled with his ex-wife and moved to Arcadia, CA, after which donations made a hard right turn. The merch store he set up with Ariel Pink might have been used for sen pic.twitter.com/rSRX7NBPkp— Nick Newman (@Nick_Newman) January 12, 2021
― Fetchboy, Friday, 15 January 2021 02:59 (three years ago) link
lol Arcadia
― sarahell, Friday, 15 January 2021 03:03 (three years ago) link
Yikes... well fuck.
― octobeard, Friday, 15 January 2021 05:41 (three years ago) link
SMH at people trying to defend this fuckface:“John is, by the way, 1001% on Team Trump now.”
https://variety.com/2021/music/news/ariel-pink-dropped-label-mexican-summer-trump-support-1234881742
― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Friday, 15 January 2021 17:42 (three years ago) link
sarahell - what's the deal with Arcadia? never been, don't know much about it, a friend of mine from high school lives there, looks beautiful in Facebook pictures
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 January 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link
personally I would not take known shit-stirrer Ariel Pink's words at face value
― ufo, Friday, 15 January 2021 22:44 (three years ago) link
here are his political donations since September.$500 to Trump and $1000 to Winredit's not a question it's a fact
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 16 January 2021 20:33 (three years ago) link
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?committee_id=C00580100&committee_id=C00694323&contributor_name=John+Maus&contributor_city=Arcadia&two_year_transaction_period=2020&min_date=01%2F01%2F2019&max_date=12%2F31%2F2020
That's putting your money where your mouth is for sure. Given the above observation that his donating habits changed post-reconciliation with his wife and with his move to LA, I wonder if that played a part.
In any case, this all just makes me sad.
― octobeard, Saturday, 16 January 2021 20:58 (three years ago) link
He's a dead maus to me now
― kieth chagrin (NickB), Saturday, 16 January 2021 21:20 (three years ago) link
fwiw i didn’t realize he’d donated to DT4PREZ and winred when i wrote my post above, obviously that’s beyond the pale
― flopson, Sunday, 17 January 2021 00:09 (three years ago) link
― kieth chagrin (NickB), Saturday, January 16, 2021 4:20 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol
― flopson, Sunday, 17 January 2021 00:10 (three years ago) link
vector control has been called
― sarahell, Sunday, 17 January 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
please tell me Gary War doesn't suck too
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 23:23 (three years ago) link
So where does donating to Winred sit on the cancellation scale in comparison to rape, sexual assault and openly sexist verbal abuse (thinking in relation to say Mark Kozelek, Derrick May, and Michael Gira) or marrying an anti-labor billionaire who relishes in toppling governments to retain supplies of lithium (thinking Grimes)?
― octobeard, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 00:25 (three years ago) link
There's no Cancellation Bureau, you can make your own decision (or: Instances where you can't separate the art from the artist. vs. instances where you can.)
― one of the only artist who is genuine (morrisp), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 00:43 (three years ago) link
"basically the Gen X hipster bros are dividing into factions: the ones that are actually kinda stupid and sexist / racist / transphobic and the ones that aren't."
I suppose it's inevitable that our generation would go through this same thing, we saw it happen to our parents.
― akm, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 01:10 (three years ago) link
"I learned it from watching you!"
― one of the only artist who is genuine (morrisp), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 01:40 (three years ago) link
lol all those ppl suck too
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 01:57 (three years ago) link
xxp - I think our parents' generation went through it earlier on? This is like the hippies that became yuppies after getting older and making $$$, minus the making $$$ part, because some of these dudes still live in the same rent controlled apartments.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 02:38 (three years ago) link
some people graduate but be still stupid
― treeship., Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:03 (three years ago) link
xp It’s hard to say because Bush won every age group (including the youngest voters) in ‘88, and the same with Regan (by a much wider margin) in ‘84. Anecdotally, the former-hippie Boomers I know who became Republicans didn’t do so until the early ‘90s, when they were in their early ’40s, and earning $$ wasn’t the driving factor (as that had already happened) as much as other cultural factors.
― one of the only artist who is genuine (morrisp), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:13 (three years ago) link
(Also keep in mind that white voters in every age group voted for Trump in both ‘16 and ‘20—it’s not like it’s some anomaly—but I don’t know how to account specifically for supposed non-Trumpers who went Trump only recently.)
― one of the only artist who is genuine (morrisp), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:21 (three years ago) link
(White millennials seem to have turned out even harder for Trump this year than last time; though CNN shifted their exit-poll age group brackets, so it’s not apples to apples.)
― one of the only artist who is genuine (morrisp), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:24 (three years ago) link
fun situation brewing in the vaporwave community thanks to this guy, apparently George Clanton invited him to headline Electronicon 4, which caused a big stir due to him being at J6 and donating a ton of money to Trump and just being an idiot in general, to the point where George uninvited him, which is now causing all these people to whine about safe spaces and cancel culture and what not, it's just a big dumb mess that could've easily been avoided
George deserves the benefit of the doubt on this imo and he ultimately did the right thing, but the dude can be tone deaf sometimes
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 June 2023 21:35 (nine months ago) link