Covidiots in music

Seriously why isn’t the is the Black Death

poor Herman Cain laid down his life so Eric Clapton could annoy people without his guitar too

(NB I do not wish additional death and misery on this planet EXCEPT for people I don’t like e.g. fascists, billionaires, and Jeep owners).

Shaquille O'Neal

this is the first validation he's ever gotten for his music career

still can't stop thinking about the clip of him from Inside the NBA where he insists that you save 50% on gas by only filling your tank halfway

never forget that the moon is closer to atlanta than california bc you can see the moon but you cannot see the golden gate bridge

still can't stop thinking about the clip of him from Inside the NBA where he insists that you save 50% on gas by only filling your tank halfway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuH91bQXDuE

Maybe the most remarkable clip Inside the NBA has ever produced

Though I had it wrong, he says wait till it’s half empty then fill it up to 3/4 and you will save 50% overall

omg that clip! in the past i would have assumed shaq was just trolling the rest of them to be the center of attention yet again, but now that he's a vax denier i can't even wrap my thoughts around it. if his goal is to create laughter, he's yet to let me down.

anyone else wondering if you just get stupid after a certain age and it's what's in store for all of us?

i think i'd like to be a moon denier. seems like a relatively harmless one. it's just a light projection or a hologram or something, right?

Every 30 days they gotta charge the batteries

BUT YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO CHARGE IT AS OFTEN IF YOU STARTED RECHARGING WHEN IT'S AT 50%

thank you, shaq. you have taught us well.

I can flow like wee
Coming out you know what
Or some dookie diarrhea
Coming out your butt

I'm nasty, disgusting
Oh my, pew-wee
don't make people take the vaccine
we should all be free

I just had a quick listen to the new Captain Sensible project, Sensible Gray Cells - "Get Back Into The World", and I couldn't quite tell if he's a covidiot or just mistrusting of the government in general.

covidiocy confirmed. Captain Sensible will not be playing with the Damned in the USA because he won't get vaccinated

Wait, wot?

American fans, he won't be snookering you tonight.

I did used to be a fan and also liked his association with Dolly Mixture but yeah.

On that derail, I see a new record from Birdie out last year but it is a U.S. group of that name making children’s music.

Clapton update:

Famed guitarist Eric Clapton, COVID skeptic, is infected, cancels concerts

Eric Clapton, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist who has long been critical of efforts to mitigate spread of COVID-19, has canceled a pair of concerts after getting infected. “Eric Clapton is unfortunately suffering from Covid having tested positive shortly after the second concert at the Royal Albert Hall,” according to a post on his Facebook page.

“He has been told by his medical advisors that if he were to resume traveling and performing too soon, it could substantially delay his full recovery. Eric is also anxious to avoid passing on any infection to any of his band, crew, promoters, their staff and of course the fans.” The shows had been scheduled in Zurich on Tuesday and Milan on Wednesday. Last year, the guitarist said he would cancel any shows where audience members were required to show proof of vaccination and falsely suggested the life-saving shots were being promoted through “mass psychosis.” He also recorded the anti-lockdown songs “This Has Gotta Stop” and “Stand and Deliver,” a collaboration with singer Van Morrison, which included the lyrics, “Do you wanna wear these chains/ Until you’re lying in the grave?”

Atheist, meet foxhole

Van should write a song about it. Or a double album or something.

Once I lived the life of a millionaire,
Spread all that COVID, I just did not care.
Took all my friends out for a good time,
Bought bootleg liquor, champagne and wine.
Then I felt real sick and so low
Lost all my good friends, I did not have nowhere to go...

I heard that in Van’s voice and it was glorious.

Eric Clapton has released a new song called 'Pompous Fool' on his YouTube channel and social media pages. The timing of this just after the resignation of Boris Johnson, whose COVID-19 restrictions Clapton had criticised, may or may not be coincidental.

Eric Clapton has quietly debuted a new song called "Pompous Fool" on his official YouTube channel and social media pages. https://t.co/fZhg1w37Ii

— 97.1 The River (@971theriver) July 8, 2022

Covidiot adjacent but I've just found out that Billy Duffy is engaged to one of the worst people on Twitter

I live by my morals not by their rules
The worst atrocities in world are committed by blind rule followers…

It’s up to us to not to allow their agendas to unfold..
Whether you disobey quietly or loudly the most important thing is that you don’t do not follow..

— leilani dowding 🌸 (@LeilaniDowding) July 26, 2022

From .. The Cult?

That's the one

Dear me

Listened to an interview with Stig from Amebix (who denounced his brother's holocaust denial not long ago) and he said something to the effect that all of his friends who died during the pandemic "died from the cure," so that's another one lost.

Sounds like everyone else from the anarcho scene, bunch of glue-addled damage cases in my experience of being around some of them.

Hippies.

i feel obliged to stand up for the anarcho scene - plenty of anarcho pals are absolutely not like this.

still heartily disappointed by p. rimbaud though.

disappointing but not surprising how many people of crustier and hippier persuations have been sucked into this shit - would be bad enough if it stopped there but it almost invariably seems to lead them further right esp due to how online works- anything critical of the authorities can be hard to find outside these increasingly online subcultures and sadly a lot of these people are flakey or desperate or uncritical or alienated enough to fall or settle for this ersatz version of anti-authoritarianism which doesn't frankly take much intellectual effort to adopt since the conspiracy infrastructre is readymade and it doesn't demand any obvious action either (at least i hope not given the direction this shit tends towards)

some people i know have been surprised i'm not anti-vax because i seem like the type and my attempts at presenting anti-capitalist or anti-authoritarian ideas just sound like more conspiracy bullshit to them because of how thoroughly the language of resistance has been captured by this bullshit. it makes me sad

some people i know have been surprised i'm not anti-vax because i seem like the type

i got this quite a bit too. this time last year i had an event on which was the first time many people would have been together with other people since before the pandemic. even though it wasn't a legal requirement we strongly insisted everyone present a negative test on arrival and i was surprised by the number of people saying "you've lost the plot... / sold out to the man... et. etc.". it was thankfully only a small minority but i think your overall summation of why people in these communities may be more likely to get sucked into this shit is spot on.

OTM.

anything critical of the authorities can be hard to find outside these increasingly online subcultures

This seems like it could be part of the problem tbh

Booming post, Left

Agreed.

I’ve been talking about the connection between leftie hippie types and rightist conspiracy minded thinking for years— when i first posted about it on Facebook in 2015 or so, a number of people I know fessed up to being anti-vax, and I couldn’t believe that people I associated with could be so foolish.

Of course, as Left mentions as fallout, some of them became more and more right-wing over the years, and are no longer friends. Some of them changed, tho!

The anti-vax voices in the school sphere often seem to be the crunchy sorts as much as the more visible religious/right/loosely libertarian refuseniks. That's why whooping cough or measles outbreaks frequently seem to originate in places like Marin County as much as from, I dunno, isolated Orthodox Jewish enclaves. I suspect the reason these erstwhile hippies get sucked into right wing circles is because right wingers are the only ones that will host/pay/listen to their self-centered, ego-driven nonsense.

I’ve been talking about the connection between leftie hippie types and rightist conspiracy minded thinking for years— when i first posted about it on Facebook in 2015 or so, a number of people I know fessed up to being anti-vax, and I couldn’t believe that people I associated with could be so foolish.

it's definitely a thing. I think one of my first experiences of this in the community I live in was a noise dude objecting to water fluoridation as an authoritarian plot. ... and I grew up in a small town with a significant community of members of the John Birch Society, one of whom was a dude my dad would see regularly at the college library researching the evils of water fluoridation while my dad was tutoring students in remedial math. This dude had a son who got arrested a year ago for threatening violence against the County Health Official and belonging to white supremacist groups and owning a lot of guns.

I think some of it, sadly, has correlations with education and class backgrounds. Like, there are some definite shared beliefs I have with them, but there are often big differences in how we came to share those beliefs or how we cognitively understand them? There are also plenty of people from "good families" who went to "good schools" who are just stupid and/or awful.

Heck, doesn't Portland still refuse to fluorinate its water because ... reasons?

IIRC Ralph Nader has long been a vocal opponent of fluoridation, arguing that not enough research was done into its potentially harmful effects. To be fair, that might've been a sound position to take 75 years ago, but at this point it's just dense.

FWIW here's more on the subject in general: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/but-not-simpler/why-portland-is-wrong-about-water-fluoridation/

"not enough research" is the stand-in for "I dislike this abd can't elucidate why".

Same argument against GMOs.

When you ask how much more research would be satisfactory to prove its safe, they say "none. None more research."

(that isn't to say that there aren't things being done that truly haven't had enough cautionary exploration first, but every time that line gets tossed off, it's something that has been thoroughly researched

personally i think all of the scientists are "in on it"

Karl, follow the money and you will find the science -- at least that's what a meme I saw yesterday said

The fluoridation story is pretty fascinating and not as clear-cut as anyone would like it to be. Probably it's not doing any harm (you'd think we would know by now), but its benefits have also been exaggerated. The rise of universal tooth-brushing has almost certainly done more than anything else to reduce cavities and tooth decay, as lots of countries that don't do mass fluoridation have demonstrated.

https://origins.osu.edu/article/toxic-treatment-fluorides-transformation-industrial-waste-public-health-miracle