Not that it matters but I just deleted my Blyesky account.
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Boomer here. I was part of the “take it to the streets” movement in the 60s. (And don’t let anyone tell you that protesting doesn’t work). We organized without social media, we were fearless, and we were focused. We NEVER expected anyone to use their influence to help. Don’t throw your anger onto others for what you are not willing to do. Something else we had going for us…musicians. We had musicians that wrote the most amazing anti-establishment songs. They were like a call to arms. Where are the poets and musicians?
Jesse Welles is worth looking into. I have a feeling you will enjoy them.
As the child of boomers, I couldn't agree more. This is something I've been struggling to find as well.
For those that need some musical/cultural inspiration as I did:
- My favorite Hip-hop song to protest to: https://youtu.be/y9oUnC8JtXY
- My favorite Dance song to protest to: https://youtu.be/PuWVgVkMiHE
- Best Comedian to make you laugh about MAGAts (emphasis on the low T): Cliff Cash https://youtu.be/PPkqBK_Tox0
Best overall peaceful protest vibes:
Rage Against the Machines station on Spotify.
This is what inspires me, if you have anything that inspires you please share! Let's give each other hope to change the world.
Musicians be counting dollar bills
Relatively few musicians are counting dollar bills. Publishers are, Spotify and the tech-bros who have inserted themselves between musicians and their fans are. But the musicians writing protest music are busking on TikTok in the evenings after working day jobs to afford rent. I hate to recommend a sinking ship, but unironically, if you are looking for music about the current moment, it's on TikTok. Some of it makes it's way to other platforms, but the average person won't find it because music discovery on the mainstream music platforms is curated by corporations who are out to make money for the big record labels.
Well, some of them at least. Everyone else runs their shows at a loss.
We need them to be counting stars ✨ instead of Dollars 💵
Could've been mastodon but at least it's not shitter
Obama never struck me as being personally interested in the free web, his move to bs shows he's an attention whore who has simply sensed the trend
Don’t care. His assistant will be replying anyways.
Who gives a fuck. Do something with your influence instead of letting Trump fuck people over.
Yeah the silence and not seeing ex living Presidents including Bush speak out on Trumps actions is bizarre to say the least.
People with the most capacity of reach dont use it.
Because it’s a game to them all. It’s rich vs poor and Trump’s bad decisions don’t hurt the rich so there’s zero urgency from people like Obama. They’ll still go on their private jet vacation next week regardless.
This is the first part of that. The top news media in cable tv, podcasting, and social media are all run as maga propaganda and I think that's a massively underrated reason for Trump's winning. The easiest of these to take down is social media, but it requires all the other news-related celebrities to go somewhere else.
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Who knows, maybe the system has declined too far beyond saving. Maybe we're already in Russia-stage of "democracy" where dissent gets them out of a window? We already have a former US Attorney dead. 🤷♂️
Dude, fuck off. This is an article about Obama, not Obama saying "hey look at me i joined it." In fact the first items were advocating for the ACA showing how it helped people. Trying to push people to stand up together for the common good.
Do you mean somthing like that when you say "Do something with your influence?"
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With a sort of "Obama awards Obama" post but I'll still take him 100x over Donald Musk.
Don't forget the Obamium either.
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