not as good as the other two singles :(

Power tripping small peepee piggy seriously thinks you cannot cross any street at all unless there's a crosswalk, even on a dead end street with no traffic. Lmao

Thanks

I still like his music and dudes can be feminine...but I feel like he'd be a train by today's standards...

What the lack of fathers does to a fella

Currently one of the primary reasons everyone was okay with pushing all the women's rights stuff no matter how stupid it got at times was that the more feminist societies were at all times successfully more developed as well.

However, we are now beginning to see the deviation between the most successful nations and the most feminist nations of the world, especially on the tail end where the lower income nation states are currently able to keep improving without giving women and western civilization equivalent human rights.

For example, places like Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Afghanistan are all seeing good GDP growth in current year.

We can see places like China and South Korea with their disdain of feminism also have strong growth in spite of the lack of pro women policies and cultures.

It is currently only in the western world that we are seeing an almost 1:1 match for rise in income and high levels of feminism.

There too Europe as one of the more feminist parts of the world is going through periods of continual stagnation and it is only in North America where there is a strong presence of feminism while the GDP also keeps climbing.

Today, the strongest GDP growth in the world can be found in countries such as China and India, both of which are clearly not the bastions of women's rights in a vein similar to the western world.

As for highest GDP, the US remains number one, and in the case of the US, radical feminism has failed to successfully take root in the current generation, as multiple interest groups such as the gays, transwomen, and sane people hold American radical feminism back.

America is proof that the world is okay with whores as long as they don't try to marry men or have kids going to the same school.

The US judicial system has also proven to be robust enough as to not put up with women lying their way into getting someone jailed for a false accusation. The primary issue remains that of costs of going through the legal process, rather than biases in the law itself against men.

We can expect this to be the standard of feminism in the current century, where you can only lose to feminism if you are poor or are is a people facing industry where public shaming can cost you your job and well being.

It is also very likely that as LGBTQ+ and various minority interests spread around, that women's rights becomes an ever smaller part of a conglomeration of multiple human rights interests, resulting in stagnation or even steps back in women's social privileges.

One of the signs of this is the disdain held for women not being sent to war in Ukraine even though the country is fighting for its right to exist, and is willing to sacrifice all men to hold off Russia.

As men continue to get weaker through this century and do not think of women as special creatures, it is likely that there will be a strong push for women to also participate at the front line in wars of survival.

In conclusion, if there is another war in Europe like the one Ukraine is going through, it is pretty much guaranteed that women will be forced into front line roles just like the men.

The regression of feminism ideals is imminent in the second half of this century. A scenario we can already see the signs of with how J.K Rowling is reviled in liberal spaces for having the same views about women's rights as everybody did 2 decades ago instead of forever moving left with the times.

As the BMI of the average woman goes up, the halo effect around women also weakens, over time resulting in men not caring about women's issues.

In conclusion, women's rights are going to see a reversal in the decades ahead.

We can expect women's rights to fall back to levels that can be found in Eastern Europe by the end of the century.

Get fricked boomer.

L'epic game changers was already used and like all game changers it didn't change the game

Biden also directed his team to take this step following Russia's procurement and use of North Korean ballistic missiles against Ukraine, and Russia's attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, a US official said.

“We had warned Russia against acquiring North Korean ballistic missiles and against renewing its attacks against Ukraine's civilian infrastructure,” Dietz said. “With our readiness concerns resolved, we were able to follow through on our warning and provide this long-range capability to Ukraine.”

Did he told he won't give Ukraine tanks, cluster ammo and a lot of stuff ? I bet he will have a bonner when chunks weapons start sending khohols to Bandera

Blinken already ruched to beg China not to:

https://twitter.com/carlzha/status/1783096644378210592

worked out fantastic

But wait a minute

Last fall, the US first sent Ukraine the mid-range variant of the ATACMS missile system, which can reach about 100 miles, while the longer-range version can reach as far as 190 miles.

Russian started using Korean shit after khohols got ATACMS so it didn't mattered if Russian started or didn't using Korean shit because sooner or later he would send 190 miles missiles to Ukraine trying to save his homolegacy

So we can conclude khohols lost Avdiivka and etc when they had super duper ATACMS and

Lockheed Martin, which manufactures the ATACMS missiles, is in full-rate production and produces approximately 500 missiles per year, a spokesman for the company said in September.

Korean can build more Kiskander than that a year.

So now without Soviet stockpiles Ukraine will continue is journey in deficit

Due to the new law on mobilization and the cessation of issuing passports, Ukrainians abroad began to remove the attributes of their country from their cars. pic.twitter.com/q14EVChWyw

— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 25, 2024

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The critic here writes:

In the mid-to-late aughts, as The National was gathering acclaim with darkly experimental albums, another artist was rising to prominence: Taylor Swift. On the surface, these two acts are starkly different. Where The National's songwriting is impressionistic, Swift's is diaristic—built on personal stories that typically forgo abstraction or even difficult metaphor. Where The National's charisma lies in its mysteriousness, Swift earnestly says just what she means. The National is known for somber dude-rock; Swift found fame with anthems of heartbroken but upbeat young-womanhood. (In her 2012 hit “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” she even jabbed at pretentious guys who are obsessed with dude-rock, like the ex who ran off to listen to “some indie record that's much cooler than mine.”) The National became the house band for a certain segment of Millennial yuppies; Swift became one of the biggest stars in the world.

If The National became the house band for a certain segment of Millennial puppies, Swift becoming one of the biggest stars in the world was a sign of the zeitgeist. Of the explosion of teen/late teen girls all over the internet trying to find the artist with whom they can connect their feelings. And with social media and YouTube, all that search for meaning propelled towards one person: Taylor Swift. Swift wasn't some Disney Hannah Montana Miley Cyrus act, she was a self proclaimed country rock singer. It was very unusual for her to become the world's biggest solo female rockstar since Madonna.

After the pandemic interrupted Swift's promotional plans for her 2019 album, Lover, she reached out to the multi-instrumentalist Aaron Dessner to help produce two new albums, Folklore and Evermore, the latter of which featured all five members of The National—whom she called her “favorite band”

Aaron Dessner has produced 17 out of 31 of her latest album.

Again, the critic points out how Taylor Swift made The National lighter in tone and touch:

Now it appears that Swift may have pushed the men of The National in new directions too. On the band's latest album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, out in April, Swift's influence feels pervasive. It's not just her voice, which she lends to the lilting track “The Alcott”; she seems to have taught them something about the mode of candid self-expression that she has mastered. In so doing, The National and Taylor Swift have become one of the unlikeliest and most productive synergies in contemporary music—the cross-pollination of a gloomy indie-rock fraternity and proudly sentimental, stadium-charming pop.

And

in First Two Pages of Frankenstein, the songwriting is tighter and often brighter, and Berninger's meanings are remarkably direct. On the hopeful-sounding “New Order T-Shirt,” Berninger collages images with his trademark flair, and then, atypically, explains himself in a chorus that Swift herself might have written: “I keep what I can of you / Split-second glimpses and snapshots and sounds.” Over the danceable beat of “Tropic Morning News,” Berninger even tells a tale about learning to share his inner life: “There's nothing stopping me now / From saying all the painful parts out loud.”

However there is nothing new to this long before Taylor Swift collaborated with The National, they had already started pivoting away from the doom&gloomy of their previous records like High Violet in search of their own tonality. The break came in 2013 with Trouble Will Find Me. With tracks like Sea of Love, Hard to Find and I need my Girl ; they proved more than capable that they are capable of changing. It had nothing to do with Swift (sorry swifties, you don't get points for this one).

But the main thesis of this post:

Taylor Swift has long since realized she can't be doing this Lover or Midnight albums until she would want to get relegated to the sidelines like a caricature like Madonna. Yes she has a Number 1 hit every now and then, but people still view her as "that s*x bomb" from the 80s and that public perception has led her to do some truly questionable stuff (can't sell stuff if you're not relevant, can't be relevant if you're not trying to keep alive the public's perception of you).

Hence the abrupt break in Folklore. Which continued in Evermore. Yes Midnight was a return to the peppy Taylor Swift but TTPD is in style, artwork, lyrics (apart from 4-5 crowd pleasers, you have to turn such a titanic brand like Taylor Swift slowly) and production it is much more The National than The National's 2024 album Laugh Track can be called Swiftesque.

Tl;dr - If The National have been the sad dads of rock, the scotch drinking, white collar, upscale millennial's go to band, Taylor Swift is fast on her way to becoming the suave mom of pop, the wine drinking, city dwelling, upscale late millennial and early Gen Z woman's go to artist. Whatever lyrical and musical differences remain at the end is the most earnest man/woman split in culture.