but now it's devolved into "but i'm not racist, YOU'RE racist!" type unproductive bull**** so it's basically nothing now

Hell yeah you've got your area of focus where you apply pressure rhythmically while increasing/decreasing speed depending on the intensity of the situation and you can use your fingers to switch it up. Put it all together and you get a beautiful symphony lmao okay I know this got cringey but I still like the metaphor

This whole forum and our engagement with it is rather unproductive. Isn't that why we come here? To relax, have a laugh, and sacrafice productivity for a good time? How many times have you seen people's minds/opinions get changed on MusicBanter in a meaningful way?

Right but when people are shouting at each other to try and decide which of the two are the worse human being, it's no longer relaxing, funny, or a good time

Hey look, a white guy in the midwest downplaying discussions on racism. Everyone act surprised.

Maybe not for the active interlocutors, but for the audience, it's a digital hootenanny.

I think everyone on here is a wonderful human being. Maybe not equally wonderful, but wonderful nonetheless.

Yeah I see what you mean but that leaves out the aspect of the dynamic between you and the other person; the way you have to feel the other's response and respond to that in turn is quite different from playing an instrument I think

I'm 3.14% black.

Productive discussion on racism are important and valuable

What was starting to go down in this thread was none of the above

I don't know about you but sometimes when I'm playing guitar and I'm really in the zone I feel like the guitar is playing me too, you know what I'm sayin???

*insert joke about Elizabeth Warren here*

*insert pi joke here*

Gotta love how much conservatives love identity politics when they can use it to dunk on one of their fellow conservatives.

"Productive", "valuable"...how much you gonna flip this convo for?

Now you're making me want to start that stocks thread like we briefly discussed on discord

I don’t think adidas and I were “yelling” at each other, nor did one of us claim to be morally superior... But I know how you straight dudes love to manufacture drama.

And no, my guitar has never played me back, and I’ve never once been ****ing my gf and thought “this is just like playing a guitar.”

Christ, is that kid even old enough to drink? Looks like a middle schooler.

Um no

buncha squares

Yes it is the lesbians who are wrong about pussy

hitting the clit like a guitar hero fret. girls love it

smoke on the water for beginners then move your way up

Have you tried Through the Fire and Flames on expert yet?

My high score is 850,000

I'm not :(
You're Pi-black?
Annnnd done!
:laughing:
Without the cheat codes!

uhoh guys I guess I'm in trouble with the gay police again

Your lecture really made me rethink things, adidas. I see the error of my ways. You're right it was over the line for me to suggest YD stepped out on his wife to suck dick in order to win a stupid argument with me. That's not something to joke about. Nothing funny about that at all. Corrected once again by the homo stasi.

"the homo stasi" :rofl:

They come equipped with stiff batons.

Lol wait what gave you this idea? That was something I did years ago in college, I didn’t spontaneously go blow some dudes on your behalf lmao what kind of wacko **** is that

I think that was the joke, bud.

:stupid:

My day has been greatly enhanced by John Summit finally dropping 'Make Me Feel' - been waiting forever for this goddamn song.

:o:

:beer:

I absolutely think gay people are similarly oppressed as black people, which I've elaborated in detail here. If you want to deconstruct my argument, you're free to do so, but so far you haven't. Just saying something is not comparable without providing valid reasons and counter arguments doesn't really cut it.

Also, I don't care if you're offended by the f-word. Like a black person doesn't care if a white person is offended by the n-word. You are not the target of that word. If you have enough respect as a white person towards black people to understand the use of the n-word is not allowed in any situation or context, which you've gone out of your way to prove on these boards, you should have the decency to do the same with a word that has the same impact on a certain group of people you don't belong to. Again, empathy and respect. The only reason I can think of that you're not doing it is as stated above.
Point me to the exact cases where I continuously try to knock down poc down a peg? If this is still about the Nicky M. vs. Cardi B thread, I've explained over and over that was over two trashy people in a dumb beef. Poc can be dumb and trashy, sorry, they are not exempt from criticism on that level.

Just because I think you're not very well suited to be a mod (case in point is your continuous inflammatory behavior WHICH EVERYONE ACKNOWELDGES) isn't a legitimate excuse for you to try and paint me as a racist, dude. Seriously.

...so I had a pretty good day today.

I'm glad you asked. This was the most egregious one imo: https://www.musicbanter.com/lounge/8...ml#post2087714

Ja I remember you demonstrating that you didn't understand what people were criticizing you for lol

True dat. It's your racist statements that legitimize my posts.

hold up

About comparing gay discrimination to racism: it's fundamentally invalid, since it's a very different kind of discrimination, so its manifestations and history are also very different. Racism is similar to sexism in that it has directly to do with power structures; black people and women had to serve, and trying to justify that is why both suffer from the stereotype of being intellectually incapable. Homophobia is very different; gays haven't been a serving class, the world just pretended they didn't exist mostly (the origin of homophobia may have to do with power in the sense of the threat of sexual freedom and enjoyment uprooting power structures, but that's very indirect). So for instance the fact that being black doesn't have an explicit death penalty in some countries and being gay does, just means homophobia is a kind of discrimination where a group's existence is attempted to be erased (not the existence of the actual people because people are valuable; just their sexuality. Those capital punishments are meant to shut gay people up); the existence of black people can't be erased because you can't really hide skin colour, so racists try to keep them in a serving position instead, with the accordingly different laws etc. That's the bleak reality, but it doesn't mean gay people are more oppressed.
And even if gay people were discriminated more heavily, that doesn't mean the corresponding slurs are worse than n*****. That depends on the history and connotation of the particular word, which is what makes n***** much worse. And for the record, I don't condone the use of f***** either and I think trying to find excuses for using it is weaksauce

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Your best work tbh.

truly, I'm impressed

Yo Key, glad to hear it dude. What made your day so good?

Keep the beer flowing and the house music groovin' :beer:

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Just a lot of good vibes at work lately. Just been relaxing a lot more, work and home. Making dope music. Been in a good mental space. Thanks y'all <3