YorkeDaddy

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

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SGR

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?

YorkeDaddy

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

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Frownland

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

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SGR

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.

Marie Monday

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

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I'm 3.14% black.

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YorkeDaddy

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???

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*insert joke about Elizabeth Warren here*

*insert pi joke here*

Frownland

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?

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