Big disagree. It’s all about context in the time they were big. Nowadays they’re really nothing special, they have good songwriting but what made them special is so common nowadays that they fade into the background of notable music.

When the Beatles were big, they were pioneering writing songs in a “post standards” music industry. Their marketing injected a lot more of the individuals personalities into the image and music in a way others hadn’t quite done before. The “songwriter” became the focus.

With all their fame they were able to experiment heavily and pioneered / popularized a whole plethora of studio techniques that were too expensive to explore for most other musicians (heavily isolated stereo panning, layers and layers of multi tracking, cut and pasting bit and chunks of dozens of takes for the perfect final print).

We don’t look twice at that stuff now cause I can open ableton and record hours and hours of whatever bullshit comes to mind without a second thought. Everything has been stereo since I was born. Multi tracking is standard process.

The Beatles are old hat, but they were the fucking bee’s knee’s when they were big.

Polyamory isn’t much better ime

Cheating still exists in polyamory, and you still get the same toxic bullshit as monogamy except now you have the added bonus of shaky accountability because “well you knew we were poly” …

Most people don’t do the groundwork to be able to hold a healthy and stable poly system and end up doing a lot of damage in the name of “enjoying themselves”.

Toxic people will be toxic regardless of relational preferences, but I think polyamory allows self absorbed and abusive people the shield of “you agreed to this” when in reality, they’re often looking for loopholes in boundaries or miscommunicating / twisting communicated hard limits or emotional boundaries to fit their actions.

Poly folk love to act all high and mighty like having more than one partner makes you inherently greater than mono folk when really it’s just preference for different styles of love.

I say this as someone who is actively practicing polyamory. Not all assholes are chefs, but any asshole can be a chef.

Talking to yourself

Kid was walking through the high on attention with a big ol sign to advertise for an untrained, highly aggresive, indescriminatly brutal paramilitary force acting out of their jurisdiction and kidnapping people off of the streets mostly without even documenting where they take them. Kid knows damn well what he supports and wants everyone to know it.

There is a time for civil debate and there’s a time for punchin’

I think carrying a sign in support of ice should count as punchin’ worthy.