Say that 5 times quickly!
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How about “Orientales, la Patria o la Tumba”, the national anthem of Uruguay? It’s the longest national anthem of any country, at 105 bars or 6 minutes. That works out to about 70 bpm, so long and slow.
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By now I can actually understand Flossy. Should I be worried?
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Only if you exhibit four other symptoms listed here:
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YMMV I guess. When my wife and I are there (Jewish interracial couple) neither of us perceives problems in that area.
Except now?
Guess we just have to disagree on the meaning of those bolded words.
Why I did not glom onto this band at the time, I do not know. Maybe I couldn’t figure out where to jump in.
(Same with Pere Ubu – “why didn’t I listen to them sooner?!” – but I think their catalog was largely out-of-print then)
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First, no one is outraged. We’re sadly amused. Second, what do any of the things you list have to do with bizarre and useless proposed legislation, which is the topic at hand?
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Nice! So a 5 year step is removed. Technically the full set of Emojis don’t need to be made…but in practice I think about 6 sets need to be made. Only one before the standard is published though (or the Emojii committee might punt on providing samples…I don’t remember if they did for country flags or not)
As @barcode_hasteur pointed out above, the Texas legislature has its way of doing things. Oddball bills get proposed but rarely supported. This seems to be one such. Considering that OP has a tendency to manufacture outrage and the patterns of comments which obviously dont understand the admittedly unusual way the legislature works, I guess my dander just got up a bit.
My daughter’s in a community children’s choir, and their theme at a recent concert was how many songs (e.g. “My Country 'Tis of Thee”) are borrowed, purloined etc. They sang “O Christmas Tree” (a month after Christmas), itself derived from “Lauriger Horatius” to set up “Maryland, My Maryland” (a pro-Confederacy poem, written in Georgia [the state] – “despot” and “tyrant” refer to Lincoln):
As a joke they then proceeded to “My Michigan,” “The Song of Iowa,” and “Florida, My Florida” (can’t find any video).
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what about the anthem of the GDR? no text, but you could hum along ; )
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I still don’t think that is the same thing… more a case of employing language to garner support from some people in society (workers, especially those belonging to unions). At the end of the day, corporations have an important role to play in fascist societies. There is little doubt that Hitler was very much anti-communist and anti-socialist, the Strasserite wing aside. And as you note, they got purged once power was pretty much consolidated.
But that’s the thing about fascism, it wasn’t very intellectual rigorous or coherent at any point (other than a strong individual leader, incorporating a racial component, and strong emphasis on traditional values). It played on people’s fears and emotions during an uncertain historical time and sought to use that to bring particular individuals to power. Socialism, whatever it’s failings and wherever it falls on the democratic spectrum, at least has something of an intellectual and coherent backbone. This is why fascists societies tend to go after or co-opt intellectuals, because they can point out such inconsistencies.
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Do they also get paid crap, too? Here in GA, the legislature meets once a year for 40 business days and only get paid $17,000 or so a year.
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The last person to be able to sing O Canada in both languages was Roger Doucet. Since then, someone gets a bee in their bonnet every few years to tweak a word or two. People get down to “in all thy sons command”, realize that probably isn’t the current version of the words and fake the rest.
Oh, absolutely. I think @the_borderer expressed it better than I: it’s technically correct that for a while there were some Nazis who were (quasi-)socialist, but as they were sidelined and, in many cases, actually killed once the party achieved power, it’s of little consequence in describing Nazism as a whole.
Umberto Eco says much the same in this excellent article:
Interestingly, I don’t think this
is necessarily true. Fascism needs an in-group and an out-group: race has been the most common discriminator, but it is not the only possible one. For Italian fascism, for instance, it was the nation rather than race (at least before the alliance with Nazism): there were some prominent Jews in the movement, and Mussolini himself came out with this gem in 1933:
Race! It is a feeling, not a reality: ninety-five percent, at least, is a feeling. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.
This makes fascism more dangerous, not less, as it can morph and mould itself so easily. The (relative) unfashionability of racism has led to the rise of Islamophobia as the (relatively) acceptable face of the far right. Even if in many (most?) cases it’s just a proxy for race, it lets groups like the English Defence League declare “See! We’re not racist!” as they flaunt their Sikh Division.
The danger is that they may convince those who would be upset and discomfited at any suggestion that they themselves were racist.
This x 1000. The adulation of power built on the fear of the Other. This is why Foucault called it “the strategic adversary”.
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Or, as it used to be more commonly known on this side of the pond, “The Red Flag”:
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If it keeps them from defunding environmental protections, reproductive healthcare, special education, repealing hazmat legislation or any of the other shenanigans to which the Texas lege is prone… yup. Not just the Chilean flag, but state flower, license plate design, house and senate furniture placement and replacement.
I doubt anyone will accuse Queen of being fascist, but listening to Queen’s lyrics through Laibach sure can feel uncomfortable.
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Thunder bolts and lightning very very frightening!
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Galileo?
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