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Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 4h

I am 10 years younger than you. It was my generation that made Zep cool. At first ironically and then it actually became sincere. Also we learned to play our instruments well and realized Bonham is God. Same with Rush.

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Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 4h

Exactly- you were in 9th grade! You were a moron like every freshman 14 year old. You weren’t cool. Zep was hated by aesthetes BECAUSE you liked them. My rock music loving uncle who hated Zeppelin would have been 23 in 1969. Zeppelin was considered a band for teeny boppers and druggie morons.

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Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 10h

What are you talking about? Zeppelin wasn’t that popular when LZ1 came out. Critics knew who Jimmy Page was though and expected him to be more like Beck - who was considered far cooler and more innovative at the time. Hendrix dying also made more space for Page to become a popular guitar hero.

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Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 20h

If we are being serious - the Stones were derivative their entire careers. The Who and Floyd were often pioneers and extremely original. Fleetwood Mac became more original when Nicks and Buckingham joined. Zep became more original from IV on. Presence especially, so natch not as popular.

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Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 21h

Do you think Devo was derivative? Or Zappa? Funkadelic? The Sugarhill Gang?

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Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 1d

Critics didn’t think so at the time though. Rolling Stone trashed it as basically unimaginative Cream/Yardbirds warmed over. www.reddit.com/r/agedlikemi...

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Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 1d

As the small children they literally still were.

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Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 1d

People forget how much critics and older rock fans loathed Zeppelin in the 1970s. My uncle for example felt about them the way I feel about Korn. It’s funny to see them up on a pedestal nowadays, although that’s my generation‘s fault.

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Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 1d

True rock aesthetes despise Boston as slick and commercial and Zeppelin as skilled but derivative, bloated and drug addled. The Who and Pink Floyd were both far better rock bands in that era (1971-78). So were The Rolling Stones. Fleetwood Mac too if we’re being honest.

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Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 2d

Putin, despite being a poorly educated brutal thug who grew up in proletarian poverty in postwar Leningrad still has more class and better taste than Trump. Maybe it’s the KGB training.

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Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 6d

It does seem disingenuous to conflate Mussolini‘s Italy with Hitlerism/Stalinism. By Tom‘s definition of repression only Mussolini‘s rump state in Salò was truly fascist.

Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 6d

Franco was not a fascist but he co-opted the Spanish fascists and needed their support to take power. Trump is not a fascist but how does anyone argue with a straight face that Miller and Vought aren’t fascist? Hegseth is too drunk to be a fascist I suppose.

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Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 7d

Bari Weiss is more like David Brent.

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Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, „the President is gooning right now to old videos Epstein sent him.“

Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 8d

The latter message completely drowned out the first in my 1980s. Less a „contradiction“ and more like there was an annoying buzzing sound coming from Nancy Reagan that we all ignored.

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Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 9d

No, in fact we have a Soda Stream so we can add carbonation to our water.

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Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 10d

Würde ich auch denken. War leider nicht so in Spanien, Portugal oder Kroatien. Es gibt auch sehr viele Ultrarechte in der amerikanischen katholischen Kirche - Vance, Erzbischof Dolan, Erika Kirk, u.a.

Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 10d

Faschismus, Nationalismus und Katholizismus haben leider eine lange Tradition der engen Zusammenarbeit - Dollfuß, Franco, Salazar, Pavelić, Tiso, die PiS Partei in Polen, usw.

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Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 11d

It’s a global problem. In Austria you seem to have a choice between white, gray and black cars. I blame it on the fact that so many people drive company provided vehicles.

Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 11d

Pero ¿el va hablar castellano o boricua?

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Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 12d

Heard Yascha Mounk doing the exact same shit yesterday in Vienna. Reciting Fox News talking points as if that is what Democratic pols were pushing in 2024.

Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 15d

Tom doesn‘t like to admit Mussolini was a fascist because it hurts his argument. Tom‘s only acceptable definition of „fascism“ is Nazi Germany in 1941.

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Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 15d

And the point is not „despair“, the point is that Mussolini wasn’t that popular and could have been stopped if business leaders and elites hadn’t been cowards and the opposition hadn’t been dominated by aging seat warmers. Certainly seems like there are some parallels.

Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 15d

Address the issue. Do Americans enjoy substantially more political freedoms now than an Italian in 1923? Recall that Italy had a king, opposition parties, a large number of newspapers, regional governments with independent local traditions, etc. The government had to deny killing Matteotti.

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Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 15d

Yes, and Tom is quite bad at it.