Anyway The Beatles were so bored of European culture they wanted to be Chuck Berry, and the Rolling Stones were so desperate to find escape from their culture that they wanted to be Muddy Waters. But sure little Marco, it’s Columbus, cathedrals and Michelangelo paintings all the way down.

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the other bizarre thing about this is that it treats American slavery — a social, cultural, political and economic institution — as somehow beyond and outside of politics, and thus untethered to contemporary political questions. which, again, the mind of a simpleton. bsky.app/profile/mich...

you'll still routinely see tech journalism that pretends Zuck isn't just an unremarkable chode who stumbled ass first into an ad monopoly and hasn't innovated on any front in decades (outside of right wing friendly lobbying and pushing new boundaries in unethical mass engagement)