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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
As somebody who amateur DJ’ed (badly, very badly I must add, I’m not suddenly cool, more the reverse):
This is such a revealing thing. And the theorizing after it on why bars do this is even more revealing (he could have just asked). But yeah people don’t go to bars for interesting new music, they come for the socializing, which is a lot easier if everybody can dance along with the music, or just nod along with it if it is more a socializing place. Sometimes there also isn’t a plan but just ‘we should get a DJ’.
The whole list is a collection of ‘I have no empathy and I also never thought about asking people about these things’ btw.
@Soyweiser @gerikson Plus the sets of “people who can DJ competently” and “people who are convinced that they should be allowed to DJ in public” do not, unfortunately, overlap completely.
Hey that one other metalhead at the bar really liked my dj style. Don’t be a hater ;).
I’d love to know what he thinks they should play.
music that is interesting, obvies! like, y’know, maybe algoraves, or maybe things that use classical elements. unfortunately the idle masses would never go for such things, the goddamn proles!
</character>I guess he doesn’t realize that everyone has a different idea of what music is interesting, and the big nightclubs have to go for the lowest common denominator in order to keep up sales.
lmao i knew it was going to be a samuel barber remix before clicking that link, well done
I kept with the “this has definitely seen mass consciousness” options to really hammer down the point ;D