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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

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Therapist: How can I help you?

Me: I’m just constantly feeling so much rage!

Therapist: Is there a trigger for it?

Me: All these fucking Youtube content “creators” advertising a corrupt and bogus mental healthy outfit!

Black Kirin is an extreme folk metal band from Changchun, China that does a really compelling blend of melodic death metal, folk metal, and classical (Chinese) music.

Bloodywood is an Indian folk Nu-Metal (?) band with one of the most interesting sounds I’ve ever heard and that dropped single-handedly, without label support, what is arguably the best metal album released this year.

Arka’n Asrafokor is a Togo melodic death-flavoured band with a sound and lyrical content that really needs to be heard.

I’m not familiar enough with all their work. They came out of nowhere for me and I haven’t listened to everything yet.

Weirdly, I frown all the time and people don’t think I’m insane.

They think I’m an asshole.

I don’t understand. WHY HAS OZZIE FORSAKEN ME!?

In This Moment came out of left field for me. I’d never heard of them and someone hooked me up to one of their songs and … HOW THE HELL DID I MISS THIS!?

OK, fixed. Thanks for catching that.

I didn’t spot that. Sorry. I’ll edit the link if I can.

Post away. There’s no “too much”.

I’ve had about forty years to collect a very broad spectrum of music. 😉 (This is just random samplings from my metal division. I’ve got a whole lot more…)

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Thanks. And thanks for the life you’ve been bringing to this channel too.

A guy who’s been giving us the gift of music for the last few days. 😁 I thought I’d spare him some finger pain for a bit.

Yeah, this was kind of an “out of left field” thing for me. Never expected such powerful works from Belarus. (And of course there’s no reason to be surprised, but here I am, surprised.)

Sit back and let the rest of us inspire. :)

God, this brings back memories! I was working in a mechanics’ shop in CFB Lahr and had this album on my boom box playing over and over and over again all day, every day (until the tape just plain wore through) … and nobody objected. It was one HELL of an album and kept the mood light all day.

British Steel is the album that got me hooked on metal, and it’s a tossup between Breaking the Law and Metal Gods as to which song most influenced it.

Yes. Some people are beyond hope. Therefore we shouldn’t bother with empathy with all people. This is exactly how logic works. Yes.

But yes, indeed, some people are beyond hope. It’s why I won’t bother engaging with you further. (Guess where you just got categorized…)

You’re also conflating empathy with acquiescence.

Indeed. This is because he lacks actual empathy so doesn’t actually comprehend the very concept.

Yes. That’s exactly what everybody here is saying.

I resubmit: you lack all capacity to comprehend any viewpoint other than yours and will only damage anything you believe in as a result.

That “slippery slope” is absolutely vital to slither down if you want to formulate public policy.

If you don’t understand why people mistrust “big pharma” or “big government” or “big [sobriquet]” and reflexively dismiss anything that involves them, you cannot formulate public policy that will be effective.

Very rarely do people say “I’m going to dismiss centuries of scientific progress for this quack cure” without a reason. It’s maybe not a reason you agree with. It’s maybe not a reason reality agrees with. But you know what it might be? It might be a reason that traces back to how “big [sobriquet]” has acted toward such people in the past, often persistently over a long period of time, that has led to that breakdown in trust. In short: you (as in the beneficiaries of the status quo and “big [sobriquet]”, directly or indirectly) may be at least partially historically culpable in the opposition you now face.

Now I get it: accepting that you yourself are partially culpable for “irrational” opposition is a bitter elixir to swallow, but if you don’t take that first step toward understanding, you can’t take the second step to correcting the problem. And the problem will continue to fester and take root until, oh, I don’t know, something utterly fucking insane happens and a million of your fellow citizens die in a public health disaster because half your population doesn’t trust the very institutions that were needed to prevent said disaster.

So maybe you should learn to enjoy sliding down slippery slopes. Or, you know, die in the next easily-preventable pandemic. Like a million of your fellow citizens (assuming you’re American: insert your own numbers for your own country if not) did in the current one.