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It just occurred to me I also don't know about the other direction: does MAGA have any reactionary music?

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MAGA rap, numetal

https://old.reddit.com/r/numetal/comments/17cmyyw/numetal_ar...

Beyond that would be "wordcel" ("clefcel"?) "not-chad" etc?

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The Hanks are almost Hegelian:

  Hank Sr. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgHId2tg6dU
  Hank Jr. - MAGA (at least he done sung "cold cold ground", bless his heart)
  Hank iii - trying to sit between two chairs? (props the assjack on the fence?)

"Wordcel" sounds awfully like "stochastic parrot"? (says someone who's been trying and failing for months to get LLMs to rotate shapes. At least some of them have a good "sense of humour")

I still want to get some shape rotating done this week, so I'll put off descending into Hank Jr. et. al. for another few days. Thanks; "mighty white" of you!

  Facilis descensus Averno:
  Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
  Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras,
  Hoc opus, hic labor est.

EDIT: according to "Google AI", Cowboy Carter (millions) massively outsold MAGA rap (10's of thousands).

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Where's the reaction

E: maybe I've seen down so much Hank/Hegel looks like up

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reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWNk-4jJb7I ?

Cold cold ground was tragedy[0], but these lyrics are farce.

reaction[1]? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__HPfmvaWRw

literally wrapping himself in the flag[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyFnLqJx-uU

(but that last vid doesn't have so many views; maybe it was even too MAGA for MAGA?)

then again, in light of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46644795 maybe it'd be more effective to address the concerns of the centre right and centre left, than to bother with trolling the far right?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzi-FcFEao8

[1] they've got their Everdeen character, but real archers use thumb draws, and shoot out of gallop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTaYvMmNYU

[2] maybe the US just needs a better men's World Cup squad, so they can get all the flag-waving out of their systems via sport instead of politics?

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That too

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46604554

(U of M, Liaoning(!!))

>even for swing states, the best evidence is that small states do not benefit from the bias

So.. swing within the swing?

(FUN to imagine members of an "evil-sibling" of "Mossad" embedding, even featuring in Rock the Country tho :)

(Two) Texans going their own way?

https://youtu.be/LVJiLy2Z3Og

(Is that a tinge of Tassie (accent) from her partner?)

(Can imagine these 2 going to RtC btw)

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missouri, I believe (Midland, TX, is the closest I'd know)

Not sure RtC is well-coded for those who wear "Curious George" ball caps*, but they might well be as welcoming as they advertise. I'd envision these 2 more likely at a Willy [Nelson] show?

For PH, wherever he may be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M6JCd2IXD0 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/po2IzHkTdgo

* I've got to see more of that T-shirt collection; somehow I doubt tattooed Elsa and Anna (but do they have tramp stamps?) were licensed images...

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I think I've found a MAGA musical motherlode: https://rockthecountry.com

Lynyrd Skynyrd were trolled by Neil Young in 1970: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjLcFQjq5G8

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Wouldn't call it viable yet, but I had a stupid grin at the notion of "unintentional self-trolling" (compare with the earlier self-joke discussions that I had no emo-reaction to)

Fucking hell la HN!!

-takes PG's "unintentional moderates"/Nietzsche's cold-shower to a whole new [tragi-comic] level?

-the unexpected dvote from PH or his loyalists felt like I'd unintentionally self-trolled myself

(There might be an upvote that I haven't accounted for..)

Upcoming fencing chengyu?

U: re: my best take on why the hypothetical JHC (compare w Hillel/Mahatma) wasn't on the spectrum-- however he might have been "enby" like PH says

just one of a torrent of mud here, tho this particular take could point us to the hidden gold?

https://archive.ph/2026.01.17-044156/https://www.lesswrong.c...

(Whole new can of worms on actual vs stated goals of rationalists tho I think we don't have to venture in that direction (yet) :)

U2:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586940

U3: To what extent is the Swiss Inner Party, if it exists, NOT a team of rationalists? (I haven't tried answering my own Q yet, but it might be MUCH easier for me ;)

U4: at the risk of too many knobs [that you might have trouble merging], troll the centre-left and centre-right AT THE SAME TIME.

You know the famous "sweat saves blood, but brains save all" of that famous fennec

(Sorry Thucydides!!)

it's not the best source of trollings but I couldn't resist :)

https://youtu.be/J-FCysQiSOs

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAOQupkftW8

U3: looks pretty rationalist to me so far. (otoh our proles recently voted for a 13th old age pension without first demanding an accounting of from where it would be paid) I especially like how the referendum process allows decoupling recognition of problems from attempts at their solution. Certainly being a small country (pace Tito?) helps avoid the temptation of monumentalism. see also https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvsimages/Cultural_Map_202...

IKEA: IK was Kamprad, who is EA? (aha, not who but what: Elmtaryd Agunnaryd) Unix pipelines treat everything as a monoid of bytes; what if we could deal with (loopable) quantales of bytes instead?

U: First win, then score