> This is something that I actually put in my folder when I came out here today.
You have no idea what it is. Nobody does. Because it arrived on the internet
to me this morning. It's a request for the rights to use my song, Another brick in
the wall II, in the making of a film to promote Instagram. So it's a missive from
Mark Zuckerberg to me. Right. Arrived this morning. With a offer of a huge, huge
amount of money. And the answer is: Fuck you. No fucking way. I only mention that
because this an insidious move of them to take over absolutely everything. So those of
us who do have any power, and I do have a little bit, in terms of the control of the
publishing of my songs I do anyway, so. I will not be a party to this bullshit, Mark Zuckerberg.
> "We want to thank you for considering this project. We feel that the core sentiment
of this song is still so prevalent and necessary today, which speaks to how timeless
a work it truly..." -- and yet they want to suburn, they want to use it to make Facebook
and Instagram even bigger and more powerful than it already is, so it can continue to censor
all of us in this room, and prevent this story about Julian Assange getting out to the general
public, so the general public could go "WHAT? What, no?" No. No more.
> ...
> You think, "how did this little prick who started off by saying 'She's pretty, we give her
a four out of five, she's ugly, we'll give her a one'. How the fuck did he get any power in
anything? And yet here he is, one of the most powerful idiots in the world.
As much as Roger Waters lost all my respect back then when he sided with Maduro during the Venezuelan protests, giving the middle finger to Zuckerberg is something I wholeheartedly endorse. The irony is just too thick with his materials in particular.
Yeah, how could anyone not like the US puppet pick. We've been trying to eradicate the socialist government of Venezuela for the last 20 years.
Guaidó has received in indeterminate amount of Venezuelan cash frozen in the US. If that doesn't speak to who is pulling the strings here, I don't know what will.
part of Rogers' appeal is his inherent naïveness regarding some issues like Syria/Venezuela and his songs (if you heard ten of them, you heard most of them). But that naïveté also allows him such beautiful expressions of visceral opinions and is part of the reason he remains somewhat loveable regardless of his failings.
a decade ago, I loved Roger Waters as a singer and musician, I don't know what he did else (I've read some comments that point out things he "wrongly" did) but I can feel something by seeing this video. I agree with his decision but I'm a bit shocked by him being so scathing. I feel like something's wrong with his virulent behavior. Is it really necessary, constructive and efficient to be so scathing ?
Take a listen to the Pink Floyd album Animals. Extremely scathing. The lyrics are simply brutal. Pink Floyd started work on that in 1976, i.e. 45 years ago. He was scathing then and not much has changed in the intervening time.
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> "We want to thank you for considering this project. We feel that the core sentiment of this song is still so prevalent and necessary today, which speaks to how timeless a work it truly..." -- and yet they want to suburn, they want to use it to make Facebook and Instagram even bigger and more powerful than it already is, so it can continue to censor all of us in this room, and prevent this story about Julian Assange getting out to the general public, so the general public could go "WHAT? What, no?" No. No more.
> ...
> You think, "how did this little prick who started off by saying 'She's pretty, we give her a four out of five, she's ugly, we'll give her a one'. How the fuck did he get any power in anything? And yet here he is, one of the most powerful idiots in the world.
People, none of whom I respect nor care about, throwing insults at one another, yet doing nothing of substance.
...and it's why I seldom log into those platforms anymore.
People use these platforms to get their daily dose of dopamine. It's a worthless addiction.
Guaidó has received in indeterminate amount of Venezuelan cash frozen in the US. If that doesn't speak to who is pulling the strings here, I don't know what will.
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