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Yeah, but now every sports league has an official sports betting partner so when companies say “traditional family values” they just mean they don’t support gay rights or miscegenation.

People can call me reactionary all they want, but I don’t see how shit like this is anything other than trying to sell alcohol to kids. They are also stupid expensive and it’s cheaper to just mix them yourself with cheap liquor.

The UK very much wants their elderly to freeze to death, hence why the fuel allowance is constantly on the chopping block

The lyric video on YouTube is also a blast after a couple bing rips

That’s not at all what I am doing. I’m saying that classic rock has plenty of shit music. The Monkees are just a Beatles rip off that had some hits, but contributed little to the wider movement. But the greatest hits are what built the foundation of modern music, and you can hear it’s echoes in modern music. There would be no techno or modern EDM without funk and disco icons from the 70’s, no metal without Rainbow and Black Sabbath. All music is a reaction to what the creator has heard before. Classic rock stations playing the same 50 songs from the 60’s-80’s is no different than orchestras playing the same rotation of classical music, no different to why everyone recognizes Beethoven’s Vth symphony, but only nerds like me recognize his Pastoral symphony.

Alrighty, so then what do you like to listen to so I can tell you all about how you are wrong and have no taste then.

Are you saying that Going to California isn’t an amazing song? Or Carry On My Wayward Son? I’m 30 years old and most of my record collection is from the 70’s because there was great and interesting music coming from then as opposed to the 80’s which is just over synthed music someone wrote in 20 minutes after cleaning their nose in the bathroom, or the 90’s when everyone was just trying to rip off Nirvana. I then wrap back around and like loads of dance bangers and indie music from then I was in grade school. Good music is good music man. It’s no different than any other art or even athletes. There is a reason everyone knows Babe Ruth but no one remembers his team mate Samuel Byrd.

edit: I’m coming back in for more here. So I have loved Lady Gaga for the past 16 years. I know all her songs. And so now whenever I listen to David Bowie, all I hear is how he influenced her. “Classic rock” as in the wider rock and roll movement from the post war west is the foundation of modern pop music regardless of genre (excluding stuff like classical and jazz). Songs that capture a moment/era/feeling that everyone is experiencing at the time do well and inspire the next generation of artists. The major hits/acts are what everyone gets exposed to, and those who want more will dive deeper. Those who just want background music won’t care, and can never be brought to care.

Sure, but there are plenty of Billboard top 10’s from 1960-1980 that no one has ever heard of. Same with stuff from when I was a kid 20 years ago.

I drive an old shit box with a busted CD player so I listen to my small town’s golden oldies station. Yeah, it plays a beach boys song every 30 minutes, but it also plays load of Tommy James, original Cher, and also local news. I listen to a wide selection of music, but you are also neglecting fact that the 70’s was the best decade for music. Led Zeppelin, Grand Funk Railroad, Cher, Jackson 5, disco, funk, prog rock, and even punk. What gets airtime on classic rock stations are the songs that have stood the rest of time.

I have some old Glenn Campbell and George Straight records. Lots of good country music so long as you steer clear of the algorithmic stadium country that’s everywhere. There are even really good modern country artists like Sturgill Simpson.

Some people get discontent with where they are and want to try their luck elsewhere. It’s the same drive that makes some people leave their hometowns to try and make it in the city while others want to give up the rat race and move out to the country side. Sure there some people use imperialism as the tool for said exploration/roaming, but I genuinely believe that some people just need to see what is out there. I think it’s the same thing that makes some people want to create their own art/music. A lot of people just want to know what is possible, what is out there, or what they are actually capable of doing once they push themselves to the extreme. And that drive is common across pretty much all cultures across all ages, so I have to assume it’s biological to some degree. Just like how everyone with a cat or a child will tell you they are constantly trying to see what is in a restricted area.

And obviously that’s not for everyone. Plenty or people live and die in the same place they grew up, watch the same handful of TV shows/movies over and over, or listen to the same playlist every day. But I believe that exploration of the unknown should always be encouraged, and for some people images from a probe won’t be enough and they want to go out and see it for themselves.

Was it imperial expansion when the first humans left Africa? Or got to Australia 40,000 years ago? Or walked across the Bering land bridge to America? Or when Polynesians sailed east across the Pacific? Humans need to explore past what they know. It’s fundamental to the human condition.

There is no way the US could actually invade Kharg. It’s 700km up the Persian Gulf from the Straight and any invasion fleet will get peppered by missiles and drones the whole way there. The US can’t even replace any lost destroyers but think they can match the USS Tripoli down the entire Iranian coast? And then what? 2000 soldiers are stranded on a large rock without any support just getting shelled by short range missiles and drones.