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The President Called all the Artists by Micah Sommersmith

*Independent organization that the US occasionally allows to meet with and assist some recent migrants doesn't change broader US policy to exclude people attempting to migrate from countries in the Global South, in spite of the fact that many of those countries are violently oppressive towards their LGBTQ+ populations

Like, good for them doing what they're doing, but it really doesn't address the underlying problems here

I have learned from experience not to trust in my ability to communicate clearly online, so sometimes I overdo it to make sure

Cool, this independent nonprofit that utilizes unpaid volunteers and just happens to run with the US government's blessing is totally sufficient, we definitely don't have a blatantly obvious need for an actual government agency with paid staff and legal standing to advocate for migrants when local/county/state officials are being assholes that this token gesture is just an attempt to paper over or anything /s

Ah you are totally right and thank you for the correction, I got taught at a young age by a very nice but very overworked public school music teacher that there were just eight notes and not to worry about anything more complicated than that and my brain always really wants to default back to that

I don't know for sure, but the Jaws theme is definitely a half-step interval, so the spacing of the keys in the meme is right at least

Random trivia I learned from a music theory YouTuber, the bass line to Rage Against the Machine's Killing in the Name kind of does the same thing, except instead of going back and forth a single half step it does ~~nine~~ thirteen (aka, an eight note octave plus one ~~note~~ half-step)

e; You'd think I'd remember that there are twelve tones in an octave given the name of that music theory channel

FWIW, the article author also wrote a book called "Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food"

Yeah, this feels like validating a toxic business model when they should be dismantling it

The fact that Biden called for this exact same thing and Manchin was ok endorsing him but has to make a big scene when a non-white woman calls for doing the same thing basically tells you everything you need to know about Manchin

I don't care what his followers think, why can't we find a prosecutor who gives a shit?

give ammunition to people that claim the election results aren't reliable.

And then they'll say "Oh well, guess we'll just have to have our state legislature decide who won."

And 2000