Comments by "Mighty One" (@mightyone3737) on "F.D Signifier"
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"Hip Hop is dead, long live Hip Hop" comes to mind.
My problems with drake are mostly summed up by his seeming hatred of black women/unhealthy interest in underage girls (pretty sure he just hates women period, and it manifests differently based on how much he wants to bang them), but also that he's not at heart an artist, he's a businessman who makes art because he couldn't think of another way a man with his skillset could amass this much money and power, the whole thing is a business transaction. Also, did he have ghostwriters or what? Like what's going on now if not? I mean I clown on ye, but I also didn't love his older stuff (I encountered golddigger after I got into feminism, so that landed with a dull, damp thud and did not bounce, and his other stuff felt brutally overproduced and inauthentic, which is funny because we found out he liked hitler all along), from what I understand it's not entirely awful, if you dig the nazi stuff then it's the best music you've had since wagner, out nazis tend not to be very good at making art that isn't heavy-handed propaganda (but then we have golddigger, so yeah, the premise that it's a-okay for men to be only into women for their looks (with the understanding that they're out as soon as someone better comes along) but women being into men for money is SHALLOW...). Kendrick is more of an artist than a businessman, he's good at both but he seems to love the craft in a fairly old school way (just my views from hearing him rap on a few tracks, but also talk in public), and while Kendrick has baggage too, he's got less.
It seems insane that drake actively took on Kendrick, but I agree with F.D's take that it was expected that Kendrick would crap all over drake, but it was NOT expected that Kendrick would make it the song of the summer; it wasn't just an all time epic roast, it was a roast and EVERYONE'S invited, and it's going on all summer, like an old Roman Triumph.
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As a kid that was fairly fat I'm glad I was able to improve my relationship with food/activity, but it's an uphill battle. The thing that made the biggest difference (after losing almost all of my fat, I have incredibly wide hips but at my skinniest I fit in 32/36 501s, I was about 6'4 and 170lb, down from 350) has been building muscle mass. In my case I have a lot of 'space' on my frame, so even though I'm pretty close to 300lb I still wear 42/34 pants (and at the actual waist).
Also, actual male sex symbols vary, but the most 'popular' archetype varies as women age I suspect, when they're younger they prefer skinny guys (and tall is a bigger asset), as women age that matters less and muscle mass is preferred, but not beyond 'well built', bulky muscles are usually seen as unattractive. The irony of course is that on the whole women care a lot less about looks than men, yet we have thousands of neurotic men who don't want to ask girls out that are angry they're still virgins. It's also a huge issue that patriarchy is very specific to both men and women about what is 'acceptable' to desire, and plenty of women (just like men) don't think for themselves, those women will prefer older men who have money, because that's what patriarchy (which is first and foremost about assigning the wealth of society, make no mistake) has gas-lit them to believe is 'attractive'. It's like how everyone had to pretend 'heroin chic' was even remotely attractive, because it meant we could have lazy people that were 'top tier' models, despite having little talent and no work ethic, it wasn't about having a healthy body and keeping it in tip top shape, it was about not eating because you do so many speedballs your bowels stop working.
I've always felt that Tupac wasn't really a 'believer' in the thug life, he just knew it was an unfortunate necessity if he was going to make it big, being a badass meant millions would hear his rhymes and he could maybe change stuff.
Very good point, why would anyone take dating advice from a bunch of unmarried men who give 'stuck in the closet' vibes, if you want advice ask someone who you actually admire AND has a healthy marriage as proof of concept. I couldn't believe how much effort was put in to trying to convince me to date, it's hard to explain to people that you don't really like dating as a concept, even if you're interested in getting married someday; dating isn't universal, and our culture trying to normalize it as the only way for people to be is deeply problematic.
Its pretty hilarious what incels think is a hot man, I'm not into men but even I know that most women don't want a man that's even vaguely like that. The majority of women don't like bulky muscles, and way fewer women like extreme leanness (...if you're trying to date 15 year olds it'd help to be 'jacked', but much less so for adults), most find it repellent (also, people who are overly skinny often look way older, having some fat on your face is a sign of youth/virility). If you want to be more desirable, work on your personality way more than anything else, you know what MOST women find hot? A man that can make them laugh on command, way more women will hook up with a guy who makes them laugh (and thus makes them feel very comfortable) than a brooding mini-hulk. Oh, and smile more, frowny faces aren't attractive. If a woman can't have a good conversation with you the odds of her wanting to actually hook up with you are extremely low, so learn to talk to people until conversation feels intuitive. It's amazing how many guys think their habits (such as too much gaming) aren't part of the problem, if you don't have a few hobbies you can talk to people about that aren't into gaming you're more or less writing off everyone who isn't obsessed with gaming (and way fewer girls are obsessed with gaming, in part because of the incredibly toxic culture) from your life, also gaming is neither productive nor healthy as a rule, it's a thing to limit because they're very addictive to socially isolated people.
Patriarchy commodified sex because it's a really powerful stick to hold over the head of people who might be refractory, 'play by our rules or nobody will marry you' is scary for many people, especially when victory is far from certain if you try to stand up for yourself.
I still despise touch screens, mice are infinitely better, and a track ball has most of the utility of a mouse without needing a surface. They are convenient for a mobile perhaps, but you can't 'do' much with them IMHO. If you actually know how to type using a touch screen is like playing a piano with your nose. Touch screens are progress in the same way GUI was progress for personal computers... all it did was slow down the best to speed up the worst among us, DOS was a more efficient engine, throwing Windows on top of it actually slowed down PCs, so you couldn't run the same programs. Oh, and DOS programs were WAY more stable, because the whole thing wasn't held together with bubblegum and scotch tape.
I need to start a petition to forcibly change his name to andrew taint (and you can't capitalize it). Also, is he related to trump, or is just the facts that when you're a big enough a-hole your chin just fucks off forever? I'm just asking questions. Also, there is no chance his career was remotely real, he can't take a kick to the face with a chin that dainty, let alone a hard one, let alone enough to have had a career as a kickboxer, he's a plant.
For the record FD, it's actually very possible to bulk up in your 50s if your healthy, perhaps not to the degree the of the Rock, but I'm WAY more muscular now (at 40) than I was in my 20s and 30s, and I build muscle more easily, and I'm not even of Polynesian heritage (I think The Rock is?). From observing my father it seems you don't really start to decline until you're surprisingly old, provided you keep active enough and eat reasonably. Most people stop exercising and quickly start to decay as they age, but you don't necessarily have to.
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I was blessed by not being a fan of kanye (ever, really, I did try to listen to a few of his songs, but even at the start he was a misogynistic a-hole, and I was past the phase in my life where I was willing to blindly tolerate that for a mediocre talent). I also can't stand drake's music (and think he's an even bigger a-hole in a few ways, but at least isn't actually a nazi afaik?), so again, funny you'd point out the similarities in two artists I didn't want to hear.
I just had a thought, I figure starting out with money is a bit like having access to food back in the day, if you have too much food you can't run around or work very hard, because you'll be too fat, but if you're malnourished you're also useless, it's people who have a bit extra, but not too much extra, that tend to excel in competitive environs. Most big success stories can be traced back to 'their parents had more money than average', even if they may have had periods of poverty as well, they had access to wealth that had an impact that many others didn't have (they were too skinny to run the race).
I'll say kanye had great beats... he was never a great rapper.
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I feel like it's not a coincidence that ye was a corporate darling, and was also a quiet nazi from WAY back apparently, I think that played a major role in his 'success'.
My problem with wrestling isn't that it's fake, it's that it's too stupid, all the subtlety has been removed and what's left is all bald tropes being shoved in our faces: my problem is that consuming wrestling is like using ketchup direct from the bottle as your spaghetti sauce, it's been processed beyond recognition and has no value left, but it's disguised by modern science to taste like food still. I lost interest as wrestlers I had been a fan of started dying off, and it seemed like they just kept dying younger and younger. Also, I noticed it didn't seem associated with good traits in people, it seems designed to bring out the worst in the masses, much like the (similarly kayfabe) gladiatorial games, or their WAY more popular competition, the chariot races of ancient Rome. I've heard from multiple sources that most pro 'combat' sports are kayfabe, and I don't think you need to watch most of those things for long to notice that they're not selecting them because they're the best, they're selecting them because they 'look believable', all that stuff seems really fake. The way it works is that if you don't play along and throw fights they put you up against the ACTUAL best and they 'have a weirdly good night' (they have no problem with taking regular loses from worse fighters to keep appearances up) and just murder you in the ring. You can't have stuff be unpredictable when so many millions are riding on individual fights, and it's WAY too easy to fake a loss, more so in MMA than boxing where a person can just take a kick to the head and go down, it's not hard to sell that kind of thing, especially if contact is made, and you do indeed see stuff like that, and you don't see the plethora of injuries you used to see when the sport first came out (part of it is better fighters, but I'm sure part of it is rigged competition so people don't risk ending careers early).
Also, ye was 100% doing kayfabe the whole time, it might not have dropped by the time this was out, but apparently the nazi phase wasn't a new thing, he'd just start talking about how much he liked hitler (in weird contexts), obviously everyone told him to just play it as a babyface so he did. I have no idea (other than Get Out stuff) how they'd convert a guy like him, but I've read psychosis can lead to racist beliefs (because we're hard wired to think people of different 'races' are different, the more different looking the more different they must be, we're a dumb species but this is why people dress to fit in for example), if he's not serious about medication (and it sounded like he wasn't but I hope I'm wrong, even if I don't like the man I'm not sure he deserves the hell that is a full blown psychotic episode, not from what we've heard, he's just said appallingly ignorant things over and over (and I never loved his work). I like to wonder if there is a world where they ended up with Wyclef or Lauryn instead of ye, filling the same niche somehow in a comeback.
Also, seeing as he was doing kayfabe and knew that he could face consequences for the stunt (meaning he has doesn't really have convictions, in the sense that he knows bush didn't give a shit about black victims, but the problem is he agrees with bush and doesn't want to offend that crowd, so he's worried about doing this stunt. It might not have been his idea, who knows?
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Have to say, 'tough love' is nothing but a really convenient excuse to crabbucket the ever-loving shit out of someone, just in case they were going to advance in some way. People are really jealous of potential, and it viscerally feels good to destroy it to evil people (which is a plurality of people, but almost all of the wealthy), they hurt people with potential because it feels better than hurting someone without potential, someone who it won't matter to ruin. I'd argue that Hill's problem is that she didn't have enough support from people who actually loved her, but it's not really something you can prove, so it's a bit moot, but all people eventually fall apart from enough suffering, you don't know how much is too much until it's too late, and some people you can't put back together.
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My guy, Swiffers and Swifties have one thing in common, they clean shit up if you catch me. Very good call to try not to stomp on their toes for no good reason, as a person who listened to some Taylor Swift I wasn't offended.
I feel like diagnosing children with ADHD is incredibly touchy (well, mostly medicating them weirds me out, don't @ me I've gotten 4 or 5 COVID shots and enjoy many benefits of modern medicine, but I just think messing with brain chemistry in children should be an absolute last ditch attempt), just like any other mental health issue is hard/impossible to properly diagnose until the brain is 'finished', but pretending nobody has learning disabilities is a non-serious position. We've all known people who were good with words but not math, and vice versa, does he think they're just lazy, and that's why other people learn the same material in a fraction of the time (and with a fraction of the effort)??
Humans are messy creatures, but by definition if you're marrying someone primarily because you think they're hot you're asking for trouble, this is more true if you're dating someone of a different background because your knee jerk reaction during conflict will be ugly (hence the high divorce rate one supposes). I feel like anyone who's only into a specific ethnicity/background is getting problematic, but it's a million times worse if you're into a different one, not because it's wrong inherently, but because that's not how the human brain works and you might need therapy, people are into people, we're wired with most of the same mental machinery of 'lower' life forms (most animals aren't choosey, neither are healthy humans), we've just got a whole heap more built on top of the rickety foundations.
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German food is actually pretty popular among middle aged whites (and plenty of young people), they have a lot of really delicious foods, ranging from the simple (brats and sauerkraut with a bun or potatoes) to very laborious (schnitzel with something like poppyseed roll or another pastry, Germans make lots of great pastries). Oh, and the best cooking onions that aren't shallots are German onions iirc.
IMHO the reason Eminem was so much bigger of a success was because of who he appealed to, especially white young men, a demographic that was seen as 'influential', more than young black men were, so suddenly Eminem is everywhere.
When I used to listen to the radio you'd still here Everlast on what is very much a 'rock' radio station, it fits in just fine, despite him having other tracks that were obviously hip hop on the same album.
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