Good to know Lars is still a piece of shit and Metallica isn’t worth listening to.
Doooon’t downloaaaaad this soooooong…
At least they are consistent I guess.
I’m guessing this is about money, I can’t picture Metallica and James Hetfield being against Trump.
Cliff was great. And Lars kinda sucks. But
Lars accidentally invented speed thrash metal so
Give Lars a break man.
He’s such a little turd though
Lars did what now?
2 metalheads arguing about not just genre but origins of a genre?
I need some popcorn.
What a strange time to be alive.
Crazy world we live in
Can we go back to 2018?
Clearly everybody’s memory is fucking shit because the same dictator was in charge in 2018.
It got a lot worse this time because he brought all his people in. The old administration started with misalignment and some competent people. The administrators were less willing to break laws. So that one was better.
A year ago, I used to still list living in America as among the things I’m grateful for. I don’t do that anymore because then I think of the places I’d rather live.
I really hope this new craziness and volatility is temporary, but I wonder if it is. We could become the next Argentina if not.
Had the wrong ideas, but also a lack of competence to follow through as well. Also the global scenario wasn’t quite as grim.
The best outcome would have been no Trump terms at all, and failing that just a single term. But if we had to have two Trump terms I think we would have been better off having them consecutive instead of breaking it up. Because of his loss and then eventual win:
- His sore loser syndrome kicked in hard and made him more actively want to undermine democracy itself.
- His tangle with the justice system also had him undermining the justice system.
- It gave the Project2025 assholes a whole 4 years to scheme how to leverage a Trump win, and now we have a pure PJ2025 administration.
- It distanced moderate republican leadership who assumed Trump was done, leaving Trump only with the worst of the MAGA sticking by him at the top.
His first term was moderated because he somewhat abided traditional input and his administration was a mix. He did a lot of the same wrong things generally but failed enough to significantly mitigate the harm. His anti-immigrant rhetoric was real, but also he didn’t care enough to actually follow through as hard as his administration has this time around.
Though I do agree, I wasn’t exactly excited about 2018.
Fuck 2018, take me to 2026 when the year of the Linux desktop empowers us to run
sudo impeach nowEvery year in history is the year of the Linux desktop the only year except for the current year.
TBH I really want to believe we can remove all 20 Republicans up for election and lose no ground to them in the midterms, which is the minimum we would need to reach the 67 impeachment requirement.
But I kind of don’t believe it, largely because people are treating the DNC as if they’re the ones gutting medicaid and climate science.
Nobody is saying that, it’s just a straw man in your head. We criticize the dems for being anti-worker, pro-billionaire, and pro-war crime.
Broken clocks, as they say.
cool, but Metallica still sucks for what they did to napster.
Metallica were just a bunch of tone deaf (speech) poster boys for the RIAA.
Napster was too big and too bold. They let themselves become synonymous with pirated music. There’s no way capitalism would let that alone. If it wasn’t Metallica, it would have to have been someone else.
On the upside, the Case was between Reload and St. Anger; their sales dropped by half and never recovered.
Every single artist did it to Napster, Metallica were just the front men. Tbf Napster wasnt going to survive legally, and if it had remained popular they would have gone to shit with some sort of payment system
I still hold a YUUUUGE grudge towards metallica for what they did to napster. I will die on this hill damn it.
FIRE BAAAD
Merch good
Beer goooood!
This is basically the same thing.
Napster had a standing army? Neat!
Nah, we were mostly sitting while searching for obscene “weird al” songs
touche
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100%
Give em the Napster treatment
Lars has reached his final form
Close down the shop you mean? Can you do Russia too? I think I’ve even heard state TV use Babylon V soundtracks once.
Russia not giving a shit about takedown requests is one of the good parts about the country
How on earth did it take so long? I’ve been copystruck by these assholes at least three or four dozen times in the 30 years I’ve been pirating … Stuff.
Metallica loves imperialism for the most part, that’s how.
Imperialism is a strong noun. Sure they’ve benefited greatly off the back of US imperialism, but Jesus, condemn us all. It’s not like they didn’t write “Disposable Heros” or “One.” Sure they can be litigious twats, but saying they’re pro imperialism is peak brain rot.
I just assumed that Lars was controlling the rest of them like puppets through an elaborate drum kit at the back of the stage. The Metallica that wrote One is long gone.
Lars just does what Hetfield tells him to
Indeed, condemn us all. So where’s the part where these “apolitical” cowards-at-best deserve your defence, again?
They don’t, but am I supposed to support slander? That doesn’t sound very productive to me.
Go punch a Nazi. Or downvote. Maybe picket The Onion headquarters if that’s your fancy? If this “slander” holds no weight, then why are you wasting your breath here?
Owning the rights to copy and distribute your own creative works = imperialism
Lemmy is the Napster demographic
Napster programmers demographic, it seems at times! Lol
That, and the “banned from Reddit” demographic. Two major demographics.
Rofl. Imagine thinking I called out Metallica for taking down Napster alone.
Their shit’s been used in DoD/weapons-contractor videos for decades, and the moment the MAGAts start to turn on Trump over the Epstien stuff, Metallica is suddenly anti-drone, for the first time ever.
Next you’ll tell us NASCAR brought down the Berlin Wall.
Next you’ll tell us NASCAR brought down the Berlin Wall.
Wenn all know that it was the Hoff who brought that wall down!
Exactly.
And they have expressed their concerns with the military using their music in a terroristic way. - Source
That was twelve years ago, and “please don’t use our music for torture” is the bare minimum for people who want plausible deniability without actually doing anything about the fact that people are being tortured.
I’m not sure what you expect from them. It should be enough that they don’t want to be a part of the machine and have spoken out against being a part of that, but you want more. Perfection is the enemy of good.
They are celebrities, not political candidates. “Vote Blue No Matter Who” is disingenuous when the DNC weilds it, and not even remotely applicable to rich-ass celebrities whose entire political stance is to try to be “apolitical”.
NapsterTM is alive and well
Don’t confuse the awesome free service that once was with the paid brand that’s still around. Still funny all the effort and good-will Metallica wasted to go after one site when plenty of alternatives existed.
No, but when it came time for them to stand up for their rights, they were total dicks about it. There was a right way to handle the situation, but they chose the wrong way.
Policing the speech of other people = authoritarianism, yes.
Copyright is a government-granted (and enforced) monopoly. Under anarchy, no one would benefit from copyright protection, at least not the same way we have it now.
People could voluntarily police their own speech to stay in an association… but I don’t know how/if that would scale.
When reached for comment, James Hetfield responded, “YEAH-YEAAAAH, WHOA.”
OOOoooohhh
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Isn’t the US govt exempt from copyright or is it just congress?
Works created by the U.S. government do not benefit from copyright protection.
I don’t believe either the government in general or congress in specific have the blanket ability to ignore copyrights held by others.
This is because works created by the government used tax money to pay for it; meaning it belongs to everyone who pays taxes. This is why american video games don’t need special permission to use US military hardware names or depictions, but would have to pay royalties for using brands like Winchester, H&K, or Fabrique Nationale.
That’s stuff created by the government however there are also fair use provisions carved out for the government. I’ve had military guys claim the govt has complete fair use which I doubt.
I know congress can ignore copyright for debate and argument. So a member of congress pass around copies of material to other members of congress regardless of copyright.
I’m also pretty sure the government can’t legally start streaming all the Disney movies to federal employees without permission. I’m not sure where the line between these twoexamples is however.
congress can ignore copyright for debate and argument
Analysis and review are fair uses available to everyone.
military guys claim the govt has complete fair use which I doubt
The military does have fairly broad ability to violate, or even nationalize (and then classify), copyright and patents. Technically they have to justify that with a national security claim, but those are rarely reviewed or rejected. I doubt any of the U.S. armed forces pays for a public performance fee when barracks movie night exceeds 10 individuals, even if the movie is Disney.
who gives a shit, I will sic the fashion police on the government
After striking themselves this is a close 2nd of funniest Metallica strikes
Good! Fuck letting Nazis appropriate anything into their culture of bigotry and hate.
i have bad news about who metallica has shown themselves to be in the last 5 years
Out of the loop old-school fan- what have I missed about them?
There ain’t shit. These fools are just lying. Don’t forget “Disposable Heros” or “One.” They’ve expressed their views on the military using their music in a negative way. This is from before the culture wars of 2015 began.
i’m trying to find a link after the other poster asked it but they’ve been far more supportive of israel than is appropriate
Link?
Their whole schtick is being as unlikable as possible, not sure why anyone would be surprised.
This is why I never purchased their albums. I copied tapes.
