Personally I love the original and play it proudly.
It’s a more honest depiction of human life and relationships. It’s not perfect, it’s not always happy, it’s not always pretty but in the ugliness, there’s something beautiful.
I love the Irish mind and culture … they can take the most ugly things and make them wonderful.
I do, too, but my kids like to sing the songs they like at their elementary school, my office has an HR department, and Great Aunt Linda has flashbacks when she hears the line “You’re an old slut on junk.”
I’m picturing a Halloween setup lacking any apparent decorations; a plain yard, nondescript tree, holiday agnostic yard decorations, and a peculiar patternless spotlight shining from behind the rock garden that you have to turn away from to avoid being blinded. Trick or treaters trot their way up the steps and instinctively shield their eyes from the luminous assault to continue the holiday ritual and claim their saccharine bounty. Bags slightly fuller, they turn around to notice the tree shielding them from the light, revealing the rock garden to be a lustrous hellscape of crimson, bones, and grinning mouths. Unimpressed, they continue trick or treating.
Imagine if a French director made a movie about Queen Elizabeth II but made a her a slutty party girl who fucked Prime Ministers on the side. Anglos are masters of slander.
He was the US secretary of state in the 1970s who finally died today after far too long living free. The 3 page rolling stone article is about as quickly as somebody could summarize his more notable war crimes. Admittedly the article is pretty biased, but also fuck hearing the other side of the story about a man responsible for so much death and pain.
Tldr: he extended the Vietnam war for about 5 years because it benefited him personally, he convinced Nixon to bomb Cambodia and laos which were not involved in any combat with us, he was involved in the coups that overthrew the democraticly elected governments of Peru and Argentina, he encouraged the use of nuclear bombs in battle on numerous occasions, and that’s just for starts. The rolling stone article claims he is indirecty responsible for about 4 million deaths. They don’t list the directly responsible number, but its likely in the one million range.
Ehhh that’s kind of a stretch. Blaming all the shit in the middle east on one person or country really ignores the century+ of bullshit western powers enacted on that region
There’s much more to this ugly story, all available at your local library. It can’t be said to be the worst thing that Kissinger ever did — but as you remember the extraordinary bill of indictment for him, make sure to leave a little room for it.
Kissinger was deemed a controversial figure in the Arab world for his role in shaping US foreign policy, particularly towards the Middle East. For many, his actions fuelled instability, favoured strategic interests over moral principles and left a legacy of geopolitical manoeuvring at the expense of justice and human rights.
Oh yeah, he’s a massive chunk of the reason that almost everything is as fucked today as it is, I just think trying to pick a singular villain to blame any thing this big on ignores the systemic issues spanning decades that enables this
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