Political radicals

[lisztisforkids]

A very, very right leaning web-site. www.freerepublic.com The people on that website are quite funny in their own hypocrisy, but they do make some good points now and then. I have yet to find their (left leaning) opposites, please share!

WARNING: If you sign up and start posting threads that run contrary to what they think  (especialy if your intelligent), you will be kicked off the forum immediately.

[johnny-boy]

A very, very right leaning web-site. www.freerepublic.com The people on that website are quite funny in their own hypocrisy, but they do make some good points now and then. I have yet to find their (left leaning) opposites, please share!

WARNING: If you sign up and start posting threads that run contrary to what they think  (especialy if your intelligent), you will be kicked off the forum immediately.

It sounds like my kind of thread. I'll go and see how fast I can get kicked off that Socialist site.

Best, John

[prometheus]

That is one ugly site. I can't even find the political content.

Rational left radical? Chomsky?

https://www.chomsky.info/audionvideo.htm

[lisztisforkids]

It sounds like my kind of thread. I'll go and see how fast I can get kicked off that Socialist site.

Best, John

I got kicked off after my first post.

The internet has given a bunch of crazy people the means to unite and indulge themselves....

[rc]

I got kicked off after my first post.

The internet has given a bunch of crazy people the means to unite and indulge themselves....

heh heh...

So long as they just keep to themselves.

[ahinton]

A very, very right leaning web-site. www.freerepublic.com The people on that website are quite funny in their own hypocrisy, but they do make some good points now and then. I have yet to find their (left leaning) opposites, please share!

WARNING: If you sign up and start posting threads that run contrary to what they think  (especialy if your intelligent), you will be kicked off the forum immediately.

Frankly, I wouldn't waste my time posting anything to that kind of set-up (if one could even dignify it by calling it such), so I'm not about to encourage anyone else here to do so. It appears by definition to be very specifically Americanocentric (nothing wrong with that in and of itself, of course, as long as no one seeks also to ascribe to it an importance outside that kind of milieu that it neither merits nor embraces), but it's also apparently respresentative (if of anything at all) of the kind of thing that someone I once knew described as "the bargain basement end of champagne socialism" - and I should perhaps add that this person to whom I refer without identification likewise regarded Margaret Thatcher as a "pink socialist".

Just think for a moment of the only partly discredited (look at modern-day China) Communism and the immense corruptive influence of capitalism and realise that those things in which serious musicians engage and to which they devote their lives are on a level of human importance way above any such things. I apologise if that sounds unwarrantably moralistic, abrasive, musocentric or any combination of the three (for none of these is intended), but I have to admit that I'd sooner listen to the offerings of a back desk second fiddle from the UK's BBC Symphony Orchestra than to most of these political activists / PR people of any persuasion or none (and more often than not the latter) who have nothing to promote but themselves and their absence of ideas that actually matter to worthwhile human development.

This thread may be in the "Anything but piano" section of a piano forum, but this is still a piano forum and I suspect that its most serious contributors will have far more things worthy of expression and of invitation to discussion than anyone is likely to have on the kind of site to which our attention has been drawn here (not that I am seeking to criticise the member who did draw it to our attention).

Best,

Alistair

[cosine]

A very, very right leaning web-site. www.freerepublic.com I have yet to find their (left leaning) opposites, please share!

Here's the socialist leftist counterpart: https://www.democraticunderground.com/

They're a bit "out there" too.