America is Fucked
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- kingsteven3
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ste…
This was announced a while back but coming in to force October 2nd. The increase is from $460 to $705, or $1,440 for a fast-track application which may not seem like much but bands in Europe generally use local companies to sort the paperwork that have their own charges on top. When you add flights, tour backline hire and driver/ tour management - touring the states was already a cash hole for many mid level bands...
Crucially the applications will take longer to process too (even the fast-track applications moving from 15 calendar days to 15 working days) ... From personal experience the last time the indie band I played in were invited to SXSW we had 3 shows lined up in Austin and half a two week tour planned around it. Visa applications (non fast-track) were costing £2k for 3 people (we were quoted 5k by firm in Dublin for the same). Of course you also have to book your flights and spunk a couple grand in other non-refundable charges months in advance of actually having your visa applications granted - We'd even been offered funding from the british council to cover flights, but the funding was dependant on the successful visa - it was a choice for us between potentially being a couple of grand down for a US tour or Recording and Pressing another LP and touring Europe (while making a small profit) already a no brainer for most... Given how fucked the music industry is now i'd say this is the final nail in the coffin for many well known bands touring the US.
- Quietus? I read this yesterday, seems entirely fucked in the head. Simply not spending as much on viagra for military personnel would easily negate the cost.face_melter
- hah, yeah i screengrabbed the quietus article and then realised all the info i read was linked via another site to the forbes article...kingsteven
- That's not that bad considering u get to be in the mutha fuckin usa. Unless u don't want to be here********
- "durrr, what is band" the point is no, you bourgeois fuck.kingsteven
- 200 bucks is supply and demand (arbitrarily by gov) buddy. got something everyone wants you can raise the price. or just need more capital wasting money on********
- leftist ideals and looking for any non voting/ non demo to fleece to pay for it.********
- haha, big supporter of the govt now are you db? the entire point is that the demand does not exist.kingsteven
- fuckboy, next time you think about commenting on something you know nothing about remember this important message: get fucked, you fucking clown.face_melter
- Actually immigration into the US is #1. I'd say that is what people might deem "demand"********
- and think of it this way king. can you make more investing 200 here vs where you are at?********
- and as the country keeps getting more socialist it will have to clamp down even farther on immigration policies becuase of dead beats and costs********
- i fully love who hate the price and ignore the reward while people risk there lives on the border to come illegally and work as off knowing the reward********
- i'd take those types any day over your commie ass.********
- but im happy your commie ass gets burned by gov bureacracy vs capitalism you hate. Makes you sound like a capitalism supporter********
- i lived in the US for years dickhead, settled back in ireland with all the other retirees :D not all trade is capitalism, im posting to inform americans of akingsteven
- cultural drought, when a ton of european groups choose to ignore the american market. because europe is a dream to tour in comparison.kingsteven
- But u don't have us citizenship and don't want to pay price to come back. If nothing big to gain don't come back********
- U want to call w here because u see value. Is is not more than if pay?. If not it's not fair n your best interests********
- well i don't know what you're getting at here at all i can go on a holiday whenever i want. bands play where they are asked to play and promoters, venues, tourkingsteven
- support staff locally profit from them doing so. it drives a grassroots economy and is rarely profitable for the musicians... a futile existence, making stuff.kingsteven
- utopian1
- House looks cool, the banners make it look a bit cheap. Hand painted signage would have made it perfect. The mini stars are a bit of a cop-out too.PhanLo
- Ya, the signs wreck itGnash
- Politics aside, that's pretty cool/funny!MondoMorphic
- Thanks for posting Utopian, it was a fun rabbit hole to explore the world of stars and stripes on houses.PhanLo
- https://www.inquirer…
Youngstown PA, grimnuggler - Being Canadian, when I travel in the USA and see these displays it always strikes me as kinda cultish. Even a just a flag in front of a house seems odd to meGnash
- Totally normalFNP14
- sted3
- PhanLo0
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Beautiful.- brainwashedinteliboy
- it's their opinion and they're entitled to it.hans_glib
- Great point, hansMondoMorphic
- It's a kind of culture I suppose. Lots of rules tho https://www.thisoldh…PhanLo
- last one looks nicested
- Cult of personality.BusterBoy
- This is a weird kinkFNP14
- Ramanisky21
- Actually momma bear and cubsgrafician
- Reece Witherspoon?thumb_screws
- The baby is eating good. KFC and Mountain diet I assume.Ramanisky2
- Grease LeatherspoonPhanLo
- "Not for sale"? what is that even?ben_
- "Not for sale"? Southern Twang Photography thinks otherwisestoplying
- sausages0
Police shoot 13-year-old boy with autism several times after mother calls for help
Linden Cameron was recovering in Utah hospital after suffering injuries to his shoulder, ankles, his intestines and his bladder
- It's like the police have all gotten together and said 'ok, this sucks, how can we make it as bad as absolutely possible"formed
- More likely, USA news stopped turning a blind eye to 1000's of unreported shootings and said, "Oi: everyone report EVERY shooting directly. Nothing else."zarb0z
- "You give me the pictures, I'll give you the war." Google that, yeah?zarb0z
- Huh. Think wait for details on this. Seems pretty open for interpretation emotionally and seo thing to u related cases********
- so grown men can't stop a 13 year old without shooting him?Nutter
- zarb0z0
I fancy a good part of America, if I'm honest. Everyone's on about the coming civil war and I'm not having it, but I do taste a bit of anarchy in November's forecast.
I expect a rash of killing, each offender pleading justice on their magistrate's Twitter feed; every jury tainted; every opinion polarized. I see that.
I dunna see war. I'm cautioned that anarchy is near as makes no difference war, but every time the Lakers get to cum in someone else's mouth, Los Angeles burns, but that's not war.
Imagine instead the entire NBA, NFL, and MLB teams' simultaneous championships: massive metro-wide anarchy for days, weeks, or months, but not war. Second Amendment be damned--there's no way for American civilians to make a dent in any opposition but their own, under-armed kind...
...and that's exactly what they'll do.
The only good thing I see about this is the LGBTQ community realizing that guns are not a bad idea after all, and quickly reconsider the notion that only the GOP get to have guns. As a person with both a penis and a vagina, I have significant issues with my postcode not allowing the peace of mind afforded by those in, say, 90210 (or 84058, or 10121, etc).
I've been to America quite a lot, actually. I got mugged by a rough little chav in New Orleans in '99--he was armed with a sharpened toothbrush. I gave him ten quid instead of the beating he deserved because he represented "street-preneur" in a society that would accept no more serious motivation to divorce oneself from paper money. I wanted to see his attitude improve and it didn't.
Entitlement. The lesson was mine.
America is in for a rough fukkin fourth quarter, but Hogmannay is gonna be "LIT MUTHAFUKKAS" what with the isolated but peculiarly colorful bonfires strategically placed in camera-shot of every major news network on the continent.
America *IS* fucked...but the clock is ticking until America unfucks itself and shames every Trumptard mong into killing off the GOP one voter at a time and diluting the remaining party with the merger of extroversion and private capital.
Liberals outnumber conservatives. Once they realize this, SOMEBODY is going to do that bar scene from "A Bug's Life" and fuck a GOP scapegoat with a thousand acorns. From there, the Left will arm themselves, #BlackLivesShootBack, and "SOME" president with more conscience than a cheeze-spray will say, "Now, now, let's sit down, let's have a beer together, let's talk this out..."
And that's a start. It'll generate laughs, but it's a start.
...while BoJo wanks another chapter into Brexit's manifesto.
- Peace of mind in post codes cause u are a hermie? What force can stop your mind of having peace? I don't get it********
- Why are you still here? Oh, right: because you are the voice of the mods who clamor just as much bigotry with not enough balls to say it themselves. Sod off.zarb0z
- yea that didn't answer anything********
- Are you a hermaphrodite? What postcode are you in and how does it not allow you peace of mind as others exactly? Is the 90210 codes to blame?********
- i think u a bit off your rocker. maybe a foreign thing********
- What I dearly love is that your level of bigotry isn't enough to get your sorry ass banned. Go fuck yourself.zarb0z
- huh.. can u explain my said bigotry?********
- Peace of mind in post codes cause u are a hermie? What force can stop your mind of having peace? I don't get it
- canoe3
Today I regret to say goodbye to a lifelong friend and may he rest-in-my-past. The overwhelming power of AM Radio took his soul yesterday as his final text read,
"3 Trump votes in this house."
- I don't get the 'AM Radio took his soul' reference? Sorry to hear it, canoe.Nairn
- reads as if the forgotten friend receives news via an AM radio stationimbecile
- Am radio = conservative talk radio drivel I assume?!?whatthefunk
- ^ yes. @Nairn - tnxcanoe
- MAGA4Lifeutopian
- As we get older, more and more people in our lives will turn to nonsensical bullshit.nb
- Half of the aging boomers voting for trump were hippies once. Old people get stupid sometimes.nb
- The Youth is at Left, the Olds are at RightBennn
- What's sad is that 'you' (anyone) is willing to throw out friendship / loved-ones because of the current political shitstorm. Shows how weak we've really becomePonyBoy
- more an example of how trite "friendships" areimbecile
- +if they're voting trump, they're supporting a misogynist rapist who steals from american business for profit, so why keep that person in your life? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯imbecile
- yes yes... cuz Biden or any other foul fuck on either side of the political spectrum is any less different. But then again you think 'friendships' are 'trite'..PonyBoy
- by tossing out a 'friend' over politics you just come of as a high and mighty douchebag... like your candidate or 'side' is any less repulsive? *gigglePonyBoy
- Trump is a fucking moron blowhard. you don’t want to be friends with anyone who supports him.nb
- And if those 'friends' are workmates... vendors you've worked w/for years... neighbors... ...your brother? Sorry... I don't have that much hate in me. <3 <3PonyBoy
- ^ nb - that's exact what they say about liberals. is a shit small brain way of thinking.inteliboy
- It's a good point PonyBoy - and for the record, although it sounded final, I'll still be friends with him, we'll still talk, but he did drastically change his..canoe
- views while sitting out in his garage listening to AM radio for the last few... and he hated Trump 4 years agocanoe
- Maybe his views evolved to the climate of the alternative? Not like politics has ever been a measure of consistency. Maybe he evolved quicker********
- you're so sillycanoe
- I believe there's a fundamental difference between having an idealogical schism with friends and having a friend proudly state "3 Trump votes in this house"Nairn
- The former's interesting and leads to dialogue. The latter is much like our deluded Brexit voter and is simply infuriating in its vapidity.Nairn
- Child: "Mom, it sucks you and Dad and Kenny's parents are such Fucks to each other... btw, Kenny and I have a science fair project due Weds... grow up, please."PonyBoy
- I know a number of folks who are voting Trump due to policies on everyday life shit (or dislike of Biden's policy)... that shit worth ending relationships over?PonyBoy
- Are they proudly exclaiming the fact they're voting TRUMP in a vicarious exclamation of offence, or are they simply voting Republican this time around?Nairn
- It seems like some of y'all might've unwittingly slipped into idolistic demagoguery rather tha just holding a partisan standpoint. 'Sad'.Nairn
- Some proud, have signs / hats and shit... but most could give two fucks in terms of pride and are just doing what they think is 'right' for them.PonyBoy
- *slipped into a tacit acceptance of idolistic demaogoguery.. evenNairn
- i gotta say, I feel really bad for earnestly-believing lifelong Republicans. Damned if they do, damned if they diddlnt.Nairn
- What is an 'earnestly-believing... republican? I'm just curious how you define them given your obvious distaste for them. That sounds almost religious. Cult-like?PonyBoy
- fadein117
Buckle up America, the new terrorists have been busy
- surely that's all available above groundFax_Benson
- but, but terrorists have bunker complexes surely?fadein11
- lol exaggerated fall trainingmonNom
- hahautopian
- this place looks pretty dope actuallycolin_s
- Doubt much sex would be happening on those triple bunkbeds.PhanLo
- Lol phanfadein11
- Revolutionaries only fuck the system!grafician
- ^hehePhanLo
- what is marajuana? Gender neutral weed?ApeRobot
- This is fantastic. Meet me in the PC billiards room!CyBrainX
- elon is gonna build one on mars.neverscared
- Too bad there are only 8 people living there.CyBrainX
- sted0
ouch
- https://adage.com/ar…
(get rid of the paywall by adding a "." after .com)sted - I'm reading this as "people got sick of advertising"grafician
- Make America Great Again...Againutopian
- outdoor ?Bennn
- Outdoor advertising, bennn.
AKA: OOH (Out-of-Home). Billboards, city lights posters, etc.Continuity - ooh okBennn
- https://adage.com/ar…
- Ramanisky21
- Alternate reality alright. But if we’re able to believe in nonsense worse than this like religion then this isn’t a stretch._niko
- She is certainly living in an alternate reality.dbloc
- Well, that was a depressing read.
There's a really vast quantity of fucking stupid in this world.Continuity
- utopian1
Jim Acosta asks folks at a Trump event why aren't they wearing masks.
- utopian5
"It’s hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it’s damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person." - Bill Murray
- Leaves one to wonder who they are in such arguments********
- Leaves one to wonder who they are in such arguments
- grafician3
- 200 miles of upgraded southern fencing has sorted that.fadein11
- that's not the point, the point is coastal states will move inland, imagine the fighting for resources in 5-10 years from now...grafician
- Pretty sure Mad Max was a documentary too...grafician
- The Great Filter is upon us...grafician
- lol, I was being sacastic.fadein11
- ik, I'm sure the alien overlords will fix the simulation any day now...grafician
- with mongs like Hayoth screeching about the Brown Horde From Mexico Way, when it will actually be Cody, Melissa, Trey, and Page in their Winnebago.face_melter
- But seriously, Canada needs to build that southern wall any day nowgrafician
- yes , we did designs on how to put to build a city for 1 mio people in a 2 months at university -architecture- we will kinda pe prepared, and also thisneverscared
- assholes who hate against migrants and asylum seekers will get their fair share of migrating in the future fru climate spinning out of control.neverscared
- ^like the US rn?grafician
- grafician4
"America the Mediocre
Americans think they’re No. 1. They’re wrong in so many ways."
"For many Americans, the proposition that they live in the most powerful, richest, and most advanced society on Earth is something close to a statement of faith.
A 2017 Pew Research Center poll found that most Americans disagree only whether the United States is the best country in the world (29 percent) or one of the best (56 percent). Only 14 percent of Americans agree instead that there are other, better countries.
Elites agree, too. Forget the current president’s flag-humping rhetoric—even the cool and cerebral Barack Obama said it was “objectively” true that the United States holds “the best cards of any country on Earth.”
That might be the case in a game of geopolitical Risk, where the cards that count are military strength and overall GDP.
But in ordinary life, it’s harder to make the case for America as No. 1. The rest of the world is developing and adopting policies that can make everyday life in the United States, outside of a few coastal oases, seem ... old.
Even backward. And the U.S. reluctance, or inability, to learn from other countries is making life worse for its citizens than it has to be—not just in the big ways, such as the disasters of American health care and student debt, but in the little, everyday ones, too."
The rest here...
- :-(
https://i.imgur.com/…PhanLo - ^grafician
- but how do you explain US immigration numbers being top dawg? If so bad why do ppl come here?********
- its funny to are edu/healthcare is stupidly expensive because of gov where as others are cheap but not very good. or pay scale is off. Many foreign doctors********
- get schooled abroad the best way to game the college credit system on public dime and move here to make real wage vs hoem wages********
- salaries are far different. funding and all these little gov rules creating bubbles to be taken advantage of********
- When you think your No. 1 you see no reason to learn from others, as they must be worse than youNutter
- i dont think of such types of shit, but i do find immigration numbers telling of what people think********
- :-(
- NBQ00-6
Here he is again
- neverscared1
or more like fucking things up
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/…
At Least 37 Million People Have Been Displaced by America’s War on Terror
A new report calculates the number of people who fled because of wars fought by the United States since Sept. 11, 2001.
- And 500,000 civilians dead, probably millions more who were killed indirectly
https://theintercept…yuekit
- And 500,000 civilians dead, probably millions more who were killed indirectly
- zaq8
Completely agree
