Go f*** yourself Neil!!

[911Turbo]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/n...-1.6326771

https://www.iol.co.za/entertainment/tv/...95c08138ba

I'm pinching myself at the moment.
I cant believe what I'm writing. I must apologize for the language up front.

I'm an old man approaching 60, who happens to have his #1 album, by Neil Young & Crazy Horse "Rust never Sleeps", and several more
in my top 50. Well, fuck you Neil Young. You globalist bitch. And while we are at it, fuck you Joni Mitchell. Pig!
Im not listening to this prick ever again. Piece of shit. Fuck you Neil!!!

Two, over the hill, has beens, trying to manipulate the general population with lies and discredit Joe Rogan
and the "trucker protesters".

In Canada, we are in the middle of a war. the unemployment, mental illness, elderly dying alone, business destruction,
the unvaccinated treated like dogs, kids getting the jab, child abuse, suicides, overdoses, domestic violence, destroyed economy,
families and friends are at risk for a product that doesn't work.
And Neil , calls out Joe Rogan. Can you believe this.

The Trudeau government is a bunch of asswholes and liars. Commie termites in our midst.
Totalitarian scumbags. We need to evict this New World Order infestation.
They somehow stole the truckers $10 million from GoFundMe- another globalist
site along with facebook (time to cut the facebook cord). . Its a psyop thats falling apart.
Sweden, switzerland, norway, finland, denmark, UK, Iowa, Sasketchwan, have ended all covid restrictions.


i live in downtown Toronto and i"m on my way to protest these government mandates.
Everything you see on TV is a lie. the protest is gaining in strength and have created changes.
I'm sorry about this rant, but if i every listen to Neil Young again, it will be a cold day in Hell.

[baystateoftheart]

Wow. Dehumanizing people by comparing them to animals (especially insects/pests/parasites) has a long, ugly history. I can't think of a context in which it's appropriate.
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[RoundTheBend]

I came here wondering what Skinny did now, and was disappointed... haha.

Having said that, Neil Young didn't even want to be on Spotify to begin with. Not much of a protest if you ask me.

And yes, our society is more interested in what color underwear kim kardasian wears than if their neighbor is starving to death.

[PurpleHazel]

The vaccines are safe and effective. Can't equate kids getting vaccinated with serious social ills.

Joe Rogan didn't give a mea culpa over vaccine misinformation because of Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, but because of all the criticism in the media. Frankly, Neil Young doesn't have that kind of cultural clout any more, if he ever did. All other things being equal, Spotify would side with Rogan over ten Neil Youngs.

Young and Mitchell didn't "discredit" Rogan. Everything he's said is publicly available, so if he has been discredited (I wouldn't put it that way myself because I don't feel he has been discredited to most people), it's by his own words. People can listen to what he's said about vaccines and make up their minds for themselves.

[Skinny]

This is tangential, and not a direct response to the wider point being made here, which I think is conflating too many unrelated events and goings on to be considered in any way coherent or addressable. With that in mind: I always find it amusing and frightening and sad, in equal measure, when people use terms like “globalist” or “internationalist” as insults, as though there’s something inherently wrong with international cooperation. I feel sorry for anybody, anywhere, who sincerely believes that they live in “the best country on earth” (whatever that means, and however that’s decided or quantified) and doesn’t see the benefits of sharing ideas or resources with people and organisations from elsewhere. The idea that one group of people deserves better, or more, than any other group of people, based on geography, is so arrogant. That insularity is actually tragic, and pitiful, and I think it largely stems from a sense of insecurity and paranoia that says, “if I venture further than my own backyard, and the Wizard of Oz turns out to be a man with a megaphone and a smoke machine, everything I’ve ever fought and argued for is a lie, my whole worldview is built on sand, and I’ll have to accept my own weaknesses and shortcomings and come to terms with that fact that, despite what mom always said, I’m not the handsomest kid in the playground.” Honestly, that isolationist mindset is fucking pathetic and I feel genuinely sorry for anybody who thinks like that because their existence is emptier for it.
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[Hayden]

I'm not on BEA to be political— I'm just... not— but in addition to echoing what Skinny said (who, I hope doesn't take too much insult from the thread title), I want to add a Canadian perspective. Also, in general, I'm going to ignore what's written in the thread topic.

Canada is slightly more chaotic and hateful than I've ever seen it in my lifetime, and I don't care what side of the political spectrum you're on, it's flat-out embarrassing. To watch the steady increase of genuine idiots in this country has put our name to shame. I know social media has escalated things, the pandemic even more so, but the state of the country (particularly Ontario and Alberta) is humiliating. It's a minority— it truly is, no matter how it looks— but the uprising of rude, ignorant, foolish, look-at-me-I'm-the-specialist-person-ever white trash attitudes I'm seeing across the board is sullying whatever repetitional status Canada used to have. The rise of people who are claiming to be personally victimized by vaccine mandates as if it's this severe punishment pertaining only to themselves is absurd, and to see so many people believe the world revolves around them is astounding. In general I believe this attitude is more common in older generations, but sadly I am also seeing it among my own. I don't throw my weight behind any political party in this country, I don't want my post to look like a spectrum vs spectrum thing, but I am quite sad as to where we currently stand. While I can't back most of what OP said (we are certainly not in a war, and I am very pro-vaccine), I can't argue with the fact Canada has been experiencing a severe health crisis with opioid deaths, and our economy is crumbling. I hope for both of those things to take a sharp turn for the better in oncoming years.

I know vaguely of Joe Rogan— I've never watched one of his podcasts (listened?— I don't do podcasts in general, never heard one)— and apart from the initial embarrassment of knowing Joni Mitchell had to find out who he is, I really don't have any opinion on the guy, and I don't care to learn anything more than what I already know about him. So, Spotify wise, I mean... whatever. If he's harming people and Spotify is paying for it, I understand Young's protest, but ultimately I don't even think it's much of a protest at all. Taking your music off of a streaming service is extraordinarily minor. Albeit, it's had a much bigger impact that I would have assumed, so maybe I'm wrong.

Anyway, everything I wrote up there doesn't do much justice to anything. Just my viewpoint. Read Skinny's post instead. As someone who's lived in a couple corners of this world (coincidentally, including Ottawa and Windsor), the west needs to humble themselves. It is my home— it's what's on my birth certificate, my passport, etc— but, as it stands, it remains my least favourite country I've ever lived in. I am not proud of what Canada currently is.

That's all I got. I probably won't post here again. I'm just going to give an old fashioned Canadian apology for anything you see about this country in the news right now, and hope people recognize it is the minority (albeit, sadly, a growing one).

[Repo]

I blame Brexit! It spread faster than COVID.

[Skinny]

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