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girl the ICC has ZERO power they have only EVER enforced their insane rules in AFRICA which is among if not the MOST politically unprotected and unstrategic continent in the WORLD (israel has also never ratified their allegiance to the ICC. the ICC therefore doesn't have to do with them at all, like not even in the slightest, similarly to how it doesn't cover china, america, russia, india, saudi arabia, iraq, iran, pakistan, indonesia, north korea, indonesia, malaysia, vietnam, and turkey at all, as they all also never ratified an agreement with them)

or because they might have been tortured/raped/injured like dozens (likely hundreds) of others have been documented to have been under the evil hand of Hamas. just a thought!

and ?? are people not allowed to endorse values independent of how some other people who share that same value happen to act ?? supporting free speech isn't equivalent to defending other people who also support free speech and happen to use it to denigrate minorities.. free speech as a concept makes sense in and of itself.. to defend the suppression of it only through contrast by alluding to psycho MAGA worshippers who happen to be racist and insane says a lot about the weakness of any arguments that suggest restricting free speech incurs only largely positive effects

feelings are subjective.. there shouldn't be any rules about "hurt feelings" on social media platforms because how hurt one's feelings get by a given statement is HUGELY (perhaps solely) dependent on their insecurities and sensitivity level

this analogy doesn't stand because i think at least half of the rules on here are atrocious af (and only enforced when the mods active at the time personally don't like an opinion) i've been given warnings and put on mod queue so many fucking times and (imo) the only valid ones were the two times i accidentally shared high definition FLAC links to songs that were copyrighted (my bad ellybelly it won't happen again pls tell ur mods to leave me alone)

if a social media platform "doesn't allow" people to say certain opinions (that one could subjectively feel spreads hate) then that social media platform doesn't really have free speech as a value.. there can't be two sides of one "medal" because whether or not "hate speech" is banned is black and white, so i guess you could say there are just two different medals. you can't have free speech if xyz (unless you're threatening someone or inciting violence obviously). you either have it or you don't

i don't know if an analogy to the holocaust was the best way to make your point considering a factor that largely enabled it was the suppression of freedoms.. can you give me an example of how someone could use twitter, for example, to run "targeted campaigns against minority groups" ?? we don't live in a race war .. obviously social media companies are private so our constitution doesn't apply to them but i think it's fair to say that it would make logical sense for the largest social media companies (which act as the center of the public exchange of ideas in today's society) to strive to reflect the ideals of the constitution at least in the sense of not restricting speech and expression (even if they could constitute "harassment" when viewed through a certain lens) i also think your point about algorithms contradicts your point .. the algorithms you're talking about would only become "a major problem" when excessively restrictive rules on speech are made as the algorithms would boost and artificially inflate only the content that is "allowed" rather than the content that is actually representative of the public

"hate speech" is free speech. unless violence is actively being incited people should be able to post whatever opinions they want on social media

literally so what if that was the reason though lol like is it that serious??

ethel fucked lana's (now ex but not when the song was written) boyfriend babe

in my platforms i hit the floor fell face down, didn't help my brain out then the baby came before i found the magic, how to keep her happy i never was the fantasy of what you wanted me to be don't judge me so harsh little girl so you got a playboy mommy

this next album better fucking GIVE because if she's wearing that insane wig only to serve another love + fear i will kms

the meme her husband posted is obviously fucked up but i wouldn't say it created a "firestorm".. at least among the general public. only ppl on lanaboards and diehard lana stans on twitter had loud thoughts about it. for her to publicly post about it or even implicitly mention it in an interview is the thing that would create a real firestorm. every single major gossip/pop news outlet would make it a headline.. i don't know why you are hurt by what any competent PR team would recommend she does it's not like she personally said anything she has to address or apologize for

do you know how many ppl jack donoghue has fucked?? (he even made out with his dog.. and that's what was posted on fucking INSTAGRAM which is the most public social media outlet so i'm almost positive he has engaged in other unspeakable acts regarding that animal) (we also don't even know that he was in any sort of "official" relationship with ethel cain) i honestly rly doubt he and lana spoke about ethel's gender in depth

i honestly do think it's worth it mainly since the ads always pissed me off before i upgraded.. and ya u can change any movie poster and backdrop to another but not ur own image there r set options (you can upload your own but it has to get accepted) (i would share the link to mine but i have years and years of long embarrassing reviews i'd like to take back but refuse to delete for the mems that were written on lots of drugs so i'll abstain)

exactly like lana isn't tapped in like that.. when she says she's in touch with "the pulse" of pop culture she just means CNN and TMZ

ohh please throw ur concern in the garbage bae 😭 i promise there is no transphobia in any of lana's unleaked songs (at least the ones i've personally heard - i do know for a fact that she has said nothing transphobic about ethel cain in any song that is hypothetically about her) (not that i think a mention of a name in a song is enough to claim that the entire song is about that person - it could have been metaphorical tbh or an example of a larger theme lana was getting at)

what ever happened to not taking accountability for mistakes? girl this is LAME u should have cursed ethel out actually and maybe threw some eggs at her house

i didn't do anything of the sort. i just gave a few examples of ethel cain songs that i enjoy and provided a few reasons for why i like them (such as discernible intention and meaning). obviously the songs i listed do happen to have more structural integrity and a theme that carries itself through the song than the songs on her most recent record (this is a fact) but in no way was i implying her album is meaningless lol

where did i call the album pointless? let's not misinterpret statements. you've got the right to feel this way, but your way of expressing this doesn't make you look smart, quite the opposite, actually. (what really doesn't make you look smart is the comma splice in this sentence but i've copied it directly as a homage)

every artist's music caters to a specific audience whether that's their intention or not.. i'm also not sure that the notion that boring and monotonous extreme drilling noises can be passed off as "challenging"/"less accessible" is really clicking for me as it insinuates that if someone doesn't like it it's because of them and their lack of sophistication/comprehension and not the music itself, and that's just NOT the case with this particular record 99% of singer/songwriter/producers don't make bizarre conceptual music. are they not artists?

especially charlie unfortunately lana is never going to stop giving chuck work she's her only client

the lack of brain cells some of you bitches exhibit on here is astounding 😭 i'm going to assume lots of people are children to make me feel better about the overall decline in intelligence i feel like i've observed on LB in the last 6 months.. anyways stream crush and american teenager!! good songs!! catchy!! structured!! with discernible intention and meaning!!