Antony Blinken's guitar diplomacy draws criticism in Ukraine
Antony Blinken's guitar diplomacy draws criticism in Ukraine
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Antony Blinken's guitar diplomacy draws criticism in Ukraine
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Hey Ukraine, wanna see my midlife crisis?
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Blinken Park
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Same, it's just complete and utter lack of awareness. The choice of the song is also very on the nose. Clearly they didn't bother to check the context for it.
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motherfucker was around when the song came out and the ironic Bush speech references were current, it's mystifying
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I could imagine it has something to do with feeding his ego.
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To get bloodthirsty Americans to think he's cool and America is still the top dog
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Driving home thebpoint this is all just a game for them.
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Blinken can really sing "We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand" without a sense of irony.
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I thought y'all were fucking with me about this, but I guess it's true.
Who tf thought this was a good idea?
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They lied to the band and told them it was gonna be Neil young so they'd let him play with them and then were pissed off lmao
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You've gotta be fucking with me
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Yea I'm pretty sure that's what the band said when some dipshit lanyard walked out on stage and starting playing a song about how this is one big game for us
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If I was promised Neil Young and Blinken walked out, I would do an adventurism so hard.
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Remember that episode of Party Down where Kyle's band plays a bunch of unintentionally Nazi songs with lyrics about "my struggle" and such? My guess is that Blinken in a band is a lot like that, but intentional.
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Let them eat cakeLet them rock out
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There's colors on the street
\ Red, white and blue
\ People shufflin' their feet
\ People sleepin' in their shoes
\ But there's a warnin' sign on the road ahead
\ There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead
\ Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them
\ So I try to forget it, any way I can -
hes so punk rock
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lol I thought this was fake how is this real
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truly mind boggling stuff
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"This was the moment when we recieved the cowardly and treacherous RIFF IN THE BACK"
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he's running
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Ukrainians were not the intended audience of this political stunt. The target audience was Americans, to drum up feelings of jingoism and nostalgia for the empire. And in that aspect, this stunt has worked well. It's like playing born in the USA at pro war American political rallies. The lyrics don't matter, it's about the optics.
of course the lyrics dont matter, fortunate son is the shooty war song... :D
war pigs is about how awesome and fun and cool war is!