#Down With The System

[i4mth4ti4m]

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O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary,

I offer you my prayers, works, joys and sufferings of this day

for all the intentions of your Sacred Heart,

in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world,

for the salvation of souls, the reparation for sins, the reunion of all Christians,

and in particular for the intentions of the Holy Father this month.

Amen

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[sunburnacoustic]

According to his new book, Serj Tankian from System of a Down almost signed Muse to his own record label back in 2003. He'd been a fan of theirs since the OOS days, having shared festival bills with Muse in Europe, and he really loved Absolution when it came out and noticed that Maverick hadn't even released it in the US, and wanted to try and buy Muse out from Maverick's control. Maverick asked for half a million dollars to transfer Muse (which is something I fucking HATE about labels and deals: they refuse to release your work and also won't let you leave, and this is still happening), which Serj couldn't cough up on his own, so he tried to convince Sony, who signed SOAD, to sign Muse instead. Sony hemmed and hawed and said they wanted to wait to hear Muse's next release before squaring up the money, but by the next year, all of Maverick's artist had been bought out by various record labels, including Warner Bros. proper, who picked up Muse and finally released Absolution, a year late in the US (2004, which I realised later is why you see some sources list its release date as 2004. The US release date). Interestingly enough to me, Maverick was a Warner subsidiary to begin with.

Serj regrets losing out on signing Muse, not so much from a financial standpoint, but because they were a cool band he liked, but I wonder how things may have panned out for Muse had they stayed indie for another few years? I imagine Warner worked out quite well for them: they sold out their first US tour in a long time in the autumn of 2004, headlined Glastonbury, were invited to play a Live 8 show, and of course, when Black Holes and Revelations came out in 2006 (Sony's loss), they exploded all over the alternative 'mainstream'. It doesn't seem like they've had much, if any, creative interference from Warner either, except maybe them suggesting the greatest hits thing that instigated Muse writing Will Of The People instead. Overall, fairly harmonious.

Things turned out alright for them!

[tilbageidanmark]

"Billionaires Are Not Your Friends" is a good class-struggle slogan

[unfortunatelyfuckingstupid]

Fuck it Let's follow the Minecraft Players and start a revolution

Honestly we all players need to start a revolution like the mincrafters cause i will not fucking stand for everything just being deleted cause: "Oh We DoN't WaNnA uP kEeP oUr SeRvErS aNyMoRe If YoU cAn JuSt bUy ThIs NeW wOrSe GaMe." like theyre needs to be more consequenz then a littel only backlash for pulling a move like this. WE PAID FOR THE GAME; SO GIVE US THE FULL GAME or atleast open source it or let us host our own servers. like fuck it lets camp infront of headquartes or trow in some of their windows until we get back the games we paid for. And You know what why stop theyre lets force them to make all updates and versions of the games availabel if were at it. Yes im that passionate about this.

[beardedmrbean]

catmusicvideo

[robinlovexo]

ravenously fighting to bring down the empire 🤝 ravenously horny

[simplyfandomish]

💫Please show your support to all the Disneyland Cast Members going on strike in the next month!!💫

🐭 We need all the help we can get!!🐭

Aka: let’s make a major corporation shake in their boots! Give them their comeuppance!!!

UPDATE: We vote tomorrow to strike or not!!

[rachielynne728]

Pre-ordered this lovely book last month and I finally got it in the mail today System Of A Down 's Serj Tankian 's "Down With The System: A Memoir (Of Sorts) 😁 Well worth the wait

[angstemperor]

Agricultural Activism

Disclaimer: this post is intended to inform, not convince/persuade

Was reading a post from @wobblydev and saw this specific panel.

I don't know if many of my current friends know, but something my f*ther and I used to passionately be a part of was Anonymous For The Voiceless. Though now, I'm too disabled to be out on the streets with the Cube of Truth and I'm too aware of psychology to agree with the in-your-face approach to their activism, that doesn't mean there aren't important things I've learned from being a part of it.

Mass farming of anything is bad and there are empathic, health-based, and environmental reasons that factory farming is awful, and so many more. These are just a few points I'd like to share to get things started.

I'm gonna break this up into multiple posts because there's just so much information

Hyperlinks to posts

Bonus post about emissions and population statistics

Environmental Impact

Relationship between Humans and Agriculture

Healthcare and Sanitation

Ethics/The Morality Argument (aka the reason why most everyone hates vegan activists cause they never stop preaching this [Trust me, I'm tired of it too. There are so many other ways to have this conversation].)

[burningkittypoet]

Vote for someone who lies with every word he speaks?

Vote for someone who said to ‘let Israel finish the job?’

Vote for someone who is too old to think? Vote for someone who cannot speak clearly?

Vote for someone who cannot walk properly because they are old?

Vote for someone who argues about golf on national television?

Vote for someone who is completely funding a genocide?

Vote for someone who does not care for the middle class?

Vote for someone who is a convicted criminal?

Vote for someone who defends convicted criminals?

Vote for someone who is over the age of 75?

Vote for someone who cannot will themselves to provide an actual answer for a question in a debate?

Vote for “the lesser of two evils?”

No. I’m done with this. Revolution or nothing. Voting will get us nowhere. The people in power will always be in power until they are forcibly ousted. Take a hint from the French and do something about our corrupt “government.”

[fallen-honor]

Yall someone needs to send on a grippy sock vacation bc it's 1:10 am rn and I went on Amazon looked at Serj Tankian's book and did a trump impression complete with the hand movements and just said "The sidequester. Nobody sidequests better than him, he's the best. Honestly everyone else should just quit."

Also i do plan on reading his book

[i4mth4ti4m]

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Dear God, 

please reveal to us your sublime beauty

that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere,

so that we will never again feel frightened.

My divine love, my love,

please let us touch

your face.

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[khelinski]

I wrote a poem once that had the line "Home is a place you can't walk away from in the end." I didn't write those words about System Of A Down, or at least I didn't think I did, but when I read it now, I wonder if maybe my subconscious knew something I didn't back then. System, for me, is a kind of home - and it always has been. It's where I found a feeling of belonging and grew to understand important parts of myself. Ten or twenty years could go by before the new time the four of us get on a stage or walk into a studio together, but even if we never do either again, I'll always be a part of System Of A Down and it will always be a part of me. That is home. It may not be where I want to live anymore, but I can certainly imagine - and even look forward to - coming back to visit.

Serj Tankian

[d-i-x-i-t]

I actually hate the word God. I love the combination of “The Spirit that moves throughout all things” and “Creator”. - Serj Tankian

[firehair12000]

Maaan I'd love to hear Serj's take on Careless Whisper

[thebean-17]

"Avoiding violence and avoiding conflict are not the same thing. Even now, I think the former is probably healthy. The latter, not so much. But that can be a hard lesson to learn."

- Serj Tankian