Some non-English music I enjoy, though not at the same time:

Lisa Ekdahl - Vem Vet (Swedish) Nice catchy Swedish tune, maybe jazz?

Samain et Shuait - Les Nomades (French and Anishinaabe) First Nations hip-hop

Gwenno - Chwyldro (Kernewek) Folky dreamscapes in a functionally extinct language (they’re bringing it back, though).

Moonchild Sanelly - Gwara Gwara (English and Xitsonga) Pop-funk-dance mixing international and indigenous traditions.

Majid Soula - Win Terram (Tamazight) Electronic beats from a Berber.

Jacques Dutronc - On nous Cache Tout, on nous Tout de Rein (French) A classic of French rock and roll.

Manu Negra - Mala Vida (Spanish) Punk styled music by folks who like their anarchist forebears.

San Salvador - Quau te Mena(Occitan) Occitanian folk traditions given new life.

TUDI-VOICE - 囡仔你甘知 (Hokkien) - Socially active Taiwanese band in Chinese folk tradition with a modern spin.

Beyond - Glorious Years (Hong Kong Cantonese) Cantopop legends.

Sorry for the YouTube links.

More the hypocrisy for having denied entry to Russia while allowing Israel’s to remain.

The actual terms for entering are being a part of the European Broadcasting Union; which includes Israel and Australia, despite the “European” in the name.

Zappa remains great.

But also at least half of his songs are absolute smut, and we love him for it.

The French are, understandibly, less willing to overlook Nazism than anglophones.

Then again, no one should be overlooking Nazism.

The Scottish Full English I think has a slight edge on the English when you’ve all the trappings.

Haggis > black pudding.

For other countries: 贵州 (Guizhou, China) - 恋爱豆腐/ Lover’s Tofu Pouch - is a special tofu that’s made with sun exposure and multiple mixing, that’s then grilled and sliced open to be stuffed.
豆腐圆子/fried tofu balls - These are simpler. Big mouthful sized deep fried tofu balls that’re sliced open and filled with a pickled radish, coriander, fish-mint, and chilli mix. 贵阳酸分/Guiyang Fermented Noodles - rice (iirc) noodles that are quite thick, and left to ferment slightly as part of the process. Normally eaten for breakfast.

Romania: I have amazing memories of a vegetable dish called givech, a thick vegetable mix that you eat with bread. Hearty, warming, and delicious.

Obama? Billy C.? Though maybe that’s my feels from being younger and less media savvy.

Though if I’m honest I don’t think any US president has been progressive.

I’m intrigued.

What five policies of Biden make him the most progressive president of the last 50 years?

Exactly. And he didn’t. For whatever reasons he wasn’t able to do anything but allow, if not actively encourage, the actions of Netanyahu and the IDF that led to the deaths of dozens to hundreds of Israelis, and tens of thousands of Palestinians.

You seem to have mistaken not materially different to Palestinians as equal to equivalent.

And that I didn’t talk about the bad stuff done by Biden and Obama, and the Bushes, and (the) Clinton(s).

Maybe if the Democratic party was more willing to make more materialistic changes we wouldn’t’ve had first Trump, let alone Trump 2. It is naive to hope that, and things for American sexual and ethnic minorities would be, generally, better under democrats. But they’re a holding pattern until the Republicans get in, and Dems don’t have people’s backs.

But my original point was that if you’re so blinkered to not even be able to understand why progressives and anti-imperialist would sit out of the 2024 election, you’re not going to be able to talk them round to vote for Your Guy™ if there is an election again in the future.

Rather than understand a dissenting point of view, you dismiss and villify people you should be trying to work with and understand.

Get friendly with Black Bloc and maybe we can all make things better for everyone at home and in the Middle East.

And you’re too high on American exceptionalism to realise that the words coming out of the White House have zero impact on the experience of Palestians.

The war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and indeed genocide would be happening the same. The only difference is you need to make up for thinking it would be less horrific if you had a leader who’d wasn’t so mask off about it.

Biden wasn’t able to hold back the tide ethnic cleansing and war crimes the IDF has inflicted on the Palestinians. It is very unlikely that a Harris win would have reigned in the killings, bombings, and all that have taken place since the election.

If you can’t understand why people would abstain from supporting one of two genocide supporting candidates who had shown no interest in making things better, you’re just as much to blame for the current US admin as those who did not vote.

The US arms shipments to Britain, and later after the gun runner ship Lustiana, hoping to use its civilian passengers as a shield in breach of the rules of war, led to American popular support for joining with the Allies, which they eventually did to push Germany to defeat despite the newly Sovietised Russia withdrawing.

And it might be that Dixieland and Yankeeland would support the Allies and Axis, and WWI would have had an American theatre, too opening in 1915 or so. And any major war fought in North America in the 20th century would totally alter the form US neo imperial power and hegemony took, if any at all, in the latter part of the 20th century.

As a minimum, a different US would alter how Versaille and Balfour treaties were made and what who agreed to.

I didn’t even mention the Second World War, because the first would’ve been different enough to make it having happened in a familiar form into unlikely.

On the one hand… First World War would’ve ended very differently.

On the other… Maybe eugenics would already be discredited by the 20s with how it went in Dixie.

Because they fired the guy whose job it was to tell the press who got fired. So there is no longer an official record.

All of Europe? All EU leaders? Just the EU president, who has a mostly ceremonial role?

I’m being nitpicky, no state is anyone’s friend and no superpower (or wannabe) comes even half as close as a state to being on your side.

So since adjusting by PPP Russia has spent over a trillion in USD on the war, that makes Russia the aggressor?

Call me a poser, but I prefer him in The Skin I Live in.

Thank you, that looks like a good set of hooks for me to get into at a weekend, child allowing.

I very much appreciate the guide. I’ll let you know when I’ve had a fiddle.

I tried using PiVPN to route my phone’s Internet access through my home network, but it kept breaking and I found I don’t have a head for networks.

Would caddy be able to do that in an easier to maintain way?