It’s a tangential distraction largely unrelated from the topic at hand.
In this context it’s worth being dismissive of.

So are we all

There you go. Good on you

Paradox of tolerance
Sometimes hypocrisy is necessary

Streaming isn’t the problem. The lables screwing over the artists on their streaming cut is the problem. Stop supporting the lables.

I was playing a role to try to make a point to the OP.

Judgmental attitudes ar an accepted cancer of online discourse. And I try to point it out sometimes.

Why do your feelings about how others pay for things matter to anyone?
Why does it even matter to you?

I was trying to be subtle, but that doesn’t seeme to be working.

The point is, lots of people enjoy music lots of different ways, for lots of different reasons. Just because you don’t use subscriptions doesn’t mean they aren’t valid and useful to anyone who isn’t you.

In short: Don’t gate keep

That’s no way to enjoy music. You can hardly hear anything on that tinny little phone speaker.

But why listen to just one song? It seems a waste to sit down, put on headphones or fire up the stereo, all for only a few minutes of music.

Maybe it’s just my age, but I never understood buying single songs. I listen to whole albums. They were crafted and assembled as a set. It feels like buying one scene of a movie, or one chapter of a book.

Say who?

If actions depend on our thoughts

They don’t

Where did I “begin” … where will I “end”

“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the weather.” - Bill Hicks

I you word

Your actions are real.
Your thoughts are all in your head.

I wouldn’t directly say it’s the parties. The parties are a collection of members who change over time.

Current Neoliberal, anti-capitalism, pro-feudalism, contigent, who’s in charge of both parties right now, are doing a pincer manuver to secure their corpo-feudalistic Cyberpunk (but worse) dream.

The difference is in blaming the parties as a whole, or party leadership specifically. Most Democrat and Republican voters have no idea what their leaders are doing.

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[he] acknowledged the backlash and labeled his critics ‘snowflakes’

I’m not offended or bothered by it.
It’s just super werid, and I don’t understand the message he’s trying to make. Like is he against capitalist consumer culture? Is he fighting Santa because Christmas is for Jesus? Or is Santa socialized gifting, and he’s for capitalism? Or does he just want to look like a superhero beating up someone, and didn’t think through who he was beating up?

Seeing a clock stopped today, doesn’t mean it wasn’t working yesterday.