""attack response" All she did was point out a fact. I did notice she pulled the mic away from the guy though when he gave a somewhat reasonable response."
- Joe Mac Stevens
""She only supported them during the time she was the VP nominee, because John McCain supported them" No one liked the bailouts, they were a necessary evil. Palin supported that necessary evil and she should not get a free ride when other politicians have to be accountable for their support. That girl was hardly grilled, McDonnell just pointed out a simple fact to which the girl had no response. I think if you are going to wear clothes that express your political views to a political event then the least you should be able to do is explain why, for your own good so you don't end up on youtube looking like an uniformed jackass."
- Joe Mac Stevens
""this idea that an artist can be a global success simply by putting some videos on youtube and having some songs to purchase on a website is fantasy" My point is that if they sell for themselves and skip the labels they don't need to become global successes selling millions of records to have a decent lifestyle because they will be keeping a larger percentage of what they earn. I think that its possible now for bands to distribute for themselves, do their own marketing, and produce their own albums without the help of the labels because it takes a lot less money to do these things now. You are right that they are going to have to dabble outside of their expertise a bit and take on some of the responsibilities of the label like marketing and such, but I don't think that is such a big deal thats probably what they did before they got discovered. Also I don't think the labels are like "agents" they are like movie studios in charge of financing and distribution. Artists probably need..."
- Joe Mac Stevens
"Except when this curtain drops instead of going to Kansas we will be going to Thunderdome."
- Joe Mac Stevens
phogasmic on Think twice before your town or city listens to Wall Street- instead send those salesmen packing or you'll pay. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"Loud mouth Conservatives do sell a lot of books and reality tv show get ridiculously high ratings, people seem to like crappy entertainment that requires no thought."
- Joe Mac Stevens
"Artists are never going to make the money they deserve until they drop the labels and sell their own music. They will find that if they sell thier own stuff they won't have to sell millions of copies just to make money."
- Joe Mac Stevens
"Their problem is that they are difficult to take seriously because of terms like "socialist utopia". There is no meat to thier arguments."
- Joe Mac Stevens
"The Dems aren't trying to build a Socialist utopia. Assumptions like that are exactly what's wrong with the Republicans, they aren't paying attention to any policy reccomendations, rather they are just opposing anything that is not related to defense and justifying thier opposition with fiscally conserative talking points that th really don't give a shit about."
- Joe Mac Stevens
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"Great write up, I hate this bill and I really don't see the upside. The fact that it comes from Ron (Little Larouche) Paul makes me trust it even less."
- Joe Mac Stevens
"I don't think reddit has a problem with right wing editorials, I've seen plenty of them make the front page. Its Glen Beck/Malkin style editorials that reddit has a problem with."
- Joe Mac Stevens
phogasmic on Teabaggers turn on each other: spawned personal and institutional rivalries, at least one highly contentious lawsuit and — perhaps most significantly — resulted in the splintering of local, regional and national groups - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"that didn't take long. The right sucks at grassroots, I guess its hard to build a community when you think communities are Communist."
- Joe Mac Stevens