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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Hair metal band, Twisted Sister with frontman Dee Snyder
I can hear this picture…
is true ... but alas every generation makes it worse.
Am Gen x, 30 years ago I assumed that when the old boomers died off things would be better as we took over. Now Im left watching horrified as Gen X just helps make it even worse and I hear Gen Z repeating the same inane missives my gen did at an early age.
It's the thing that moved me from a slightly right of center 20yr old to a left green supporter here in Australia at 58. More of the same stupidity won't do anything but make it worse.
We didn't start the Fire (boomer Joel song) might be true but we're making it worse by just pouring more fuel on said fire.
Spoiler alert, we continued to take it.
Narrator: they did in fact take it.
On the electoral side, people are starting to not take it... Anymore.
Just gotta hope it is enough to outweigh the fear mongering of the right and liberals.
Getting old is watching all your former 'rebel' friends become the Empire.
And worse, watching your former empire friends, seem more like the rebels.
and then realizing they're all assholes and none of them really care about anyone other than themselves and this movie was fun, but a horrible horrible way to view the world.
The real struggle is going on at your local town/neighborhood meeting and voting for the city rep you have never heard of is the one making the biggest impact on your life.
The genius of Mandami, that everybody ignores, is he is entire focused on small potatoes local issues that actually effect the voters lives. But in america, filling pot holes and auditing/moving budget items for more pragmatic spending, makes you a communist, or something. Real change is in the boring details, not the grand historical narrative.
I just read that Mandani got an email that a citizen needed a pothole fixed on the road they lived on.
Same day filled.
In a city that has roughly 15 million people. One citizen. One pothole. One email. Filled SAME DAY. For context, the state of Ohio has about 11 million citizens.
If I were to write that same letter to a Cleveland mayor, that pothole most likely would never get fixed. My dad has lived in the same house since 1973. His house is at the center of a T intersection. Meaning the road ends, and you need to turn left or right. If you drive straight instead, you're driving onto his lawn.
In the 70s/80s/90s he had a guardrail. If you drive straight, you crash. Then in 1998 they had to dig up some pipe and do some work down there. They removed the guardrail because they needed more space. They didn't replace it.
Despite hundreds of calls over the years, to this day that guardrail is not replaced. 1998-2026. No action through multiple mayors, including Frank Jackson who served 17 years while doing absolutely nothing. Seriously, when I think what was Obamas contribution, I say medicare. With Clinton I think the telecommunications act of 1996. With Frank Jackson, I could be convinced he just stayed in his room and played Nintendo all day every day for 17 years.
But Mamdani replaces 1 pothole from 1 email, same day.
I'm not sure words can fully capture the amazement, and dumbfounding I feel when I think of that.
Spoiler,: Those who didn't take it, died...
Only one generation believed that the boys would be back in town (spoiler: they were)
Dee Snyder gave my third favorite testimony in front of a Senate committee ever where he accused Tipper Gore of being a sexual deviant.
#1 is Fred Rogers securing funding for PBS and #2 is Bob Denver breaking Al Gore’s heart and leaving early for a meeting with NASA
"Network", (1976 - Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway) says it all better than anything
When I was a kid, I didn't understand a lot. Everytime I asked a question, the adults in the room would say "you'll understand when you're older".
Ok. It's been like 38 years......I still don't understand.
What exactly is Dee Snyder supposed to be with this look??? If this look were invented today, I would think he's mocking trans people. But this was the mid 80s. I never in my life heard the term "trans" until maybe 2010. So in 1985, they weren't a focal point of society. If they existed at all they were very rare. Not well known enough for an anti trans image to make sense in 1985.
So, what is he supposed to be with this look? A caveman??? A manniquinn??? I have no idea what I'm he's going for here.
To emphasize the "Twisted Sister" image, Snider adopted a trademark persona of metal-inspired drag with long blond curly hair, an excessive amount of eye shadow and rouge, a beauty mark, and bright red lipstick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Snider
so I guess it was to look like a "twisted sister"?
I guess that makes sense when it's explained like that.
But a million guesses, and I never would have got that right.
I mean it’s hair metal and gender bending. Nothing about that is transphobic.
Look up talk shows like donahue. Tons of discussing trans people and their issues and place in society during the 80s and 90s. You can find episodes on YouTube. You get a good look at where people were at then.
Side note: This stripped back version is pretty good.
To paraphrase a commenter under that video; If you told me in 1985 that this song would bring a tear to my eye in 2026, I would have laughed at you, but hear we are.