Wait, I thought Grok was the one people use to make CSAM?

The problem is that Vance’s knee-jerk reaction to being challenged by a woman is to patronize or dismiss, and an all-female panel in front of an all-female studio audience wasn’t going to allow that. He’s also terrible at being, or even seeming, off-the-cuff and candid. When he said that Trump’s economic policies were going to “pay serious dividends” and Behar immediately asked, “When?” his smile began to wear thin as he hit back: “Well, Joy, what happens is that construction jobs build the factories and people go back to work.” It was condescending and weak all at once.

That's basically the entirety of opera!

If you're looking for baroque period like the D's "rock block of Bach," check out G.F. Handel; he wrote a ton of opera and orotorio.

It was customary to perform the operas in Italian, but his most famous piece, the Messiah was written and performed in English like all of his orotorios.

Here's one of the arias from Alcina, his opera about a powerful sorcereress who seduces and traps men on her island by turning them into scenery like bushes and rocks when she's done with them. In this scene, one of the men's fiancee Bradamante comes to the island disguised as a man to rescue him and Alcina's sister falls in love with her.

Edit: here's one you've almost certainly heard from Bizet's 19th century opera Carmen: the Toreador Song.

From Woody Guthrie's antifascist anthem Lindbergh:

So I'm a gonna tell you people: If Hitler's gonna be beat
The common workin' people has got to take the seat
In Washington, Washington

And I'm gonna tell you workers, 'fore you cash in your checks
They say "America First, " but they mean "America Next!"
In Washington, Washington

They knew back then what "America First" meant: fascist takeover of the government.

Corporations and billionaires spend a ton of money to prevent people in the USA from having access to basic medical services as a way to limit professional mobility, forcing folks to stay in exploitative jobs which they hate.

Maybe the best theme song from early computing, too. That C64 sound chip was something special.

I'm playing DS3 at the moment, my first time through. I decided to play this one a little differently and add a some miracles to my dex build. It's kind of nice having a little bit of extra healing.

"What a fool I am," the fox said. "Here I am wearing myself out to get a bunch of sour grapes that are not worth sweating over."

And off he walked very, very scornfully.

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