Today I Learned

I fucking love Murphys, but they even admit that they're not super talented. Ken Casey once said he didn't even learn to play bass until their second album.

This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.

— Woody Guthrie on copyright

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Machine_Still_Kills_Fascists?wprov=sfla1

So... he climbed the wall, checked the other side, and decided that the inside area was "for you and me" because the inside of the wall didn't say otherwise?

Scotland and Norway have the right to roam, where there are land owners but they do not have the right to keep you off their land. As far as I'm concerned that's the bare minimum for a decency, even though it's a long shot from communism.

But Guthrie was a communist. This was before Stalinism and a lot of the bad connotations given to communism since - I doubt he would have embraced much of what have happened in the name of communism. But he was a union man.

I see Donald takes after his father.

I'd recommend all Americans to check out the verses they don't teach you in school.

There's several versions, but they go something like this:

One Sunday morning in the shadow of a steeple  
By the relief office I saw my people  
As they stood hungry, I stood there asking  
Was this land made for you and me?  

There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me  
Sign was painted, saying "private property" 
But on the back side it didn't say nothing  
That side was made for you and me  

Woody, a socialist, supported the Leninist revolutions. Only to watch their natural evolution. Stalin helping Hitler invade Poland. As well as exterminating ethnic polish in their own borders. Exterminating their own people etc. And all the atrocities of other individual vanguard parties.

I mean, he WAS a Stalinist and supported the joint Soviet-Nazi invasion of Poland.

You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick, and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it—in harmony—they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of 'em. And three people do it—three, can you imagine?—three people walking in, singing a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out?—they may think it's an organization. And can you—can you imagine fifty people a day—I said fifty people a day!—walkin' in, singin' a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends, they may think it's a movement! And that's what it is, the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacree Movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar. With feeling

So we'll wait til it comes around on the guitar here, and sing it when it does.‎‎ Here it comes.‎

Thanks. I use voice to text and really need to proofread more often.

I swear, voice to text was better on Android 12 than after it got the big upgrade on Android 13 (if I'm recalling the versions correctly). Though it was still an issue then.

Edit calling: Correcting voice to text grammar

And the movie.