At the end of the day the BLM protests in the Summer were for a fight against a real problem: overall racial inequality and the issue of systemic racism within policing. At the end of the day, there is ample evidence surrounding the proportion of black Americans who are injured or killed in custody when compared with white Americans. It is a real problem, and something worth people protesting.

Did those protests sometimes spill over into violent rioting? Yes.

But the negative aspects of the BLM protests comparable to what happened last Wednesday? No.

If that attack on the capitol goes even more sideways and they don't evacuate the chamber in time, or the insurrectionists find the VP, any senator, any congressmen or staffers then you could have been looking at a disaster day scenario. And with what we have learned since then with some capitol police being involved it's even more worrying. Their chances of success were slim but that was a coup attempt. Just because it was unsuccessful, and unlikely to be , doesn't mean it can be ignored and whitewashed.

The whataboutism is insane. Say what you want about the current state of the far left in the west but the most extreme shit they've done recently is disrupt some public transport and roads in the name of protesting about the climate crisis and an idiot (some opportunistic) fringe participating in rioting and looting. They weren't trying to kill the VP, and they aren't down the rabbit hole of believing one of the wealthiest countries in the world can't organise a secure mail in voting system.

On the censorship point... these are private platforms and publishers. They aren't obliged to carry his content. He has a press briefing room and also there is this thing called the internet. He can host a website and put out whatever shit he wants to. He has not been censored, his first amendment rights haven't been violated.

This.

The man inadvertently ran a voter deterrence campaign agains his own voters.

He actually had a real shot at winning - look at how much better GOP did down ballot. If he didn't run an anti mail-in vote campaign and actually tried to appear sympathetic about the virus he probably could have squeaked out a win again. Instead he scored own goal after own goal and handed the Dems the White House - and he's doing everything now to aide them in the Georgia run offs which could hand blue team congress and the executive.

As someone who in US terms would lean politically a lot further left than the Dems to me this is great stuff, but as a political strategy I can see this is terrible. Dems have terrible messaging and won the WH despite themselves. I hope they don't learn the wrong lessons from this election, otherwise 22 and 24 are going to be rough for them.

It still boggles my mind that the GOP went along with this strategy. When has been making it harder for your own supporters to vote ever been a good strategy? They basically ran an accidental vote deterrence campaign against themselves.

I'm at the point now where whenever any GN'R member releases a solo thing, all I think is - what about a new GN'R release?

It's become the elephant in the room now. Since the reunion both Slash and Duff have done a solo release each. Now Slash has another due out in 2021. This would all be fine but the expectation has been set that there will be new Guns music at some point - if so, where is it? At the least where is some news on it?

If there isn't going to be any new Guns songs for the next few years or ever, that is also fine IF they actually say something about it. Having Slash and Duff do interviews the past year or two saying something is actually in the works and having Duff's wife on podcasts talking about it just makes it feel like fans are being led on.