KrupskayaPraxis

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Cake day: March 23rd, 2022

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  • In the Netherlands we have a famous nonstop radio program of the 2000 best songs of all time from christmas to the beginning of the new year, voted by the public. I like listening to it, but I’m always bothered by how little diversity there is in the list. It’s all mostly old rock, and there’s almost no people of colour in it. Most of the songs are in english as well and just a few in dutch. We have a large north African population in the Netherlands so where is Cheb Khaled? And we have a large Turkish population so where is Tarkan? And there’s not enough hiphop. Kendrick and De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig need to have more songs in there.

    But at least Hind’s Hall by Macklemore got in, at place 822, and it’s being played tonight between 10 and 11 o’clock local time. You can listen at nporadio2.nl



  • To clarify: I’m not in favour of malthusian solutions.

    It’s true that the true problem is capitalism but let’s not pretend like infinite population growth is good either. Yes, we can fix world hunger even with 10 billion but what if we grow past that? And we need to take into account that even if we can feed ourselves, is there enough for other species? I don’t think that overpopulation is something we necessarily need to solve but I do think we need to stop thinking about population growth as something necessary, especially because in capitalism population growth is tied by the ruling class to economic growth.