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Which sort of implies it was a white people thing that was influenced by black culture but not when it was too black.

I can see why you might think that from reading about it in 2024 but I'd suggest to you that the tempo slowdown is the major factor. Ska is an uptempo party music. Rocksteady slowed the tempo down and Reggae generally kept the tempo at that slower pace.

Also there was a progression of people leaving skinhead for rock following more high energy bands like The Who and The Small Faces and going through the psychedelic changes into Rock at the end of the sixties.

The fans of ska had no problem with reggae, especially Bob Marley, who was collaborating with Mick Jagger in no time. It's just they'd moved on from skinhead because the scene had become much more associated with violence. There was also the very deliberate efforts of the National Front to recruit football supporters during the early 70s heyday of football hooliganism. A lot of the people that were into violence were attracted to the second wave of skinhead just as cultural changes to the music in Jamaica and the UK meant that a lot of the first wave were evolving into mods and then some of them hippies and eventually you see the emergence of street punk at the end of the 70s.

As for Rastafarianism, that was not at the time a dogmatic religion like Catholicism or the Moonies but arose out of cultural immersion and community practice in the places in Jamaica where most of its adherents lived. I don't think it is a matter of being too black, it's just that it's very specific to Jamaica and eventually the Jamaican diaspora.

Edit: It's no accident that the third wave of skinhead was kickstarted by Two Tone and was explicitly multi-racial and also that Two Tone harked back to uptempo ska.

That is a fun fact.

I honestly wonder who was pushing this nonsense.

So, there's this pair of cunts called the Koch brothers. They have a business that extracts shale gas by fracking and then turns it into plastics for the US domestic market. They've done very well out of this business and out of fossil fuels in general.

Somewhat predictably they're right wing shitheads. They seem to be behind a lot of the bollocks in the Anglosphere at the minute. The distribution network seems to be that they fund various think tanks including a few of the Tufton Street metastasis and also fund Steve Bannon, Turning Point USA and Turning Point UK.

The goal is to keep them and their dynasty on top.

Once the money gets to the UK, usually through Turning Point UK, it funds efforts to distort people's thinking using social media.

Fifteen minute cities encourage walking and so if people can leave their cars behind that's one of the major use cases for fossil fuels reduced. Can't be having that.

Meanwhile in the Pentagon: 'Autonomous drones you say...'

UKs 70 year olds are far less likely than their American counterparts to share Christian memes. They share different kinds of reactionary memes suggesting that 'woke' and what they think is hilarious to call 'elf and safety' are the causes of why things are so shit now rather than looking somewhat closer to home.

I saw yesterday that there's a strong protection from the vaccine against Long Covid. Perhaps that would give him more time to contemplate his foolishness.

Unmiscegenated - I'd bet there's plenty misogyny flying about in those voids.

It's got that 'retrain as a swan' energy.

Why does there even need to be a COP every year? They know what to do, they know what will be enough and they have the authority in their home nations to do it. COP is just theatre.

This is amazing, I had never heard of this artist before and his work is fantastic in every sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Wars

Far as that cat is concerned they're the real star in that picture and the strange human is just photo-bombing.