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He also reiterated his belief, last expressed in August, that President Joe Biden is a war criminal while Russia and China are relative innocents. Of course, we when I say we, Im now speaking as a taxpayer in the United States are not. We are the most evil of all by a factor of at least 10 times, he said. We kill more people. We interfere in more peoples elections. We, the American empire, is doing all this shit.
Interviewer James Ball pushed back. A member of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that covered the NSA wiretapping scandal, Ball brought up evidence of Russian war crimes: mass graves, the use of rape as a weapon of war, targeting humanitarian convoys, and more.
Waters retorted, Youve seen it on what Ive just described to you as western propaganda. Its exactly the obverse of saying, Russian propaganda, Russians interfered with our election, Russians did that. Its all lies, lies, lies, lies.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/roger-waters-says-ukraine-kill-154653786.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
MLAA
(17,310 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)Remember how he broke up Pink Floyd by saying that it was all about him? Then he sues the remaining members to stop using the name Pink Floyd. It was unsuccesful, but he really did try. This man is an asshole.
The singer and bass guitarist sued David Gilmour and Nick Mason in 1986, in an attempt to prevent them from using the name, claiming the group was "a spent force creatively."
MLAA
(17,310 posts)Johonny
(20,865 posts)His story is pretty telling. Waters hired him because he talked about how pushy, controlling, and impossible to work with Dave and Rick were to work with so he needed a buffer between him and the rest of the band. As Ezrin tells it, he pretty soon discovered the scenario was the other way around. He went on to work with Gilmour as a solo artist and in PF and never worked with Roger again. Waters being Waters, trashes Bob Ezrin in a lyric on Amused to Death because of course he did.
kysrsoze
(6,022 posts)Some people never change.
prodigitalson
(2,427 posts)kysrsoze
(6,022 posts)In recent years, he acknowledged being such a prick to the rest of the band. He wouldn't say it, but I think he knew he'd be nowhere without them, and IMO, it shows in most of his solo work.
I like his most recent album, and have generally agreed with his political views, so I started appreciating him again. Now I feel he's one of those people who have gone so far to the left, they wind up on the right. The comment about being on a Ukraine kill list makes me think he's starting to lose his mind.
Lovie777
(12,309 posts)being extremely paranoid. Musk and others.
Putin at this point in time is losing.
Tetrachloride
(7,865 posts)low brain job.
edhopper
(33,599 posts)kicked him out? Seems like a perfectly reasonable guy.
Bayard
(22,120 posts)Well, that's weird. Especially since he's British.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)Boomerproud
(7,961 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,372 posts)I'm betting it's not a hovel.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)He sounds like a Larouchie, buying into Putin's war rationales: "they made us do it".
His Egoism is out of control if he thinks he's important enough to be on a Ukraine kill list.
niyad
(113,494 posts)moment than wasting hit people other places.
PurgedVoter
(2,218 posts)So anti-Nazi he hated A-440. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_pitch
I always considered LaRouche valuable as a metric. When he started to make more sense than other candidates it was time to really start looking to see what went wrong. Sadly, over half the Republicans currently make LaRouche seem quite sensible. Their paranoia is well up to the LaRouche level and their arguments don't even hold together for three sentences. At least LaRouche could seem to make sense for three or so paragraphs before becoming obviously lunatic.
prodigitalson
(2,427 posts)his people used to hand out their screeds at the airport in the late 70s early 80s.
Iggo
(47,561 posts)As in guitar tuned to A-440?
PurgedVoter
(2,218 posts)It was Joseph Goebbels who pushed for concert pitch to become the standard tuning. So of course playing music tuned to A440 makes everyone turn Nazi.
Considering how things are working out, maybe it is true, but my observation has been that the same folk that want us to leave A440 usually have other things going on that are cray cray.
That is where I generally stop listening. You know how it is, someone might make a few arguments that seem reasonable on the surface and then they suddenly go full out racist or loony in another way.
Iggo
(47,561 posts)LOL
and they put out a pamphlet on it.
48656c6c6f20
(7,638 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)Of self-important, out of touch musicians, along with Eric Clapton and Van Morrison. Still love their music, but it doesnt sound quite the same with the pro-Putin and anti-vax added in.
johnp3907
(3,732 posts)kysrsoze
(6,022 posts)Zambero
(8,965 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,967 posts)"All in all, he's just another brick short of a wall!!"
Initech
(100,090 posts)Texasgal
(17,046 posts)on local TV that tickets are for sale for his show here in Austin.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)These are the people who while often correct in their criticisms of American foreign policy, will cozy up to whoever is in opposition to America because, well, AMERICABAD. Never mind that the people they cozy up to are qualitatively no better.
Cha
(297,446 posts)Russia does.. Ukraine wants to Exist.
Fucking Idiot.
LiberalFighter
(51,005 posts)He should jump out of a 20 story building window.
niyad
(113,494 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,770 posts)America's Top Forty? That's the only "Hit List", he's on. 😄
AZLD4Candidate
(5,705 posts)Iggo
(47,561 posts)If you were on anyones hit list, sweetie, youd be dead.