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chaewonplzbiteme · 1 year

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If you bought a VIP/Royalty package to see a K-Pop concert, how would you rank the following benefits? Assume you’re seeing your favorite group and these are all offered.

* Early Access/Entry

* Signed Item/Merch

* Hi-Touch/Send Off

* Group Photo

* Soundcheck

Oh hello~

I may be very biased from my experiences with K-Pop concerts so far. Double digit concert attendance, so strong opinions. I have sampled everything.

First off: - I'm not one to camp from midnight to secure a spot - I may come off as a snob, lol - It does not help that I'm older now - I kind of value my time - I respect the artists' time, too - Did I mention strong opinions?

No. 1: Signed Item/Merch

Nice merch goes a long way~ I dig shirts and caps for the 'generic' merch, and whatever unique thing they produce.

Ironic, considering I value experiences over property. No, please don't look at my room filled to the brim with merch 🙈.

For signatures, live signed goes deep. Knowing that they signed it for you. Just for you. The minute where you can chat with them is a precious icing on top of the experience. Memories to cherish for decades~. I have signed shirts, posters, and albums.

Needless to say, I am not very fond of pre-made signed items.

No. 2: Hi-Touch

Sadly, this experience has been heavily diluted after the pandemic. Nowadays the idols are mummified behind a glass wall. I think they dub it Hi-Wave now. I still shelled out $100 for seven exclusive photocards, though... That's how they get me.

Actual Hi-Touch or handshake events are genuinely nice though. I remember how I made Gahyeon laugh when I clapped their manager~.

No. 3: Early Access/Entry

Early Access / VIP is often tied to GA / Standing spots. Early kpop concerts abroad did not divide EA and regular GA once inside of the hall. It was nice nonetheless, first dibs on merch and better spots until you had to get a drink or take a piss. But everyone was friendly enough to let people back to their places, even at the front, not like anyone has to be scared of losing their spot.

When I go Standing, I go EA. No exceptions.

Once they started dividing EA/VIP and plebs into separate sections... I can only think of someone reading a lone comment on the internet complaining about the lack of a clear benefit once inside the venue.

Capitalism has made EA/VIP a weird thing. 2018 Dreamcatcher, all Standing/GA, non-divided, was ~90% VIP. MIK Festival was 80% VIP. Music Bank GA was VIP-exclusive lol. Only non-VIP were seated.

The idea of cutting the queue by slamming some bills on the table seems to be an illusion. What a shame.

No. 4: Group Photo

The Blackpink group photo was hilarious. Photo of the group on stage - artist not included. What the fuck.

Aside from the jokes and horrible benefits (parking spot, anyone??), I agree it is a nice memory. But it is not one I really value. I don't take selfies or pics of myself in general, so I figure it is a character thing.

I do have a stash of pics the artists took with me. But I know I will never look at these pics ever again. I will treasure the memory of them taking a picture with me though~.

No. 5: Soundcheck

While this may be a good opportunity to see the idols, I'm not going to queue for hours for 10-15 additional minutes. Hours ahead of the show. And then rejoin the regular (VIP) queue. As you can guess from my answer, I did not attend the Blackpink soundcheck, cba.

Another facet: This is capitalism at its best. In the old days, you had a friend at the venue who let you in. Or sneaked in. Now you just unload some bills.

I prefer to spend the time eating lunch with friends and chatting with them in the queue.

No. 6: Send Off

Is this seriously being offered as a benefit? Back in the days fans got to do this for free, and now we need to pay for it. How nice.

I am not going to hang around for another two hours and force them to be still pretty for one minute of them exiting the venue and entering the van. All for a single wave.

I am going to leave the idols alone once the concert concludes.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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Bonus: Seated or Standing?

These days I prefer seating spots. I can still see the idols well in most venues. Seated is also perfectly suited to appreciating the intricate details of choreographies. Can't see their feet when in the pit.

But nothing beats getting close to the artists. I would like to quote a friend of mine:

"I want to get so close until I can see the sweat on their skin!"

#asks #kpop concert #kpop concert opinions #i admit it I'm a snob #not a communist

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t4tails · 3 months

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"he would not fucking say that" but its about a character being a leftist. he would not fucking believe that

#og post #i know u like him but hes stupid. he wouldnt be a communist

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whereserpentswalk · 2 months

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The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

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troythecatfish · 5 months

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cock-holliday · 8 months

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#poll #leftist #anarchist #communist

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icarusxxrising · 10 months

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Horrible fact of the day: Chevron just released a new boat fuel that WILL give you cancer.

Not "might", not "could", WILL. It has a cancer ratio of 1.3:1, as in, in a group of 10 people, 10 would contract CANCER.

(Edit: apparently some articles are now saying 1.4:1, and some are saying a little under that. Either way, the consensus seems to be anywhere between a 95-100+% of contracting cancer, with some expectations of this fuel not even needing a full lifetime of exposure for you to get Cancer.)

The EPA's safety limit is 1:1,000,000 as in 1 in a million people get cancer.

The EPA approved it anyways. I am not joking. The EPA approved a boat fuel that has a near 100% chance of giving someone cancer. It has such a good chance of giving someone cancer that if you DIDN'T get cancer YOU WOULD BE AN OUTLIER.

Fuck the oil industries.

Edit: If you find this (rightfully) horrifying, have you considered industrial sabotage? /hj

This isn't something we can vote away. This isn't something the rich are gonna apologize and make a 10 minute apology video for this. They don't care if you starve or wither in hospitals or get blown up in their wars.

If you don't know where to get started:

If you already know what to do, then it's time to do it. Participate in mutual aid, raise awareness in real life as well as online, participate in or train in self defense and emergency medical training classes.

#anarchy #chevron #fuel #oil #news #health #healthcare #cancer #research #anarchism #leftism #anarchist #leftist #communist #socialism #socialist #eco #green #earth

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dangerouscommiesubversive · 1 year

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I think a really good relationship dynamic is when one partner is an entirely absurd person and the other partner's perpetual thought process is, "I adore you. Why are you like this? I'm going to kiss you at such length and with such fervor that you'll get disoriented and stop being like this for five minutes and I can rest, for fuck's sake."

#dangerous communist propaganda

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defleftist · 2 months

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Thrilled to see someone carrying on the tradition of protest folk music. Keep fighting the good fight!

#jesse welles #war isn’t murder #music #folk music #protest music #leftist #leftblr #communist #socialist #communism #socialism #anti capitalist #anti capitalism #leftist politics #human rights #anti war #anti war protest #free palestine #free gaza

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bolshevikitherat · 9 months

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from the Lavender and Red Union, a group of communists who wrote this in 1975.

"GAY LIBERATION IS IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT SOCIALIST REVOLUTION. SOCIALISM IS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT GAY LIBERATION."

#marxism #communism #queer history #gay history #socialism #leftism #communist history

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goulboss · 1 year

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an intense hatred of capitalism vs an intense love of trinkets

#crowcore #cryptid culture #chaotic academia #cryptidcore #chaotic academic aesthetic #gremlincore #gremlin culture #anti capitalism #i promise i’m still a communist i just also like little things

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no-gods-no-masters-tshirts · 1 year

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#anarchocommunist #communism #anarchism #revolution #antifascism #anarchist #socialism #anarchocommunism #anarchy #antifa #communist #antifascist #socialist

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whereserpentswalk · 5 months

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I fucking hate this "capitalism is when you make money, the more money you make, the more capitalism it is" mindset people have gotten. No, an artist selling their own work is not them engaging in capitalism, it's literally a worker owning their own means of production.

Remember capitalism is someone profiting off of someone else's labor though owning capital. It is not simply the act of profiting at all.

#196 #my thougts #leftist #leftism #anticapitalist #anti capitalism #anti capitalist #anticapitalism #communist #communism #workers rights #worker solidarity #artists on tumblr #art #capitalism #marxism #marxist

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catgirl-kaiju · 10 months

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workplaces should have to legally provide unlimited paid sick leave available immediately upon hire. the limits that companies that even provide paid sick leave put on it is so fucked up. no one can control when they get sick, how often they get sick, or how long they are sick for, and they shouldn't have to suffer for the transgression of being ill.

"oh, but some people might take advantage of that and just stay home all the time and get paid for it!" if there is really a statistically relevant amount of people you have hired staying home on paid sick leave for months or years on end, perhaps your workplace sucks to be at, and you need to change.

give them reasons to come in to work. make it safer and easier to do their jobs. give them work that they can get invested in and talk to them about what that looks like. make sure you aren't overloading them with too much work or making unreasonable demands. pay them an amount that makes the work worth doing to them. actually form a working relationship with your employees instead of treating them like infinitely exploitable wage slaves.

only allowing your workers to accrew "2 hours a week of sick time starting after 6 weeks of employment" or some shit just doesn't match the reality of how sickness or human health works

#rant #healthcare #anti capitalism #workers rights #labor rights #socialist #communist #us politics #political commentary

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thestrawberrydreams · 8 months

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#socialist #communist #leftist #anti capitalism

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anarchist-art · 1 year

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#anarchism #anarchist #acab #antifascism #anarchocommunism #anarcho #anarchopunk #communism #revolution #antifascist #antifa #communist #anarchocommunist

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crystalline--chaos · 5 months

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I watched @patricia-taxxon's "on the ethics of boinking animal people" today!

#i love that the only remaining part of the original meme is the fact that i think the text is from the communist manifesto #patricia taxxon #posts from the snowbound cabin #dog time

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