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Aged like wine: Frank Zappa on Crossfire turns a debate about censorship into a warning about an emerging fascist theocracy.

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨neidu3@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨videos@lemmy.world⁩

https://youtu.be/fam5wRXcoQE

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  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Synopsis: On Crossfire (March 28, 1986), Frank Zappa was invited to debate about music censorship in the wake of the PMRC’s push for warning labels on albums. Instead of treating it as a narrow industry issue, he broadened the discussion and warned that such censorship efforts were a step toward what he called an “emerging fascist theocracy” in the United States.

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    • Dionysus@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Say what you will about him and what he named his kids, but the man was a visionary.

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  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    debate

    Granted, I dont care to watch the rest of the show, but from the clip that was less debate and more old white fucks shouting over one another in a desperate scramble to place themselves above the dangerous subversive radical trying to talk sense.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s Crossfire

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  • emogu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I am ready for his biopic starring John Turturo.

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  • andyburke@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Don't ever listen to a busiessperson or a politician.

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    • acchariya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And don’t you eat that yellow snow

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