[TexasM1A]

These fools have WAY to much time on their hands.

[Stravinsky]

What happened to the previous thread?

[Paal Gulli]

There was some sophistos from the TV studios around the corner, laughing an govoreeting. The Devotchka was smecking away, and not caring about the wicked world one bit. Then the disc on the stereo twanged off and out, and in the short silence before the next one came on, she suddenly came with a burst of singing, and it was like for a moment, O my brothers, some great bird had flown into the milkbar and I felt all the malenky little hairs on my plott standing endwise, and the shivers crawling up like slow malenky lizards and then down again. Because I knew what she sang. It was a bit from the glorious 9th, by Ludwig van.

[9YearLurker]

Let’s give these PC idiots a rest.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Oh, I like this kind of leftist logic. "It's bad because Hitler liked it."

Can't wait to spring that on all those ectomorphic vegetarians out there.

[BenLurkin]

Oh good grief!

[C210N]

I’ve listened to the 9th at least 100 times. Hope to listen to it at least 100 more times.

Who cares Hitler liked it... Hitler probably liked apple pie too. Besides, the 9th was played at the tearing down of the Berlin wall.

[Olog-hai]

No no no, droogie. Not to be talking about Ludwig Van like that, especially his lovely Ninth.

[NorthMountain]

This simpering faggot John Tourettes can go sodomize himself.

[jagusafr]

Or maybe just enjoy it as a piece of music...

[PGR88]

The EU statists and central planners have made “Ode to Joy” their de facto national anthem. Destroy the corruptocrats in Brussels and the situation will return to normal.

[Jack Hammer]

Baloney from Canada.

[Hatteras]

I heard there’s a studio recording out there somewhere of Beethoven singing “That’s Why Darkies Were Born”...

[txrefugee]

This is simply another attack against Christianity, because Jesus says, “These things I have spoken to you that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.” (John 15:11). Christians having joy in their faith is an incitement to the heathen.

The only joy we see among the ungodly today is when an elderly man in a MAGA hat is knocked to the ground and threatened, as shown in the jolly video from the streets of London yesterday. Look at the faces of the bystanders and see evil joy.

[Phlap]

[edwinland]

Two days ago, Canada admitted the following:

Canada 'complicit in race-based genocide' of indigenous women

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48503545

I would think this author should take up arms againt the genocide instead of fretting over whether Beethoven was a tad too idealistic.

[exPBRrat]

Good grief ...now even music needs its PC credentials. This author should go reproduce himself and assume room temperature.

[Tanniker Smith]

“Ode to Joy” has the distinction of bearing easy enough for a 6 year old to learn how to play on piano in a relatively short time, and make it sound like he’s been playing for a year already.

[Billthedrill]

My, they do project, don’t they? Unity is now to be discouraged in place of the god Diversity, and anything alluding to it must be suppressed. This is not presented as an argument, it’s presented as an immutable principle. By an idiot.

Beethoven was certainly political, however - he famously tore up his dedication of the 3d Symphony when Napoleon declared himself Emperor. He’d mistaken Napoleon for a liberator. Quite a few Enlightenment believers did and would quickly find out differently.

Still, Schiller’s Ode isn’t to Unity, it’s to Joy. And it wasn’t expropriated by Hitler at all except for the fact that Hitler liked it. It has, however, been expropriated by the European Union as an anthem. I’m guessing old Ludwig would have torn that one up too but he wasn’t around to ask.

[bigbob]

Obviously all of Canada’s other problems have been solved and they’re now down to this, eh?