• JakenVeina@midwest.social
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    9 hours ago

    Wait, isn’t Wu-Tang the group that made an entire album and chose to sell it to one single rich asshole, so no one else could enjoy it? Doesn’t sound like any friend of the working class to me.

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    2 days ago

    Alright, rubbing shoulders with wutang is cool and all, but slipping away to plot with killer mike is what got me pumped. Anyone else remember how much work he put in promoting Bernie? Killer Mike puts in actual work at the political level way more than most rappers. I hope we get to see some of that again here!

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        13 hours ago

        Honestly, our timeline is clown-town enough at this point that this would 100% be a marked improvement and possibly plausible. Like yeah they’d make mistakes but I bet they’d be actually trying, if suddenly thrust into leadership of a once-powerful nation lol.

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    2 days ago

    If more celebs would do this they could wage a good cultural campaign against the Trump administration. A lot of celebs came from working class and/or are closer to working class than Trump is, especially now that he is grifting and looting using the power of the federal government.

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      2 days ago

      It’s unfortunate but working class icons are often very susceptible to money and less educated opinions.

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        14 hours ago

        I hate this comment. Rich people are all incentivised to maintain their wealth. Someone being working class doesn’t make them dumber or more susceptible to money.

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          11 hours ago

          I didn’t say they were more susceptible, I said they weren’t immune to it.

          Also, education costing more money than a person makes in a year doing full time employment does act as a bit of a barrier for entry.

          E.G. Hulk Hogan, Kanye West, Chuck Norris, Sexyy Red, etc.

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            11 hours ago

            Why specify working class as opposed to just wealthy people then? And then why double down on the sentiment in this comment?

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              11 hours ago

              Dan made the assertion that celebrities would be more opposed to Trump due to their working class roots. That’s simply a false statement, assholes exist across the entire spectrum. Check out this Pew Research chart:

              more than a third of all the poorest Americans who were polled support Trump, middle income levels supported Trump more than those who didnt, and the upper income brackets actually leaned against Trump more than middle, upper middle, and lower-middle. Furthermore:

              Trump’s hold over rural areas, often areas with the most poor and least educated, has only grown over time.

              Being “working class” doesn’t magically make you oppose Trump or vice versa.

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                10 hours ago

                I’m not calling you out for starting that rich people who were working class are trump supporters. I’m calling you out for you insisting that being working class makes you less educated and especially susceptible to wealth.

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                  10 hours ago

                  You’ve just repeated a claim I already dismissed, putting words in my mouth that are not even close to what I said. I will not correct you again, have a nice day, illiterate.

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    2 days ago

    pardon me, but why is this a uplifting news? i vaguely know about zohran, so i guess part of reason is that you are hopeful in him, but this is not really a news, or particularly uplifting (i am guessing the person is happier making stuff), but that is in a media kind of sense. I am not deleting this post, maybe there is stuff i do not know, but prima facie, this is not.

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      Speaking as someone who lives in the US but is currently terrified of what’s happening:

      This gives a lot of people hope to see collaboration between a very public, very vocal progressive candidate; and a band with as much recognition and the kind of fanbase that Wu Tang has.

      It means this is potentially lightning in a bottle. Given what’s happening in the US right now, I think a lot of people might consider this uplifting, even though I agree it’s a bit of a square peg round hole moment for this community at the moment.

      It does promise something greater than the article lets on though.

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        2 days ago

        You could post a simple picture of Mamdani and I’d consider it uplifting. He’s not only inspiring in speech, he’s inspiring in listening.