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The Left Freak Out Over Kanye West Supporting Our President

Meier said:
Some of the replies in here are very illuminating. This is a new era for GAF, I suppose.

I have no clue if I will continue to listen to Kanye's music or not. It's a difficult situation to be in if he's been your favorite solo artist for about 15 years.
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This is something I will never understand. You cans till like the art of someone you do not agree with. If you would do that you could basically not listen, watch or read anything anymore. Just enjoy the art

Also to make such a decision because of such a minor thing Is also pretty ridiculous if you ask me. Act like an adult...
 
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I don't think some people on the left realize their response to Trump counterintuitively fuels his platform and is ineffective. Blasting Kanye isn't going to change his mind. Nor will it move the needle for people who would support Trump because Kanye said he does. The way leftist critics behave in terms of worrying and being outraged doesn't make sense to me. It's a waste of their dragon energy.
 
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Meier said:
Some of the replies in here are very illuminating. This is a new era for GAF, I suppose.

I have no clue if I will continue to listen to Kanye's music or not. It's a difficult situation to be in if he's been your favorite solo artist for about 15 years.
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Yeah one where you can participate in debate and conversation. If you don't like what someone says challenge them.
 
Ayyy yo, I dont wanna hear none ya melanin deprived mofos say Ye is in the sunken place. Keep them opinions to discussing unseasoned food, little dicks, devil worshipping music and mayonnaise.
 
Meier said:
Some of the replies in here are very illuminating. This is a new era for GAF, I suppose.

I have no clue if I will continue to listen to Kanye's music or not. It's a difficult situation to be in if he's been your favorite solo artist for about 15 years.
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I'm the opposite... have always considered his music to be execrable garbage but now I wish I could like it :D
 
I think now, the real controversy here is:
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Why does anyone care, honest question?

I know some of my friends who supported Bernie and Hillary who cares...it's not a sports team, and either side honestly doesn't give a fuck about you.
 
CampbellzSoup said:
Why does anyone care, honest question?

I know some of my friends who supported Bernie and Hillary who cares...it's not a sports team, and either side honestly doesn't give a fuck about you.
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The people that care, are scared their wall is cracking. A famous black man is saying you don't have to back democrats. Its harder to call someone like Kanye a uncle tom or coon or any of the other things they call other black independent thinkers like Tomas Sowell, Larry Elder, or Ben Carson.
 
CampbellzSoup said:
Why does anyone care, honest question?

I know some of my friends who supported Bernie and Hillary who cares...it's not a sports team, and either side honestly doesn't give a fuck about you.
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I totally agree but the left deeply cares. The sheer and utter fanaticism coming from the left is quite disturbing, you can feel the left's social and cultural aggression. They literally want to own every industry, institution and organisation. From the boys scout to sports to music to gaming. They want their ideology seeping through everything.
 
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Of course a hard working, talented, succesful person supports the president. Only spoiled ivory tower liberals and people with victim complexes blame him for their problems...
 
Meier said:
Some of the replies in here are very illuminating. This is a new era for GAF, I suppose.

I have no clue if I will continue to listen to Kanye's music or not. It's a difficult situation to be in if he's been your favorite solo artist for about 15 years.
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I'm honestly sorry about the situation you find yourself in.

But forget about Trump for a moment. At the same time, I'd ask that you have some empathy for the conservatives of the world, who have many times found themselves in a "a celebrity I like said hateful things about my ideology, or someone who supports my ideology, or they support someone who is hateful of my ideology" kind of situation. What is a rarity for you is a common occurrence for them.

This certainly happens recently about Trump, but it's been going on for decades. It's also, somewhat ironically, one of the things that likely helped put Trump into office.
 
BANGS said:
Of course a hard working, talented, succesful person supports the president. Only spoiled ivory tower liberals and people with victim complexes blame him for their problems...
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But you hated Obama.

Btw did you watch Netflix's Trump episode documentary?
 
No one should be using Kanye as an influence of political attitudes, and neither the right, nor the left, should be championing him as some sort of bastion of knowledge. I don't understand the concept that followers of the right think that celebrities hold some sort of magical sway of power over the left. They don't. Stop listening to memes.

I cannot stand the focus that the right and left put on trivial shit.

1. Climate Change
2. Healthcare
3. Debt/deficit management
4. Livable wages
5. Revoking Citizens United

Actual issues.
 
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He has an album coming out, you are going to hear and see him try to get as much shock as possible..... after the album drops you wont even hear from him
 
It'll be interesting to see reactions from people if he says something negative about conservatives or anything like that. Kanye is very unpredictable. Though it is funny the people who've hated him for the past 15 years suddenly love him, and the people who loved him now hate him.

Also another observation I've noticed with Americans is how as of recent you guys associate "free thinking" with being conservative. That doesn't really make sense, it's about as much free thought as being a liberal in your country by your own definitions
 
Kanye apparently tweeted his admiration for Emma Gonzalez, and now the people who were cheering for him before hate him now.

Your two party system makes you guys really nuts lol
 
Ke0 said:
Kanye apparently tweeted his admiration for Emma Gonzalez, and now the people who were cheering for him before hate him now.

Your two party system makes you guys really nuts lol
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Pretty sure he was making fun of her haircut.
 
TBF that position is about to happen. He has a wife who's vocal anti-gun.

I wished someone brought him and his wife to the gun range before it happened

In all seriousness tho, is it not possible nowadays to be able to agree and disagree on each issue instead of being lumped into a team and not divert on each issue?
 
dropkick! said:
TBF that position is about to happen. He has a wife who's vocal anti-gun.

I wished someone brought him and his wife to the gun range before it happened

In all seriousness tho, is it not possible nowadays to be able to agree and disagree on each issue instead of being lumped into a team and not divert on each issue?
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Not really, if you disagree with any of the non-negotiable stances of the progressive left, you are an inhuman racist Nazi.
 
I love how a few of you immediately jumped on me when I criticized this thread and similar ones "if it offends you lefty you can make one crapping on republicans/you're biased" etc. the moment I say I'm not a democrat and I think Trump was still a better option than Hillary, it's crickets from all of you.

Trump got you thinking it really is all about left vs right and that everything must be a bi partisan issue. Grow up
 
pramod said:
Not really, if you disagree with any of the non-negotiable stances of the progressive left, you are an inhuman racist Nazi.
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That's just a narrative pushed by conservative and liberal media. It's a huge mistake to trust organizations that depend on ratings, because they will push the fringe as being the norm. They know that liberals want to see information that reinforces their view, and conservatives do the same.
 
Ok I love the new direction that gaf has taken.. but I'm going to say this, as a left leaning person myself.. The hypocrisy of some right leaning posters in this thread, who has been crying about the tone towards conservatives in the past, and lumping them in with alt-right and Nazis.. you should know better than to do exactly the same with left leaning people!
If you can't be precise in your criticism of the laud minority's both "sides" have.. then we haven't moved very far from what gaf once was..
I applaud the people who do difrinciate between extreme view points and the rest of us.. but I'd really hope that at some point you would also turn your attention to the people who is on your "side" of the argument, but are doing exactly what old gaf did just in a mirrored fashion..
 
Tumle said:
Ok I love the new direction that gaf has taken.. but I'm going to say this, as a left leaning person myself.. The hypocrisy of some right leaning posters in this thread, who has been crying about the tone towards conservatives in the past, and lumping them in with alt-right and Nazis.. you should know better than to do exactly the same with left leaning people!
If you can't be precise in your criticism of the laud minority's both "sides" have.. then we haven't moved very far from what gaf once was..
I applaud the people who do difrinciate between extreme view points and the rest of us.. but I'd really hope that at some point you would also turn your attention to the people who is on your "side" of the argument, but are doing exactly what old gaf did just in a mirrored fashion..
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Im fine accepting any valid criticism... I hope we all are.
 
Tumle said:
Ok I love the new direction that gaf has taken.. but I'm going to say this, as a left leaning person myself.. The hypocrisy of some right leaning posters in this thread, who has been crying about the tone towards conservatives in the past, and lumping them in with alt-right and Nazis.. you should know better than to do exactly the same with left leaning people!
If you can't be precise in your criticism of the laud minority's both "sides" have.. then we haven't moved very far from what gaf once was..
I applaud the people who do difrinciate between extreme view points and the rest of us.. but I'd really hope that at some point you would also turn your attention to the people who is on your "side" of the argument, but are doing exactly what old gaf did just in a mirrored fashion..
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Wait, we haven't? I don't see people being banned for sharing a different opinion from a mod. I don't see people actively going on witch hunts to try to cause someone to lose their job because they supported GamerGate or made a joke they don't like. I don't see people making claims that someone is a racist or a transphobe without evidence. People are able to have conversations on either side freely as long as they remain respectful.

We have moved miles away from what Gaf once was, and the for the better. Though I do agree that we can do better, I just find your wording a tad disingenuous here.
 
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TrainedRage said:
Im fine accepting any valid criticism... I hope we all are.
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Glad to hear that :)
Im Not referencing you though.. since I haven't seen you lumping every body together.. I haven't contributed to this thread at all since I'm at work.. and i really not that interested in what Kanye West political leanings are.. I just like to read the discussion.. and will contribute when I think I have something to say that hasn't been said before or if like I was in my previous post want to point something out that I think is hypocritical or that I think is wrong..
I read through the thread and got a little annoyed with the political flag waving some of the posters felt was necessary, that really doesn't bring anything to the discussion and I focused my post on the right wing posters because the left wing posters where called out by everyone and there mother while post like this
Naudi said:
The lesfts are melting! They are crying in the streets cause....Kanye? Stupid leftists.
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Are just being ignored... well in this instance it probably should be ignored.. :P
but it's a trend that I see in a lot of political threads that it's somehow ok to lump every left leaning person into the same category as the extreme left..
just pointing out the hypocrisy.. since I know you don't want to be lumped in with white supremacists :)
 
Tumle said:
but it's a trend that I see in a lot of political threads that it's somehow ok to lump every left leaning person into the same category as the extreme left..
just pointing out the hypocrisy.. since I know you don't want to be lumped in with white supremacists :)
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When somebody says "leftist", they mean extreme left, not average or slightly left...
 
Claus Grimhildyr said:
Wait, we haven't? I don't see people being banned for sharing a different opinion from a mod. I don't see people actively going on witch hunts to try to cause someone to lose their job because they supported GamerGate or made a joke they don't like. I don't see people making claims that someone is a racist or a transphobe without evidence. People are able to have conversations on either side freely as long as they remain respectful.

We have moved miles away from what Gaf once was, and the for the better. Though I do agree that we can do better, I just find your wording a tad disingenuous here.
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I understand that.. It may be my English shortcomings that is preventing me in articulating my self properly.. so sorry for that.. All I'm trying to say is that "typical left" when talking about an extreme group of people is not the way to go.. and if people can't stop lumping people into one block.. then I cant see how we have moved on, other than the moderation being much better..
Basically focus your criticism:)
 
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BANGS said:
When somebody says "leftist", they mean extreme left, not average or slightly left...
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To add, I think we can go for the "Classical Liberal" term for slightly left guys round here. Would people agree?

*insert dave rubin vid here*

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Anyways kanye met with candace owens and charlie kirk, abd now tweeting stuff from thomas sowell... its magic
 
BANGS said:
When somebody says "leftist", they mean extreme left, not average or slightly left...
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Ok sorry I did not know that.. always thought it was about leftist view points like health care and stuff like that not about the totalitarian left
 
RiccochetJ said:
That's a bit of an extreme assessment. The_Donald is a special and scary place that I legitimately believe Reddit allows to exist because it tends to keep those kinds of people contained there.

I highly doubt EviLore EviLore or the mods would allow a thread accusing people who managed to live through Sandyhook, Vegas, Parkland, or all the other mass shootings of being paid crisis actors.
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You are right the dank memes and trump love in at the donald is a real scarey place. It hard to sleep at night knowing Spicey pepe memes are being posted by fanboys.
 
TrainedRage said:
Kanye New S*** is straight fire!




I'm legit surprised and amazed! Good sh** Ye
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Haha, man that's...interesting. I haven't been following this controversy much, but I checked out what the Double Toasted guys (local film/culture podcast, formerly Spill) had to say about Kanye's recent shenanigans earlier:




...Ye's mix you posted does a good job at redirecting those talking points to his own purposes, same way his later albums are self-aware and redirect the negativity about his changes lyrically/musically.
 
EviLore said:
Haha, man that's...interesting. I haven't been following this controversy much, but I checked out what the Double Toasted guys (local film/culture podcast, formerly Spill) had to say about Kanye's recent shenanigans earlier:




...Ye's mix you posted does a good job at redirecting those talking points to his own purposes, same way his later albums are self-aware and redirect the negativity about his changes lyrically/musically.
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Is Double Toasted pretty good? I like watching shows on YT where the hosts have strong opinions (either way). "The Lorax of black people" I mean that was funny.

It seems like Kanye tries to spill his albums into the cultural stream of consciousness. This song is talking about stuff he was tweeting DAYS ago. It's weird. I don't even know if the song will be on the new album but it so 'fresh'. And he has the world talking about him. Off a few Tweets. I'm sure that's why he feels empathy to Trump.
 
I wish I were shocked that Kanye is getting this much blowback. Perhaps this will make the true liberals understand why the polls were so wrong. The authoritarians have made something this insignificant to a person's contributions and character into a mortal sin. People don't need to agree, but treating disagreements as disagreements and not as dead to them over nothing is important.
 
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