• yesman@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    It’s so disappointing to hear Killer Mike spit revolutionary lyrics like in ‘close your eyes’ only to find out IRL he’s into lame shit like black capitalism.

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      Yeah. The music still slaps though.

      RATM’s bassist is into some weird fringe right-libertarian stuff too if I recall

      Nobody’s perfect 🤷‍♂️

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        9 days ago

        or they changed. 30 years is a long time.

        their debut was released

        • 3 years after the fall of Berlin wall
        • a year after the dissolution of USSR
        • 9 years before the September 11 attacks
        • 15 years before iPhone
        • 24 years before the election of a reality tv entertainer/real estate conman as POTUS
        • China wasn’t a superpower back then
        • EU didn’t exist in its current form
        • Apartheid was still an actuality
        • internet wasn’t omnipresent
        • jaybone@lemmy.world
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          How was China not a superpower then?

          They were easily a superpower since before they were backing Vietnam and Korea in our shitty wars with them.

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            China’s GDP was lower than Canada’s. Economic strength is not the only factor of a superpower, but it’s significant. It’s hard to project power effectively without sufficient wealth to fund those efforts.

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      8 days ago

      only to find out IRL he’s into lame shit like black capitalism.

      Does it mean something other than what is here, or did I miss something offensive in skimming through the entry?

      This isn’t one of those lame “now they are the machine” posts is it?