Current Affairs Culture wars & The rise of grifting

[ChesterBlue]

This aggression will not stand, man

 

[Blue 1]

When I look at people like John Lydon, Morrissey, Kanye etc, I suddenly find myself not minding that a lot of my favourite musicians like Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain etc died instead of turning into this kind of monstrosity

Morrissey was always a racist prick.

 

[Blue 1]

Seems Candace Owens has grifted Kanye into buying her husbands dead social media platform lol

Hahaha, Parler doxxed all of its users yesterday by forgetting to bcc everyone on the email sent to inform them of Ye's takeover.

 

[Oddball]

I'm not saying King is a strong writer by any stretch, across his body of work. I'm saying that he does have some quality output, and that it's unfair to entirely dismiss his capabilities because much of his output unapologetically panders to a mass audience. What sells big at release and what is "great" are two very different things throughout time and space, and the intersection set is not large.

It would equally be unfair to call Asimov a technically gifted writer - Bradbury, for example, blasted him out of the building on that score - but he was an extraordinarily clear one. That clarity made him prolific indeed, as he had little need to revise. In conjuction with his ideas and foresight, this made for a formidable package, but if someone writes hundreds of books they won't all be winners.

William Gibson is a legend, and for cause.

Given my lack of knowledge about Gibson you will know Science-fiction isn`t really my cup of tea. Kurt Vonnegut is classed as S-F but i don`t see him that way at all.
I`m not denigrating King in any way, it`s just that i thought Kubrick took The Shining to another level.

 

[verreauxi]

Even too crazy for big Don lol

 

[Goat]

But I got a whip for ya Toby
Used to be my homie, now you act like you don't know me
It's a case of divide-and-conquer
'Cause you let a Jew break up my crew

Get rid of that Devil real simple, put a bullet in his temple
'Cause you can't be the Ni**a 4 Life crew
With a white Jew tellin' you what to do
Pullin' wools with your scams, now I gotta play the Silence of the Lambs

 

[Rita_Poon]

Pullin' wools with your scams, now I gotta play the Silence of the Lambs

O
M
G

!

 

[Oddball]

When I look at people like John Lydon, Morrissey, Kanye etc, I suddenly find myself not minding that a lot of my favourite musicians like Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain etc died instead of turning into this kind of monstrosity

When has Lydon been anything but brutally honest and a thorn in the side of the establishment? He was the only one to speak out about Jimmy Saville and he was probably hounded out of the country for it yet you`re literally taking sides with Boris Johnson, Rees-Mogg, BBC etc against him, ffs. Unreal.
Lydon and Morrisey are two of the greatest working-class heroes/artists this country has seen.
They`re way ahead of the game and they`re immune from cancellation so you will be able to hate on them for a long time to come. You could even boo and hiss on your doorstep to make yourself feel a bit more virtuous, every Thursday about 8o`clock should do it.

 

[verreauxi]

But I got a whip for ya Toby
Used to be my homie, now you act like you don't know me
It's a case of divide-and-conquer
'Cause you let a Jew break up my crew

Get rid of that Devil real simple, put a bullet in his temple
'Cause you can't be the Ni**a 4 Life crew
With a white Jew tellin' you what to do
Pullin' wools with your scams, now I gotta play the Silence of the Lambs

Well that is inconvenient for frozen water, isn’t it.

 

[Blue 1]

But I got a whip for ya Toby
Used to be my homie, now you act like you don't know me
It's a case of divide-and-conquer
'Cause you let a Jew break up my crew

Get rid of that Devil real simple, put a bullet in his temple
'Cause you can't be the Ni**a 4 Life crew
With a white Jew tellin' you what to do
Pullin' wools with your scams, now I gotta play the Silence of the Lambs

That tune's a proper banger though. And he was talking specifically about Jerry Heller, not the Jewish race at large, in his defence. Still on dodgy ground though, not gonna lie.

Black Korea - now that one of his is racist AF.

 

[Goat]

That tune's a proper banger though. And he was talking specifically about Jerry Heller, not the Jewish race at large, in his defence. Still on dodgy ground though, not gonna lie.

Black Korea - now that one of his is racist AF.

Of the song "No Vaseline", Heller wrote that he didn't believe that Ice Cube was genuinely anti-Semitic and was nothing but "pro-Ice Cube", but had exploited prejudices in the Afro-American community to help his career

 

[tsubaki]

When has Lydon been anything but brutally honest and a thorn in the side of the establishment? He was the only one to speak out about Jimmy Saville and he was probably hounded out of the country for it yet you`re literally taking sides with Boris Johnson, Rees-Mogg, BBC etc against him, ffs. Unreal.
Lydon and Morrisey are two of the greatest working-class heroes/artists this country has seen.
They`re way ahead of the game and they`re immune from cancellation so you will be able to hate on them for a long time to come. You could even boo and hiss on your doorstep to make yourself feel a bit more virtuous, every Thursday about 8o`clock should do it.

er - he wasn't the only one to speak out about Savile

 

[ChesterBlue]

When has Lydon been anything but brutally honest and a thorn in the side of the establishment? He was the only one to speak out about Jimmy Saville and he was probably hounded out of the country for it yet you`re literally taking sides with Boris Johnson, Rees-Mogg, BBC etc against him, ffs. Unreal.
Lydon and Morrisey are two of the greatest working-class heroes/artists this country has seen.
They`re way ahead of the game and they`re immune from cancellation so you will be able to hate on them for a long time to come. You could even boo and hiss on your doorstep to make yourself feel a bit more virtuous, every Thursday about 8o`clock should do it.

Just [Poor language removed] and go back to parroting homophobic conspiracies and doing transphobia you redpilled little bellend.

 

[Oddball]

Morrissey was always a racist prick.

? You utter clown.

 

[Oddball]

er - he wasn't the only one to speak out about Savile

Who else put it out there at the time?