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Kanye West is not running for president. UPDATE: He's reportedly dropping out. UPDATE: Looks like he's running


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6 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

I recently saw someone happily tapping along in their car to Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve and I thought to myself that it can't get more oblivious than this.

What, “try to make ends meet, you’re a slave to money then you die” doesn’t make you want to groove?

 

Next you’re going to tell me that I shouldn’t dance to that super fun song Hey Ya!

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3 minutes ago, TheLeon said:

What, “try to make ends meet, you’re a slave to money then you die” doesn’t make you want to groove?

 

Next you’re going to tell me that I shouldn’t dance to that super fun song Hey Ya!

 

Would you do a karaoke duet with your niece singing Afternoon Delight? 

 

 

 

 

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In terms of misinterpreting movies, I think this one is severely underrated and regularly misinterpreted: Bobcat Goldthwaite's God Bless America. Same goes for the aforementioned Fight Club, American History X, American Beauty, Choke, and so forth. People think depiction is endorsement and stop there and embrace (or reject it) outright, and miss the subersive (or not so subversive) satire and indictment underneath. 

 

 

Seems pretty on point now.

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2 hours ago, TheLeon said:

What, “try to make ends meet, you’re a slave to money then you die” doesn’t make you want to groove?

 

Next you’re going to tell me that I shouldn’t dance to that super fun song Hey Ya!

 

kinda works in a way how they ended up getting sued for the stones sample and lost out on most of the money from that song

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1 hour ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

I really need to know what the misinterpretation of this movie is because the movie literally bludgeons you with the message.

 

A lot of white people sympathized so well with Ed Norton's character that they don't see the film as an indictment of hate and hate culture (the film it is) but rather get deeply tribalistic and only reaffirms their casual racism as justified. I agree with you completely, but as people said, Falling Down was pretty overt and people missed the message in that one.

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Wah.

 

Seriously, if he wants privacy so bad, tell him to stop making idiotic ignorant public statements.

 

He deserves every ounce of criticism he's getting. He really deserves more, but it's also good that he is mostly getting ignored.

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To be fair, he's in the midst of a manic episode. I'm not a fan of the guy but the best thing to do is ignore him if you don't give a shit. Getting all worked up over this makes no sense... with his resources, there's very little his family and friends can do except hope he calms down and let himself be helped.

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6 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

To be fair, he's in the midst of a manic episode. I'm not a fan of the guy but the best thing to do is ignore him if you don't give a shit. Getting all worked up over this makes no sense... with his resources, there's very little his family and friends can do except hope he calms down and let himself be helped.

 

This, yeah. 

 

It was really cool to see Dave Chappelle among those buddies of Kanye that flew out to Wyoming to hang with Kanye yesterday and probably help him calm down and stuff. That's being a good friend. 

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35 minutes ago, ort said:

Wah.

 

Seriously, if he wants privacy so bad, tell him to stop making idiotic ignorant public statements.

 

He deserves every ounce of criticism he's getting. He really deserves more, but it's also good that he is mostly getting ignored.

 

It's only July and yet I'm confident in crowning this as the worst D1P take of 2020.

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Meh, I stand by what I said.

 

Being BiPolar doesn't make you think slavery is a choice. Being bipolar doesn't make you say stupid crap about Harriet Tubman.

 

He had a flipping public event and invited everyone to come hear him speak, stood up on a soap box and said a bunch of stupid crap.

 

We have every right in the world to listen to his words and react to them as we wish. He invited it on himself.

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20 hours ago, MarSolo said:

So you’re saying I shouldn’t punch Nazis that are digging for religious artifacts in Cairo?

I think we can all agree that is a good thing. Also make sure to use an RPG-7 that is a complete anachronism for the time.

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16 minutes ago, ort said:

Meh, I stand by what I said.

 

Being BiPolar doesn't make you think slavery is a choice. Being bipolar doesn't make you say stupid crap about Harriet Tubman.

 

He had a flipping public event and invited everyone to come hear him speak, stood up on a soap box and said a bunch of stupid crap.

 

We have every right in the world to listen to his words and react to them as we wish. He invited it on himself.

 

 

Kanye is a bad guy with bad opinions and bad facts. He didn't say that shit because he's bipolar, you're right. 

 

But that's not what we're referring to here. 

And on the flipside, him getting help or back on his meds to address his bipolar episodes won't mean that he won't think slavery was a choice. There are two different issues at work here. 

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Apparently Kim Kardasian posted an American flag on instagram in response to his announcing his run for president. Sounds like she is really trying to help him, avoid attention and has his back...

 

I mean, it's great that her PR person wrote this for her, and I do sympathize with people struggling with mental health issues, but let's not act like he's some sort of victim here.

 

Dude is a billoinarre with access to the best mental health care in the world... and he's also putting himself out there as the potential leader of the free world, literally saying, SEE ME AND HEAR ME, I WANT TO LEAD YOU! and we're supposed to just look away and feel bad for him? Nah.

 

I'll happily look away, and I generally do, but come on man.

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22 minutes ago, ort said:

Dude is a billoinarre with access to the best mental health care in the world... and he's also putting himself out there as the potential leader of the free world, literally saying, SEE ME AND HEAR ME, I WANT TO LEAD YOU! and we're supposed to just look away and feel bad for him? Nah.


All the money in the world won’t buy you the mental fitness to seek help. I have a sister who is bipolar and schizophrenic and the real game changer for our family was when we stopped trying to reason with her when she was in the midst of a bad episode. Because you can’t. It’s hard enough when she has been consistent with the medication regime she is on.

 

You don’t have to feel bad for the guy to not hold a ridiculous opinion that a mentally ill person should pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get help with said mental illness.

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7 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

Except for the deaths in first episode of the first season, all the following deaths are really Marty Byrd's fault, even when he wasn't the one who pulled the trigger. 

I mean, yeah, if he never decided to worked with the Cartel to begin with, none of this would have happened. But everyone else makes bad choices, too. I raged when Ruth did that because there was no other route it could have gone at that point.

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Apparently he had a bunch of tweets up last night about how he wants to divorce Kim because she had a meeting in a hotel room with Meek Mill, and then compared Kris Jenner to Kim Jong Un, but they’re gone now.

 

His Uncle Ruckus act isn’t funny though.

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I'm not even saying have compassion for him... I'm saying why let it get your panties in a bunch. There's a ton of shit that goes on in the world that I couldn't give two shit about. You'd never know it though because I don't waste energy talking about it. Kanye's money and resources is THE REASON it's hard to get him help. You can't commit BROKE people against their wills unless they are clear and present dangers to themselves or others. I think Kanye is a buffoon and I always HAVE felt that way about him. At least this partially explains WHY he's so moronic. Partially...

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1 hour ago, Jose said:

ort has said crazier shit than kanye on this message board.

 

Have I though? I know my over-the-top hyperbolic trump rants can seem a little bonkers... but it's more of a form of release for me. In real life, I'm about as mild mannered and even keeled as they come. I use various online message boards as a form of anger release. That said, I also challenge you to find anything that even amounts to 1% of saying that American slaves were slaves by choice. Calling Trump followers evil idiots? You know, I stand by that. I could write a book defending my position on that one. What else have you got?

 

If I say something you think is wrong, please call me out on it. Challenge me. I love it... I really truly do. Call me out. We're all better people when we listen (and really listen) to other opinions. I want to be called out for my shit. I don;'t want to live in a bubble. If what I say is fucked up or wrong, say so.

 

I actually like Kanye's music... well, some of it... the earlier stuff... I own like 3 or 4 of his album... but I've always found pretty much everything about his persona to be abhorrent and gross. I also suffer from mental health problems (the 'ol depression/anxiety combo attack — shocker I know) and it's fucked my life all up, trust me... but I am in therapy and I'm trying to work on my shit and I would never use it as an excuse to say anything even remotely close to saying the sort of ignorant crap Kanye has.

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