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Culture War Roundup for the week of May 5, 2025

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Fuentes, who I'm not sure if he was behind Ye's ideological evolution or was just there to cheer it on, seems to be recognizing the Right's strategy of relentlessly and exclusively appealing to low human capital is not gonna go anywhere good:

Special Agent Fuentes was more than happy to pal around with Kanye when his ridiculous cringe mental illness antics were making the far right look like a bunch of unserious clowns. Now when Kanye knuckles down and independently puts out an actually effective piece of viral far right propaganda, Nick is suddenly hammering the “uhhh actually guys we have to distance ourselves from this, it’s making us look low status”. Even though Nick’s own low human capital has been making the far-right look low status for over half a decade.

an actually effective piece of viral far right propaganda

You have got to be kidding me. It's a song about how he likes to watch other people fuck his wife, how huffing nitrous oxide is one of the only things that makes him feel better, and how he (a black man) hails Hitler. It's a post-modernist half-joke meme song.

Goes great with our post modernist half joke meme president!

Seriously. Every time people think about this song they will say nigga heil hitler in their head. And when the sky doesn't fall as a result, some of those people who were told it would will realise they have been lied to. This is an effective use of outrage to send a message. It's basically the right wing version of Childish Gambino's This is America - except This is America was fuelled by the progressive zeitgeist, and thus was basically substance free, reliant on censorship to both provide substance and shield the song from critics, so my progressive friends' opinion of it was along the lines of 'we have to prop up black people so even if it's kind of empty we can praise it for what it didn't say'.

But Kanye is right (wing lol) so he can't use censorship to his advantage by leveraging silence, he has to leverage outrage. I like both Childish Gambino and Ye as artists, but I'm pretty sure I already know which of the these songs will have a bigger impact.

Childish Gambino's This is America - except This is America was fuelled by the progressive zeitgeist, and thus was basically substance free, reliant on censorship to both provide substance and shield the song from critics, so my progressive friends' opinion of it was along the lines of 'we have to prop up black people so even if it's kind of empty we can praise it for what it didn't say'.

I always did feel that the This Is America MV was shallow even compared to the visual composition of things like Gangnam Style…

The hate fuentes gets on this forum glows brighter than the existing discussion around fuentes himself.

Is the there anyone who likes him other than some autistic losers?

Yes, he’s extremely popular at Eglin Air Force Base.

effective piece of viral far right propaganda

This is quite the claim buried in there. Is I t?

It and memes using the audio / poasts discussing the phenomenon are doing massive numbers on X, the only platform it’s not actively being suppressed on.

So… yes.

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