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MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1hr ago
I’m going to disagree here. Yes, we knew about the Indian removals of the 1800s and the slave trade and colonialism. But they weren’t things that people were supposed to feel deep guilt about. Indian removal was seen as perhaps unfortunate, but necessary to build a civilization in America. Hitler changed that because he moved at an industrial pace and we won in time to film the aftermath. He was also a gift to the Military-Industrial complex, as the specter of Hitler somewhere in the world was useful to convince tge populace that they should send their sons to some military adventure out in the world, and for that, we needed a huge military. Anti-racism is also politically useful globally because it gives those nonwhite nations a reason to choose our side — we fought genocidal racism.
Without Hitler I don’t think it happens. Without Hitler racism goes from being the evil to being on par with any number of other political evils that we knew about and don’t celebrate, but don’t punish ourselves over. And there are plenty of other evils to bring up.
SnapDragon
2hr ago
As far as I can tell, the vast vast VAST majority of it is slop full of repurposed music and lyrics that get by on being offensive rather than clever. Rap artists aren't known for being intelligent, after all. I suspect most "celebrated" rap music would fail a double-blind test against some rando writing parodic lyrics and banging on an audio synthesizer for a few hours. Much like postmodern art, where the janitor can't tell it apart from trash.
There probably are some examples of the genre that I could learn to appreciate (Epic Rap Battles of History comes to mind), but it's hard to find them because of the pomo effect.
Crowstep
2hr ago
They said rap should be subversive, well what did they think subversive meant? Vibes? Essays?
Honestly it's a pretty good song, bizarre subject matter aside. This Youtube link is live as of this writing, although it seems like the platform keeps taking new uploads down.
Maybe I will live to tell my incredulous grandkids about how we were all expected to perceive one specific 20th century dictator through a prism of quasi-superstitious dread.
I wonder if 'racism is the paramount evil' would still be a defining characteristic of western ethics if WW2 hadn't happened? I mean, the Transatlantic slave trade and the scramble for Africa still happened, smallpox still wiped out the American Indians. Maybe we would just find some other kind of racial guilt? My assumption is that it all stems from the fact that we're so outbred and WEIRD, not from the particular events of the early 1940s.
ulyssessword
3hr ago
there is artistically great rap music.
Link?
ArmedTooHeavily
4hr ago
Writing off entire major genres of art is needlessly impoverishing yourself. I'm not even a rap fan, but it is obvious that there is artistically great rap music.
dr_analog
razorboy
5hr ago
No love for Excession? That's got to be in my top 3 among the series.
Apparently due to some legal tie ups this was never released in the US!
Though I see on Amazon it will be available November 11th 2025.
ArmedTooHeavily
5hr ago
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.
madeofmeat
5hr ago
What does it mean to hold yourself in the right way if righteousness doesn't exist?
It means that you need to work hard to come up with an idea of right that is good and that you can hold yourself to, and to keep checking how it's actually working and get back to the drawing board if it looks like something is off.
I understood your
If I am wrong about the universe, I will not be wrong in how I have held myself.
meaning that you feel like you have some internal sense of righteousness that's not completely outsourced to whatever is outside yourself out in the universe.
dr_analog
razorboy
5hr ago
I just finished reading it. Pretty excellent. Would make a good miniseries.
4doorsmorewhores
5hr ago
I don't think "turnabout's fair play" applies - in most people's minds - to two situations between unrelated individuals who have never met or interacted with eachother, but are instead ascribed some value in the racial side of the culture war by too-online commenters.
crushedoranges
6hr ago
I want to believe in God, in defiance of the absence of evidence of his existence. Because faith is an absurd notion: but it is like love and hope. It is a necessary balm in a cruel and uncaring world. In the Kierkengaardian sense, I believe in God as the manifest nature of love: eternally abiding, unconditional, perfect. Forgiving. Merciful, to the flawed creatures that are men. In my life, I feel so sad, so forlorn. I feel that only God could love such a creature as I.
It is probably the only love I will feel in this life.
Perhaps that makes me a strange Catholic, but I arrived here strangely, in any case. You could make a secular case of Christ's nonexistence, but that wouldn't change my faith in God, because my faith isn't based in scurrilous readings of the Bible or enscribed onto plates. I don't care to prove my faith or defend it against skeptical inquiry. I base it on love: that transcendent, ethereal quality that is beyond the ability of materialism to define beyond the inadequate language of hormones and socialization.
That is the most profound miracle of all, and beyond the reach of fedora'd Redditors.
4doorsmorewhores
6hr ago
One of my friends with the last name Dong was dating a guy with the last name Beaver for a while. A match made in heaven.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
6hr ago
“Poasting”.
Real mottezin hours up in this bitch.
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.
veqq
6hr ago
Trivial to find: https://odysee.com/@LightElf:0/Kanye-West-Heil-Hitler:9
Not worth listening to, rather terrible, but such is our fallen society that some like rap.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
Encourage Protestants to use the power of the state to enforce their religious morality and they may well decide to come after Catholicism, which they have traditionally seen at best as a corrupt and degraded form of Christianity.
The dominant strain of Protestantism in the USA does not care about non-moral theological differences within nicene Christianity and is also unable to do much of anything without assistance from conservative Catholics. This is a reasonable worry from a Mormon perspective; and Mormons know this. It is not a reasonable worry from a Catholic perspective.
Catholics, BTW, were mostly not burning witches. Witch burnings by country is basically a Protestant heat map.
Eupraxia
Shut up and quantify
7hr ago
Yep, I recall reading somewhere that Asians tend to respect Jews for their disproportionate influence, the thought process going something like:
You're telling me that this tiny minority dominates your finance, media, and government? Sounds like they're doing something right, what's their secret?
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
He knew he had a shot at one day being pope a long time ago. He may have known this before entering seminary.
I’m kinda surprised the onion hadn’t been making fun of Pizzaballa(because of his name) or Tagle(because of his general tackiness and unpredictability giving them fodder).
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
Is the there anyone who likes him other than some autistic losers?
ABigGuy4U
7hr ago
Given his difficult relationship with Ms. Swift I suspect that might be intentional.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
East Asia seems not to have adopted that particular prejudice, for one.
TheBailey
soapy mop
7hr ago
link's not working for me...
Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else.
However, it's loading (cached?) on the main public Nitter instance
https [://] nitter [.] net/kanyewest/status/1920387087049572704
[EDIT: had to mangle link because The Motte worthlessly normalizes them]
Some recent diplomatic news from Ukraine: a bunch of EU country leaders have endorsed Zelensky's offer of an unconditional 30-day ceasefire and are trying to convince Putin to agree by painting him as a warmonger and threatening him with additional sanctions.
The counteroffer from Putin is that he's willing to start direct peace talks instead. It's easy to see why he's reluctant to agree to an unconditional ceasefire: he hasn't secured any strategic objectives since the land bridge to Crimea and his current approach is to keep pummeling Ukraine until it runs out of men first and the front buckles. An unconditional ceasefire clearly benefits the defender: Ukraine gets a month to rotate its troops, resupply the frontline, build additional defensive lines.
Now, there are several ways in which the situation could evolve. I think a lot depends on the outcome of Xi-Putin talks. If Xi endorses Putin's direct peace talks offer, this will be a major signal to Trump that he also has to support Putin and not Starmer/Macron/Merz.
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