This thread is my daily reminder that Lemmy is an online echo chamber that’s completely out of touch
for everyone in this thread defending Afroman, saying that one picture with Trump was just a photo-op during his presidential run and doesn’t reflect his values, I’d urge you to read this article about a song he really wanted to sing at Trump rallies.
Afroman Explains His New Song: Hunter Got High
I think the takeaway here is that while he may not be a full blown facist, he’s willing to align with them to make a buck, which is kinda the main issue with the US gov right now.
Oh come on. There’s literally a joke quote in the article that he’ll rev share the song if Hunter Biden wanted to sue Afroman for defamation.
The insinuation that Afroman is even partially a fascist who wants to control other people’s behavior is ridiculous. Stop fucking up a good thing with this nonsense.
as I said, while he may not be a facist, he’s okay with accepting their money, which is also bad.
it’s also telling that he said he’s willing to “poke fun at both sides” but has, to my knowledge, yet to release anything poking fun at the alt right.
complicity isn’t compliance, but it sure is a bad look and a good reason not to support this nonsense.
Cant we all just agree to hate cops and move on?
Cept he a fascist.
How so?
Fuck anyone who dances for Trump, including Afroman. I’m glad he won, it was the only correct outcome, but he can fuck off.
What makes you think he does?
Don’t care. Anyone who is OK with a rapist pedophile isn’t OK.
downvotes? pretty sus
It’s still not an official verdict, so Trump unfortunately has a way of denial…
Also, he was called out on it and explicitly denied the opportunity to condemn Trump. He’s either a MAGAt or at least loves their support. Fuck him.
I’m glad he won this case, but he’s also a transphobe.
Speaking to AllHipHop, Afroman clarified, ‘I’m not supporting him. I just met him. And yes, my campaign is full effect.’ He continued, ‘We were both at the Libertarian National Conference trying to get nominated and get their votes and we saw each other.'”
Context is important. This is from when Afroman ran for president.
https://allhiphop.com/news/afroman-addresses-patriotic-photo-opp-with-donald-trump/
I don’t think it is. I don’t know if any context can help when taking a photo op with a Nazi pedophile.
The list of people you are referring to is very, very, long. The internet is littered with pictures of respectable world leaders having a photo op before a meeting.
Some of that different because they’re forced to have to work him. Afroman was under no such force. So, yeah I guess context is still important, but given the context Afroman still isn’t absolved.
Afroman is a Windows 95 wallpaper set to Tile.
Yeah, that picture kills the appreciation of Afroman pretty much entirely - and I’m quite sad about that…
I’m not defending Afroman here, and 2024 you don’t get the “I didn’t know” pass, but, dudes a weed libertarian, not to be taken very seriously in the first place. Seems like he wasn’t very politically engaged before then.
Like Ron and Rand Paul, and broken clocks, and all libertarians, they are right twice a day, and they loooove crowing about it.
Let ‘em. The idea he’s promoting in this case is correct.
Why in the fuck are we praising patriotism here? It’s literally just religious-like devotion to a nation state, and basically result of nationalism
Without knowing either of those people, they might be just as patriotic and it’s equally as bad.
Wanting to improve your society is a form of patriotism.
America are the ones who have convinced everyone it’s the opposite
Yeah it’s so fucking backwards. I should be considered a patriot. I want Americans to have access to Healthcare and education. I want Americans to thrive and do great things. But no… Apparently the definition of patriotism over here is “I don’t care about other people, I only care about me, and also, kill brown people in other countries”
It could have been different. We’re in the wrong timeline
patriotism /pā′trē-ə-tĭz″əm/ noun
Love of and devotion to one’s country.
Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one’s country; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one’s country.
Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one’s compatriots; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one’s country.
Improving your country IS serving it. Non Americans do it all the time, the act just isn’t associated with the word because the US has a media industry built to hijack the meaning of things. Don’t make me start talking all pro-social and hope pilled, I’m not that guy anymore.
Exactly. That’s kind of the difference between being patriotic and nationalistic.
I’m patriotic in the sense that I want what is best for my countrymen. I want that to be done in a manner where both me and my country are ethical and productive members of our global society.
This has nothing to do with blind, religious-like devotion.
“Nationalism is an infantile disease, it is the measles of mankind.”
That being said, a lot of “normies” use patriotism as a stand-in for a certain set of beliefs. I don’t love it but the “Shining City on the Hill” is better than the Third Reich.
my dude, why do you not love where you live? are you not connected to it?
Why in the fuck are we praising patriotism here?
Because it’s a shitpost? We’re not on .ml, and this isn’t a politics thread.
He cozied up to Trump apparently fyi.
source?
Afroman Meets Donald Trump at the National Libertarian Convention | The American Beat | theamericanbeat.com https://share.google/W8MhULMyPgTHikKAW
Sorry for the stupid link
https://allhiphop.com/news/afroman-addresses-patriotic-photo-opp-with-donald-trump/
Speaking to AllHipHop, Afroman clarified, “I’m not supporting him. I just met him. And yes, my campaign is full effect.” He continued, “We were both at the Libertarian National Conference trying to get nominated and get their votes and we saw each other. We shook hands and talked about the Hunter Biden song and witch hunt raids. That was it.”
just to clarify, the photo alone in the link you sent does not provide sufficient evidence that Afroman has cozied up to Trump or supports Trump. As far as I can tell, so far, no evidence points to him supporting Trump.
That said, he is a Christian and says transphobic things, and he clearly competes with Trump for some of the same right-wing Libertarian voters, so it’s clear Afroman is at least in some right-wing spaces and supports some right-wing ideas, even if I don’t think you have sufficient evidence to say he’s close to Trump or a Trump supporter.
“Fuck the police” is literally why America was founded.
Disregard the establishment, surely; It was some time ago.
And plan/build a worse establishment.
As bad as things are in the current moment I’m not sure theres a strong case that living under a literal monarchy with zero Democratic representation and no meaningful civil liberties was better 😅
The handful of merits of the American establishment may be currently disintegrating under the wright of neo-fascism, but the establishment the founders built, explicitly flawed though it was/is, is definitely a better establishment than imperialist monarchical British rule
I think the millions of slaves in America would disagree when the British empire outlawed slavery 30 years earlier without having a civil war over the issue.
I am not the most knowledgeable on this subject but didnt they just do what amounts to slavery in their colonies like in India? They had colonial rule over India until like sometime in the 1900s didn’t they? Like they were an imperial nation, I’m not sure it really matters if the the exploitation and bloodshed happened within their own landmass, but perhaps I don’t know the history of england very well
I just checked and Ireland didn’t gain independence until 1949. I think the idea that the British empire and it’s monarchy is better than the democracy that extended its benefits only to white men is kind of a hard sell. Its the British empire 😅
Fighting for which empire was worse is pointless. The actually important thing is that people readsettlers.org .
Had never heard of it, do you have any context for its origin or how you’d described it? :)
Clickable link for anyone still seeing this thread: https://readsettlers.org/
Fyi Afroman may be a Trump supporter.
All presidents are evil. Bill Clinton embargoed Iraq to shift the news cycle off of his blowjob, and it killed a million children who had dependence on imported medical supplies.
Trump isn’t special. Just one more cunt.
I watched his questioning. He was fucking awesome!
Edit sorry I’m an idiot, I even had an afro when I was teenager (my hair, albeit blond, just does that, grows outwards).
Go sit in the corner until you’ve learned not to comment on something you’re totally ignorant about.
(Afroman is a dickhead though)
Damn, this is Valmond’s second post I’ve seen today that he just completely talks out of his ass.
His other post got a bunch of upvotes, so I guess it is working for him. :/
I’m home with a bad case of the flu so that might be why I’m not seeing what I’m doing wrong (I know racial things are very complicated, especially in the usa, sorry if I said something hurtful).
What was the other post if I may?
Ironically, this is a rare instance where the guy plastered with flags is indeed the patriot
psst…he likes Trump.
apparently he talked with Trump about legalization. he explicitly said “don’t take that photo as support” and will probably use it as an “i was on stage with Trump 'cause I got high” lyric in his song because honestly, it would explain a lot. ever do something because you think it’ll look funny later and then it turns out you just met hitler? because i have a couple photos from the 90s I can show NOBODY. afroman’s from another time.
i can’t remember when i saw afroman, because i was high, but it was a good show
sounds like a convenient excuse.
last time I was high I didn’t do anything unless I wanted to do it.
point is, if you don’t want your picture taken with a pedophile and convicted rapist, then maybe don’t pose with them? or, at the very least, don’t fucking smile like you’re having a great time.
my dude you are describing a nonfunctional high. afroman is high when he is out and about. there’s some kind of functional in there but i don’t want to read too much into a situation i don’t know much about.
still no excuse for associating with a known pedophile and convicted rapist.
How dare they associate with them that one time my dude do you hear yourself? I do not like defending Trump associates but like, draw a line. I have talked with some pretty awful people. Same calibur bad. Convicted same calibur bad. Where do you rank me for having done outreach so prisoners still get to feel human? Gran worked as a nurse in some of the worst prisons. Everyone deserves dignity and respect, full stop. No conditions or parameters.
you know. I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt and just assume you were just trying to be neutral. but honesty the fact that you believe that everyone can attain salvation in this context means are possibly one of three things.
- a “born again Christian”
- a troll
- a pedophile apologist
in either case I believe all those types of people are cancer upon society and deserve to be called out as the giant pieces of shit they are.
everyone is not deserving of dignity and respect. everyone is not deserving of love. there are some crimes against decency and humanity that just cannot be forgiven, ever.
crimes like raping children, killing children, trafficking children, torturing children, I think you get the general idea.
Oh :( Seems the exception confirmed the rule
I have no idea who that guy is, I’ve never heard his music (which I’m betting sucks), but I just saw a recent photo of him and the Pedophile Traitor-in-Chief, both with big stupid grins, so FUCK this MAGA Traitor Pedophile.
Okay, so I just went and listened to his music, and I was right, it SUCKS even worse than I expected. What’s wrong with people? Why would anyone reward that awful, amateurish excuse for music with listens?
Do not spread misinformation. He ran for president at the same time as Trump, and they took one picture together. He even directly said “I do not support Trump” after taking that picture.
Regarding Trump, Afroman told Newsweek in 2024 that he wanted to perform a Hunter Biden–themed parody of his hit song “Because I Got High,” with lyrics altered to mock the former president’s son’s drug use and legal controversies, at Trump rallies in the lead-up to the presidential election. Afroman later posted a photo of himself shaking hands with Trump at the Libertarian National Convention and wrote that they laughed together at the fact that they both were raided by police and had “a lot in common”
Close enough.
He tried not to hang with assholes, but then he got high.
He has some famous weed related songs. His music is meant to be light and funny. It was really popular when I was in highschool and me and all my friends smoked a lot of pot and drove around doing nothing.
