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Liberals in 2020: "We'll push Biden left!!"

Liberals in 2023: "If you don't support genocide unconditionally you're a fascist."

...But you guys do know it'll still get worse if a Republican wins, right

No, Republicans and Democrats support Israel equally.

I mean, other things will get worse. Remember how Trump rounded up a bunch of people and put them in concentration camps? Remember that?

Biden is still doing that!!! He just asked Congress for $14 billion for funding the border and to increase ICE officers and expand camps! Come on.

2020 really showed latinoamérica that you motherfucker really don't give a single shit about us. Latinos are hypothetical electoral bargaining chips to you demons. The INSTANT Biden got elected you liberal gringo fucks stopped talking about us. Never mind the fact that Biden never released the kids from the cages. Nevermind the fact that Biden kept increasing ICE's funding. Nevermind the fact that Biden deported more people than Trump ever has. Nevermind that Biden is continuing Trump's border wall. Your team is doing it, so it isn't a problem anymore.

latinos, black people, indigenous people. to a fucking white liberal we are all as hypothetical as their AU fanfiction, and they care far more about the fan fiction than our lives. aint a fucking thing trump did that aint increase under biden. not a single fucking thing they have tried to scare monger to us about. ICE, police killilng unarmed black people, land grabs and drilling on indigenous land. and the people going vote blue are just as responsible for that as for their tacit approval of genocide joes actions in occupied palestine.

we lost roe vs wade under biden, no shut the fuck up about the supreme court for a moment we had a Fairly good majority at the begining of his presidency if he'd acted quickly and responcibly to enshrine reproductive healthcare into law he absolutely could have gotten it done house be damned. there wouldnt have been a damn thing the courts could have done about it

he chose not to, he knew that if he took that fight off the table then much of his support would vanish

look at trans rights, if he'd used his early majority to hard push law after law to say that trans people are explicitly a protected class then he COULD have THEORETICALLY gotten it done.

we dont know because he didnt try. then after we LOST that majority that is when we lost roe vs wade, that is when the states started proposing and passing bill after bill of transphobic legislature.

I JUST GOT PEGGED IN A BENTLEYYYYYYY

Just saw an adult man growl at a qr code on the wall

A lot of you on here feel waaay too comfortable admitting that you don't and refuse to listen to rap music, and I'm not loving the incredibly reductive takes on rap because the kendrick/drake beef has it on some of yall's radar for the first time in your life.

I'm not going to sugar coat it-- for americans especially, if you consider music a significant interest of yours but still feel the need to search for acceptable reasons to keep yourself ignorant of black music, or think of rap as a monolith of hate and violence and not equally as diverse as any other genre, or can only name nonblack rappers… you should be embarrassed of that. And your embarrassment should not keep you from being active about exposing yourself to unfamiliar art and broadening what you listen to.

'I don't understand what they're saying/they rap too quickly' I'm surprised by how much I keep seeing this-- speed is not a stylistic trademark of most rap music, & clearer diction as a performer is much more necessary in rap than other genres?? Statistically rap has a lower bpm (here's an example of one person's study) average than other genres. (of course these aren't all-encompassing, but you can look into this yourself using sites like bpmdatabase.com.) Do you really feel overwhelmed by speed listening to Kendrick or Biggie or Nas or 2Pac, or have you never actually listened to their songs?

'I have to look up the lyrics'-- so what? is it a bad thing to take an extra few seconds to engage with an artist's work? If you listen to lyrical music, do you care when it's the artists you listen to? Why does the thoughtful art consumption everyone talks about not also apply to black art?

'there is too much violence and misogyny and commercialism' this is not unique to rap, or true of all rap music. Artists exist that talk about other things, the way they exist in all genres. There is an entire wikipedia page listing alternative hip hop musicians and rappers if you consider seeking it out too much labor. Click one!

'i find it unrelatable'-- who cares? Being unable to engage with art you don't find wholly relatable is a deeply childish and self centered way to exist. You get on here reblogging feel good navel-gazey posts about the shared human experience and caring for one another, but a rapper talking about living with violence or poverty is stretching the limits of what you can imagine or empathize with too much for you to care about it? You don't find that embarrassing to admit to?

You don't have to love rap, you don't have to incorporate it into what you listen to every day, but a lot of you need to be aware you're parroting reagan era anti-rap (& antiblack) pearl-clutching talking points, and it's a very ugly look. It isn't racist if your favorite genre isn't rap, but you need to do some serious self reflection if you consider it inherently less artistic, intelligent or positive than 'whiter' genres when you don't actually listen to it. I am looking at you, people into other counterculture genres-- it's crazy how much I see this from self-professed punks and metalheads especially lmfao. If expression, counterculture art, anti-censorship in music and the right for raw and unfiltered music to exist matters to you as much as you say you do, you should care about rap's relationship to censorship & fight for its legitimacy just as much as what you listen to.

“what’s the song of the summer” ?? it’s DANCING IN THE DARK by bruce springsteen for the 40th year in a row

Happy Dancing in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen Day to all who celebrate

a lot of people are dismissing the "violent" rap music rushing and scrambling to say well not ALL rap is violent here's some rappers who don't rap about violence but like. idk. I think the "violent" rap is important to listen to as well. do you know why gangs exist? do you know why Compton is the way that it is? can you listen to the experiences of black men when you can't personally relate on any level? or will you dismiss an entire genre of music because certain sub genres make you feel a bit uncomfortable as a non-black person?

i hate this sites music taste so much its literally Racism The Music Taste site. you guys dont like rap you dont like jazz you dont like country you dont like blues you dont like ska you dont like reggae you cannot CONCEPTUALIZE listening to foreign artists you dont even know what turbofolk is you cant conceive of music existing out of anglosphere you think that mcr is punk and its the end-all of definition of "punk" for you i hate everyone here like WHAT music do you people even listen to what the fuck is left

cant stop thinking about this like he was just so real it’s crazy

thinking about them a normal amount

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game of the year century 🤤🤤🤤