• kukui@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    19 hours ago

    AIPAC Shakur

    Tupac came from revolutionaries and Black Panthers. Hakeem Jeffries does not have a modicum of the class consciousness that Tupac had. Find a different stupid nickname.

    “He returned time and again to the themes of class inequality, wealth redistribution, and the moral bankruptcy of capitalism. He described the police as an occupying army in black neighborhoods, spoke of prisons as modern-day plantations, and decried the horrors to which US imperialism subjected the Global South. Despite his popularity, he remained angry, impatient, and unrelenting in his belief that another world was possible.”

    The Socialist Politics of Tupac Shakur

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      17 hours ago

      Fuckin’ appreciated. Full caught me off guard and I was rolling trying to figure out the connection to Tupac that OP was attempting to make.

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      It is a meme nickname created by Charlemagne on a podcast. A pretty funny one at that. Everyone knows it is a parody on Tupac and is not supposed to represent the real Tupac.

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              It is not racist because it is not about comparing two black people and claim they are terrible people. TuPac and Hakeem could be both white and the joke would still exists and works because again it is about aipac sounding like the word 2pac. I hope you are smart enough to understand that

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                By “smart enough” you mean dumb enough to think racism only happens in very specific ways and something can’t be racist against black people if it comes from a black person, no.

                Your problem is that most people aren’t “smart enough” because they’re thinking too much, remember?

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    This is quality. This is productive, because it tells the story WHY he sucks.

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      19 hours ago

      Too bad it wasn’t happening earlier in the year when he could’ve been primaried.

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        He’s been minority leader of the house for a bit. His district could have primaried him, but didn’t…

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    Countries don’t have rights to exist. Especially when all their right were gained at gunpoint.

    Humans have rights to exist.

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      9 hours ago

      I understand what you’re trying to say, but countries do more often than not represent a certain group of Peoples.

      For instance Taiwan has a right to exist. But maybe it’s just the phrasing.

      Taiwanese People have the right to their own country and identity. Although I think in practical terms the phrasing makes no difference.

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        Taiwan calls themselves “The Republic of China”, and officially supports reunification.

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    21 hours ago

    I don’t object to shitting on Jeffries but calling him AIPAC Shakur feels very racist. Leave the racism to the zionists

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    21 hours ago

    That’s not everything, just the shit you, quite rightly, disapprove of.

    I am not saying Jeffries is a good pick at all, but this is (somewhat semantic) nonsense.

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      Nobody ever said it was everything. Your argument doesn’t even have the merits of being pedantic. It’s just irrelevant and pointless.

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      It’s not non-sense. A representatives voting record is the proof behind what they stand for.

      If you want to post the positive things that Jeffries has voted for, go right ahead.

      This is a list of things none of Congress should have voted for, but did.

      Don’t tell me you’re a good person because you feed the homeless… and then go home to beat your wife…

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        As I said, this is not everything he voted for. He made lots of other votes that you may agree with, but we can’t list that when calling him a bad, bad, little incompetent man.

        I don’t support Jeffries. He still has to go, and I agree this needs to happen for any meaningful change, but this whole post is a bad look.