• riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    From the article:

    Later in the interview, the former host of NBC’s America’s Got Talent clarified that he doesn’t “subscribe” to either major party. Paraphrasing W. E. B. Du Bois, he said both the Republicans and Democrats are “one evil party with two different names.”

    But, that didn’t stop him from saying: “I f*** with Trump.”

    Ok, so he’s not conservative, he’s just “both parties are bad.” So he hasn’t succumbed to the propaganda, he’s just… succumbed to… the propaganda…

    “He’s not an Idiot, he’s just an idiot.”

  • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    This is about as dumb as claiming that the US is not a democracy, because it’s a republic. The level of ignorance required to make these statements unironically, is staggering.

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      It’s not ignorance - it’s a worldview where truth isn’t real. Claims are not evaluated because that’s not what claims are for. They’re just how you perform loyalty to the ingroup, which is the only thing that has ever mattered to people stuck in the tribalist mindset.

      That’s all they think you’re doing. That’s all they think there is.

  • lobut@lemmy.ca
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    Reminds me of Nikki Minaj’s stint with Trump. They paraded her around and played her. If they wanna be a token, that’s fine. Tokens get spent.

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          He knows. He has some pretty racist views about how people with more melanin in the skin are morally better.

          “Our melanin is so powerful and it connects us in a way that the reason why [white people] fear us is because of the lack that they have of it,” the “Wild ‘N Out” star said. “When you have a person that has the lack of pigment, the lack of melanin, they know that they will be annihilated. So therefore, however they got the power, they have the lack of compassion — melanin comes with compassion, melanin comes with soul.”

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      3 days ago

      he thinks there’s no college students getting wasted on bag wine every weekend who also happen to be studying astrophysics? he really is dumb

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    Has this guy ever been anything other than an idiot?

    I mean I guess he’s also a has-been now.