• Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Yeah, who here is “they” and who is “us”? He was very much part of the elite and completely removed from the concerns of normal people.

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        3 days ago

        First part is true, not sure about the second. He was a deeply troubled dude but I do think he adamently cared about certain issues, and I think his own personal traumas maybe made him even more sensitive to the external problems he sang about. As for the song, pretty sure it was about the institutional leveraging of systemic racism.

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          3 days ago

          i concur, think the dude was a creep but to say he didn’t care about any social issues, dare i say…

  • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    I was behind an expedition in a drive through the other day, and just remarked to myself if I’m hit at all by that behemoth of a compensation machine in my reasonable sedan I’m fucking dead.