Nobody, but nobody, asked for uber-conservative commentator Ben Shapiro to produce an anti-woke, pro-white rap song. And yet, here we are.
  • skweetis@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    It’s so funny to me that none of these people seem to have any idea what they’re mad about.

    • wrath_of_grunge@kbin.social
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      10 months ago

      that would require thought and reflection. these people are reactionary opportunists. they don’t do ‘thought’ or ‘reflection’, only ‘outrage’.

    • Delphia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I have a sneaking suspicion that a percentage of what he does is an act (I think the enormous asshole part is real) but he deliberately does and says things that he knows will get “the libs” to follow him on socials, retweet and comment and share to laugh at him knowing that the only thing that counts is that his hashtag is trending which keeps him relevant.

    • ZeroCool@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      10 months ago

      His novel is hilariously bad. The Behind the Bastards podcast has done several episodes where they go through it and mock the shit out of his obvious self-insert character who’s not only 6’5” but he’s the toughest, coolest guy who ever lived.

  • tacosanonymous@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m sure it will get as much attention as his movies which I also haven’t and will never see.

  • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I think it will all make a lot more sense when the actor / performance artist that we know as “Shapiro” retires and speaks openly about their motivations behind their satirical character. I also look forward to hearing the rationale behind the Fucker Carlson character too.

    • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      10 months ago

      That’s not how it works. These people spend millions of dollars a year on advertising and spreading their garbage. If unchecked, the only introduction a normal person (not terminally online like me) would have to clowns like this would be at worst uncritical, and at best flattering.

      I have no way to find a clip like this without spending way too much effort to do it, but Sam Seder constantly clowns on these bozos for that exact reason. And he’s talked several times on his show about his philosophy, because callers will call in and say what you’ve said. He wants to make sure that his videos making these fools look like the dunces they are get pulled into the algorithm and fed to people alongside their videos.

      And you know what? That works! He gets callers all the time who say things like, “I’m so embarrassed because I used to watch Ben Shapiro (or Sam Smith, Dave Rubin, etc.) and I saw one of your videos mocking them and it made me realize how dumb they were.”

      It might be different if these dinguses didn’t have Koch Brother millions at their disposal, but they do. They must be challenged. For those of us who already hate Ben Shapiro and the ghouls like him, these challenges aren’t doing any good. In fact, they might be annoying, like they are to you. But it’s still important.

      • TheOneAndOnly@lemm.eeEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I stand corrected. “Poisoning” his search results with videos making him look stupid is probably one of the best ideas I’ve heard. Thanks for the education!

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    See I hear Ben Shapiro rap song, and I just assume he did “Jesus Christ is my [n-word]” only unironically, and with added verses that prove he knows nothing about Jesus, half the lyrics wrong, and some blatant transphobia

  • CM400@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    My money like Lizzo, my pockets are fat

    Why would the size of his pockets have anything to do with how much money he has? Certainly he doesn’t have pockets big enough to hold all of his money. He’ll, I’m broke as fuck compared to him, and my normal size pockets couldn’t contain all of my money (on payday, at least)…

    Homie I’m epic, don’t be a WAP

    What does he mean by “WAP?”, Ben has clearly already proven logically that a pussy ‘that’ wet is impossible, and anything approaching that level of wetness would be signs of a very serious pussy disease. Perhaps he means “weak ass person”, but those people also have major problems, the least of which being the inability to stand or walk for long periods of time, constituting a very real disability…

    You’re going to prison, I’m on television

    These things are not mutually exclusive, as Donald Trump has demonstrated.

    My comment section all woke Karens

    Then who are the people going to get this to “Billboard number one?” Are “woke Karens” known to ironically support people?

    • Kolli@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I get that you’re choosing to be literal and choosing to be dumb, but it doesn’t work.

      First point could well sign to a thick wallet, which is good enough analogy for wealth. (Also doesn’t need that many fifties until we start talking about thousands. Fits in pocket.)

      Second point, if we go by the meaning of “weak ass person”, it makes sense. It encourages not to be that.

      Third point is that lyrics are ambiguous, could mean whatever.

      Fourth point has a lot wrong. He is not necessarily talking about the comments of the song. Rather he might be talking about other comments he receives. Also afaik the engagement comes from the amount song listened/clicked, not from the amount commented and not from the nature of them. Also not ironically support, rather inadvertenly.

      Please do comment back.

      Edit: Fixed typo food -> good