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In case you’d like the lyrics for this “masterpiece”:
This is a severely mentally man who needs help. This is not a song that should have had people working on it. This should not have been released. I have had a in-depth conversation with something who believed that Shrek was the incarnation of God and they were more cogent than this.
Kanye was always a strange and not great lyricist, but this is mental illness.
There is direct correlation between right-wing ideology and brain damage
'Ideology'
I already know you're talking about trans. Who labeled it an ideology? People who need to apply that definition so they can be bigoted towards trans people. Watched them do the same thing with Muslims, so congrats on slurping up the slop ben shaprio shits out for you.
Nitrous addiction can cause brain damage too
I agree with this. A while back he did an interview with Lex Fridman. For those not familiar with Lex, he does long-form interviews of an hour or more that get into great detail on various subjects, and he makes a point to educate himself on those subjects beforehand so it is an actual discussion, not the usual interview of a guy explaining his job to somebody who has never heard of it.
For anyone not convinced Ye needs help, please go listen to that interview.
Ye early on blames the 'Jewish media' for an awful lot of the world's problems. Lex encourages him to call out specific members of that media for specific problems, rather than writing off an entire religion and an entire industry. Lex encourages him to use his platform to identify bad actors and directly oppose them. Ye refuses any specifics, talking only in broad general terms.
Ye then says with full conviction that we should stop teaching history in schools, that it is a waste of time and resources to relive the past and we should be teaching science and math and engineering instead as history offers us little or nothing of value. Lex of course brings up several parallels between history and modern society and similar problems happening under similar situations, once again Ye refuses to acknowledge and keeps restating his point in different words.
These are just two of the bigger issues. I got about halfway through the interview before I concluded that this man has no fundamental understanding of how the world works or of how human nature works, that he was either deluded or mentally ill or just very stupid, let his positions are almost entirely without merit and that he is a person and his ideas are probably unworthy of any consideration of mine. For me that's a pretty big thing, I try to separate the person from the idea and give everybody equal consideration.
But after listening to Ye speak for half an hour, I concluded it was the same as going to a mental hospital and listening to one of the patients rant about how aliens ate their brain for half an hour- The only thing I get from the experience is half an hour older.
I don't know what is wrong with Ye. Maybe he is just uneducated and ignorant and managed to fail upwards because he's good at music. Maybe he is mentally ill. I don't know. But I do know that he is not a smart or intelligent person that we should be listening to in any capacity.
- Ye
That was a fire line, and I'm stealing it.
I’m pretty sure after his mother died, (of complications from a weight loss procedure he paid for), it broke him. He started abusing nitrous, Kim K tried to keep him compliant with doctors and meds, but eventually gave up to keep the kids safe.
I am convinced that he has always been neurodivergent - possibly autistic. He’s always had strange lyrics, but was a genius producer. He had his finger on the pulse for what kinds of sounds to bring out of SoundCloud and other spaces - you see in Yeezus that he’s kinda bringing the experiments of groups like CLPPNG and Death Grips to the mainstream.
He’s also going through some serious creative decline. Life of Pablo was strained. He’s resorting to shit like AI. That cannot feel good. He knows that something is wrong, but has to externalize it because of his “god” persona.
The comparison to someone in an asylum is apt. If he wasn’t rich, those song lyrics would have been written on a bathroom wall in feces.
He needs help, not a microphone.
He's refused help at every turn. Not even his wife could get through to him. Not his friends, not his family, not his colleagues. None of them could convince him to stay on his meds and stay sane.
You mean this Yeezus merch? ~~This was the same timeframe.~~ (Sorry, different concert. This was later.) He wanted people to buy this shit as a bundle with a concert ticket.
Also, Death Grips was already mainstream. They didn't need some insane motherfucker to sample their work to get popular.
Jesus is King is after Life of Pablo. Jesus is King is not good Kanye.
Yeezus didn’t sample Death Grips IIRC - it’s more a response to them. And saying that Death Grips was mainstream when Yeezus came out is horseshit - No Love Deep Web came out like a few months before.
Only thing Kanye West needs help with at this point is shutting the fuck up.
Some rich asshole once said, "When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything."
Never do a Kardashian. Not once. Meth has better long term expectations than a man involved with a Kardashian.
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I know you said you were on a phone, although if you can, spoiler formatting on this would be great. It's perfect for long sections that can be opened and retracted (and also for content that not everyone really wants to see)
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Also, add backslashes before asterisks if you’re going to use them like that. Lemmy uses MarkDown for its markup, and asterisks or underscores around a word or section will italicize it. But a backslash will cancel any formatting for whatever special character follows it.
So *this* turns into this, but \*this\* turns into *this*.
(Also, I had to use three backslashes to make \*this\* appear. The first backslash cancels the second, which makes it appear. Then the third backslash cancels the asterisk, which makes it appear. So when the comment is posted, you’re actually seeing the second backslash of three, and the cancelled asterisk.)
i kinda see his nazism as a metaphor now… he’s saying he’s treated like a nazi so might as well say he’s a nazi.
or, he’s so demonized then “fine, i’m a demon”.
my take on it is: shitty artist + mentally ill.
also, interesting that he’s a cuck, and super worried about being called gay… (check out his reaction to the fish sticks south park).
you don’t have to be gay but, it definitely involves being sexually excited by other men…
i’m thinking, lying to himself level of closet gay
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/8/1786532/-Cartoon-You-made-me-become-a-Nazi is kind of timeless
The fact that the tattoo artist is covered in dog whistle tattoos is actually kind of great. I hadn’t noticed until now, but it makes sense; Most tattoo artists will refuse to do Nazi tattoos, unless they’re also a Nazi.
I think it's funny that the first thing written below the comic is "follow me on Twitter" with a link.
like i said, shitty artist
Damn, that's just sad.
I would love to hear their reasoning. That is fascinating.
Some modern religious philosophies (most notably Chaos Magick) essentially believe that thoughts, symbols, ideas, and cultural concepts gain power through their spread and repetition. Within this framework, Shrek may as well be a god because he's the center of a popular media franchise and the basis of many popular memes. By saying "Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life" it becomes real in a sense. That's kind of where I think that would be coming from. I've seen people make similar arguments about batman and mickey mouse being their personal gods.
I've heard this philosophy before, yeah. And honestly, it's why I legit think of Jedi and Dudeists as credible. If some of the wisest writers in our distant history were revealed to actually be a shared pen name for five or six guys, then why is it weird to say that Master Yoda and Uncle Iroh are my favorite philosophers?
Sooo, American Gods?
They also included flubber. Flubber represented the Trinity - because it is neither a solid nor a liquid. God is a translucent Shrek made out of flubber.
That was the gist of it, across thirty minutes. The friends next to us were having a conversation about how both of them were vampires and their dad had power over storms.
It was a college volunteer project where I was trying to come up with volunteer projects to connect folks to the community. Was fun - we crocheted granny squares for baby rhinos.
I worked in mental health for years. Some of my most interesting patients were also some of the kindest and most compassionate. One lady was convinced that a famous director was her husband, and had (legit, in her record) walked across five states to accept his psychic wedding proposal. When another patient was in crisis, she was the first one to find us and tell us, and if we weren't there right away, she would sit with them and reassure them until we could make it.
And then there was the dude who had scammed nearly a thousand retirees because he could--and having psychotic delusions was just something on the side.
Being mentally ill is not a precursor for evil. However, Kanye seems to have made it his mission.
I so wanted this to read:
You sick pervert.