It's so disappointing to hear Killer Mike spit revolutionary lyrics like in 'close your eyes' only to find out IRL he's into lame shit like black capitalism.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

only to find out IRL he’s into lame shit like black capitalism.

Does it mean something other than what is here, or did I miss something offensive in skimming through the entry?

This isn't one of those lame "now they are the machine" posts is it?

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah. The music still slaps though.

RATM's bassist is into some weird fringe right-libertarian stuff too if I recall

Nobody's perfect 🤷‍♂️

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

or they changed. 30 years is a long time.

their debut was released

3 years after the fall of Berlin wall
a year after the dissolution of USSR
9 years before the September 11 attacks
15 years before iPhone
24 years before the election of a reality tv entertainer/real estate conman as POTUS
China wasn't a superpower back then
EU didn't exist in its current form
Apartheid was still an actuality
internet wasn't omnipresent

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Apartheid was still an actuality

So you're saying nothing's changed?

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

anybody from South Africa to reply to this?

or is this about the apartheid in Israel/Palestine?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How was China not a superpower then?

They were easily a superpower since before they were backing Vietnam and Korea in our shitty wars with them.

[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

China's GDP was lower than Canada's. Economic strength is not the only factor of a superpower, but it's significant. It's hard to project power effectively without sufficient wealth to fund those efforts.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Fair enough. How many resources did the US waste in Vietnam and Korea fighting someone who was not a so called superpower?

[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Quite a lot. The US did the same thing in Iraq and Afghanistan too. Who cares about who the enemy is or how many people die if they military industrial complex is making bank?

A country doesn't need to be a superpower to project some power, but very few rise to the level of global hegemony. I think China is probably in the superpower tier today. The belt and road initiative is classic economic hegemony shit.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

In 1944, during World War II, the term was first applied to the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the United States. During the Cold War, the British Empire dissolved, leaving the United States and the Soviet Union to dominate world affairs. At the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States became the world's sole superpower, a position sometimes referred to as that of a "hyperpower". Since the late 2010s and into the 2020s, China has increasingly been described as an emerging superpower or even an established one, as China represents the "biggest geopolitical test of the 21st century" to the United States, as it is "the only country with enough power to jeopardize the current global order".

☞ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpower

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Killer "pro-cop" Mike?