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[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 92 points 4 months ago

Lennon once described himself as a pacifist and anarchist; on February 6, 2016, he tweeted, "AnCap is the only logical result of the non aggression [principle]. I am a pacifist so therefore an anarchist."

T minus 10 months before his hard drives are confiscated

[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 73 points 4 months ago

Lmao even though I knew he’s got to be middle aged, I still thought this must be some teenage phase. The man is fully 48 years old.

AnCap Jaden Smith

[-] egg1918@hexbear.net 62 points 4 months ago

This guy is 48 with a bitmoji pfp lmao

[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 35 points 4 months ago

Horseshoe theory

[-] Huldra@hexbear.net 60 points 4 months ago

Peak rich brat shit, just no material connection to anything so he bounces between total fucking nonsense ideologies until someday all the chickens come home to roost and he'll go rabid fascist.

[-] MalarchoBidenism@hexbear.net 68 points 4 months ago

Imagine there's no pronouns
It isn't hard to do

[-] WashedAnus@hexbear.net 66 points 4 months ago
[-] Deinonychus@hexbear.net 35 points 4 months ago

Imagine there's no pronouns, imagining there's no pronouns isn't hard to do.

[-] dannoffs@hexbear.net 54 points 4 months ago

Big talk from a guy with a woke letter in his name.

[-] Angel@hexbear.net 46 points 4 months ago

Is being the son of a Beatle not garnering him enough attention? Does he need to sprinkle on a little low-effort "anti-woke" grift to spice things up? That's the energy I'm getting.

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[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 42 points 4 months ago

The least surprising thing of all time. John Lennon and Yoko Ono were both terrible people so it should come as no surprise that they abused their kids to an unbelievable degree.

That shit messes with your head forever.

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

I know all about John and why he was a piece of shit, what has Yoko done? Don't doubt you for a second, just haven't heard much about her

She deliberately withheld a ton of stuff from Julian, I think she even destroyed some stuff rather than hand it over. She also fought him in court so he wouldn't inherit. Julian is over it for what that's worth and it's been decades.

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[-] dannoffs@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

At the very least Yoko knew about a lot of the terrible shit John did and was seemingly fine with it.

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago
[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 42 points 4 months ago

Wokism is an awkward spelling that reminds me of Chinese food sooner than Woke.

[-] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 41 points 4 months ago

Wokism is the belief that all food should be cooked in woks.

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago

You will not own a frying pan and you will be happy

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago

Skillet issue

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

No lie detected

Julian turning out to be the one who ended up less damaged from Lennon is a twist.

[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 34 points 4 months ago

was this the son he actually liked?

[-] Bakzik@hexbear.net 32 points 4 months ago

Yep. Julian (Jude) is the other son.

Also a lib tho.

Also a lib tho.

Not an ancap, does documentaries on regenerative land use and about the effect colonialism has had on an indigenous culture specifically their gender dynamics. There's a lib spectrum, and he's on the less bad end.

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[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 32 points 4 months ago

He should give peace a chance

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[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 32 points 4 months ago
[-] g_g@hexbear.net 30 points 4 months ago

i really liked the Claypool Lennon Delirium projects :c i wanted to believe that "gone are the days when your brand of genitalia would determine where to piss" line was like... meant in a pro-trans way but. not so sure now deeper-sadness

[-] Huldra@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago

My interpretation was to hope it was just along the same dumb ignorant lib brain shit as Les Claypool making a Zelenskyyyyyy song titled like "the man with the iron balls."

[-] uSSRI@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

Damn he doesn't even consider Ukrainian kids or Russian kids puppies. That's harsh. And lib.

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[-] Sator_is_Tense@hexbear.net 28 points 4 months ago

i mean his dad was an abusive shithead and a self-proclaimed capitalist so it seems the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree begone

[-] nothx@hexbear.net 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Like father like son. Talentless hack with bad politics.

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

i just now realized i know nothing of Lennon's politics but just from a couple of songs I thought he was left-leaning if not socialist friendly

[-] MaeBorowski@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

The way I see it, he was an archetypal radlib of the hippy era. He was very outspoken against the Vietnam war which is undeniably good, but it also served his popularity and image as a hippy counter-culture icon. Considering how much that ended up being the source of his wealth, it makes it hard to gauge how authentic it really was. No matter how anti-war he may have been, he was also vocally anti-communist and critical, even hostile and dismissive, of anything genuinely revolutionary. And I say "vocally" because he made it apparent not just in interviews and such but also in some of his most well known songs. He was one of those staunch "non-violent" "leftists" of the same type that today would be as loud about criticizing Hamas as he would be Israel for the former's use of violence instead of just doing peaceful marches and sit-ins in he face of the latter's genocide. Maybe that last part's unfair, as I'd like to think such an obvious genocide would have shaken him of the stereotypical hippy-dippy "make love not war! like just be peaceful, man!" dogmatism, but consider that "Just Give Peace a Chance" is now a catchphrase because it's a song he wrote. Also, his big anti-war action with respect to Vietnam was literally to hang out in bed in a hotel for his honeymoon while actual working people tended to his needs.

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[-] nothx@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

He was kind of just a hippy shitlib that abused his wife and other son.

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[-] flan@hexbear.net 28 points 4 months ago

the shit apple doesnt fall far from the shit tree, as they say

[-] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 27 points 4 months ago

Mr Lahey, not another night of the shit abyss

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago

"Wokism" is a real thing to these chuds, huh?

[-] TheGyattsMustBeCrazy@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Never has there been a greater made up phenomenon for the bored and aimless to grandstand off of. He's not going to do shit, he got the agreeable replies he was fishing for and now feels quelled.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

Mark David Chapman was 5 years too late

[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago

So his son is also an anticommunist? Surprise surprise.

[-] metaltoilet@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

I thought he said "woRkERism" and thought we had a based (unseccessful) nepo baby for once.

[-] UltraGreen@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

Someone younger than him definitely told him his beliefs were outdated. And his response is "it's those damn kids who are wrong!"

What a doofus. I had a neutral opinion of him because his band didn't make outright horrible music. But I guess I'm going to dunk on him whenever I hear about him now.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

How does he sleep at night?

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

Extremely soundly, on the most comfortable bed money can buy.

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