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You wrote in Kanye West for president, thought enough other voters would join you to make doing so worth anything to you and your vote, and share that extremely poor adult judgment confidently and publicly? You like him because he says shit? I mean I say shit, too, would you vote for me even if my entire policy platform was incoherent and I stalk and abuse my exes and their new partners in public? You realize his entire presidential bid was for attention and his staff couldn’t even make the deadline to get him on the ballot, right?

With respect, this comment makes you sound like a contemptible, gullible fool that makes society actively worse. I really hope you’re being a bit facetious.



How is writing in Kanye West for president in any way inferior to just not voting? It's obviously a protest vote.

"a contemptible, gullible fool that makes society actively worse", seems a little overwrought to me.


Kanye 2024. :)

Seriously though this is my point. Kanye is absurd. A fool you might say. Like Trump and Bernie. Yet if you live in an upside down world, you might say some obvious truth, and it will further make you like a fool.

I like that back in 04 he was talking about the way blacks are treated in America, before all the woke fools decided it was popular.

And Beyonces video was better than Taylor’s.

The funny part to me is you actually think your vote for Joe means something.


Why is Bernie absurd? His policy positions are pretty standard in the conext of European Democracies.


It's really not.

>Sanders, in particular, suggested that the US could adopt a socialist system by emulating Scandinavia. “I think we should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway, and learn from what they have accomplished for their working people,” said the US presidential candidate, who identifies himself as a “democratic socialist.”

But Danish prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, speaking at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government this week, says Sanders got more than a few things wrong.

“I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy.”

https://qz.com/538499/denmark-says-it-isnt-the-socialist-uto...

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/bernie-sanders-wrong-d...


“George Bush doesn’t care about black people” - at the time made Mike Myers jaw drop. People forget that being publicly critical like that was unpopular back then. That it would cost you money and contracts.

Now if you say “I think Trump likes black people” you are lambasted like Kanye was for saying George bush didn’t.




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