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Kanye West Wore a Burzum T-Shirt...

...and that really does not matter.

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Seth
Feb 05, 2024
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Times are weird. Russia is still attempting to take the Ukraine amidst preparing to rig an election in March. Israel, the United States’ strongest geopolitical ally, is still attempting to snuff out Palestine, whom many Americans stand in resilient support of. Most importantly (if news coverage is any marker of significance,) Kanye West wore a Burzum t-shirt.

I’m not going to presume to have any answers for the former two matters, but I can address the latter with some finality:

  1. If you like Kanye West’s music, it likely has nothing to do with who he is as a person (that being “an egotistical asshat”)

  2. If you don’t like Kanye West’s music, you likely felt that way before he began spouting off a bunch of racist, fascist, or egoist bullshit.

  3. If (1) or (2) don’t apply to you, you either

    1. Don’t care, because this is all quite stupid (bravo, that’s the right answer)

    2. Or your head is soaked in so much commercial propaganda, you’ve sheepishly confused a company’s product with an actual political persp…

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