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I'll be honest. Kanye's sense of fashion is probably not top of my list of things I dislike about Kanye.
The lack of "real world complaints" and "anger" in popular music genres helps keep the masses docile
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The lack of "real world complaints" and "anger" in popular music genres helps keep the masses docile
which is very easy to find in punk rock and some variations, as well as rap.
When it comes to rap, it was far easier to find.
I'm not alone in noticing that a lot of mainstream(!!!) rap has become a minstrel show, glorifying capitalism, and racist stereotypes about black people.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
― John F. Kennedy
Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962
I wish it wasn't true, but I think you're very smart to be cautious of the police.
Stay safe out there.
Perhaps the most egregious example:
The [UK] MOD has been repeatedly challenged over its claim that its bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria (Op SHADER) has killed and injured an estimated 4,315 enemies, but only resulted in one civilian casualty between September 2014 and January 2021.
The US does this too (to a degree), basically assuming anyone in the target zone must be a militant unless proved otherwise. Entirely implausible, but yeah.
Not that it's a competition, but the article mentions this number being far lower than the actual number, so you can't make a fair comparison.
This is basically a case of some countries and places giving enough of a shit about trans people being murdered, to bother recording how prevalent it is for the first time. Plenty of places, given these are often sex workers, they'd just let them rot in a ditch and mark it down as unknown causes when they find the remains.
A lot of male homicide is also gang related. That's different than being murdered by a client or partner, because of your gender identity. A bit like how Jewish people may be less likely to be murdered, but that doesn't mean it's not noteworthy when someone burns down a synagogue and kills Jews because of their ethnicity.
Doubt most murders of trans people are registered as such, especially in countries which don't accept that trans people exist. The article implies as much:
The report explained that the majority of murder cases (235 cases) were reported in Latin America and the Caribbean, partly due to the “existence of established monitoring systems in these regions”, while Armenia, Belgium and Slovakia reported trans murders for the first time. ... TGEU explained that the horrific stats are only part of the full picture, with some trans people not identified as trans or gender diverse in reports of their deaths, leaving many potential additional cases unreported.
Honestly wouldn't surprise me. They don't even care enough to record the numbers murdered.
As plenty of these are also sex workers, plenty of places the police gives less than zero shits. Even ordinary sex workers avoid the police like the plague. So much so that people will avoid talking to the police at all or coming forward in even the most serious cases, out of fear of being raped, robbed, deported or worse.
IRC Gary Ridgway, who likely murdered over a hundred women, testified he targeted sex workers because he knew it'd allow him to get away with it. Which he did for two decades. You'll also occasionally hear of cases where seemingly an entire precinct systematically raped sex workers, apparently thinking it was something they were entitled to along with free coffee and donuts.
They're both old grandpas.
There's poverty and there's Poverty. A quick google suggests Russia and the World Bank define poverty in Russia as having an income of under 10,000 rubles per month. Roughly $110.
I don't think people in the west can grasp what true poverty looks like. We're talking selling your kids, eating tree bark or even cannibalism as was surprisingly widespread during the Cultural Revolution.
Russia's not that bad, especially the larger cities, but some parts of Russia are still really deprived as they never fully recovered from the collapse of the USSR.
I am however surprised that the number's only 14%. I googled and the number was similar a few years ago.