| ▲ | postalcoder 10 hours ago |
| It gives me immeasurable delight seeing afroman at the top of HN. Love me some freedom, sweet soulful music, and pie in the face of bad cops. Dang/Tom, please don't downrank this. America needs this win. |
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| ▲ | rtkwe 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I think this all started with cake in the face of a cop not pie! |
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| ▲ | jmyeet 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I love the Afroman story so much. Everything about it. It does more to expose just how incompetent, entitled and corrupt the average cop really is, something I wish was better known. The cops who brought this suit are basically the biggest crybabies, are too dumb to realize it and too entitled to realize that others wouldn't see it that way. It's fantastic. Compare this to policing in Japan [1]: > Koban cops go to extraordinary lengths to learn their beats. They're required to regularly visit every business and household in their districts twice a year, ostensibly to hand out anti-crime flyers or ask about their security cameras. The owner of a coffee shop told Craft, "With Officer Sota, we can say what's on our mind. He's really like a neighbor. Instead of dialing emergency when we need help, we just call him." American cops are a gang, by and large. Cops have absolutely massive budgets, from small towns to big cities. Let's not forget Uvalde, where the police department budget was ~40% of the city budget and it resulted in 19 cops standing outside scared while one shooter kept shooting literal children for an hour. Because they were scared. [1]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walking-the-beat-in-japan-a-hea... |
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| ▲ | StefanKarpinski 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Let's not forget Uvalde, where the police department budget was ~40% of the city budget and it resulted in 19 cops standing outside scared while one shooter kept shooting literal children for an hour. Because they were scared. Not only did they not stop the shooter, but they actively prevented parents—who were willing to risk their lives—from intervening. They didn't just not help, they proactively ran interference for the shooter. |
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| ▲ | largbae 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I wasn't gonna run from the cops... |
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| ▲ | no_shadowban 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | smt88 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Unfortunately Afroman is not particularly pro-freedom (big MAGA supporter). He seems to support certain rights for himself and not for others. |
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| ▲ | nazgulsenpai 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Even if this were true, are we really so far gone in the political discourse that we can't appreciate a win as Americans because of the perceived political orientation of the recipient? I think the answer is yes, but I still naively hold out hope that we can eventually move beyond this. | | |
| ▲ | smt88 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I didn't say I don't appreciate a win. I was saying that Afroman isn't a crusader for freedom or anything of the sort. We can appreciate the win without glorifying the victim of the case beyond the scope of the case. | |
| ▲ | RIMR 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I can appreciate that this verdict is a win for freedom, while also finding the footnote that Afroman is not pro-freedom quite useful. |
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| ▲ | johnmaguire 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Not sure he's "big MAGA" but I assume this is where the idea stems from - https://www.newsweek.com/afroman-explains-his-new-song-hunte... | | |
| ▲ | jollyllama 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | It is interesting that his treatment is being cast in the light of racial politics rather than persecution of a political dissident. |
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| ▲ | Y-bar 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I see he celebrated anti-ICE protests in some videos on his YouTube channel. Where does his MAGA support you claim come from? | | |
| ▲ | Rebelgecko 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think he tried to be the Libertarian presidential candidate and made a song about Hunter Biden, so people just assume he's full MAGA and doesn't deserve 1st amendment rights | |
| ▲ | watwut 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I mean, both him and Trump have similar approach to opponents or those who wronged them. In this case, the opponents are deeply unsympathetic to most, so it is harder to see. I do see how someone whose reaction to being wronged is "I fucked his wife doggy style" could be attracted to the Donald Trump personality. | | |
| ▲ | Y-bar 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | I’m not at all convinced, because that would mean N A S is a Trumper because: > “When these streets keep callin’, heard it when I was asleep/That Gay Z and C*ck-A-Fella Records wanted beef” JayZ responded in kind insinuating it back on N A S. And Drake is also a Trumpist because he told Chris Brown that he fu*ked Chris’s girl. Tupac also, for some reason: > ”… You claim to be a player, but I f*cked your wife/We bust on Bad Boys, n*g*as fu*ked for life.” 2Pac in hit-em-up: > "That's why I fuc*ed your bitch" Eminem: > "I f*cked your mother and made her my bitch," You know what? Maybe it’s a rapper thing and not an indication of MAGA alignment? |
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| ▲ | boca_honey 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Yes, it's unfortunate that this good thing happened to a person not aligned to my political worldview. | |
| ▲ | hedora 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | He’s willing to publicly criticize government corruption and child abuse, so there’s no way MAGA would accept him. (Both these stances came up in the defamation lawsuit and in the music video.) When he ran for president in 2024, he registered as an independent, “citing inflation, the housing market, law enforcement corruption, and legalizing marijuana as key campaign issues”. Even if he is ultra right wing on secondary issues (I have no idea) those are all anti-MAGA or bipartisan stances. https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/664027-afroman-2024-presidentia... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroman | | |
| ▲ | efreak 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The problem isn't finding people who will publicly criticize child abuse and government corruption. The problem is finding people who actually will do something about those specific problems and not find some way to enrich themselves (or their supporters) in their name instead. | |
| ▲ | parineum 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > citing inflation, the housing market, law enforcement corruption, and legalizing marijuana as key campaign issues The first two of those issues were Trump issues in his campaign and Trump rescheduled marijuana to schedule 2. | | |
| ▲ | flatline 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | There was an EO, but that is not law. Cannabis is still schedule I last I checked. The order is to make it schedule III. | | |
| ▲ | themaninthedark 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | A president can not make a law, only sign them into existence. He can also direct enforcement or lessen it. As far as I understand, the Schedule of Cannabis is written into the US Code. So Congress would need to amend it. https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim... | | |
| ▲ | parineum 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's under the purview of the executive branch to determine drug scheduling > The term "list I chemical" means a chemical specified by regulation of the Attorney General ... until otherwise specified by regulation of the Attorney General | | |
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| ▲ | pstuart 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That's good to know. The second sentence you gave was superfluous because the first one told us that -- I add this not to dismiss your efforts but to highlight them. |
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