his last record sold more than the previous one and was a #1 record and he's had his highest charting singles for many years in the last few months, so I don't think you can put it down to that
It's not the standards of the Republican Party. It's the standards of all political discourse. It's hard for me to understand how you can actually argue the position that people who change their mind should never be tolerated and that they must be forever condemned by the bad politics they used to hold. But hey, if you want to keep losing, then that's fine. Feel free to make the argument that people are always allowed to swing to the Republicans but never allowed to swing back.
This is junk data from a daily tracking poll that turned out to be statistical noise never replicated again. It was bullshit the first time it was posted here, and its still bullshit months later.
I'm sorry, but the argument you're making isn't at all relevant to Kanye West.
We're living in some truly scary times with who's in charge and the damage they are causing. Kanye would have to wipe my fucking mind to make me forgive him for cozying up to fascists. It probably doesn't help that I never liked him. Always seemed like a cocky piece of shit. Amazingly talented tho.
They are a consistent reminder for me that the word fan is short for fanatic. Always making excuses for that lame bastard.
Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. It's hard to really tell at this point, but if he expressed genuine contrition at some point and understanding as to why what he did was wrong in the future, I think it should be taken with a grain of salt, but not completely discounted.
Fair enough, I think we agree.
And I'm not saying people should jump to forgiveness. And my argument isn't localized or really responding to Kanye himself as much as it was responding to the argument made in this thread (and others) that once someone has gone beyond that pale, there's no coming back. There was a thread recently about Trump supporters where many wondered if people who voted for the Democrats in the past yet voted for Trump in 2016 could ever change back, and the same argument was advanced there that I've seen in this thread. Too far gone, they'll never come back, it's beyond hope. But if you accept that people can only swing in the direction of your opponents and can never swing in the other direction, you're not going to have a very effective political program. Again it's not really a response to Kanye but it is a response to that point
And I agree. I'm not saying people should forgive Kanye or that what he's done is anything other than incredibly wrong and providing succor to a cryptofascist movement.
