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[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 142 points 1 year ago

Because “Fuck you, got mine”

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 120 points 1 year ago

Wealth makes people more likely to be conservative, as does age.

The poor young man who recorded Fuck tha Police is a very different person to the multi-millionaire media star being interviewed on Fox.

[-] blargerer@kbin.social 68 points 1 year ago

Early trends for Millenials and young Gen X has them not getting more conservative as they are aging, or at least substantially less so than older generations.

[-] AProfessional@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago

Because they don’t have the same generational wealth.

[-] ElBarto@lzrprt.sbs 18 points 1 year ago

Fuck we don't even have wealth...

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[-] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

I believe it's because there's no reasonable conservative option. There's nobody even pitching "fiscal responsibility" or "small government" anymore. You've gotta drink the Kool aid and support The Donald or you're a liberal cuck. There's no room for being just right-leaning; you've gotta go all in.

[-] samus7070@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

Gen Xer here, I’ve never seen a republican led federal government that ever actually acted fiscally conservative. Being fiscally conservative and small government has always meant cut social programs and cut taxes but never cut spending to one of the biggest cost centers in the government, the military. There’s nothing fiscally conservative about cutting taxes and ballooning the deficit. There’s nothing fiscally conservative about starting two wars and essentially putting them on credit cards. The American people only put up with them for so long because the only ones who had to sacrifice for them were those that died or came back maimed. If we had to pay for them with higher taxes instead of passing the bill to the next few generations, those wars would never have even happened.

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[-] SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wealth yes, but the age thing might be a myth. It turns out that people solidify their political leanings during major movements. The older generation just happen to be affected by Reaganism and Nixons southern strategy.

The most conservative leaning generation are not boomers or silver generation, but apparently Gen X.

Edit: I posted some sources in replies below.

[-] Rheios@ttrpg.network 13 points 1 year ago

There also seems to be a bit of weirdness even surrounding what "conservative" means. It used to mean an intent toward preservation of certain existing institutions/trends and preexisting stability, with a distrust for new institutions that may upset existing social calm. Which often is at odds with beneficial change but isn't inherently against it, favoring instead that it be slow and precise. When I think of myself as conservative that's the concept I have.

The problem is that "conservative" now can also include a group of people for which preserving an existing state (as in condition/mode of being ) is no longer acceptable, the demand either a reverse or entirely new directions.

As an example that's a little less hot button - vouchers for private schools. That's an active novelty and a change from an existing institution, rife with potential long-term impacts on both culture and stability that could be negative, and yet some positions push for it (often without addressing those problems). That's not a conservative position. That's a progressive one (maybe not in the direction someone on the left would want obviously).

Conservative got irrevocably linked with Right due to some preexisting social constructs and the urge to preserve them, but realistically it should hold just as well that a conservative would seek to preserve left-wing establishments as much as right-wing ones, or at least advise any changes to them be slow and incremental to avoid pop-up problems. Admittedly things like technology complicate that due to the speed with which it changes and demands response.

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

If you cannot understand how conservatism would LOVE to conserve the racism and rapant capitalism of the US... You might not actually understand what "conservatives" actually want to conserve...

It's the social order of things where they're on top. They've literally always been supremacists. Just not necessarily openly bigoted ones.

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[-] Jah348@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

That was my first though.

breaking news: impossibly wealthy people vote for tax cuts and reduction in social services

[-] style99@kbin.social 75 points 1 year ago

Dude. Ice Cube has always been "fuck you got mine." People are only just now noticing?

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

this. coming into money doesn't change who you are. It magnifies who you've always been. Sure, people can change, but it isn't the money doing it.

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[-] stergro@feddit.de 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A German Black rapper (Sam Deluxe) once said: "as a black person you can't really choose your political opinion freely, because one side only wants you out of the country." Many join the left because it means protection.

I think parts of hiphop culture fits quite well to a conservative worldview when it comes to money, masculinity and the role of women.

[-] S_204@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

Ice cube is an anti Semitic piece of shit. Of course he siding with the Right, they're anti Semites too.

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[-] the_q@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

They got money.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 14 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Scrolling through Twitter a couple of weeks ago, I came across a clip of rightwing commentator Tucker Carlson interviewing a face I never thought I’d see on his platform: Ice Cube.

He’s joining a long list of rappers – Kanye West, Da Baby, Kodak Black, Lil Pump – who have all put themselves in dangerous proximity to conservative politicians even as rightwing populism threatens to destroy their communities.

Still, hip-hop legends like Jay-Z continue to peddle this demented lie because that is the very function of capitalism: keep the poorest in society busy providing cheap labor while they chase an impossible dream.

Say what you want about Democrats and what they have or haven’t done for Black people in America, but Kanye West campaigning for Trump wasn’t some stroke of genius – it was one of the most self-hating and objectively stupid moves that a person in his position could have made back in 2016.

I don’t blame Black people – burned by decades of generational disenfranchisement and then walloped over the head with the illusion of meritocracy – for trying to keep their place at the top no matter who they have to play nice with.

But romancing fearmongering xenophobes isn’t keeping us at the top, it’s digging a pitiful hole to the bottom, a new low from which Black people as a community will not recover if we don’t put a stop to it now.


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[-] C_Leviathan@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

Rich people and temporarily embarrassed millionaires and all that. Perfect victims for the right wing propaganda machine.

[-] AnyProgressIsGood@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I mean... Well I'll start with I have a bit of a conspiracy theory

So old white men ran the record industry when rap got hot. Clear channel and the top record companies can make anyone a star. Notice the over arching ideals and values they prop up

Much like the CIA released crack on minorities. Record companies released drugs addiction, gang banging, spending frivolously via glamorization On minorities

Always felt like minorities were being fed values that lead to failure. This is a continuation.

[-] Obsession@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

Or because many of these rappers came from poor and violent areas, where drug addiction, gang banging, and frivolous spending was what they knew

[-] LucyLastic@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

Except that a lot of early and grass-roots rap railed against those things, but that wasn't what got large scale commercial backing in the long run

[-] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

Can you suggest me songs from the early days that does this? I've always hated how much rap songs glorify those things.

[-] varias@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

De La Soul, Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Brand Nubian, Digable Planets, The Pharcyde, Digital Underground, Souls of Mischief, Del the Funky Homosapien, Freestyle Fellowship, Arrested Development, Goodie Mob, Outkast, Fugees...

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[-] LucyLastic@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Grandmaster Flash, De La Soul, and Public Enemy would be good examples of rap that was politically and socially progressive, I'm sure a bit of digging would give a long list

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[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

"Why have rappers who have always been edgey and anti-establishment supporting an edgey political party that (pretends to be) anti-establishment?"

[-] T34@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago
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