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[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Lennon once described himself as a pacifist and anarchist; on February 6, 2016, he tweeted, "AnCap is the only logical result of the non aggression [principle]. I am a pacifist so therefore an anarchist."

T minus 10 months before his hard drives are confiscated

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lmao even though I knew he’s got to be middle aged, I still thought this must be some teenage phase. The man is fully 48 years old.

AnCap Jaden Smith

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This guy is 48 with a bitmoji pfp lmao

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

Horseshoe theory

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago

Peak rich brat shit, just no material connection to anything so he bounces between total fucking nonsense ideologies until someday all the chickens come home to roost and he'll go rabid fascist.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imagine there's no pronouns
It isn't hard to do

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

Imagine there's no pronouns, imagining there's no pronouns isn't hard to do.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago

Big talk from a guy with a woke letter in his name.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is being the son of a Beatle not garnering him enough attention? Does he need to sprinkle on a little low-effort "anti-woke" grift to spice things up? That's the energy I'm getting.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wokism is an awkward spelling that reminds me of Chinese food sooner than Woke.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wokism is the belief that all food should be cooked in woks.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You will not own a frying pan and you will be happy

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

Skillet issue

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

No lie detected

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The least surprising thing of all time. John Lennon and Yoko Ono were both terrible people so it should come as no surprise that they abused their kids to an unbelievable degree.

That shit messes with your head forever.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I know all about John and why he was a piece of shit, what has Yoko done? Don't doubt you for a second, just haven't heard much about her

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She deliberately withheld a ton of stuff from Julian, I think she even destroyed some stuff rather than hand it over. She also fought him in court so he wouldn't inherit. Julian is over it for what that's worth and it's been decades.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At the very least Yoko knew about a lot of the terrible shit John did and was seemingly fine with it.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

Julian turning out to be the one who ended up less damaged from Lennon is a twist.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

was this the son he actually liked?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yep. Julian (Jude) is the other son.

Also a lib tho.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also a lib tho.

Not an ancap, does documentaries on regenerative land use and about the effect colonialism has had on an indigenous culture specifically their gender dynamics. There's a lib spectrum, and he's on the less bad end.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He should give peace a chance

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

i really liked the Claypool Lennon Delirium projects :c i wanted to believe that "gone are the days when your brand of genitalia would determine where to piss" line was like... meant in a pro-trans way but. not so sure now deeper-sadness

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My interpretation was to hope it was just along the same dumb ignorant lib brain shit as Les Claypool making a Zelenskyyyyyy song titled like "the man with the iron balls."

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Damn he doesn't even consider Ukrainian kids or Russian kids puppies. That's harsh. And lib.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

i mean his dad was an abusive shithead and a self-proclaimed capitalist so it seems the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree begone

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Like father like son. Talentless hack with bad politics.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (5 children)

i just now realized i know nothing of Lennon's politics but just from a couple of songs I thought he was left-leaning if not socialist friendly

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The way I see it, he was an archetypal radlib of the hippy era. He was very outspoken against the Vietnam war which is undeniably good, but it also served his popularity and image as a hippy counter-culture icon. Considering how much that ended up being the source of his wealth, it makes it hard to gauge how authentic it really was. No matter how anti-war he may have been, he was also vocally anti-communist and critical, even hostile and dismissive, of anything genuinely revolutionary. And I say "vocally" because he made it apparent not just in interviews and such but also in some of his most well known songs. He was one of those staunch "non-violent" "leftists" of the same type that today would be as loud about criticizing Hamas as he would be Israel for the former's use of violence instead of just doing peaceful marches and sit-ins in he face of the latter's genocide. Maybe that last part's unfair, as I'd like to think such an obvious genocide would have shaken him of the stereotypical hippy-dippy "make love not war! like just be peaceful, man!" dogmatism, but consider that "Just Give Peace a Chance" is now a catchphrase because it's a song he wrote. Also, his big anti-war action with respect to Vietnam was literally to hang out in bed in a hotel for his honeymoon while actual working people tended to his needs.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

He was kind of just a hippy shitlib that abused his wife and other son.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the shit apple doesnt fall far from the shit tree, as they say

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

Mr Lahey, not another night of the shit abyss

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

"Wokism" is a real thing to these chuds, huh?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Never has there been a greater made up phenomenon for the bored and aimless to grandstand off of. He's not going to do shit, he got the agreeable replies he was fishing for and now feels quelled.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Mark David Chapman was 5 years too late

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

So his son is also an anticommunist? Surprise surprise.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

I thought he said "woRkERism" and thought we had a based (unseccessful) nepo baby for once.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Someone younger than him definitely told him his beliefs were outdated. And his response is "it's those damn kids who are wrong!"

What a doofus. I had a neutral opinion of him because his band didn't make outright horrible music. But I guess I'm going to dunk on him whenever I hear about him now.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How does he sleep at night?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Extremely soundly, on the most comfortable bed money can buy.

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