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View Poll Results: How much did you enjoy the album?
Loved it 3 25.00%
Liked it 3 25.00%
Meh 4 33.33%
Disliked it 1 8.33%
Hated it 1 8.33%
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Old 11-27-2017, 02:02 PM   #1 (permalink)
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He's got a point though. Have you ever met a white person?
What if he said Asian or a Jewish? Would you say the same "Have you ever met a ... ?" In my opinion if you say one thing about one group, if you change the group and it sounds racist then it's racist. It walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck then it must be a duck. I know the rebuttal by heart, "you can't be racist towards white people" so that why it is just hatred.

Another micro-burst of hatred are the lines where he wants raps about how to kill or maim the Koch brothers.

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"I'd like to run up on the Koch Brothers
And beat 'em with a garden hose made of old rubber
Give 'em rock bottoms and a cold stone stunner
Drop some cold butter on 'em from the skyscraper (which could kill them)
Pistol whip 'em with the handle of a lightsaber
Cut 'em with rice paper, chuckle like a wiseacre"
The Koch brothers are libertarians. From their perspective they are defending "the principles of a free society." So for that he believes he is justified to beat them with a rubber hose?
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Old 11-27-2017, 02:05 PM   #2 (permalink)
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What if he said Asian or a Jewish? Would you say the same "Have you ever met a ... ?" In my opinion if you say one thing about one group, if you change the group and it sounds racist then it's racist. It walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck then it must be a duck. I know the rebuttal by heart, "you can't be racist towards white people" so that why it is just hatred.
I've never actually met a white person, I was just wondering if you had been so unlucky.

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Another micro-burst of hatred are the lines where he wants raps about how to kill or maim the Koch brothers.


The Koch brothers are libertarians. From their perspective they are defending "the principles of a free society." So for that he believes he is justified to beat them with a rubber hose?
Coke sucks, they deserve it but it would be better if he said lead pipe because then it'd be a cool pipeline pun.
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Old 11-27-2017, 02:34 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I've never actually met a white person, I was just wondering if you had been so unlucky.



Coke sucks, they deserve it but it would be better if he said lead pipe because then it'd be a cool pipeline pun.
I thought dropping butter on them is because they have a lot of bread (aka money). Then I aks myself why do I even bother to figure out if there some hidden reference in those lyrics.
Open Mike is so full of all these opinions, so why cuss off white people, and fantasizes about attacking the Koch brothers because they have opinions too?Like I said from Kock bros perspective they are defending liberty. So how is that a crime that can only be rectify by a vigilante rubber hose beat down? It's OME calls to violence I don't jive with. It's like Open Mike is saying "I aint no gansta but I certainty do make an exception for the Koch brothers."
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I thought dropping butter on them is because they have a lot of bread (aka money). Then I aks myself why do I even bother to figure out if there some hidden reference in those lyrics.
Open Mike is so full of all these opinions, so why cuss off white people, and fantasizes about attacking the Koch brothers because they have opinions too?Like I said from Kock bros perspective they are defending liberty. So how is that a crime that can only be rectify by a vigilante rubber hose beat down? It's OME calls to violence I don't jive with. It's like Open Mike is saying "I aint no gansta but I certainty do make an exception for the Koch brothers."
So if OME told you he was defending liberty with his lyrics you'd be cool with him?

Well I just gave him a call and he said that. Glad you're a fan now. Anyways, don't call him racist or he'll snap.
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^ yes, it's a reference more obscure than all of Open Mike's references.
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