He's not "totally based", he's just "common sense, no nonsense", but that's based on his own opinions on issues, like he's, you know, an individual, and I respect that.
He trashed abortion and borders alike. He pit religion and science against each other as only competing ideas. He also promotes the idea of "the 1%" being a symptom of "the system", instead of a normal consequence of free-market capitalism, consequence that either pays a lot in charity or taxes anyway (the top 1% earners funding 40% of the government budget btw) and can be regulated to avoid them taking over democracy through outspending everyone else on lobbying:
Let's talk about abortion, sorry, tell me how this works
Bacteria is life on Mars, but a heartbeat isn't life on Earth? Weird
From "People So Stupid" (yes I know, that's a common saying he hasn't invented)
I'ma give you all religion, let the righteous find the light
But I will also give you science to oppose the Word of Christ
And I'ma give you borders, they're imaginary lines
If you cross them, go to war and win when everybody dies
And I'ma give you money that you'll value more than life
And let the one percent have everything while you fight to survive
From "The System"
I disagree on the point he makes about borders, to me that's non sequitur. War and borders aren't related, there were wars before borders were a thing, and wars aren't predicated on borders nowadays, except maybe for China (vs. Honk Kong, Tibet, Taiwan). Wars can be fought over anything, really, not only borders.
Do I like his words overall? Yes, they do paint a rather clear picture of our current society, with what I consider to be a few blemish here and there. Do I agree with him? For the most part. He's still not totally based. Does he have some marketing genius? Yes. I mean, I'm a metalhead who'd rather not hear rap, and his rap caught my ears.
Good comments which I agree with. Important that people arent unopposed when they seek to burn-down everything that was corrupted precisely so people would want to burn it down. No need to dissolve borders if you can respect both sides of the border.
Same with religion, it is a shelter for many, to burn that down just because of elements of corruption will leave people exposed. Better to remove the corruption and restore it.
And same with money, just because the tax system got corrupted doesn't mean it cannot be reformed, like for example not taxing earnings from employment in someone else's company, while taxing the owners of companies when their profits or even revenues exceed some metric. Let people get wealthy, that is a great thing, but prevent people from getting absurdly rich and then using it to distort politics/society, not easy to do but better than smashing the system to bits and finding out later the rich wanted you to do that, because they are prepared and now you are going to starve in poverty having been tricked.
He's not "totally based", he's just "common sense, no nonsense", but that's based on his own opinions on issues, like he's, you know, an individual, and I respect that.
He trashed abortion and borders alike. He pit religion and science against each other as only competing ideas. He also promotes the idea of "the 1%" being a symptom of "the system", instead of a normal consequence of free-market capitalism, consequence that either pays a lot in charity or taxes anyway (the top 1% earners funding 40% of the government budget btw) and can be regulated to avoid them taking over democracy through outspending everyone else on lobbying:
From "People So Stupid" (yes I know, that's a common saying he hasn't invented)
From "The System"
I disagree on the point he makes about borders, to me that's non sequitur. War and borders aren't related, there were wars before borders were a thing, and wars aren't predicated on borders nowadays, except maybe for China (vs. Honk Kong, Tibet, Taiwan). Wars can be fought over anything, really, not only borders.
Do I like his words overall? Yes, they do paint a rather clear picture of our current society, with what I consider to be a few blemish here and there. Do I agree with him? For the most part. He's still not totally based. Does he have some marketing genius? Yes. I mean, I'm a metalhead who'd rather not hear rap, and his rap caught my ears.
Good comments which I agree with. Important that people arent unopposed when they seek to burn-down everything that was corrupted precisely so people would want to burn it down. No need to dissolve borders if you can respect both sides of the border. Same with religion, it is a shelter for many, to burn that down just because of elements of corruption will leave people exposed. Better to remove the corruption and restore it. And same with money, just because the tax system got corrupted doesn't mean it cannot be reformed, like for example not taxing earnings from employment in someone else's company, while taxing the owners of companies when their profits or even revenues exceed some metric. Let people get wealthy, that is a great thing, but prevent people from getting absurdly rich and then using it to distort politics/society, not easy to do but better than smashing the system to bits and finding out later the rich wanted you to do that, because they are prepared and now you are going to starve in poverty having been tricked.