you don't call it a scary picture if you're being dense or naive about it
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Monday, 31 October 2022 05:51 (one year ago) link
how many people know who owens is and don't know what she's about
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Monday, 31 October 2022 05:53 (one year ago) link
remember the anti-blm stuff
CO doesn't care about palestinian lives either so clearly that wasn't MIA's real problem with it
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Monday, 31 October 2022 05:55 (one year ago) link
tbh M.I.A.'s shtick/persona has always been this amoral global hustler, and Candace Owens is that.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 31 October 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
Nah, if that was the case she'd be posing for pictures with Gary Vaynerchuck. Candace Owens may be a grifter, but her specific grift is reactionary politics and grudge warfare. By positioning herself with Owens, M.I.A. is branding herself as a reactionary culture-war asshole, full stop.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 31 October 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
Yeah “global hustler” sure but “amoral” no way, her personal has always been founded on scolding “ARE YOU EVEN AWARE THAT” lectures delivered from a perceived moral high ground.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 31 October 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
what a scam artist shes always been
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 23:43 (one year ago) link
Candace Owens seems to be going after artists who debuted in 2004
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
Watch out Joanna Newsom
the ultimate empty posturing coward, not that her bonafides in standing up for the downtrodden ever felt real to me but it's so much easier to step aside, say nothing, and just #freespeech her way thru social media.
― omar little, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 00:02 (one year ago) link
lol trying to imagine what a Newsom/Owens conference would be like.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
MIA has always been a nutty conspiracy theorist, that has been obvious for a long time now
― Dan S, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 00:36 (one year ago) link
I love her sound though, including what I've heard of this album
― Dan S, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 00:39 (one year ago) link
You should come to Duluth and sit with Mim for a few hours and listen to her breathe. https://t.co/OqGoxFRpXO— LOW (@lowtheband) November 1, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
I've thinking about Mimi and Low
― Dan S, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 01:10 (one year ago) link
*I've been
― Dan S, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
birdflu
Right wing and Left wing is part of the same 🦅 bird. I see the bird.— M.I.A. (@MIAuniverse) November 4, 2022
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 4 November 2022 02:16 (one year ago) link
She probably sees the bird quite often
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Friday, 4 November 2022 02:21 (one year ago) link
"left wing right wing chicken wing" - MIA
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 4 November 2022 02:23 (one year ago) link
galaxybrain.jpg
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 4 November 2022 03:16 (one year ago) link
All I wanna do is cluck cluck cluck cluck
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Friday, 4 November 2022 03:56 (one year ago) link
Paper Birds
― nickn, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
lol she fucked that up
here's how I've heard that phrase before: "The right and the left wings belong to the same colonial bird that shits on us," said with ample good sense here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/two-row-wampum-haudenosaunee-voting-election-1.5273605
― rob, Friday, 4 November 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
why do vaguely leftish conspiracy minded spiritual stoner types keep moving in the same fashy direction it's extremely disconcerting
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Friday, 4 November 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
the 'spiritual stoner' part, means they believe in homeopathic nonsense treatments, tend to go w/ gut over facts, listen to Earth all day
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 November 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
I think it's more people that want to seem edgy and countercultural-ish but don't necessarily reach too far beyond that
she had somewhat of a hook with her dad, but I don't know that any of her audience really engaged with that at all (or bothered to understand what any of that meant) but, to be fair, I am not sure she was all that invested either!
― mh, Friday, 4 November 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
wasn't there an interview in 2010 where she admitted she was ignorant but said why can't ignorant people be political
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 November 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
in theory, why not
I feel like the whole spiritual stoner field has been appropriated wholesale by the right in recent years. but maybe it's always tended that way since blavatsky
I was the part of the audience who thought her dad's politics gave her some cred despite knowing nothing about sri lanka so that angle certainly worked on me when I was 15
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Friday, 4 November 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
Very prescient of her, as the most political people in America in 2022 are also the most ignorant motherfuckers on Earth.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 4 November 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link