AIPAC Shakur
Tupac came from revolutionaries and Black Panthers. Hakeem Jeffries does not have a modicum of the class consciousness that Tupac had. Find a different stupid nickname.
“He returned time and again to the themes of class inequality, wealth redistribution, and the moral bankruptcy of capitalism. He described the police as an occupying army in black neighborhoods, spoke of prisons as modern-day plantations, and decried the horrors to which US imperialism subjected the Global South. Despite his popularity, he remained angry, impatient, and unrelenting in his belief that another world was possible.”
hakeem is high off of the AIPAC money he gets, plus other under the table money hes getting from billionaires.
Fuckin’ appreciated. Full caught me off guard and I was rolling trying to figure out the connection to Tupac that OP was attempting to make.
It’s racism
It is a meme nickname created by Charlemagne on a podcast. A pretty funny one at that. Everyone knows it is a parody on Tupac and is not supposed to represent the real Tupac.
Ok but it rhymes. Have you met people? If you rhym something people think it’s true
This is the Progressive Politics comm. We can do better.
I have a slogan which I believe is sufficiently stupid. Send Hakeem Jeffries AIPACing!
Aipac and 2pac words sound alike that’s all. You are reading too much in this
This is quality. This is productive, because it tells the story WHY he sucks.
Too bad it wasn’t happening earlier in the year when he could’ve been primaried.
He’s been minority leader of the house for a bit. His district could have primaried him, but didn’t…
Countries don’t have rights to exist. Especially when all their right were gained at gunpoint.
Humans have rights to exist.
I understand what you’re trying to say, but countries do more often than not represent a certain group of Peoples.
For instance Taiwan has a right to exist. But maybe it’s just the phrasing.
Taiwanese People have the right to their own country and identity. Although I think in practical terms the phrasing makes no difference.
Taiwan calls themselves “The Republic of China”, and officially supports reunification.
More of these lists they show more than anything else what the politician supports.
He’s built a mountain of bullshit.
I don’t object to shitting on Jeffries but calling him AIPAC Shakur feels very racist. Leave the racism to the zionists
I don’t agree with the name either. He’s a black man from Brooklyn, if anything it should be “Mossad Def” lol
Oh see now this is quality shittalk
No , it not . He is called aipac shakur because 2pac and aipac words sound alike , that’s all.
Edit : the joke originate from a black person
Don’t forget that Jeffries is often adding dumb middle school level raps to his public speeches. Calling him a fake, corporate, disingenuous Tupac Shakur wannabe fits perfectly.
Are you calling Charlamagne tha God racist?
https://newrepublic.com/post/199696/charlamagne-tha-god-hakeem-jeffries-aipac-nickname
Ah yes ☝️excuse me sir 🕵️ one Mr Charlamagne The God calls black people the N-word on occasion, therefore as you can see I 👆, a very intelligent 🫴 Lemmy user, am also permitted to use the N-word poste haste and without social penalty☝️
Don’t accuse people of racism when you don’t get the joke
What specifically is racist about it
Would it feel the same if you called Schumer AIPAC Shakur? Like, I get the reference to AIPAC, but the reference to (Tupac) Shakur is less obvious. The only relevance I can see is that Hakeem and Tupac are both black.
That’s not everything, just the shit you, quite rightly, disapprove of.
I am not saying Jeffries is a good pick at all, but this is (somewhat semantic) nonsense.
Nobody ever said it was everything. Your argument doesn’t even have the merits of being pedantic. It’s just irrelevant and pointless.
Do you know what semantic means?
It’s not non-sense. A representatives voting record is the proof behind what they stand for.
If you want to post the positive things that Jeffries has voted for, go right ahead.
This is a list of things none of Congress should have voted for, but did.
Don’t tell me you’re a good person because you feed the homeless… and then go home to beat your wife…
As I said, this is not everything he voted for. He made lots of other votes that you may agree with, but we can’t list that when calling him a bad, bad, little incompetent man.
I don’t support Jeffries. He still has to go, and I agree this needs to happen for any meaningful change, but this whole post is a bad look.
What’s a bad look about it?
Not sure what you are refering as non sense
He voted for lots of things beside these bills.
It is not everything he voted for. You are cherry picking the bad stuff to insult him.
Again, I agree with you. I just don’t like the framing of the title and the title alone.
You are minimizing fucking supporting genocide . Those are not just bad things , those are evil things.
No, I am not. I am saying he has other accomplishments. They do not outweigh the evil things.
If they don’t outweigh the evil things than it is useless to mention them
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