40 Preview - Hip Hoprisy (This Is America / McCain Funeral)

Minion Death Cult

Alexander Edward

Dsa, Leftwing, Comedy, Democraticsocialism, Rightwing, News, Communism, Politics, Cringe, Socialism

4.4 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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This week the Cult covers the plethora of bad takes around the music video for Childish Gambino's "This Is America," including such gems as:

"Black people care about police shootings but dont care when their friend kills 5 people over an argument."

and

"How come this music video has to be from a black person's perspective?"

also:

We cover the single most animating incident on the right wing this week: John McCain denying Donald Trump an invite to his own funeral. It's basically 300 comments of Deplorables telling John McCain, decorated POW, to burn in hell.

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0:00.0	Yeah, the premium episode is like the, uh, the wet start you do, uh, in your fighter jet to show off your moves that end up incinerating 134 of your, uh, fellow shipmates.
0:12.7	Jesus.
0:13.4	And, uh, streamline you toward, uh, a career in politics.
0:20.0	This is a typical path.
0:22.4	That happened on a Thursday, I think.
0:24.4	Yeah.
0:24.9	That's what they call that day.
0:28.4	It's Black Thursday.
0:29.4	Bloody Thursday.
0:30.6	That's it.
0:31.3	Yeah.
0:31.7	Yeah.
0:32.3	So today we're talking about Childish Gambino.
0:35.5	This is America.
0:43.6	And all the very interesting, well, just the interesting video itself.
0:51.2	And the interesting array of reactions to it, it set the internet of fire.
0:56.0	There is an entire economy right now built around explaining this music video. Yeah, the ads in those comments section
0:59.7	like on the sidebars of those comment. Oh, were there?
1:02.5	No, those are like the part of the economy. That's how the money's getting generated.
1:05.8	Sure. I'm just talking about the like
1:08.3	3,000
1:09.9	freelance writers doing explainers for Vox and
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