Cops asked the jury for millions after Afroman used raid footage in music videos.
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Afroman keeps trolling cops after winning “Lemon Pound Cake” defamation case
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Good, fuck them dumb cops. They always think they can do anything and get away with it. They need to fucking know they have to follow the law instead of following their butthurt....
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They say exercise is good for the body, mind, and soul.
So I recommend you exercise your rights as much as your lefts.
So I recommend you exercise your rights as much as your lefts.
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In other news, the fact that the officer's mama does not in fact REALLY sit around the house when she sits around the house is also not defamatory.
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Lol, after the news yesterday all his videos were popping on the algorithms last night.
Catchy hits like:
-- "Will You Help Me Repair My Door?"
-- "Why You Disconnecting My Video Camera?"
Gotta hand it to the guy. He didn't half-ass throwin shade.
Catchy hits like:
-- "Will You Help Me Repair My Door?"
-- "Why You Disconnecting My Video Camera?"
Gotta hand it to the guy. He didn't half-ass throwin shade.
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As they should be. Actions have consequences. You don't get to not be judged by the public just because you were given a vest and a gun.
The bit about the cop testifying that Afroman sleeping with his wife was defamation was particularly funny to see on video. He took the stand, was asked if his wife was fucking Afroman, to which he should have said no if he was claiming defamation (which requires the statement to be false). He straight up said "I don't know."
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Terrible cops aside, what is going on with so many black celebs going MAGA? I'm asking this as a serious question as a white guy who does not understand. Just raw power-seeking? A "fuck you" to liberals who carry their own brand of racism? Something else?
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I'm glad he won the case, but let's be clear: this never should have gone to trial, and the raid never should have happened in the first place. The only justice here is that which could be paid for.
And after all that Afroman is still MAGA.
And after all that Afroman is still MAGA.
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Afroman, take the motherfucking stand
Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth
And nothing but the truth so help your black ass?
You goddamn right
Well, won't you tell everybody what the fuck you gotta say?
Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth
And nothing but the truth so help your black ass?
You goddamn right
Well, won't you tell everybody what the fuck you gotta say?
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It's hard for me to imagine how someone could both be stupid enough and have bad enough lawyers to directly tank their own case this badly. Granted, they didn't have much of case to start with, but....
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As always: Don't eff with crazy.
They thought he wasn't serious but he is dead serious about not being serious.
Seriously.
They thought he wasn't serious but he is dead serious about not being serious.
Seriously.
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...who really hoped to make a comeback performing his thigh-slapping ditty about Hunter Biden's drug problems at Trump rallies.
...who hilariously called the cops pedophiles and threw in some super-funny bonus homophobia.
Sure, he should have won, and sure, the cops were in the wrong and disgusting. I just don't get the unabashed celebration of this victory. Maybe not everyone read the entire article?
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They're entirely used to breezing through the legal system on lies and arrogance with absolutely zero consequences. They're cops.
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Have you met many cops? They're usually pretty used to getting away with pretending whatever they say is law because they spend all day on that side of a power imbalance.
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I mean, it is worth celebrating. That Afroman fucking sucks as a person doesn't diminish or justify overreach by the state.
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This odd contradictory behavior isn't limited to black celebs; several leftist friends of mine voted for Trump. Why? For a variety of reasons but they all boil down to "Biden and Kamala didn't 100% perfectly solve <insert single issue here> so Trump must be the better choice":
- they thought Biden was terrible for Palestine so they voted for Trump (the irony being that he never wanted anything more than to wipe Palestinians off the planet and build hotels with gaudy statues of himself on the Gaza strip)
- they thought Biden didn't do enough to stop the war on Ukraine (not sure how they thought Trump would help here, he has never said anything other than "let Russia do whatever the hell they want")
- they thought Biden was terrible on inflation (again, the irony being that Trump's a billionaire and doesn't give two shits how much anything costs because it's all peanuts to him and his warmongering friends)
- they thought Biden didn't do anything to lower gas prices so they voted for Trump (and now we're recreating the 1970s oil crisis by bombing Iran and spiraling Venezuela into chaos)
There's more here but it really is kind of a simple pattern. Personally I've lost faith that liberals can ever break out of this vicious self-defeating cycle of purity-testing candidates and whining when evil people run the world.
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I love that one of them is distraught because he is now called "Pound Cake" by his coworkers.
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I had never heard anything about this case, the songs, or even Afroman before reading this article. I found it amusing and was going to lookup the songs until I got to this part:
I really don't like how such a serious thing has become a casual insult that people throw around. Thanks, Elon? I'm also not a fan of the other nickname and innuendo either. It really threw cold water on what is otherwise an amusing story.
I really don't like how such a serious thing has become a casual insult that people throw around. Thanks, Elon? I'm also not a fan of the other nickname and innuendo either. It really threw cold water on what is otherwise an amusing story.
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The lawsuit was filed by the individual cops personally, not by the government. So the lawsuit is not overreach by the state. It's overreach by a bunch of arrogant idiots who happen to work for the government and almost certainly shouldn't, but the government (specifically a judge) shut it down.
The initial raid might have been (local) government overreach, but I don't remember the details there, and that's not what the lawsuit is about.
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Yeah, this exactly.
Afroman can take whatever political position he likes. Fine with me. He still doesn't deserve to have his house raided on flimsy or false pretenses, never mind just outright incompetence, and he does have every right to use his freedom of speech to call out the yahoos that did that.
Law enforcement far too often gets away with crap like this, in many cases causing even more lasting harm than here, injuring or killing people or confiscating property or money from a completely innocent person (in the latter case, then arguing that it would have to be the property or money itself suing to be released and since property or money isn't a person and so can't file a suit, there's no recourse).
So, yeah...I will celebrate every rare victory over bad policing, no matter who the victim was. Just because I disagree with them politically doesn't mean they deserve to get screwed over. If I'm happy when the law doesn't protect someone I disagree with, I don't have a leg to stand on if bad policing unfairly targets me and people I disagree with don't defend me.
It's all about what kind of society we want to live in. I want to live in a society where everyone has equal protection under the law, is safe from bad policing, and has the right to call out bad policing whether it happens to them or someone else. That's necessarily going to include MAGA people too.
(edit: "safe from bad policing")
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Wrong forum. The Apple vs. Epic story was a long time ago.
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Excellent. I do enjoy stories where assholes with power are put in their place.
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You're right, they're not technically acting in their capacity as the state, but it's still a good thing that Afroman won the case. Also, unless I'm misunderstanding which case you're referring to, this one was "shut down" by a jury verdict, not the judge.
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So? These dumbfuck cops sued Afroman for mocking their wrongful raid on his house, which the court just found was his right as free speech. Also Afroman says $400 was stolen in the raid, which they didn't even sue him over even while they tried to censor him over even less serious accusations.
It's tough to be some cops. Under MAGA fascism it's less tough times to be a fascist cop for many. Though Afroman just made that harder for these.
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Fuck them.
I'm pretty rabidly anti-Trump, and I thought that the Herman Cain awards were a generally hilarious example of just desserts, but people who appear to believe that you should only celebrate principled wins when the people involved are pure as the driven snow, even in unrelated things, can fuck the hell off.
That someone overcame a crew of The Police that thought that they were above public criticism and insult is stellar. That Afroman had the stubbornness to fight it through to the end is admirable. That Afroman might support Donald Trump doesn't detract from that, it merely means that I shouldn't blindly follow the leanings of a minor celebrity. Don't worry, I won't.
I don't see people putting Afroman up for leadership or sainthood, I see them celebrating someone kicking The Man in the teeth after The Man messed with them. The man and the object lesson are two different things.
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One can celebrate the victory without celebrating the victor. Sportsball fans do this all the time when they celebrate a sportsball team they don't like winning at sportsball over a team they don't like more. Same same.
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Except the prosecutor declined to do anything. IIRC, they are all still employed by their various departments. Other than a popular rapper lampooning them and some social consequences, they have not, in fact, been held to account legally.
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