Are juggalos still considered a terrorist organization?
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The endorsement I've been waiting for
by the terms of the juggalo-furry alliance, the furs are called to also vote
We been on the block to vote. Republicans have nipped at us one too many times and many many of us are LGBT. 😤
They live in a society
This will almost assuredly get her more votes than literally all of the press and air time Cheney has offered her.
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This is going to give my Trump-loving prepper brother in law an aneurysm.
Can you post a video?
Whoop Whoop
"According to the National Gang Intelligence Center, there are more than one million self-proclaimed Juggalos across the United States. It is estimated that 85–90% of self-described Juggalos are peaceful, non-criminal music fans. The other 10–15% make up the Juggalo subculture's criminal element"
a million.
Those are impressive numbers. Sincerely, I'm sure I never hear about them because they're so well behaved.
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Are they still figuring out how magnets work?
If Richard Feynman can't explain it in a way he's satisfied with himself, I'm okay with rapping clowns being open about not understanding it.
Hell ya, I always send the Feynman video about this when it comes up. What a great communicator.
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ICP for the win!!! Hopefully that resonates with GenX.
I think the ICP fans include at least as many millennials, maybe even more
I can only think of two times I've seen ICP in pop culture, once with their whole magnets thing, and once on Workaholics which is a heavily millennial show.
Makes sense. Millennial generation starts with people born in 1981, and ICP became big in the late 90s. So millennials were the teenagers when ICP hit big. I doubt many people in their 20's and 30's were jumping on the ICP train.
It would be weird if they didn't lol
Damn, I have a new found respect for the posse.
Juggalos are surprisingly decent, given their image. I may not be down with the clown, myself, but they're alright
I haven't exactly spent a lot of time in Juggalo circles, but the few I have met have all been great people, the types of people who would literally give you the shirt off their back without a second thought. Generally not the brightest bulbs out there, but they also tend to be the rare type of person who can recognize that about themselves and are willing to seek out and listen to people who are more knowledgeable (unless we're talking about scientists and magnets) which is actually pretty amazing, that's not a common quality to find in any group of people
I generally kind of think of juggalos as those kids in school who were a little too weird to be "normal" kids, and not smart enough to be "nerds" some of them have some issues, maybe more than average, but most of them are just trying to get by with what they've got.
They've also started to become the adults in the room sometimes. I'm not sad to see it, but it feels weird.
As for women’s rights, he believes in them (“they have the right to be the fuckin’ shit”), and as for environmental conservation, he thinks its time humans get over their superiority complex, saying, “Let me tell you what a superior animal is: a whale.”
American politics are so fucked that actual clowns have become the voice of reason.
ICP on the right side of history
Isn't that a bit late? I'm 36 and ICP seemed like a thing for the age bracket above me growing up. Or did the whole magnets meme push their demo to a lower age bracket or something?
some artists pick up new fans with every generation. see also: michael jackson, the beatles, ozzy, hendrix, slayer, etc.
it's kind of hilarious to me, being a 80s/90s kid, that of all the acts that were HUGE in the 90s (collective soul, smashing pumpkins, alanis morrisete, REM, etc), ICP is one of the few still in the news
I mean, as a GenXer it kinda makes sense to me that the biggest GenX bands are not about trying to stay in headlines. 🤷♂️
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The good weird tho, gotta discriminate
Speaking with comedian Troy Iwata for a recent segment on The Daily Show, Violent J confirmed that Harris is his preferred pick for the White House, saying “I want her to win because she’s a Democrat, and I love my mom.”
Say what you want about Juggalos, but this is likely to get Kamala significant votes.
More than Dick Cheney or Lizzo (look up the lawsuits from last year if you don't know).
I'd even say this is bigger than Eminem the other day. Juggalos are a very close knit group, and if Violent J says vote, they're gonna vote.
Edit:
The Daily Show segment
That’s fresh.
Especially since the juggalo crowd is by and large rurally based, they overlap a large generally Republican Voting demographic.
haha, that's a pretty good segment.
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