<story><title>Kanye West is buying Parler</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/17/23408443/kanye-west-ye-parler-free-speech-social-media-platform</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qq66</author><text>&amp;gt; Mostly I just know of him because he&amp;#x27;s a very public asshole. Much like his wife.&lt;p&gt;By &amp;quot;his wife&amp;quot; do you mean his ex-wife Kim Kardashian? If so, in what ways is she an asshole?</text></item><item><author>spywaregorilla</author><text>As someone who doesn&amp;#x27;t listen to much rap &amp;#x2F; hip hop, and can only name his cover (adaptation?) of Stronger, I do know who Kanye is. I don&amp;#x27;t know anything about his music. Mostly I just know of him because he&amp;#x27;s a very public asshole. Much like his wife.&lt;p&gt;I find it basically impossible to empathize with him. I just wouldn&amp;#x27;t ever be in that situation. &amp;quot;Rising against adversity&amp;quot; is not the story I&amp;#x27;d be be using here so much as just a typical strongman bravado leading to an absolute disconnect from reality.&lt;p&gt;I would wager greatly that it&amp;#x27;s not that he&amp;#x27;s grown cynical to people saying he can&amp;#x27;t do something, but that he&amp;#x27;s become delusional from people telling him a genius. People who convince themselves that they&amp;#x27;re smart do this thing where they have an idea, and conclude that because they&amp;#x27;ve come up with it and they&amp;#x27;re smart that it must be a well reasoned idea.</text></item><item><author>Taylor_OD</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s sad because to become successful Kanye had to ignore hundreds&amp;#x2F;thousands of important people telling him he wasnt good enough and he would never make it as a rapper. Then he became, arguably, the most popular rapper&amp;#x2F;hip hop artist of all time.&lt;p&gt;Now image you&amp;#x27;ve done what seems impossible despite countless people telling you it wont work out. You are in the top 1% of fame. Now someone tells you your other ideas are wrong. And that you cant actually achieve x goal. And that you don&amp;#x27;t know what you are talking about when you talk about y. And that you are sick and need to take meds to fix yourself.&lt;p&gt;Would you believe them? Or would you believe yourself?&lt;p&gt;I think Kanye is sick and needs help but I can see almost anyone falling into the exact same trap hes fallen into if they lived his life.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is really a story about a celebrity&amp;#x27;s mental illness and public breakdown. If you haven&amp;#x27;t been following the news, West has spent the week saying increasingly unhinged things, not just about politics but about Pete Davidson, his wife, and (if I&amp;#x27;m remembering right) his kids and the fake actor children that have been installed in his former home to corrupt them. He was interviewed for a show on Fox and a big chunk of what he said was edited out and later leaked; the &amp;quot;people at the Gap&amp;quot; knew about Uvalde, Kanye is now a Black Hebrew Israelite, &amp;amp;c. He&amp;#x27;s quite evidently sick, and these Parler people are scamming him.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cwkoss</author><text>She&amp;#x27;s a no-talent clown who bought her way into the public view with nepotistic wealth.  She heavily uses photoshop on her pictures, and then sells beauty products to insecure young women to profit off the insecurities her digital media team helped manufacture. Her brand is basically just &amp;#x27;stupid and rich&amp;#x27; - not someone I&amp;#x27;d ever want any of the young women I care about to idolize.  Her fame is a shame of American society: her rise is emblematic of the shift, away from talent, to wealth being the primary factor in modern cultural prominence.</text></comment>
<story><title>Kanye West is buying Parler</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/17/23408443/kanye-west-ye-parler-free-speech-social-media-platform</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qq66</author><text>&amp;gt; Mostly I just know of him because he&amp;#x27;s a very public asshole. Much like his wife.&lt;p&gt;By &amp;quot;his wife&amp;quot; do you mean his ex-wife Kim Kardashian? If so, in what ways is she an asshole?</text></item><item><author>spywaregorilla</author><text>As someone who doesn&amp;#x27;t listen to much rap &amp;#x2F; hip hop, and can only name his cover (adaptation?) of Stronger, I do know who Kanye is. I don&amp;#x27;t know anything about his music. Mostly I just know of him because he&amp;#x27;s a very public asshole. Much like his wife.&lt;p&gt;I find it basically impossible to empathize with him. I just wouldn&amp;#x27;t ever be in that situation. &amp;quot;Rising against adversity&amp;quot; is not the story I&amp;#x27;d be be using here so much as just a typical strongman bravado leading to an absolute disconnect from reality.&lt;p&gt;I would wager greatly that it&amp;#x27;s not that he&amp;#x27;s grown cynical to people saying he can&amp;#x27;t do something, but that he&amp;#x27;s become delusional from people telling him a genius. People who convince themselves that they&amp;#x27;re smart do this thing where they have an idea, and conclude that because they&amp;#x27;ve come up with it and they&amp;#x27;re smart that it must be a well reasoned idea.</text></item><item><author>Taylor_OD</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s sad because to become successful Kanye had to ignore hundreds&amp;#x2F;thousands of important people telling him he wasnt good enough and he would never make it as a rapper. Then he became, arguably, the most popular rapper&amp;#x2F;hip hop artist of all time.&lt;p&gt;Now image you&amp;#x27;ve done what seems impossible despite countless people telling you it wont work out. You are in the top 1% of fame. Now someone tells you your other ideas are wrong. And that you cant actually achieve x goal. And that you don&amp;#x27;t know what you are talking about when you talk about y. And that you are sick and need to take meds to fix yourself.&lt;p&gt;Would you believe them? Or would you believe yourself?&lt;p&gt;I think Kanye is sick and needs help but I can see almost anyone falling into the exact same trap hes fallen into if they lived his life.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is really a story about a celebrity&amp;#x27;s mental illness and public breakdown. If you haven&amp;#x27;t been following the news, West has spent the week saying increasingly unhinged things, not just about politics but about Pete Davidson, his wife, and (if I&amp;#x27;m remembering right) his kids and the fake actor children that have been installed in his former home to corrupt them. He was interviewed for a show on Fox and a big chunk of what he said was edited out and later leaked; the &amp;quot;people at the Gap&amp;quot; knew about Uvalde, Kanye is now a Black Hebrew Israelite, &amp;amp;c. He&amp;#x27;s quite evidently sick, and these Parler people are scamming him.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enragedcacti</author><text>On the flip she has been doing a lot of advocacy for prison reform and is apprenticing to become a lawyer in California, seemingly to that end.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;arts&amp;#x2F;television&amp;#x2F;kim-kardashian-prison-reform.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;arts&amp;#x2F;television&amp;#x2F;kim-karda...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>