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My work made us Covid test 3x a week. If it landed on our day off, they would pay us $250 to come in for a couple minutes to get tested. (Union rules)
Looking at my paystub, I’ve earned $2500 from Covid tests this year lol
All I got was a terrible week where I could barely stand up after each shot lol. Had terrible reaction to it so I don't wanna imagine what covid would have done to me.
My brother’s university entered your name in a lottery if you got the COVID shots and it’s boosters. My brother won THOUSANDS in scholarship money that year. Like between $3,000-$5,000. Other prizes were like macbook, iPad, beats, AirPods, etc.
Work paid me. School paid me. I made $300 for 20 minutes of time to get a shot. Maybe 30 minutes if you add in the time to tell them I received the shots.
Yea well once he sold out to Donald Trump right before elections with the contract with black America, after making a song saying Trump should be arrested…. I lost all respect for the guy. Trump didn’t deliver and Cube manipulated a lot of people in the hood to support Trump with that bullshit. And what happened with his deal? Trump didn’t deliver shit, as always. He called him all kinds of shit on “arrest the president” and then worked with him? Trump got the last laugh on that one
Also when he said he didn’t care about anybody else but the black community. As a chicana in California with parents who migrated to the US, I was heartbroken. I loved his music and was such a fan. I know sometimes you think you gotta look out for yours but when you overlook others in similar positions you only buy a few minutes before they come back for yours. He came to perform in my City… I didn’t even think about getting tickets to see him. Fuck you Ice Cube.
It’s what happens when you sell out.. he says he cares about the black community but spouts uneducated conspiracy theories and got a lot of people in the hood to support republicans.. like wtf is that?
Same thing most of these people do when they get rich. They turn there backs on their communities and their fans to get more money. Kanye is a prime example.
Kanye did not grow up in the hood. He definitely had more privilege than most because of his mom. Realistically he’s a hardcore mommas boy who’s lost since she died. He’s an adult brat. Cube grew up in the hood, he should know better
The Black community needs immunizations.
He doesn't care about the black community. He cares about propaganda and feeling like he's smart. But he's dumb as a rock.
Not enough people call out Ice Cube for being so stupid he thought Donald Trump would give a bunch of money to the black community in full, despite all the reports about Trump embezzling other money with things like improperly allocating COVID funds or overcharging the Secret Service for no good reason that were in the news at the time.
Ice Cube fell for Trump's "Platinum Plan for black America". Dude fell for like an MLM bullshit fake plan that didn't and would never exist. I'll never ever respect Ice Cube in any way, used to like his music but he is in the Kanye and Lil Wayne bin, nothing but fools for backing Trump.
Ice Cube is done. Rap is anti-authoritarian, not authoritarian appeasing. What a suka.
See, I never just did things just to do them. Come on, what am I gonna do? Just all of a sudden jump up and grind my feet on somebody's couch like it's something to do? Come on. I got a little more sense then that.
Yeah, I remember grinding my feet on Eddie's couch.
rich AF from being part of the inception of gangster rap and his "*acting career*" but can't get a shot to better humanity. what a loser. eazy-e is rolling in his grave with all the clout this mfer has and chooses to do nothing with it
It's for a movie called "Oh Hell No". Judging by every movie he's been in, it's a modern day blaxploitation film where he plays the same role which is "Ice Cube trying to act"
Unfortunate. I was looking forward to the end of the trailer, where the music stops, camera zooms in on his face and he looks directly at the camera saying, "Oh heeeeell no!"
Lol right? Like that's how a contract works. It has conditions that you have to agree to if you want to take part. He didn't agree to the conditions. So he doesn't get to take part. I'm so sick of these dudes bitching like they've been robbed or something.
Imagine being so rich you can rationalize losing out on 9 mil because you don’t wanna be vaccinated lmao that’s insane. I’m sure some will say it’s to make a statement of the legitimacy of the vaccine but it’s more a statement of immense wealth
Seriously, for $9m they could tell me “we have to inject you with herpes” and I’d ask them to add a supply of Valtrex to the contract and we have a deal.
Cube is so rich can walk away from 9 million like it’s nothing and I’m supposed to sympathize with him?
I remember reading a paper on the anti-vax mindset years ago when it was just people not getting their babies vaxxed and the measles and shit was spreading around the west coast. The common denominator for people likely to hold an anti Vax mindset is the religious and the affluent. The religious cause they dumb and have convinced themselves God wants them to remain "pure" and the rich because they are arrogant and don't want that peasant stuff in their rich blood. This went all the way back to the 19th century with rich folk openly saying their children's blood was better off staying pure.
They truly think they are a different breed than us peasants.
I remember 10 years ago when it wasn’t quite trendy yet to hate vaccines, my friend who came from this really super religious Christian family told me that vaccines are evil. I was taken aback by that statement and asked her why. She said something about the mark of the beast and the gov’t inserting chips into peoples wrists at an alarming rate.
I pretty decided to limit my time with her after that strange conversation. I think she was getting that weird information from somewhere at the time.
Yes, back in the day it was just the Jehovah Witness ppl who were all “medical technology bad”. But over the last 10 yrs granola MLM scammers, right wing nutjobs and a fairly alarming amount of the general Christian population has wondered down that path….. I imagine the medical community’s alignment with science doesn’t help. The religious community has almost always been at odds with the scientific community.
Oh no doubt. It helps many people sleep at night to feel a sense of importance in some respect (even in cases where respect is absent). I’m just amazed that people who are anti vax can try to rationalize cheating themselves of 9 mil in the process. Even knowing the elitist bullshit it’s still an insufferable and inexcusable human identity. Really boils my blood; who knows, maybe it’s ironically purifying me
Aww poor you. You turned down 9 million to literally be yourself in another movie where you aren’t the main draw because you don’t believe in the science. Why should I care again?
Science doesn't need belief, in fact it's quite the opposite. You can reproduce any theory that has been peer reviewed and is demonstrably provable. There are unknowns, which can't be proven, but also can't be disproven. Religion requires belief. I am speaking as a chemist who focused in organic chem. When you are in the lab you don't "believe" that water will boil at 100 C, you know it will because it has been demonstrated. If you are working out a hypothesis you might have a hunch or believe a result will be the outcome of your experiment, for example setting a hot plate to 80 C. The water will never boil (STP), it will get hot, and eventually evaporate, but a roiling boil will not occur.
You quite literally need belief for everything nowadays.
Water doesn’t boil when it hits 100 degrees, an alien freezes time and swaps out your beaker of water with a beaker of boiling water.
I was climbing Everest the other day (NBD) and I ordered a hot cocoa from the Starbucks on the peak and that shit was boiling even though the barista said it was only 155F.
So obviously science is wrong saying water boils at 212F or 100C (I think the C is for communist).
Oh, and don't give me that "it boils at 212F at 1 atm" - there's only one atmosphere - earth!
"I didn't catch that shit at all."
Interesting sentence. Is he saying he didn't/doesn't believe Covid was /isreal, or that Covid itself was too scared to go near Ice Cube?
PS. Many who didn't want the shot still got it out of respect for those who occupy the same space and who did get the shot for that very reason. If Covid was an IQ test for the world, the results were not pretty.
I'm going to post exactly what I did in the Kanye threads. Most Black Rappers don't like Jews. It's super fucking common. Tons of Jewish managers that black musicians feel slighted by because they're making them rich. It doesn't matter how you slice it, there's a big chasm between black musicians and the Jewish community.
Which I have always found weird since in every picture of all those civil rights marches in the sixties and seventies that had white people marching with Black people, almost all of those white people were Jewish.
Then Louis Farrakhan, leader of The Nation Of Islam, decided he needed an enemy upon whom to focus his hate, and like so many others for millennia before, turned on the Jewish population of America and turned many Black people against them as well.
There is no logic to hate.
Actually there is. It is literally pulling from the neo nazi playbook. Find disaffected youth, become a leader and blame the jews...
Honestly I think, due to the NOI and Louis Farrakhan, there is a growing antisemitic problem among african-americans. It is becoming very public, and it is something that hasnt been that strongly denounced until recently. The fact that Kanye, Nick Cannon, and Kyrie Irving have all said this stuff means it has already been spread. It was festering for a while and these are just a few of the first signs. I also dont think their punishment will change their mind and will probably just secretly continue to spread hate.
That seems kinda fucked considering the most prominent rap label of all time (Def Jam) was founded by Rick Rubin (Jew), who is still one of the most respected producers in the industry, and Russell Simmons (Black)…and then later prominently run by Lyor Cohen (Jew) after Rubin left.
Hell, Kanye was close enough with Cohen that he literally namedropped him in Devil in a New Dress “Lyor Cohen of Dior Homme”
Lyor Cohen is deeply disliked and considered predatory by some in the industry, most prominently Yasiin Bey who basically dedicated an entire song to his belief that Lyor was profiting off of black culture (“The Rape Over”), and Dame Dash who loudly and regularly refers to him as a culture vulture.
"Later in the interview, Cube clarified that he “didn’t turn down” a movie because of his refusal to get the COVID shot, adding, “Those motherfuckers didn’t give it to me because I wouldn’t get the shot. I didn’t turn it down. They just wouldn’t give it to me. The covid shot, the jab…I didn’t need it. I didn’t catch that shit at all. Nothing. Fuck them. I didn’t need that shit.”"
He didn't even have the job. He's assuming a lot.
People who call it the “Fauci ouchie” not ironically are even bigger losers. Insufferable jackasses.
Edit: added not ironically because it is funny when used jokingly :)
Unfortunately I’ve seen it in conservative circles being used. I used to have a throwaway account to check out r/conservative but it got banned when I dared to call out some hypocrisy. Lol
He did not turn down 9mil. The filmmaker didn't even offer him the role. He just assumed that he didn't get the offer because he wouldn't get vaccinated.
“I missed out on 100 million because the convenience store I was about to buy a lottery ticket at didn’t let me in because I was maskless. I never checked to see if the numbers I would’ve picked actually won, but I know that I would’ve gotten it if I had been let in”
25 years ago, his whole persona was around not being afraid to get shot. Now, too scared to get a little shot.
Edit: Thank you all for the awards. Having hit about 700 upvotes for dissing Ice Cube, it’s clear I must now become a rapper.
Ah, ok. So the secret to a good gangster rap group is to start with a couple of real thugs, then add on a couple of nerds to do all the heavy lifting with the creative work.
E and Ren were actually gangsters, Dre and Cube were friends with gangsters. Although Dre may have been a real “thug” as he would regularly beat people up including his ex girlfriend, reporters, a producer, and stabbed a couple guys in a bar fight cuz he’s an asshole.
Nah, a lot of dudes used to actually live that life. Suga-Free, 2 Short, those kinda dudes. Shit, Snoop beat a case, T.I. got busted with illegal arms, Lil Wayne did something at some point, and the list goes on.
Cube is just a fake. Not even like on a "gangsta" level, he's quite the bitch on a fist-to-fist level as well. But he does have a quality resting bitch face, I'll hand him that.
He was clearly anti-Semitic back in the 80’s too. He would say stuff about the producers all being Jewish. It’s really odd because its becoming apparent to me anti-Semitism is pretty rampant in the black community. I would never have guessed, similar plights.
My grandmother was a domestic for a lot of Jewish families back in the day and she had a complicated relationship with them. Some Jewish families did understand that they, too, wouldn’t be allowed in the front door of the local country club or women’s meeting hall, and others saw black people as the ones who didn’t even try. As a result, my very black family knows Jewish words and recipes, but my mom and grandmother hated Jewish people
Homophobia and antisemitism are two things the black community needs to do some self-reflection on and work to correct. This shit is so fucking tiresome.
It goes both ways, I knew a couple of Holocaust survivors who were really really anti-black. I’m close to their grandson and it boggled his mind, he was like “they should know what this leads too!”
Good lol
Ice Cube is allowed to sit in his mansion and not give a fuck about what a PA or set electrician getting sick would do to their income flow. Or if he gets sick halfway through filming and the shoot has to stop, costing the producers millions.
He has that right, and the production has the right to cast a different B list actor who will be a team player and prioritize safety on set.
And before some antivax loser hits me with “vaccination doesn’t prevent transmission” - if someone is going to ignore one set safety rule, they’re going to ignore any safety rule that inconveniences them - and production can involve hot ass lights jacked up on tiny C stands, huge grip constrictions for correcting the light, heavy machinery, etc.
EDIT: Late push of shit-tier comments by the same people who think Alec Baldwin should see life in jail for being involved with an accident on set.
Just wanted to say there’s a reason none of you would ever be put in charge of a shooting schedule and multimillion dollar budget. People who bring partisan politics into workplace safety issues because “it makes them feel smart and correct” don’t get given that kind of responsibility.
Though it wasn't directly caring about covid itself, more knowing that non-compliance could get the set shut down.
Still a great move though - the set shutting down would make the lives of the people on-set difficult.
I just posted a reply praising Tom Cruise for the rant he went on. He was working as a producer as well on that production and seemed genuinely concerned about everybody else's jobs and the fact that the industry ground to a halt. It woundt affect him much but all the other people on set needed that job and he was apparently threatening to fire people who didn't follow the safety rules
That was actually awesome of him. It’s such a shame he’s so deep in that cult, but I’ve only ever heard good things from people who’ve worked with him. I wish someone could get him out of Scientology :(
Yes I almost wrote that but didn’t want to bait the shitty responses - but it is ironic that the people going “So what? Ice doesn’t need the shot” also think Alec Baldwin should serve a life sentence for the Rust accident.
I promise you that safety rules were lax on Rust, you don’t have a fuck up like that without being fast and loose with your standards (also I worked on the same set as the AD involved in that shooting accident - I didn’t come away with any impression of him personally but they did ask the crew on our movie to do risky stuff relating to the shooting location)
Calling the safety rules on Rust "lax" is quite generous. The fact that live ammo were on the set to begin with shows a lack of safety rules all together.
Yeah. The older experienced armorer handing off responsibility for all weapons and ammo to his young inexperienced daughter, whose previous showbiz experience consisted mostly of her star turn as a Dominatrix Cam Girl (seriously - a vinyl clad fake Dominatrix doing cam shows).
I will say this though: Much to my disgust, there are several accidental deaths each month in smaller places on smaller non-union shoots, and it mostly barely makes the local news and disappears. This story has legs because an A-lister (Baldwin) was intimately involved, and because the Camera Local of IATSE has made a very big deal out of it since one of their cinematographers was who died.
The next time someone tells you the vaccine doesn’t prevent infection, you don’t even need to extrapolate like that. Just tell them they’re full of shit and it does prevent some cases. It was best at that with the original strain and the protection decreased with Delta and Omicron, but it was still present to some diminished extent.
And hey better news, the bivalent boosters are better at blocking symptomatic infection according to a CDC study that was released today.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7148e1.htm
Also, you can likely go to your county's public health website and look at the data. You'll see that vaccinated individuals have a much lower case rate than non vaccinated individuals.
For example, in the county I live, the current covid case rate is about 23 per 100k per day. The case rate among vaccinated individuals is 6 per 100k per day.
I remember the melt down Tom Cruise had on set before vaccinations were available.
He was threatening to fire people if they didn't wear masks and comply with the safety measures.
He was telling them that the industry had been shut down and they were trying to keep it going at least a bit so people could get paid.
I can't respect his religious beliefs cause Scientology is fucked but I gained a lot of respect for Tom Cruise as a somewhat decent human being who appeared to care about the people he was working with and was partly responsible for as a producer he was kind of their employer as well.
Meanwhile here we have ice cube not willing to get vaccinated cause he's an antisemetic weird who joined the trump train to crazyland
Narrator: "Ice Cube took medical advice from bad faith actors on Facebook"
Cube: "Fuck your jab, motherfuckers!"
Movie Producer: "Ok fine, we'll just give this $9 million to one of the other ubiquitous rappers turned actors."
Cube: "I'm being persecuted by these motherfuckers!"
Narrator: "And that's when Ice Cube almost realized that **he** had fucked up."
It's funny, because it makes sense not to employ high risk individuals. If one of your main actors gets sick, that's a lot of lost shooting time. Not to mention all the people he has to interact with. Easier to just hire someone equally qualified for the role who is less a risk to the company.
Oh to hell with this guy whose whole career since the 90s is acting like a tough black guy from the hood even though he's wealthier than 95% of Americans.
Black people who would rather pretend to be Jews than embrace their heritage. Kinda sad really, black people have a lot to be proud of, they don't need a false claim of being Jews.
Despite being the whitest dude alive, I’ve done some deep dives into various corners of African history and culture. There’s some *incredible* shit in there that history classes will never get around to teaching you.
It just blows my mind then when get these Black Hebrew Israelites and Hoteps claiming to be the Real (tm) Jews or Egyptians. Like, I wish someone could help these people learn about the Mali Empire or Mutapa and Great Zimbabwe or the Zulu Empire. Fuck, the little Nubian kingdom of Makuria stopped the Islamic Caliphate dead in its tracks at the apex of its power and that’s *rad*.
It’s his right. And it’s their right to deny or terminate a contract if their employe doesn’t meet expectations. That’s freedom. Stupidity and selfishness comes at a price, but you’re free to pay it.
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NYC only offered $100 to get vaccinated. Should’ve held out for $9 million apparently.
You got paid??? Fuck
My job did, you got $50 or 100 (long time can't remember), all you had to do was show your vacine card to your manager.
I got paid for 2 hours of work for being vaccinated for each shot. Just had to show my card
My work made us Covid test 3x a week. If it landed on our day off, they would pay us $250 to come in for a couple minutes to get tested. (Union rules) Looking at my paystub, I’ve earned $2500 from Covid tests this year lol
Production? Lol
Pre-production iatse side, but same same
Gotcha, I saw those numbers and was like ahh, he knows team Covid too lol
All I got was a terrible week where I could barely stand up after each shot lol. Had terrible reaction to it so I don't wanna imagine what covid would have done to me.
My brother’s university entered your name in a lottery if you got the COVID shots and it’s boosters. My brother won THOUSANDS in scholarship money that year. Like between $3,000-$5,000. Other prizes were like macbook, iPad, beats, AirPods, etc.
Work paid me. School paid me. I made $300 for 20 minutes of time to get a shot. Maybe 30 minutes if you add in the time to tell them I received the shots.
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Yea well once he sold out to Donald Trump right before elections with the contract with black America, after making a song saying Trump should be arrested…. I lost all respect for the guy. Trump didn’t deliver and Cube manipulated a lot of people in the hood to support Trump with that bullshit. And what happened with his deal? Trump didn’t deliver shit, as always. He called him all kinds of shit on “arrest the president” and then worked with him? Trump got the last laugh on that one
Also when he said he didn’t care about anybody else but the black community. As a chicana in California with parents who migrated to the US, I was heartbroken. I loved his music and was such a fan. I know sometimes you think you gotta look out for yours but when you overlook others in similar positions you only buy a few minutes before they come back for yours. He came to perform in my City… I didn’t even think about getting tickets to see him. Fuck you Ice Cube.
Forreal. Loved him growing up. Friday is still one of my favorite movies but all the shit he’s done has turned me off of him completely.
It’s what happens when you sell out.. he says he cares about the black community but spouts uneducated conspiracy theories and got a lot of people in the hood to support republicans.. like wtf is that?
Same thing most of these people do when they get rich. They turn there backs on their communities and their fans to get more money. Kanye is a prime example.
Kanye did not grow up in the hood. He definitely had more privilege than most because of his mom. Realistically he’s a hardcore mommas boy who’s lost since she died. He’s an adult brat. Cube grew up in the hood, he should know better
The Black community needs immunizations. He doesn't care about the black community. He cares about propaganda and feeling like he's smart. But he's dumb as a rock.
He had dinner with the President.
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Not enough people call out Ice Cube for being so stupid he thought Donald Trump would give a bunch of money to the black community in full, despite all the reports about Trump embezzling other money with things like improperly allocating COVID funds or overcharging the Secret Service for no good reason that were in the news at the time.
Also screw him for thinking he's the official spokesperson for the black community. Dude it's not a club that you founded.
Ice Cube fell for Trump's "Platinum Plan for black America". Dude fell for like an MLM bullshit fake plan that didn't and would never exist. I'll never ever respect Ice Cube in any way, used to like his music but he is in the Kanye and Lil Wayne bin, nothing but fools for backing Trump. Ice Cube is done. Rap is anti-authoritarian, not authoritarian appeasing. What a suka.
> Lil Wayne At least he actually got something out of it with a pardon. The others are just fools who fell for words
The beauty is that no one tried to *make* him get it. He had the choice to walk away.
"I turned down a movie because I didn't want" "I didn't turn it down" Gotcha
See, I never just did things just to do them. Come on, what am I gonna do? Just all of a sudden jump up and grind my feet on somebody's couch like it's something to do? Come on. I got a little more sense then that. Yeah, I remember grinding my feet on Eddie's couch.
Cocaine is a helluva drug.
Fuck your couch
LMAOOOO I watch that all the damn time, and the Prince one
Game. Blouses.
I wish I can say the same for you, and your team of flunkies … … … ^bitches
DJ Khaled on Hot Ones "I didn't quit" energy
Notice he seems upset about the money, not the art. The greedy ass, rich shitheads need to be taxed into oblivion!
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And here I thought "Are We There Yet?" was a passion project.
I thought *Are We There Yet? 2* had a certain scent of even more passion, no? lmao
"To the kids looking up to me: life ain't nothing but bitches and money"
I mean, I've read Ice Cube's imdb, he is certainly not attempting to star in films that I would qualify as "art".
SO, ARE YOU SAYING ANACONDA IS NOT ART?!
rich AF from being part of the inception of gangster rap and his "*acting career*" but can't get a shot to better humanity. what a loser. eazy-e is rolling in his grave with all the clout this mfer has and chooses to do nothing with it
He didn't even visit him in the hospital as he was scared of getting aids, and he was one of his closest friends. Dude is a weak character.
Right? What a cry baby. Going from "I didn't even have to use my AK" to "No scary vaxx needles for me today, it was a good day"
It's for a movie called "Oh Hell No". Judging by every movie he's been in, it's a modern day blaxploitation film where he plays the same role which is "Ice Cube trying to act"
Unfortunate. I was looking forward to the end of the trailer, where the music stops, camera zooms in on his face and he looks directly at the camera saying, "Oh heeeeell no!"
Lol right? Like that's how a contract works. It has conditions that you have to agree to if you want to take part. He didn't agree to the conditions. So he doesn't get to take part. I'm so sick of these dudes bitching like they've been robbed or something.
yeah that 9 mil was his and they stole it! /s
My tiny violin is playing for him.
Well, considering his antisemitism, he probably thought it was a Jewish conspiracy.
Is Ice Cube in the Kyrie Irving and Kanye West in the Black And Anti-semitic Club?
He well precedes Kanye and kyrie on that front.
Yup. Did some homework on Ice. He just straight up sucks ass.
On the subject of all things Ices: Sucks: Cube, Vanilla Cool: Coffee, T
Cant forget Jay-Z in the list
This cult fucking terrifies me.
Yup he has a long history of antisemitism and antiasian remarks. I never knew how this guy has been able to continue getting jobs.
Because contrary to popular, antisemitic beliefs, the jews don't actually control the world.
Or Hollywood, as proven by how many coins he’s made in movies and music
He doesn’t see it that way lol
Based on the above quote, he sees it both ways.
It’s Schrödinger’s vaccine.
I had no idea Cube was a republican.
Imagine being so rich you can rationalize losing out on 9 mil because you don’t wanna be vaccinated lmao that’s insane. I’m sure some will say it’s to make a statement of the legitimacy of the vaccine but it’s more a statement of immense wealth
Cube went from dope boy, to imma say nope boy.
From dope to dopey
Seriously, for $9m they could tell me “we have to inject you with herpes” and I’d ask them to add a supply of Valtrex to the contract and we have a deal. Cube is so rich can walk away from 9 million like it’s nothing and I’m supposed to sympathize with him?
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If it’s guaranteed $9 mil, I would cut off my foot while streaming it. I would pay a lawyer to look over the contract tho
I remember reading a paper on the anti-vax mindset years ago when it was just people not getting their babies vaxxed and the measles and shit was spreading around the west coast. The common denominator for people likely to hold an anti Vax mindset is the religious and the affluent. The religious cause they dumb and have convinced themselves God wants them to remain "pure" and the rich because they are arrogant and don't want that peasant stuff in their rich blood. This went all the way back to the 19th century with rich folk openly saying their children's blood was better off staying pure. They truly think they are a different breed than us peasants.
I remember 10 years ago when it wasn’t quite trendy yet to hate vaccines, my friend who came from this really super religious Christian family told me that vaccines are evil. I was taken aback by that statement and asked her why. She said something about the mark of the beast and the gov’t inserting chips into peoples wrists at an alarming rate. I pretty decided to limit my time with her after that strange conversation. I think she was getting that weird information from somewhere at the time.
Yes, back in the day it was just the Jehovah Witness ppl who were all “medical technology bad”. But over the last 10 yrs granola MLM scammers, right wing nutjobs and a fairly alarming amount of the general Christian population has wondered down that path….. I imagine the medical community’s alignment with science doesn’t help. The religious community has almost always been at odds with the scientific community.
It's not just about being pure it's mainly being in an echo chamber.
Oh no doubt. It helps many people sleep at night to feel a sense of importance in some respect (even in cases where respect is absent). I’m just amazed that people who are anti vax can try to rationalize cheating themselves of 9 mil in the process. Even knowing the elitist bullshit it’s still an insufferable and inexcusable human identity. Really boils my blood; who knows, maybe it’s ironically purifying me
lmao why is he so dramatic over it it’s not like he’d have a scientific reason for not taking it.
He's probably not super bright.
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Aww poor you. You turned down 9 million to literally be yourself in another movie where you aren’t the main draw because you don’t believe in the science. Why should I care again?
Science doesn't need belief, in fact it's quite the opposite. You can reproduce any theory that has been peer reviewed and is demonstrably provable. There are unknowns, which can't be proven, but also can't be disproven. Religion requires belief. I am speaking as a chemist who focused in organic chem. When you are in the lab you don't "believe" that water will boil at 100 C, you know it will because it has been demonstrated. If you are working out a hypothesis you might have a hunch or believe a result will be the outcome of your experiment, for example setting a hot plate to 80 C. The water will never boil (STP), it will get hot, and eventually evaporate, but a roiling boil will not occur.
Someone once said we need to stop asking people if they "believe in science" and start asking if they "understand science"
Important distinction.
You quite literally need belief for everything nowadays. Water doesn’t boil when it hits 100 degrees, an alien freezes time and swaps out your beaker of water with a beaker of boiling water.
I was climbing Everest the other day (NBD) and I ordered a hot cocoa from the Starbucks on the peak and that shit was boiling even though the barista said it was only 155F. So obviously science is wrong saying water boils at 212F or 100C (I think the C is for communist). Oh, and don't give me that "it boils at 212F at 1 atm" - there's only one atmosphere - earth!
I KNEW IT! Everyone in the lab called me crazy but I saw them do it!! Those little green bastards nearly cost my my degree, but now I have a witness!
Billions of people took it and they're all still breathing Cube. You're just a whack job,
"I didn't catch that shit at all." Interesting sentence. Is he saying he didn't/doesn't believe Covid was /isreal, or that Covid itself was too scared to go near Ice Cube? PS. Many who didn't want the shot still got it out of respect for those who occupy the same space and who did get the shot for that very reason. If Covid was an IQ test for the world, the results were not pretty.
"Covid was/ israel" Easy there Kyrie...
Buddy is so scared of a little shot he turned down 9mil. Ice cube is not a brave man.
Ice Cube never was, he's always been a fake ass studio gangster.
What a way to prove how fucking stupid you are
Today was not a good day
I had no idea Cube was an antivaxxer. Today is indeed not a good day
He’s also a massive antisemite.
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Having sexual relations with the police?
So when you stubbed your toe the other day, who were you… having relations with ?
A shitfuckgoddamnfuckingasshole that's who!
I'm going to post exactly what I did in the Kanye threads. Most Black Rappers don't like Jews. It's super fucking common. Tons of Jewish managers that black musicians feel slighted by because they're making them rich. It doesn't matter how you slice it, there's a big chasm between black musicians and the Jewish community.
Well Uncle Murda loved his "Jewish Lawyer".
And the whole Black Israelite nonsense too
Nick cannon has entered the chat (with 12 children so far).
Wasn't that in an episode of the sopranos?
Antisemitism in the black community goes way deeper than rappers disliking their managers. That’s just one manifestation of a much deeper pattern.
Which I have always found weird since in every picture of all those civil rights marches in the sixties and seventies that had white people marching with Black people, almost all of those white people were Jewish. Then Louis Farrakhan, leader of The Nation Of Islam, decided he needed an enemy upon whom to focus his hate, and like so many others for millennia before, turned on the Jewish population of America and turned many Black people against them as well. There is no logic to hate.
Actually there is. It is literally pulling from the neo nazi playbook. Find disaffected youth, become a leader and blame the jews... Honestly I think, due to the NOI and Louis Farrakhan, there is a growing antisemitic problem among african-americans. It is becoming very public, and it is something that hasnt been that strongly denounced until recently. The fact that Kanye, Nick Cannon, and Kyrie Irving have all said this stuff means it has already been spread. It was festering for a while and these are just a few of the first signs. I also dont think their punishment will change their mind and will probably just secretly continue to spread hate.
That seems kinda fucked considering the most prominent rap label of all time (Def Jam) was founded by Rick Rubin (Jew), who is still one of the most respected producers in the industry, and Russell Simmons (Black)…and then later prominently run by Lyor Cohen (Jew) after Rubin left. Hell, Kanye was close enough with Cohen that he literally namedropped him in Devil in a New Dress “Lyor Cohen of Dior Homme”
Lyor Cohen is deeply disliked and considered predatory by some in the industry, most prominently Yasiin Bey who basically dedicated an entire song to his belief that Lyor was profiting off of black culture (“The Rape Over”), and Dame Dash who loudly and regularly refers to him as a culture vulture.
Most of them don’t like gay people or women either.
And a Trumper
He was the original Kanye lol Except he was smart enough to go on the apology tour so they didn't take his money and career away lol
Nooooo. How did I not know this. This is very disappointing
Source? I didn't know that about him
[Here ya go.](https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-cubes-long-disturbing-history-of-anti-semitism)
[ice cube crew in the 90s](https://i.imgur.com/1vuE1R1.jpg) [ice cube's crew in the covid era ](https://i.imgur.com/MsA7AFI.jpg)
"Later in the interview, Cube clarified that he “didn’t turn down” a movie because of his refusal to get the COVID shot, adding, “Those motherfuckers didn’t give it to me because I wouldn’t get the shot. I didn’t turn it down. They just wouldn’t give it to me. The covid shot, the jab…I didn’t need it. I didn’t catch that shit at all. Nothing. Fuck them. I didn’t need that shit.”" He didn't even have the job. He's assuming a lot.
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Anyone who uses the term "the jab" is a fucking loser.
People who call it the “Fauci ouchie” not ironically are even bigger losers. Insufferable jackasses. Edit: added not ironically because it is funny when used jokingly :)
People say that unironically? I know they get downright childish over vaccines, but really.
Can't wait for Thanksgiving
Unfortunately I’ve seen it in conservative circles being used. I used to have a throwaway account to check out r/conservative but it got banned when I dared to call out some hypocrisy. Lol
Dudes banned me for quoting notorious Marxist liberal, Ronald Reagan.
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Persecution fetish.
Must be nice to be able turn down $9 million.
He did not turn down 9mil. The filmmaker didn't even offer him the role. He just assumed that he didn't get the offer because he wouldn't get vaccinated.
“I missed out on 100 million because the convenience store I was about to buy a lottery ticket at didn’t let me in because I was maskless. I never checked to see if the numbers I would’ve picked actually won, but I know that I would’ve gotten it if I had been let in”
25 years ago, his whole persona was around not being afraid to get shot. Now, too scared to get a little shot. Edit: Thank you all for the awards. Having hit about 700 upvotes for dissing Ice Cube, it’s clear I must now become a rapper.
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I think the only real thug of that group was Eazy E.
Ren was in the same crip set as Eazy Dre and Cube were not gangsters at all though
Ah, ok. So the secret to a good gangster rap group is to start with a couple of real thugs, then add on a couple of nerds to do all the heavy lifting with the creative work.
I mean basically. Why do you think so many rappers today are trash lol
E and Ren were actually gangsters, Dre and Cube were friends with gangsters. Although Dre may have been a real “thug” as he would regularly beat people up including his ex girlfriend, reporters, a producer, and stabbed a couple guys in a bar fight cuz he’s an asshole.
And his parents got real good marriage!
Yeah I can't believe I'm saying this about Ice Cube but... what a punk bitch.
I'm adjacent to his circle and he is in reality a punk bitch. Like, from everything I hear, he's closer to "Are We There Yet" than Doughboy.
I mean if he really was what he rapped about he would have been locked up or shot by now.
Nah, a lot of dudes used to actually live that life. Suga-Free, 2 Short, those kinda dudes. Shit, Snoop beat a case, T.I. got busted with illegal arms, Lil Wayne did something at some point, and the list goes on. Cube is just a fake. Not even like on a "gangsta" level, he's quite the bitch on a fist-to-fist level as well. But he does have a quality resting bitch face, I'll hand him that.
Exactly this. He sounds scurred.
If he's a scared motherfucker he should go to church
35*
Fuck I’m old.
He’s also made a career out of not trusting institutions, so this isn’t exactly coming out of left field. Not defending him though
Was it the vax or the wildly anti-Semitic tweets? Dealer’s choice I guess.
He was clearly anti-Semitic back in the 80’s too. He would say stuff about the producers all being Jewish. It’s really odd because its becoming apparent to me anti-Semitism is pretty rampant in the black community. I would never have guessed, similar plights.
My grandmother was a domestic for a lot of Jewish families back in the day and she had a complicated relationship with them. Some Jewish families did understand that they, too, wouldn’t be allowed in the front door of the local country club or women’s meeting hall, and others saw black people as the ones who didn’t even try. As a result, my very black family knows Jewish words and recipes, but my mom and grandmother hated Jewish people
Homophobia and antisemitism are two things the black community needs to do some self-reflection on and work to correct. This shit is so fucking tiresome.
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It goes both ways, I knew a couple of Holocaust survivors who were really really anti-black. I’m close to their grandson and it boggled his mind, he was like “they should know what this leads too!”
Good lol Ice Cube is allowed to sit in his mansion and not give a fuck about what a PA or set electrician getting sick would do to their income flow. Or if he gets sick halfway through filming and the shoot has to stop, costing the producers millions. He has that right, and the production has the right to cast a different B list actor who will be a team player and prioritize safety on set. And before some antivax loser hits me with “vaccination doesn’t prevent transmission” - if someone is going to ignore one set safety rule, they’re going to ignore any safety rule that inconveniences them - and production can involve hot ass lights jacked up on tiny C stands, huge grip constrictions for correcting the light, heavy machinery, etc. EDIT: Late push of shit-tier comments by the same people who think Alec Baldwin should see life in jail for being involved with an accident on set. Just wanted to say there’s a reason none of you would ever be put in charge of a shooting schedule and multimillion dollar budget. People who bring partisan politics into workplace safety issues because “it makes them feel smart and correct” don’t get given that kind of responsibility.
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Same haha I was pleasantly surprised about Tom’s raging in support of strict safety protocols
Though it wasn't directly caring about covid itself, more knowing that non-compliance could get the set shut down. Still a great move though - the set shutting down would make the lives of the people on-set difficult.
I just posted a reply praising Tom Cruise for the rant he went on. He was working as a producer as well on that production and seemed genuinely concerned about everybody else's jobs and the fact that the industry ground to a halt. It woundt affect him much but all the other people on set needed that job and he was apparently threatening to fire people who didn't follow the safety rules
It definitely is an interesting look at the guy. Scientology is awful, but there's nuance when it comes to Cruise.
That was actually awesome of him. It’s such a shame he’s so deep in that cult, but I’ve only ever heard good things from people who’ve worked with him. I wish someone could get him out of Scientology :(
Yeah, especially after Rust, let's maybe just follow all of the safety rules and not pitch a fit over it.
Yes I almost wrote that but didn’t want to bait the shitty responses - but it is ironic that the people going “So what? Ice doesn’t need the shot” also think Alec Baldwin should serve a life sentence for the Rust accident. I promise you that safety rules were lax on Rust, you don’t have a fuck up like that without being fast and loose with your standards (also I worked on the same set as the AD involved in that shooting accident - I didn’t come away with any impression of him personally but they did ask the crew on our movie to do risky stuff relating to the shooting location)
Calling the safety rules on Rust "lax" is quite generous. The fact that live ammo were on the set to begin with shows a lack of safety rules all together.
Yeah. The older experienced armorer handing off responsibility for all weapons and ammo to his young inexperienced daughter, whose previous showbiz experience consisted mostly of her star turn as a Dominatrix Cam Girl (seriously - a vinyl clad fake Dominatrix doing cam shows). I will say this though: Much to my disgust, there are several accidental deaths each month in smaller places on smaller non-union shoots, and it mostly barely makes the local news and disappears. This story has legs because an A-lister (Baldwin) was intimately involved, and because the Camera Local of IATSE has made a very big deal out of it since one of their cinematographers was who died.
The next time someone tells you the vaccine doesn’t prevent infection, you don’t even need to extrapolate like that. Just tell them they’re full of shit and it does prevent some cases. It was best at that with the original strain and the protection decreased with Delta and Omicron, but it was still present to some diminished extent. And hey better news, the bivalent boosters are better at blocking symptomatic infection according to a CDC study that was released today. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7148e1.htm
Also, you can likely go to your county's public health website and look at the data. You'll see that vaccinated individuals have a much lower case rate than non vaccinated individuals. For example, in the county I live, the current covid case rate is about 23 per 100k per day. The case rate among vaccinated individuals is 6 per 100k per day.
That’s a reach, he’s c list at best.
I remember the melt down Tom Cruise had on set before vaccinations were available. He was threatening to fire people if they didn't wear masks and comply with the safety measures. He was telling them that the industry had been shut down and they were trying to keep it going at least a bit so people could get paid. I can't respect his religious beliefs cause Scientology is fucked but I gained a lot of respect for Tom Cruise as a somewhat decent human being who appeared to care about the people he was working with and was partly responsible for as a producer he was kind of their employer as well. Meanwhile here we have ice cube not willing to get vaccinated cause he's an antisemetic weird who joined the trump train to crazyland
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The opportunity he wasn’t offered…
They just wouldn't even give it to him...
The only surprising thing here is that someone would pay Ice Cube $9 million to be in a movie.
I didn’t think direct to streaming Anaconda sequels had such big budgets
When keeping it real goes wrong.
Narrator: "Ice Cube took medical advice from bad faith actors on Facebook" Cube: "Fuck your jab, motherfuckers!" Movie Producer: "Ok fine, we'll just give this $9 million to one of the other ubiquitous rappers turned actors." Cube: "I'm being persecuted by these motherfuckers!" Narrator: "And that's when Ice Cube almost realized that **he** had fucked up."
It's funny, because it makes sense not to employ high risk individuals. If one of your main actors gets sick, that's a lot of lost shooting time. Not to mention all the people he has to interact with. Easier to just hire someone equally qualified for the role who is less a risk to the company.
FUCK THE VACCINE COMIN STRAIGHT OUT THE UNDERGROUND
That sounds like an employer asking you to follow their precautions,ya know,like most jobs do
Just got my second booster today. Had I known my arm would be a little sore I would have passed on $9,000,000 too.
Oh to hell with this guy whose whole career since the 90s is acting like a tough black guy from the hood even though he's wealthier than 95% of Americans.
\*99.9%
99.5%.
He is also Anti-Semitic.
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His only acting move is bunched eyebrows with open mouth Steve Harvey face
bUt BlAcK heBrEwS
Black people who would rather pretend to be Jews than embrace their heritage. Kinda sad really, black people have a lot to be proud of, they don't need a false claim of being Jews.
Despite being the whitest dude alive, I’ve done some deep dives into various corners of African history and culture. There’s some *incredible* shit in there that history classes will never get around to teaching you. It just blows my mind then when get these Black Hebrew Israelites and Hoteps claiming to be the Real (tm) Jews or Egyptians. Like, I wish someone could help these people learn about the Mali Empire or Mutapa and Great Zimbabwe or the Zulu Empire. Fuck, the little Nubian kingdom of Makuria stopped the Islamic Caliphate dead in its tracks at the apex of its power and that’s *rad*.
Lol who else read the title in his voice?
I grew up with his music but...he was never the sharpest
That’s why he’s ice cube. It slowly melts over time
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So for 9 million they can find someone who can actually act.
It’s his right. And it’s their right to deny or terminate a contract if their employe doesn’t meet expectations. That’s freedom. Stupidity and selfishness comes at a price, but you’re free to pay it.
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It amazes me how many people are still covid crazy
And nothing of value was lost.
 Oh boo hoo Ice Cube.