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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 38 points 6 days ago

Juggalos have always been weirdly wholesome and okay as people. Yeah, it's a weird subculture to me. But not bad. The biggest negative I can say about the juggalos that I've met is that they all want to talk about ICP and marijuana all the time. But they treat people decently, and seem to be fairly progressive. I can live with that.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Apparently even insane people know not to vote for a fascist!

[–] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

WHOOP WHOOP!

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Much better them than Liz Cheney.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 166 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf3n5A4uLsk

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 6 days ago

TIL juggalos are real and not a made up community from the internet.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago

Especially since the juggalo crowd is by and large rurally based, they overlap a large generally Republican Voting demographic.

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[–] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 98 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Juggalos are surprisingly decent, given their image. I may not be down with the clown, myself, but they're alright

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 62 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They've also started to become the adults in the room sometimes. I'm not sad to see it, but it feels weird.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 92 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 week ago

ICP on the right side of history

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

The good weird tho, gotta discriminate

[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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?

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 67 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is going to give my Trump-loving prepper brother in law an aneurysm.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Can you post a video?

[–] match@pawb.social 63 points 1 week ago (2 children)

by the terms of the juggalo-furry alliance, the furs are called to also vote

[–] drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 36 points 1 week ago

We been on the block to vote. Republicans have nipped at us one too many times and many many of us are LGBT. 😤

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The alliance has your back 🤝

The furries are voting

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Y'all are an odd bunch, but I'm happy to have you on side.

[–] taanegl@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was undecided, but this did it for me.

[–] Old_Yharnam@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So you’re a juggalo now?

[–] taanegl@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well, your mom got that clussy, so...

[–] Old_Yharnam@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Oh yeah, def a juggalo. Corny af

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago

They don't know how magnets work but they know fascists suck.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 week ago

Kamala promised to explain how magnets work.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Makes sense, Juggalos hate fascists and despite Kamala being a cop, Trump is the bigger fascist.

Although it is weird to see Eminem and ICP on the same side of something.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Also Taylor Swift. What a world we live in.

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"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.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fucking MAGAs, how do they work?

No really, how do you function being so god damn stupid you think a man who qualifies for being the Beast of Revelation is God's Chamion?

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[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Damn, I have a new found respect for the posse.

[–] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Is this satire? I honestly can’t tell.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

They hold a music festival every year called the gathering of the juggalos, usually somewhere in the Midwest, that attracts around 10k people per year. They're not a huge underground culture in America but they are there and disproportionately higher populations living in Midwest and Central swing states. Most of the juggalos I've met are kind and just want to get high and listen to music about horror movies and wrestling and stuff like that. They have been anti-science and education in the past in their anti-establishment rhetoric which is probably the worst part of the subculture.

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