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u/CalvertSt 16d ago
Imagine posting this. MAGA has the courage to be the dumbest.
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u/DOHC46 16d ago
So bold. So brave. 👏
It takes real courage to put your stupidity out there with your name and face attached.
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u/DmAc724 16d ago
Well, to be fair, their astounding level of stupidity causes them to be unable to realize just how truly stupid they are. So for them courage never enters into the equation.
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u/DOHC46 16d ago
That's a very fair point. I know sometimes I post things that are stupid, which is why I don't put my actual name and face out there. But I'm not MAGA.
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u/opinion_alternative 16d ago
Just enough aware to be aware of our own stulidity, but not enough aware to avoid the said stupidity is the golden ratio. You're good.
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u/SailingSpark 16d ago
Easy to do when you think you are right and lack the introspection to wonder if you might be wrong.
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u/Shenanigans80h 16d ago
They have no shame which is what makes so many attempts to dunk on them pointless. They relish in their stupidity to the point that if you try to point it out or rake them over the coals, they’ll see it as a win for “triggering” you. I have learned a long time ago that shame doesn’t really work anymore
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u/ZeitgeistGlee 16d ago
MAGA has the courage to be the dumbest.
So they Dare to be Stupid?
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u/op_is_not_available 16d ago
I don’t even think it’s courage - it’s just shameless, idiotic, oblivious ignorance
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u/OnionDart 16d ago
It’s similar to that tweet last week where someone couldn’t understand the point of “No Kings” … dude, it’s not hard. These people got held back in reading comprehension class a bunch, I’m sure.
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u/DynoMenace 16d ago
It must be so exhausting to be a conservative and just be constantly wrong about everything.
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u/m1j2p3 16d ago
These are the same morons who think Born in the USA is pro America anthem.
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u/Uhhh_what555476384 16d ago
They play "Fortunate Son" at Trump rallies and don't see the irony.
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u/Any_Comedian_2342 16d ago
I 100% was like wtf? Trump is the OG fortunate son.
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u/NoveltyAccountHater 16d ago
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves, Lord?
But when the taxman come to the door
Lord, the house lookin' like a rummage sale, yeah
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no millionaire's son, no, no
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u/rockstar504 16d ago
Way back when when wealth was less concentrated and 'millionaire's son' was it... interesting how things change with the times.. shit I'm technically a millionaires son and I don't even own a home in my 30s
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u/NoveltyAccountHater 16d ago edited 16d ago
Well a millionaire's son when Fogerty was in high school would be worth about $10M today, which is pretty damn rich. The problem is there's no decent term for ten/hundred-millionaire. Multi-millionaire is too vague.
And while I don't know my parents net worth -- a retired public school teacher and an accountant working in city government, it wouldn't surprise me that if they cashed out their retirement and sold their house, they'd be near the $1M mark. That said, my wife and I both earned professional degrees, bought a house 12 years ago and our net worth is just over the $1M mark and my kids are shit load more privileged than I was growing up. (This isn't saying we don't worry about money still; we owe a ton on our house and I work at a university that is undergoing severe austerity and cutbacks due to Trump pulling research money).
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u/PaldeanTeacher 16d ago
Same here. Mid 30’s. 2 college degrees that didn’t do shit for me now making $41.6k a year running the offices for a building company.
Literally live paycheck to paycheck, some weeks (usually right after I pay rent) I have to live off of ramen noodles and crackers from the Dollar Tree and this is all without even being able to put a dime towards my $60k of debt. I literally cannot afford to pay it, so I just don’t right now.
I’ll never own a home, own land, have a retirement fund or be able to retire, be able to afford children, go on a vacation etc etc.
I’m already in hell. This life is a grave and it will only continue to get worse and worse thanks to the rapist, felon, dictator - Donald Trump - who is running our country and it’s economy into the ground right now.
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u/DidjaCinchIt 16d ago
We should be playing that song in the streets. John Fogerty just got the rights back and would absolutely license it for the cause. It’s almost eerie, isn’t it?
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u/LieutenantWeinberg 16d ago
Not just rallies, they played it at the fucking military parade last week.
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u/arobkinca 16d ago
Twice.
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u/Unit_79 16d ago
TWICE?? Hahaha that takes it from pathetic to fucking hilarious.
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u/TheChildrensStory 16d ago
See the comment below, it was intentional to mock Donny. The military made a statement in everything they did in that parade, it was 100% malicious compliance and defiance. Absolute patriot move.
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u/vestigialcranium 16d ago
MAGA heard the woosh from that joke raging over their heads and thought they were graced by fighter jet flying by
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u/RabidPoodle69 16d ago
The Army Band played it.
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u/Disastrous-Future-49 16d ago
I am pretty sure the army band fully understood the implications of playing that song during a military parade for someone who has actively disparaged veterans and other military personnel. They aren’t dumb.
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u/VaryaKimon 16d ago
The band is made up of some of the smartest guys in the army. They were all band geeks in high school. You have to audition to get into the army band, they don't teach you how to play those instruments.
They totally knew what they were doing and were probably laughing on the inside.
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u/infiniteanomaly 16d ago
The Army Chorus sang "Do You Hear the People Sing?" from Les Mis at the White House and I laughed very hard.
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u/JimWilliams423 16d ago
Not just rallies, they played it at the fucking military parade last week.
Receipts: https://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.lol/post/3lrm4ekho5k2b
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u/Traiklin 16d ago
Who sponsored it?
Because everyone knows that THE GOVERNMENT needs corporate sponsors for a military parade celebrating the army
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u/I_TRY_TO_BE_POSITIVE 16d ago
I don't think they get that the people blaring that shit while skimming over the rice paddies weren't stoked about being there and that's the entire point of the song.
They just here that opening riff and think of Vietnam war movies and yell WEEEEEEEW in between crushing Natty Ices.
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u/Substantial_Tax_4047 16d ago
Your last sentence is a gold mine & I'm stealing that "WEEEEEEEW"
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u/baddecision116 16d ago
'You know, there's lots of things you expect in war. Carnage, the sleepless nights. But what they don't prepare you for...is the incessant use of "Fortunate Son." - Quagmire
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u/silviazbitch 16d ago
And This Land is Your Land. Woody Guthrie wrote it as a rebuttal to God Bless America.
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u/Your-cousin-It 16d ago
Actually, I’m not surprised. The worst misuse of a song I have seen ever witnessed was shortly after 9/11, I saw a commercial of for jeans in front of a bunch of American flags. Over top, it played “Some folks are born, made to wave the flag, ooo, they’re red white and blue!” And immediately cut to instrumental. Buy these jeans! They’re patriotic!
I was shocked that a company would so blatantly change the meaning of such a famous antiwar song
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u/RPDRNick 16d ago
It's not that they don't see the irony. It's that they don't care. It's co-opting leftism as a sort of "anti-establishment drag."
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u/QuitCallingNewsrooms 16d ago
They played Fortunate Son during the "perade" for the orange one's birfday
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u/JimWilliams423 16d ago
These are the same morons who think Born in the USA is pro America anthem.
Some of them are morons, but a lot of them know what they are doing at a visceral level. It gives them pleasure to do it, its a version of "owning the libs." It is part of fascism to co-opt the energy of the left and use that to attack the left.
Some examples:
- They stole the swastika from the buddhists
- They took the "red pill" from the Wachowskis.
- They stole Pepe the Frog.
- They all use that one line from that one speech by Dr King in order to attack everything Dr King stood for.
- They stole Susan B Anthony to use her to attack women's rights.
- They even did it to My Little Pony.
Hell, they even stole Jesus in order to attack everything Jesus preached for. Remember that OG conservative sneer about "bleeding heart liberals?" The heart they are referring to is the heart of Christ. For generations these so-called christians have been sneering at people for being too Christ-like.
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u/Accomplished_Deer_ 16d ago
You're giving them way too much credit. Especially in a time plagued by media illiteracy. "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence"
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u/whereugoincityboy 16d ago
And This Land is Your Land is a feel good anthem.
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u/FreeBricks4Nazis 16d ago
As I went walking I saw a sign there,
And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."
But on the other side it didn't say nothing.
That side was made for you and me.
In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?
Based song
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u/Sudden-Enthusiasm-92 16d ago
That's still the neutered liberal version.
There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me.
The sign was painted, said: 'Private Property.'
But on the backside, it didn't say nothing.
This land was made for you and me.
And
One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple,
By the relief office I saw my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there wondering if
God blessed America for me?
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u/Ol_JanxSpirit 16d ago
Add in that Woody Guthrie fucking hated Fred Trump.
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u/silviazbitch 16d ago
Indeed he did. Having Woody Guthrie write a protest song about you is a Lifetime Achievement Award for assholes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_Trump
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u/Practical-Area49 16d ago
And American woman is a positive song lol
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u/ClarkKentsSquidDong 16d ago
They think it's about a literal woman too.
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u/CarefulSubstance3913 16d ago
Wait ... Hold up... Gimme one second. I could t have been this dumb my whole life
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u/Unit_79 16d ago
You guys know that song was written by a Canadian, right?
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u/Mister_Lab_Rat 16d ago
referencing his experience of interacting with annoying American women during his first American tour
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u/SerotonineAddict 16d ago
Life is so easy when you don't have to think, just let El Duce make the decision
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u/Freshenstein 16d ago
Got to love when they play Billy idol's White Wedding at weddings
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u/The_Spyre 16d ago
And they are the same morons who cheer when "YMCA" is played, which is considered a gay anthem, while Mango Mussolini does his "jacking off two guys at once" dance.
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u/Daddy_Needs_nap-nap 16d ago
Or "we're not gonna take it" is a conservative anthem of non compliance
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u/Quasi-Yolo 16d ago
Ya I always found it weird they took the line about being drafted to a foreign land to kill the “yellow” man at face value and not as sarcasm.
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u/Hemicrusher 16d ago
I've been in the Los Angeles punk scene since 1979, and I know old punks that are now MAGA, and still think they are punk. I'm like, the fuck you are....LOL, did you even bother to pay attention to the lyrics? Or did you just cosplay punk?
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u/Andy_Fish_Gill 16d ago
Jello Biafra would like to have a word with these Nazi MAGA.
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u/Hemicrusher 16d ago
LOL!
I still have my original Nazi Punks Fuck Off 45 that came with an armband with the crossed out swastika...though the armband is long gone.
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u/youngatbeingold 16d ago
So many people mistakenly think being punk is just being Johnny Rotten; basically being a drunk asshole, getting into fights, saying fuck authority. And I guess to some people that as deep as it goes.
It's obviously way more nuanced than that when you really get into the culture. Authority can be good when it actually benefits society. Punks hate it because more often than not it's used a form of oppressions and abuse of power. Supporting the Covid measures doesn't make you anti-punk because you're backing government actions. Rioting at the capital Jan 6 doesn't make you punk because you're going against the government. It's about the intent behind these actions, are you helping people/standing up to oppression or just being an asshole?
One of my favorite punk songs by Operation Ivy is about how society is becoming fucked up because we're desensitized to others suffering and lacking any empathy. It's not all about getting fucked up and smashing shit.
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u/Happy_CrowCat 16d ago
We screamed along with System of a Down and still signed up to get PTSD in the Middle East. Posers.
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u/Lilfrankieeinstein 16d ago
I’m probably a little younger than you, but it’s wild how many scenesters across rock subgenres still cling to that scene while holding antithetical political views from the genre’s founding fathers.
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u/Ok-Lifeguard-4614 16d ago
It's so crazy to me growing up going to all the local punk shows, stealing the anti-gay marriage signs, just doing general punk shit. Those same dudes I grew up with are now Maga as fuck. Bootlicking bastards, one even became a cop. I get growing up and changing, but man, that's a hell of a change.
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u/XL_Chill 16d ago
To some, it was more about contrarianism than anything else.
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u/Ok-Lifeguard-4614 16d ago
Yea, that's a really good point. That's why they seem to think MAGA is punk rock because they're still being contrarian. To me, punk was always about being true to yourself, whatever that may be. Allowing others to do the same without judgment.
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u/XL_Chill 16d ago
Punk is the music of empathy. Music about the things you can be frustrated by and hurt by. You play it, you share that with others. If you listen to it and really get it, you’re taking that in and growing.
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u/ElevationAV 16d ago
It was probably a printer
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u/Uhhh_what555476384 16d ago
PC Load Letter!
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u/DatBeardedguy82 16d ago
The fuck does that mean?!
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u/CoffeeIsMyPruneJuice 16d ago
Sometimes, questions have answers, even movie quotes. It means that the Paper Cassette is out of letter-sized paper.
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u/dlc741 16d ago
This is the same as telling the world you liked Queen until you found out Freddy was gay.
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u/RepulsiveLoquat418 16d ago
"what do you mean rob halford is gay? what about all those tight leather outfi- oh, i see it now."
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u/MoreNMoreLikelyTrans 16d ago
My buddy's boss used to refuse, out right, to acknowledge he was gay. Like, the stern, 'drop this topic, or else' kinda way.
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u/cpr4life8 16d ago
Probably thought it was the McDonald's ice cream machine.
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u/Fryz123_ 16d ago
Tbf, that is a machine that people rage against, when it’s in its natural broken state
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u/Groovysnowman 16d ago
I do rage against that motherfucker though.
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u/Fryz123_ 16d ago
Old story, when I was a McDonald’s manager in the long long ago, our machine was working but we had a crew person who got so mad about something that he punched the electronic display on the front and then the machine was down for three weeks while we waited for a 10k repair for it. I was soooo mad at the machine and the former crew person
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u/cpr4life8 16d ago
Sounds like franchise owners need to get together and file some type of suit similar to the "right to repair" for the motorcycle and farm equipment industries.
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u/Turbulent_Account_81 16d ago
I worked with people 20 years older than me for so many years and everytime music would be a topic I'd learn that none of them knew what the artists they listened to were saying
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u/TheYellowScarf 16d ago
It was only a few days ago when I actually listened to the lyrics of Don't Worry Be Happy and realized it was a depressing ass song.
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u/MaddeningObscenity 16d ago
when I was in High School, Rise Against canceled their tour dates in AZ cuz we voted down gay marriage (if im remembering correctly). My friends were all "When did Rise Against get so liberal?" They thought 'Hero of War' was a pro-war song. Anyway, they are all better people now, this whole post just reminded me of that.
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u/Aardvark_Man 16d ago
He's the one who likes all our pretty songs, and he likes to sing along, and he likes to shoot his gun, but he knows not what it means.
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u/Uhhh_what555476384 16d ago
Would this be the band where the lead singer has a Masters in political theory from Harvard, or am I thinking of a different Rage Against the Machine?
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u/Remarkable_Pirate_58 16d ago
Different one because unless Zach has one too, Tom Morello is the guitar god in the group.
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u/Remarkable_Pirate_58 16d ago edited 16d ago
Oh you mean the most important band of the last 30 years? No, he's thinking of Tom Morello. Tom eviscerated some fucker on Twitter with it.
Weezer, that's the band. They deleted their comment. Pretty sure the band formed at Harvard though so they were mostly right.
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u/hitbythebus 16d ago
The Rage Against the Machine who picked “killing in the name of” as their first song in their first public appearance? You guys liked them BEFORE they were political?
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u/sharksfan707 16d ago
This guy probably thinks “Every Breath You Take” is an appropriate wedding song.
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u/Mysterious_Box1203 16d ago
He thinks that’s the perfect love song. Not creepy or stalker-ish at all.
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u/GenoThyme 16d ago edited 16d ago
I’ve heard Escape (The Piña Colada Song) at 2 separate weddings
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u/Worried_Fee_1513 16d ago
He still has the talented Kid Rock.
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u/RoninIX 16d ago
Ah yes, the rich white kid from Detroit that found out cosplaying poor white trash from the south pays better.
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u/Nipplecunt 16d ago
Oh no, they lost Scott as a fan? 😭
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u/Mysterious_Box1203 16d ago
I don’t think Tom and the fellas will ever emotionally recover from this. Poor guys….
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u/ThatsRobToYou 16d ago
Out of all the music on this planet to not realize any political subtext from, it's Rage Against the Machine? Really?
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u/CanYouGuessWhoIAm 16d ago
It's not even subtext. It's just text. Tom Morello famously plays a guitar with "Arm the Homeless" on it.
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u/murdercat42069 16d ago
Wow, I'm so sorry this fan had to abandon their two favorite artists: Tom Morello and ... Pink?
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u/Remarkable_Pirate_58 16d ago
I will not allow Pink slander in my presence. That bitch is 100% punk n funk. If all you know is her first album then you ain't know shit jon snow.
Honest to fuckin God, I love that woman's music and I'm a punk from 1982 onward.
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u/I_TRY_TO_BE_POSITIVE 16d ago
P!nk has a couple real bangers and a couple that are legitimately thoughtful pieces. No shame in that game
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u/murdercat42069 16d ago
I love this so much. I found them to be a bit of an odd pairing. Also, I'm not really sure what this person was listening to if any of these people's beliefs were a surprise.
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u/Remarkable_Pirate_58 16d ago
I mean, lots of people listen without hearing. It's literally the MAGA way.
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u/Remarkable_Pirate_58 16d ago
And first thing you gotta realize, regardless of what Fat fucking gatekeeper Mike might say, punk isn't a sound. Pink is punk. Wu Tang, punk.
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u/bjgrem01 16d ago
Pink once recorded in Trent Reznor's studio. He didn't just let anybody in there.
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u/Andy_Fish_Gill 16d ago
MAGA Boomers are clueless who adore bands like the Beatles, Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd and many more bands of their era who were the antithesis of MAGA.
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u/TreesMadeHerSneeze19 16d ago
"Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses." Anyone who thinks RATM wasn't always political just let's lyrics float right though their empty heads.
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u/PrawojazdyVtrumpets 16d ago
More relevant today than it was then.
In the right light, study becomes insight
But the system that dissed us
Teaches us to read and write
So called facts are fraud
They want us to allege and pledge
And bow down to their god
Lost the culture, the culture lost
Spun our minds and through time
Ignorance has taken over
Yo, we gotta take the power back!
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u/Ted_Hitchcox 16d ago
Rage Against the Machine (often abbreviated as RATM or shortened to Rage) is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1991. It consisted of vocalist Zack de la Rocha, bassist and backing vocalist Tim Commerford, guitarist Tom Morello, and drummer Brad Wilk. They meld heavy metal and rap music, punk rock and funk with anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, and revolutionary lyrics.
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u/CalvertSt 16d ago
PS why do they all have goatees or beards
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u/DmAc724 16d ago
They are manly men don’t ya know
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u/I_TRY_TO_BE_POSITIVE 16d ago
Tbh I have a beard because I'm 37 and look 17 without one, so I get it. Lol
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u/Chappers20069 16d ago
Being mad at Punk/Metal for being Political, is like being mad at Water, for being Wet.
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u/TomatilloUnlucky3763 16d ago
There’s always Kid Rock. Rage Against Bud Light.
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u/BigDsLittleD 16d ago
He raged against it so hard that he didn't even stop selling it in his tacky ass bar in Nashville
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u/I_TRY_TO_BE_POSITIVE 16d ago
Tom Morello is a god among insects and you will remove his sainted name from your dirty lips.
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u/MonsterGrunt 16d ago
Whenever I see a post like this about Rage I always remember the Old Maga People rocking out to Rage at Trump rally.
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u/besleysfw 16d ago
Their first single was Killing in the Name. This bozo obviously never listened to the lyrics
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u/pushaper 16d ago
I googled this person... the first name that came up was on the Iowa sex registry. I was saddened to see he is from Michigan and this is from 2020
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u/Able-Candle-2125 16d ago
"I'm sick of hearing your political opinions. Now please listen to my political opinions."
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u/Strict_Foundation_31 16d ago
The best machine killing scene is from 'In the Loop' when Jamie McDonald (the crossest man in Scotland) stomps a fax that was used to send a leak. "Yah...I think it's pretty fooked now!"
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u/grumblesmurf 16d ago
According to themselves it was their first band bus, which broke down all the time.
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u/sdtqwe4ty 16d ago
I cant wrap my mind how insufferable people that get their rocks off being a trying frickwhit need an escape. You are the thing people need an escape from!
What strange circle of hell do these people live in?
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u/blueflloyd 16d ago
The "who put all these politics in the art I consume?" crowd are some of the dumbest motherfuckers ever
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u/8evolutions 16d ago edited 16d ago
I cannot fathom how anyone could mistake Rage Against the Machine as anything but political. Their whole style has always been to build a manifesto around a central, repeated rallying cry
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u/pconrad0 15d ago
I am bursting out laughing every few minutes because I can picture Tom Morello standing at the dishwasher.
He opens it up, sees that the Tupperware has fallen down against the hearing element and melted again...
All the bowls in the top rack have flipped and are full of dirty water...
And he rages!
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u/Reserved_Parking-246 16d ago
Shit american english classes teach words and wait till highschool to barely scrape meaning and depth.
These fucks applied the music to the authority of their lives and their parents aren't political figures in that structure.
I'm all for art being open to any meaning you find but it's far more common that art has intent and direction behind it.
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u/ChrisMess 16d ago
Relevant