They need to release one new song, it would be appropriate. Don’t let the fascists win.
If Trump & his supporters are fascists, then they already won cause somehow Democrats thought supporting genocide of Palestinians was a good way to beat fascism.
If you think the fault lies with the democrats, tou haven’t been paying attention to the machine they are raging about.
I forgot they ran a flawless campaign, definitely they are raging against Republicans only.
Compared to Trump’s dimentia-ridden campaign, which was probably the worst political campaign in American history? Yeah, the Democrats’ campaign was fucking perfect in comparison to talking about Arnold Palmer’s cock, giving a microphone a blowjob, or saying Haitian migrants are eating cats and dogs.
Yes, both parties are corrupt, and yes, there is no party offering true change in a socialist direction. One party is literally fascist, and is clearly worse. I hate voting for the lesser of two evils, but this was the easiest election decision I’ve made in my entire life.
Not to the people that voted though. They thought Trump was the better candidate.
And they were incorrect, unless they specifically supported him because of stuff like Project 2025, being massively corrupt, promising to give Elon power, bringing more devistation to Gaza, etc.
Also the democrats lost about 6 million votes, and Trump gained about 3 million vs 2020. That’s 3 million prior voters who just decided voting wasn’t worth it in just 4 years. How Trump gained those 3 million votes is beyond me, unless they never directly watched Trump speak in the entire campaign and only watched editorialized content, which is entirely possible, if not likely.
The media this past election cycle has proven to have an extreme conservative bias. The amount of sanewashing that occured with everything Trump said vs the extreme amount of scrutiny for everything Biden and Kamala said was disgusting to see. This includes all corporate media, including corporate-backed online media.
We get it. We live in a shitty, gerrymandered two party system thanks to FPTP and there is no true anti-war or anti-capitalist party. What’s your point?
Saying “both sides bad” without mentioning one side being much, much worse is just being disingenuous. Not just that, but it attracts people on the worse side, who then will not accept criticism of their own side. Look at Jimmy Dore for a perfect example of this kind of audience capture.
In this example, you have Biden on one side, who was being complacent in a genocide while saying publicly that he wants a ceasefire deal, but not doing what was in his power to actually make it happen, like cutting off arms and funding to Israel. On the other side, you have Trump who wants to nuke Gaza and commit ethnic cleansing himself (I’m sorry, I meant to say “displace Palestinians”) and rebuild it as a paradise in his image without Palestinians.
Let’s just say Netanyahu publicly wanted Trump to win this past election, and there’s a good reason why.
We’re not talking about Palestine currently. Unless you’re purposefully trying to derail the conversation in order to blunt opposition to ORAGNE and his South African chimp.
Incidentally, what do you think of ORAGNE policy on Gaza?
Trump got elected because of dumb pro-genocide corporate Democrats who decided they should send Mark Cuban out to tell everyone how much they love corporate interests & Dick Cheney.
You didn’t answer my question about the current administrations Gaza policy, nor will I waste time trying to discuss the minutiae of your statement.
Either answer my question directly, or the conclusion that can be drawn is that you are an agent of the current administration trying to distract people from actually mounting a useful opposition against the current attempt to kill America as we know it.
If I thought proud-Zionist Biden’s terrible policy on Palestine was indefensible, which Kamala said she couldn’t think of anything she’d do differently while pledging her unconditional support to Israel, on what planet do you think my position is in favor of Trump’s policy? They are both indefensible and if you want to know which is worse, it very likely will end up being Trump, but it hasn’t been realized thus far.
It is clear already, in your mind if someone dares criticize the almighty Democrats then they must support Trump, or be “an agent of the current administration.”
I am curious though, how’d that so-called “useful opposition” that you surmounted work out for you in the last election?
I’m Canadian. Do something about your problem, you’re fucking up my country too.
Pretty sure that is your inbred-monarchy-supporting country.
Fascism never wins permanently.
Hm, guess maybe try telling that to mailed Palestinian kids that have lost most of their family.
Why is it that you folks always seem to think a dead child is a slam-dunk in any argument?
“I like Pepsi better than coke” “tell that to the dead Palestinian children”
“The theory of dark matter has too little evidence to take seriously” “counterpoint: dead child”
“Babe, can you stop talking about dead children every time we get into an argument?” “You’re insulting their memory, you monster!”
Dead children? It is innocent people being massacred. I guess the real question is, why don’t you care?
Why are you shitposting on Lemmy when children are being murdered by the Israeli apartheid regime? Why are you letting them die? Do you hate Palestine?
I’m raising awareness while you’re attacking people opposed to genocide.
dragon says…
no more pronouns I guess
Zzzzzzzz
Genocide makes you tired?
Yes, it does.
And your shitty Russian bot take on the subject makes me equally sleepy.
Ah I see, you’re one of those people that thinks everyone who says something you don’t agree with is a Russian. Have you talked to your psychiatrist about it? Generally a sign of schizophrenia.
The band is great but sometimes it’s sad to see how Morello sells his T-shirts on Instagram. Mostly they’re boring shirts (not much effort for the pictures or texts) and selling them so eagerly seems like some pretty capitalist shit.
You don’t need the shirts to exist, but he needs money for food and shelter. Would you rather he book private shows for elites?
Man, screw RATM. They’ve sold out. They did a bunch of anti-Biden crap because of the Palestine shit. Look what that got them.
They also arguably lost Florida for Al Gore which caused him to lose the election.
More like Rage For The Machine.
Dumb take.
They are likely against both parties.
What do you mean by Palestine shit? There is a genocide happening there right now, fuck Israel.
And now Trump is going to turn Gaza into a resort lol
And you know what he’d do to get that done…
Honestly. They took it farther than what happened to them. And they call it a genocide. Because they are projecting their insecurity they have for performing their own genocide on the GAZA People.
…what??
It might help your comment if you replaced some theys and thems with the actual people you’re referring to. It’s very unclear whether you’re talking about Hamas, the Israel government, the Palestine people living in the Gaza strip, the Israeli people, etc. There’s a lot of different groups involved in this conflict, all with their own history and motives. It’s important to be clear about who is doing what.
I see how that looked off now. But yes. The Israeli government has gone far too far in their destruction of Gaza and its people.
Did you mean to put those words in that order?
I preferred them when they weren’t so political.
/S obviously haha. I’m currently cutting a stencil that says “Nazi lives don’t matter” to make some shirts.
lol
Drove all the way to NYC to see them with Run the Jewels after the pandemic. 100% worth it, one of the best shows I’ve ever been to.
Tim Commorford is weird to watch though. He kinda hops awkwardly from foot to foot.
It’s so disappointing to hear Killer Mike spit revolutionary lyrics like in ‘close your eyes’ only to find out IRL he’s into lame shit like black capitalism.
only to find out IRL he’s into lame shit like black capitalism.
Does it mean something other than what is here, or did I miss something offensive in skimming through the entry?
This isn’t one of those lame “now they are the machine” posts is it?
Killer “pro-cop” Mike?
Yeah. The music still slaps though.
RATM’s bassist is into some weird fringe right-libertarian stuff too if I recall
Nobody’s perfect 🤷♂️
or they changed. 30 years is a long time.
their debut was released
- 3 years after the fall of Berlin wall
- a year after the dissolution of USSR
- 9 years before the September 11 attacks
- 15 years before iPhone
- 24 years before the election of a reality tv entertainer/real estate conman was elected as POTUS
- China wasn’t a superpower back then
- EU didn’t exist in its current form
- Apartheid was still an actuality
- internet wasn’t omnipresent
How was China not a superpower then?
They were easily a superpower since before they were backing Vietnam and Korea in our shitty wars with them.
In 1944, during World War II, the term was first applied to the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the United States. During the Cold War, the British Empire dissolved, leaving the United States and the Soviet Union to dominate world affairs. At the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States became the world’s sole superpower, a position sometimes referred to as that of a “hyperpower”. Since the late 2010s and into the 2020s, China has increasingly been described as an emerging superpower or even an established one, as China represents the “biggest geopolitical test of the 21st century” to the United States, as it is “the only country with enough power to jeopardize the current global order”.
China’s GDP was lower than Canada’s. Economic strength is not the only factor of a superpower, but it’s significant. It’s hard to project power effectively without sufficient wealth to fund those efforts.
Fair enough. How many resources did the US waste in Vietnam and Korea fighting someone who was not a so called superpower?
Quite a lot. The US did the same thing in Iraq and Afghanistan too. Who cares about who the enemy is or how many people die if they military industrial complex is making bank?
A country doesn’t need to be a superpower to project some power, but very few rise to the level of global hegemony. I think China is probably in the superpower tier today. The belt and road initiative is classic economic hegemony shit.
Apartheid was still an actuality
So you’re saying nothing’s changed?
I saw them in Cleveland on that tour. Zach had hurt his foot so he sat on the monitor speaker the whole time, but the rest of the guys made up for it.
I paid a LOT of money to get good tickets, and it was 10000% worth it. I’d never seen rage live and figured I might not get to again, so spend the money. Also I’m an rtj fan.
I was at the Chicago show where he hurt himself going pretty hard.
Actually got it on video too
After he sat down for the rest of the set he sounded amazing. Great show.
Whoa that’s crazy you caught it.
Props to him for not breaking his flow, a true professional.
But also, Zach you’re not a spring chicken anymore, gotta dial it back some!
We cannot accurately judge your dedication until you tell us from where you drove to NYC. New Jersey and Anchorage have very different weights here.
Honolulu
I wish they hadn’t canceled the show here in Seattle. Zack broke his arm and since they are old, he wanted to take time to let it heal. I waited three years from the initial scheduled show for it to be canceled.
23 nazis disagree with this lol
CLIP YOUR STRINGS YOU FUCKING PHILISTINE
That’s Tom Morello, he can have 5 feet of string hanging off the end for all I care
Why are all of their songs still relevant 30 years later?
Because nobody actually listened to and took seriously what they were saying 30 years ago.
Fun fact: After 9/11, various songs evoking 9/11, such as ‘Learning to Fly’ by Tom Petty, ‘Stairway to Heaven’ by Led Zeppelin, ‘It’s the End of the World as we Know it’ by REM … all banned from airing for about 120 days.
Oh.
And literally everything from Rage Against the Machine.
Other fun fact about this?
This censorship wasn’t done by the FCC.
It was done by ClearChannel, aka iHeartRadio, aka, the corporation that now owns or controls basically all terrestrial radio stations.
https://www.kerrang.com/here-are-the-164-songs-that-were-banned-from-american-radio-after-9-11
Warpigs is still banned by Clearchannel
Wow.
I did not know that.
Hooray for the enshittified cyberpunk dystopia.
Because those that work forces are still the ones that burn crosses
I didn’t know they were so WoKe!!
Because things have gotten worse in the intervening 30 years?
Good example:
Renegades Of Funk
https://tidal.com/browse/track/23682737?uThat one’s a cover actually! It’s even older :P
The original is very different than that RATM version (as expected), but very good as well.
Because the problems they raged about are systemic, and the system didn’t change.
It did change, though. It got significantly worse.
Because we never eliminate the root cause
It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism.
Because humans are fucking stupid and history always repeats itself.
The problems are systemic and the humans in the system are incentivized to perpetuate the system.
Its not stupidity.
Humans or Americans?
All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.
So say we all.
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose above the great mountainous island of Tremalking. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.”
Until conservatives and authoritarians stop getting their way.
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
A few weak men are indeed making very hard times
The problem with this quote is that everyone thinks they’re the strong men. In other words, it’s mostly useless rhetoric that doesn’t really identify the problem.
The same reason socialist theory is still relevant 150+ years after it started
Rage 2022 in Cleveland.
Which one of the 2 buildings was this in?
RoMoFiHo
Here’s the introduction (aka “Pillar I”) to the plan currently being implemented: https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
Some highlights:
From page 20 of the project: “Vought (officially in charge of OMB after being confirmed recently) writes that the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) should establish a “reputation as the keeper of ‘commander’s intent,’””
From page 21: " In Chapter 1, former deputy chief of staff to the President Rick Dearborn writes that the White House Counsel “must take seriously the duty to protect the powers and privileges of the President from encroachments by Congress, the judiciary, and the administrative components of departments and agencies.”
Page 28: “When a new President takes office, he will need to decide expeditiously how to handle any major ongoing litigation or other pending legal matters that might present a challenge to his agenda”…“, the President should hire a counsel with extensive experience with a wide range of complex legal subjects. Moreover, while a candidate with elite credentials might seem ideal, the best one will be above all loyal to the President”
Page 32, regarding the office of presidential personnel (DOGE): “Playing “bad cop” in a way that other White House offices cannot (including serving as the office that takes direct responsibility for firings and hirings).”
Careful! This type of wording earned me my final ban from Reddit!
according to your username, we have found an alt account of trump
Save a life, punch a nazi
RATM supported Sendero Luminoso.
Fuck RATM.
The Shining Path has been widely condemned for its excessive brutality, including violence deployed against peasants, trade union organizers, competing Marxist groups, elected officials and the general public.[2]
…
The Shining Path’s retaliation to this was one of the worst attacks in the entire conflict, with a group of guerrilla members entering the town and going house by house, killing dozens of villagers, including babies, with guns, hatchets, and axes. This action has come to be known as the Lucanamarca massacre.[39] Additional massacres of civilians by the Shining Path would occur throughout the conflict.[26][40][41]
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American rock band Rage Against the Machine released a music video for their 1993 song “Bombtrack” as a response to the arrest of Abimael Guzman the previous year. The video expresses support for Guzman and the Shining Path, featuring various clips of the organization’s activities, as well as showing the band in a cage to mimic Guzman’s imprisonment.[145]
Love that slogan.
30 years later and more relevant than ever… That’s not a good thing. Continue to rage.
