• scarabic@lemmy.world
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    “what the left and globalists have done”

    Am I crazy or have conservatives been harping on “free trade” my entire life?

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    Of cource they never listen to the words… Yet the band members are rich celebrities with mansions in LA. It is all kinds of stupid. We never see those who walk the walk. As Yankee idol whoreshipers we are so easily co opted infiltrated always pulling the cart before the horse… So your low-level adversaries are really just ignorant fools. we roll around in the mud, chasing our tail. The Maga Hogs are still the proletariat. The libturds are not the rebel alliance. They got us in this situation by design because foreign policy is the only policy. And as they mix us up at the bottom, we fight amongst ourselves as these rich people bankrupt our country and set the world ablaze. ALL Education in America is indoctrination. Yankee Land is a combination of being stuck in Disneyland with no money with a North Korean control system that is obfuscated and hidden in background processes.The fear of being ostracized is a primal fear and because we live in communities, or evolutionarily, we’ve gotten to this point through cooperation and not competition. This is ingrained in us as a survival mechanism. Our tribalism can be manufactured and used as a tool to push forward the capitalist classes agenda. United States is a imperialist empire and fascist are the useful idiots of empire. Most people have a price. We all fear death, especially the religious. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

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    Can’t you see, you’re not making the right better, you’re just making rock and roll worse!

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    I enjoy how much of a struggle everyone in the comments is having to think of a single decent conservative rock band, let alone one like RatM. If you understand people attracted to authortarianism, it makes sense; they prefer simple over nuanced, they tend to be more likely to conform, etc, it’s quite obvious that their values run contrary to art.

    That said, conservative rock bands do exist, even if their songs aren’t. They just aren’t generally artistic or thought provoking. Smash Mouth came to mind (they shilled for Bush back in the day) and All Star is still played on the radio. I’d bet if you dug around, you’d probably find more of those 90s pop rock folks orient right.

    Although even trying to think of annoying 90s songs led me down a weird rabbit hole. Like, you know that song “Two Princes” by Spin Doctors? Turns out one Spin Doctor is a major atheist activist. So who knows?

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      Smashmouth is an odd one. Cause their songs are oddly… libertarian? Maybe? But every now and then a pretty ignorant lyrics slips through and it’s like “what’s going on here?”.

      Walking on the sun is a pretty good one. Literally saying, “The government sucks, fight back, youve done it before and deserve praise for it.”. And then the last verse is criticizing presumably black neighborhoods for falling into the crack epidemic.

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        Yeah, and I don’t know where they stand now or if they were all on board with right wing. I know the lead died recently, though. Looking is up, he moved to Idaho, which is kind of what a lot of libertarian Californians do in retirement, lol.

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          Of note, they had already distanced themselves from Steve Harwell (lead vocal) for being a giant shithead and uncontrollable alcoholic.

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    I thought about rewriting a RATM song’s lyrics to parody this dumb ass concept but then I remembered the only successful neo nazi songs are popular songs with rewritten lyrics to be racist and hateul, because they’re all uncreative twat waffles. ___

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      No, it’s definitely a printer. Go print off some RATM lyrics and tell me I’m wrong.

      (How the heck was the library printer out of whack last time I went to use it? Those things used to be ridiculously reliable.)

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    “yeah hi I’m not conservative but I’m someone who also likes freedom! Not just freedom for me, but freedom for everyone, including those who don’t look and act like me!”

    These don’t seem to undeestand. When you play the song of punk out, it sings that true freedom means solidarity, not conformity.

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    Can’t wait to see their set with such time honoured bangers as

    • Know Your Neighbour
    • Suburban Rebellion
    • Go To Sleep
    • Tarrifs In The Name Of
    • Convicted Fellons On Parade
    • People Of The Mar-a-Lago
    • RussiaNow
    • Freedom Radio
    • Preach
    • New Boomer Homes

    And many many more.

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      The world is a global capitalist system and Russia is not our enemy. The liberals are lying to you. But yet, what’s the difference between the United States and Russia really? We’re all ran by oligarchs, and oligarchs are the byproduct of capitalism. So it’s like the pot calling the kettle black. This is why we continue voting for the Neo-liberal party, which is right-wing ideology, which is in the benefit of the capitalist class, and this is why nothing changes. There’s a possibility there’ll be a fake internal revolution inside of the Democratic Party, but it’s just like when companies do a rebranding. Americans are very misinformed and I question if they have any real reading comprehension, or maybe they’re just so self-interested and lazy. I don’t know really. It could be a collection of things. Self-awareness requires you to examine yourself and the world around you and to be honest with yourself. Going and venturing into the dark alleys of reality. So now, we are no longer focusing on soft power and we’re headed towards hot war. You might not like Trump, but he’s just a continuation of the so-called deep state. The man just makes decisions off papers that are handed to him. He is not an intellectual genius nor does he know anything about world history or other cultures. Biden is also an illiterate self-absorbed jackass. And what comes after that is either some variation of the two or either or. Regardless, Justice is always served, just not in your benefit and in your time. Thank God all men die.

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      Killing in the Name will still be titled the same but with different lyrics “Thank you, I’ll do what you tell me!”