Remember to Rage Against The Machine!

Save a life, punch a nazi

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.
- What do you mean by Palestine shit? There is a genocide happening there right now, fuck Israel.
  
  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.

CLIP YOUR STRINGS YOU FUCKING PHILISTINE

Killing Nazis is always the right thing to do. When drag is old and feeble and has no reason to live, drag will buy a gun and make the end count.
- killing in the name of
  now you do what they told you

Fuck Nazis

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

Nazi lives matter a little. You can tally them up to keep score.
- That still only counts as one!
  
  That's why you take the ears to help count.

30 years later and more relevant than ever... That's not a good thing. Continue to rage.

Rage 2022 in Cleveland.
- Which one of the 2 buildings was this in?
  
  RoMoFiHo

Mary Morello deserves some love as well. Tom has a show on sirius xm. I was introduced to Zeal & Ardor bc of them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Morello

Why are all of their songs still relevant 30 years later?
- Because those that work forces are still the ones that burn crosses
- Because the problems they raged about are systemic, and the system didn't change.
  
  It did change, though. It got significantly worse.
- Because humans are fucking stupid and history always repeats itself.
  
  All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.
  
  The problems are systemic and the humans in the system are incentivized to perpetuate the system.
  Its not stupidity.
- 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
- The same reason socialist theory is still relevant 150+ years after it started
- Good example:
  Renegades Of Funk
  https://tidal.com/browse/track/23682737?u
  
  That one's a cover actually! It's even older :P
- I didn't know they were so WoKe!!

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.
  
  Yeah. The music still slaps though.
  RATM's bassist is into some weird fringe right-libertarian stuff too if I recall
  Nobody's perfect 🤷‍♂️
  
  Killer "pro-cop" Mike?
- 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.
  
  Yeah, I think the Madison Square Garden show was one of the last ones they did, Zach was hobbled up good for it.
  Super worth it though, I was in the same boat. Show had been rescheduled 3 times but we committed lol
  
  I was at the Chicago show where he hurt himself going pretty hard.
  Actually got it on video too
  https://youtu.be/clzrDjhqMVo
  After he sat down for the rest of the set he sounded amazing. Great show.
- 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.

One Day As A Lion is a 2008 Zach de la Rocha side project that's definitely worth a listen if you haven't checked it out.

As suggested listening following RATM, may I suggest American Idiot by Green Day. You may find similar themes in that album.
- Any other suggestions on how we can fight fascism by giving money to record companies?
  
  The band you are looking for is Fugazi. Totally pure in their resistance to destructive capitalism.

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.
  
  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?
  
  If you think the fault lies with the democrats, tou haven't been paying attention to the machine they are raging about.
  
  Zzzzzzzz
  
  Fascism never wins permanently.

Love that slogan.