I love when people get mad that Tom Morello is suddenly political and say they like rage against the machine better before it was political.
Motherfucker, have you listened to a single lyric?
Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me
Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me
Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me
Fuck you I won’t do what you tell meExcept they misheard the lyrics they thought it was “yes sir I will do what you tell me”
“Yes sir, let me lick your boot for free”
Same with people complaining that Star Wars or Star Trek is too woke or too liberal. When was it ever not?
People turn fascist only to discover that that’s exactly what all their favourite art always opposed.
Do you mean political science Harvard grad Tom Morello?
The entire attack on Harvard by the President is an attempt to “delegitimize” the entire process of going and graduating to his base. So the MAGA crowd can actually pretend it’s bad that he went to “that school”.
Still one of the greatest burns I have ever seen in my life.
Killed him (in the name of)
That must’ve felt good when he posted that reply.
It’s got to have been almost worth the masters. Almost.
Tom! Save the hammer for The Man.
;)
Damn he really didn’t do what they told him.
Unless they start telling him to be who he already is, I don’t think he ever will
Help! Call 911!
Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.
I mean, this is just about the least surprising thing in the universe.
There’s actually a ton of conservatives that like RATM because they like how it sounds but don’t understand the lyrics. They are often genuinely shocked when they realize.
This is still one of my favorite social media interactions of all time. And especially given the OP’s topic since Morello’s alma mater is Harvard.
Ha, I’ve seen davez67’s comment and Morello’s reply before, but never the actual picture. I need that fucking shirt
Conservatives often have very poor media literacy. They’re often not smart or empathetic, because if they were then they wouldn’t be conservative.
They’re so bad at it that they wind up liking media that is directly mocking them. They legit say things like “I liked Stephen Colbert better before he went woke. The Colbert Report was good back in the day.” They completely missed that Larry the Cable Guy is a character. They like Fight Club and The Wolf of Wall Street for exactly the wrong reasons.
You have to be an extremely clueless dumbass to miss the very clear message behind RATM music, and yet they somehow still manage. They must have been sniffing glue while the teacher was going over analysis and annotations.
Oh god I remember a debate at work between two guys trying to decide if Stephen Colbert was really conservative or not, and therefore good.
I’d like to think Paul Ryan still cries himself to sleep at night over this.
I would like the universe even more if it gave Paul Ryan perpetual kidney stones.
Yes, having the frontman of your favorite band personally reject you as a person for your consistently harmful behavior would probably make anyone with a conscience reconsider.
Anyone with a conscience.
It blows my fucking mind that these people exist, agreed.
What the fuck machine do they think he’s been raging against? A cappuccino machine?
Education is the solution. It always is. We need to educate the living shit out of all those conservative dipshits so they stop doing so many dumb fucking things.
It’s that simple. Now, if only we had a functioning department of education…
It’s not about printers? “Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me” sounds like most printers these days.
Education is the solution. It always is. We need to educate the living shit out of all those conservative dipshits so they stop doing so many dumb fucking things.
The problem is they think that they are educated and that they have researched these topics by going to websites run by conservative think tanks. Once that’s in their minds, they begin pushing any alternative viewpoint away as liberal propaganda because, in their mind, they’ve already researched it. They can’t even consider that their research might have been compromised from the beginning to lead them to a purposefully wrong conclusion.
It can be corrected, but it takes a LOT of effort to undo 40+ years of misinformation and propaganda being drip fed to the populace through media conglomerates like Fox News, moonlighting as far and balanced sources of information. Purposefully sprinkling bits of reality in to point to when confronted about it.
You’re not actually working to change someone’s point of view on one topic, you’re having to show them that potentially their entire belief system is based on lies and deceit to manipulate them, and not based on reality and facts.
We need to educate their kids out from under them.
Why do you think they’ve been systematically dismantling the public education system?
Doesn’t even have to be education, but just some critical thinking skills. Just ask yourself some simple questions, “Why are they doing this?” or “How will this benefit me?”
We need to educate the living shit out of all those conservative dipshits so they stop doing so many dumb fucking things.
“You can lead a horse to water by you can’t make them think.” Adapting this adage I come up with “You can lead a conservative to information but you can’t make them think.”
You can’t even make the horse drink, let alone think.
Same with those who “rock” that Punisher logo. Shit I’ve seen an AR with a forward assist etched with a trump face but in the punisher format.
Fucking batshit.
Frank comes across two police officers who are fans of his. They take a selfie with him and show they have a sticker of his logo on their car before comparing their work to his. Unimpressed, the Punisher tears up the sticker and tells them, “I’ll say this once, we’re not the same. You took an oath to uphold the law. You help people. I gave that up a long time ago. You don’t do what I do. Nobody does. You boys need a role model? His name’s Captain America, and he’d be happy to have you… If I find out you are trying to do what I do, I’ll come for you next.”
Punisher Vol. 12, #13
I love that Gerry Conway took back over the book EXCLUSIVELY to make Punisher threaten some cops who had his skull on their bumper.
Same as the pig who murdered Daniel Shaver who had “you’re fucked” etched on the dust cover, they’ve been off the deep end for quite a while
I can understand conservatives who like the music but disagree with the lyrics, but the amount who don’t know RATMs leanings is simply baffling.
Is that why they like all that moaning grating death metal?
Never met a conservative death metal fan myself, they mostly seem to be center or left politically. Then again, it’s just anecdotal so it might not mean anything.
The irony burns. Especially when it’s some dumb boomer in a maga hat dancing around wrapped in a flag
Next up, Serj Tankian.
I’ll say it again. Just look at Mary Morello to see this is not a surprise. His mother raised him right.
Based Morello knows a thing or two about fascist evil empires.
Morello’s father participated in the Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1960) and was Kenya’s first ambassador to the United Nations.[12] Morello’s paternal great-uncle, Jomo Kenyatta, was the first elected president of Kenya.[12] His aunt, Jemimah Gecaga, was the first woman to serve in the legislature of Kenya; and his uncle Njoroge Mungai was a Kenyan Cabinet Minister, Member of Parliament, and was considered one of the founding fathers of modern Kenya.
The best Wikipedia I’ve read, next level respect.
I liked tom morello more when he wasn’t so political
(sarcasm is obvious but I thought I’d add a note on your behalf)
I see what you did there, lol
I didn’t, h e l p. Is this sarcasm, I truly don’t know?
yes
lol!
So when he was 14 years old?
Nah man, he popped out and his mama slapped a beret on his head right then.
Fuck you trump! Pussy ass dumb bitch! Get fucked!
We definitely need a fuck trump music tour.
Bad Religion and Dropkick Murphys are touring this summer. Propagandhi was going to but dropped out for obvious reasons.
I just wish Propagandi would stop being political and go back to songs like “Stick the fucking flag up your goddamned ass you sonofabitch” ya know? Songs for the kids like they used to do.
For someone who knows almost nothing about Propagandhi except for briefly listening to them like 20 years, ago, what are the obvious reasons they dropped off the tour?
They’re extremely leftist, outspoken, and they have to cross the border to come here.
They’re Canadian
Every tour should be. It’s just doing your civic duty at this point. If you have a platform, use it
Why stand on a silent platform? Flight the war, fuck the norm.
Tom is, as far as I can tell, a total fucking badass!
How long until Republican groups convince you all that Tom and Bruce are fascist or something. No true leftist. I’m giving it 30 days
This seems like an incoherent premise. Neither artist ever supported Trump, and Morello has been outspoken against Trump for like a decade. How do you figure they will whine about them any more effectively now?
Hell never have I listened to RATM so much as I have from 2017 onward. Wish they would reform and put out a new album.
Love Rage, but Tom needs to reform Street Sweeper Social Club with Boots Riley.
Boots knows what we need…
The FUCK. The universe has been letting me down for decades, and you sir just righted that wrong.
I couldn’t find a good version of Street Sweepers when Trent Reznor was performing with them, but there’s some really shitty decade old cell phone footage out there lol.
Boots is the fucking truth tho, the female vocalist from that video (Pam the funktress) knew Tupac from before he was famous, and Tupac latched onto Boots and cited him as a political influence.
He’s been around forever, but most people these days know him from the movies and TV shows he writes/directs/produces:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc70iFCaKho
He’s basically a real life Huey Freeman
This one is also… timely.
KNOW YOUR ENEMY!
