anyone that whines about Rage Against The Machine's music being "tOo pOLiTiCaL"
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I know someone who used to go to rage against the machine concerts in their youth and is now a Republican. Every day I wake up and thank god I am not that braindead
I remember chuckling to videos of drumptards dancing to RATM during the Floyd protests and covid. It was obvious that their only takeaway was "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me"
Yeah, that one hit hard during the Floyd protests. It is literally a song about cops killing black people. And it's not even subtle ... wtf?
With a name like Rage Against The Machine, it's on the tin.
Republicans think they're the punks because they rally against decency.
For anyone unaware, there are a number of memes about RATM (mostly Tom Morello's) politics
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2101254-rage-against-the-machine
But my personal favorite, from 2020, is this one: https://i.imgur.com/ix6Ig4Hg.jpg
What do you think the machine is they are raging against? The fucking printer?
“It’s too bad they are raging FOR the machine now”
Morons.
Flat Earthers confirming Earth is round with science and saying the science is wrong.
It's interesting that they are able to come up with creative and intelligent experiments that would serve as evidence or proof one way or another but then often won't even trust their own results.
The ones just trolling I can understand. Maybe it's all of the ones doing experiments.
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People who thought Tyler Durden was cool
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Almost everything about Starship Troopers
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people who think Bickle (Taxi Driver) is a hero
I'm doing my part
1984 is not about mass surveillance. It's about lowering the langage and culture so that you don't even have word to criticize the system.
It's about total control from the perfect totalitarian state. Mass surveillance is a small part, and control of language is also a part. But it's also about control of truth and history, and eventually even control of the inner mind.
The cameras are only a tiny part.
Surveillance isn't done by cameras in the book, it's done by the citizens. One of the side characters joins the main character in jail in the final act cause his kids told on him... and he was proud of them for it.
True, there are microphones, because I specifically remember the main character taking a walk through a new forest, because the thin trees couldn't possibly hide a microphone.
Which is part of the propaganda, that you should be wary of everyone watching you at all times.
The only one they specifically are targeting that we know of is the main character, and it's because of something he had done years and years before. It was targeted surveillance, not mass surveillance.
Pretty sure there was a TV in every home and they were surveillance devices
Cops saying "Just a few bad apples".
Remind me again? How does the full saying go?
Deep breath ... I will not mention politics ... deep breath ... I will not mention politics ...
You can always mention religion.
They just said they weren't going to mention politics.
Too on the nose.
Loud, rich Christians.
Everyone who "does their own research"
Let them eat cake. Or doesn't that count?