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.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Honolulu

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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?

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah. The music still slaps though.

RATM's bassist is into some weird fringe right-libertarian stuff too if I recall

Nobody's perfect 🤷‍♂️

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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 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

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Apartheid was still an actuality

So you're saying nothing's changed?

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

anybody from South Africa to reply to this?

or is this about the apartheid in Israel/Palestine?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Fair enough. How many resources did the US waste in Vietnam and Korea fighting someone who was not a so called superpower?

[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

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".

☞ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpower

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Killer "pro-cop" Mike?

[–] nick@midwest.social 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] cdf12345@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] nick@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago

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!

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

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.