God damn that’s a long way to fall from Johnny Paycheck playing ‘You Can Take This Job and Shove it’ in front of an army of protesting miners who were being murdered by the U.S. military.

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The current crop would hate him. He married interracially, spoke out against the treatment of Native Americans and Americas brutal history of em, went into San Quentin and thrashed that place and the prison system altogether. He'd be absolutely despised. The one's talking about "conservative is the new punk" would clutch their pearls

[–] Red_October@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

In other words- He was a true proletariat. Proletariat culture in the empirical core has been co oped by bourgeois propaganda a million times over and flooded with cosplayers. Tell the people who would revolt against you what to think by giving them an actor pretending to be them. All you really need to do is get the middle class who still thinks they’re part of the lower class, the lower class becomes so ignored they can either tow the line or be rejected by everyone around them.

It’s a sick fucking state of affairs and the sins of this country can only repaid by the utter destruction of the capitalist system.