Just like "Born in the USA".
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And fortunate son... The amount of people who completely misinterpret the song about the rich senators son not needing to go fight in a useless war while you're drafted to go and die is too damn high.
Makes you wonder about tech oligarchs who read scifi and always misinterpret it. Rather than warnings of unbridled power, they seem to view stuff like 1984, Snowcrash, Dune, etc as guides.
To these narcissist everything that enables them to sit on top while the vast majority of people is miserable is unfortunately work as inspiration.
Many of them actively seek to replace most people with robots; but they will keep a few humans as pets and slaves to sate their egos.
Alex Blechman (@AlexBlechman) tweeted:
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.8 Nov 2021
Don't forget "Animal Farm" and "A Handmaids Tale".
Reminds me of the time Tom Morello made a political statement and magats got into a huff, saying that he is a musical artist and should stay out of politics. My favorite comment online was "What machine do they think they were raging against, the toaster?"
Printers are worth raging against, I could get behind that
I'd live with PC Load Letter instead of this timeline
I'd prefer a printer over the system we currently have to live with though.
honestly, you could make a good argument for a personal penile meat grinder over the system we have now.
At least you can put the printer in the trash without issues.
You can unplug them without issues, turn them off without issues, use the neighbours one without issues; it's a long lost, really
These are the traditional american values I support.
Reminds me of that video of magats rocking out on RATM Killing in the name of, having absolutely no idea what the song is about
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
ah, the cryptic lyrics were too opaque for the conservative brain
They just assumed that's who the song was for. Killing in the name of God doesn't automatically register as bad for these folks.
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Conservative Politian: When did RATM get political?
Tom Morello: Tell me what song in our catalog you don't think is political and I'll remove it.
They thought the guy dressed in drag while singing "were not going to take it" was on their side? WOW
I guess they saw him battling with Tipper Gore back in the day and, being unable to escape their bifurcated sense of politics, assumed he was on their side.
If only that kid didn't go to the Cincinnati Zoo in 2016.
Media literacy final boss are MAGAs. Same goes for some Christians praising Take Me to Church as a song of worship. You see this also a lot with video games and superheroes. No, Batman would NOT be on your side and games like Fallout have ALWAYS been political.
No, Batman would NOT be on your side
Neither would Punisher, despite the bullshit thinblueline skulls and that stupid orange-diddler combover variants.
Gerry Conway (RIP) literally took back over the book specifically to have Punisher threaten a cop for using his symbol. "You don't do what I do. Nobody does. [...] If I find out you are trying to do what I do, I'll come for you next."
Batman is a billionaire beating up environmentalists. Sounds pretty MAGA to me.
Batman can be viewed as a violent force of the status quo and if you fry your brain with post 9/11 propaganda you could even get the stupid idea that this is a good thing. Looking at you, Frank Miller.
But the idealized or, to be even more pretentious, platonic idea of Batman is everything but.
There's a comic arc where Batman tries feverishly to get rid of his fortune not through philanthropy but really by selling and giving away everything. The system is so rigged that he is still stupidly filthy rich by the end of it all and the systemic inequalities and corruption make it so that all his money is being squandered and used to further abuse victims instead of helping. So he ends up beating up people in a black suit anyway, as the only real way to fight corruption.
Also, there's a literal supernatural curse over the city anyways. It will always be evil and corrupt.
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Yeah although usually it's Superman they're obsessed with anyway. Usually they like to complain that the current iteration is too woke, even though it's exact same character from the 1960s
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We'll fight the powers that be, just don't pick our destiny
A big part of MAGA mythology is the notion that the country, even with Republicans in charge of all three branches, is actually run by a sinister cabal of deviants and assorted non-WASPs. "Fighting the powers that be" is what Trump is here to do for them.
'cause you don't know us, you don't belong
...not hard to find a MAGA reading for that line either.
In 2022, Snider tweeted about the use of the song by right-wing activists, "ATTENTION QANON, MAGAT FASCISTS: Every time you sing 'We're Not Gonna Take It' remember it was written by a cross-dressing, libtard, tree hugging half-Jew who HATES everything you stand for. It was you and people like you that inspired every angry word of that song! SO FUCK OFF!
All the cool people of history are woke.
Jew 1/2... I am too half muslim half christian
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There could be a song called "kill all the fascists" and republicans would still think it was a song for them.
I'd say Dee is a national treasure, but i'm afraid it would tick him off. <3 Dee
This is almost as bad as thinking RATM was on their side. I say almost, but holy shit, how do you listen to one of their songs without comprehending or even thinking about a single line of the lyrics. Actual dementia
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