• the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    There’s lots of em, some are in the replies you got before mine. The point isn’t whether you believe them, the point of them is to make you not want to listen to RATM. Hell after 9/11 there was a memo put out asking radio stations not to play certain 'anti establishment songs, but only one band was called out specifically for total blackout. Wanna guess which it was?

    Their message is powerful, and getting more obviously true every day. I dont give a single fuck about whether they for paid for being a successful band, and neither should anyone with a modicum of understanding in the message they speak.

    Regardless, thinking they’re hypocrites isn’t what matters, people are free to think that. The only thing that matters is whether thinking that way stops one from listening to their words, which are true no matter what you think of them. If one decides not to listen don’t because someone said they’re now RWTM, somebody in psyops is happy for their ignorance

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      Wanna guess which it was?

      Reagan Youth?

      In U.S., A's for apathy
      Not bullshit democracy
      Red white and blue is all you see
      But does it mean you're really free?
      
      In U.S., A's for anarchy
      Not bullshit democracy
      I want total liberty
      I want peace and anarchy
      
      They tell us how to act and be
      Fuck that mental slavery
      With standards and authority
      How can you think you're really free?
      
      Be proud that you're a white Amerikkkan 
      Blonde hair, blue eyes - a fine new aryan 
      Supremacy's the white man's burden
      
      A final solution for the new aryans 
      Death to the nazis and the ku klux klan!
      Anarchy in the fatherland!
      
      Anarchy for the new aryans
      No master race is gonna rule this land!
      
      New order?
      No order!
      New order?
      No order!
      Disorder! 
      Disorder now!
      Now