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 crossesah, the cryptic lyrics were too opaque for the conservative brain
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Batman is a billionaire beating up environmentalists. Sounds pretty MAGA to me.
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
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.
Where did the supernatural curse come from?
It depends on the universe and story arc. In one Batman is literally fighting a god that lives as a bat at the core of the city. One has an evil warlock from 40000 years ago sleeping under the city. My favorite one is that there’s a literal portal to hell in Arkham’s basement.
Rich people, probably.
I’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
Emphasis mine.
For some songs (like “We’re not gonna take it”), only knowing the chorus explains why many people might miss the point. “Take Me to Church” doesn’t even offer that saving grace.
MAGA seem to be made up a lot of individuals with no patience to sit down and listen to song lyrics.
Is the bulk of them struggling with ADHD? cuz it kinda sounds like a trait of ADHD
I have ADHD and can understand English words, so pretty sure they’re just dumb
Riding the train in the wrong direction just makes this person sound like they’re one of those people that can’t sit in a seat facing backwards on a train without feeling queezy.
I think there’s something beautiful about people getting from music what they look for in it, even if the lyrics litterally counter it.
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
“Bulls On Parade? Bulls are basically donkeys with horns, so clearly its talking about democrats.”
“Know Your Enemy? Well I know my enemy, liberals!”
“Some of those who work forces are the same who burn crosses? Hell yeah!”
“I like burning crosses!!!”
Clearly that’s talking about the radical left. Who else would possibly burn a cross as a symbol of their movement than the godless radical left? It’s obviously a Christian song.
Jarrod Sessler must’ve been high if he thought that song favored conservative values…
That or he’s an idiot that couldn’t understand the lyrics…or understand the video…He listened to the song intro and that’s it. Guaranteed.
It’s not that they don’t listen. It’s that their brains aren’t built to think critically about anything. They are built to obey, but they’re also narcissists.
That’s why conservatives go wild for Trump. From the conservative’s point of view, Trump lets them FEEL LIKE THEY ARE OBEYING by doing whatever they want.
He doesn’t just give them permission or cover to be awful; Trump makes these people feel like they’re helping him when they do shitty and selfish things.
(This is also why they love cops who hurt people and soldiers who commit war crimes. They get to vicariously OBEY while also BREAKING THE RULES TO FEEL GOOD. Best of both worlds to them, like taking an upper and a downer at the same time.)
I guess that makes conservatism a social speedball.
I think you have it backward. These people are all “independent free thinkers” who think the same thing Fox told them to think.
They don’t want to obey; they’re Confederates! They’re rebels and cowboys and other term for rugged, free individualists. These people, who have been robbed of even the ability to think, let alone do, by themselves after decades of propagandizing and near-nonexistent education. They feel like they’re flipping off the establishment. That’s why MAGAs kept talking about “drain the swamp”, because they thought “far right” was just a new angle to attack more decorous politicians. They aren’t helping Trump out of some unctuous, perverse desire to be stepped on. They’re helping Trump because they’re too dumb to release that their party IS the establishment.
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.
In November 2023, after the October 7 attacks, Snider was asked if he agreed with Israel soldiers using “We’re Not Gonna Take It” as a battle cry. He replied, “Oh, hell yeah. You know what? Israelis, the assault on the Israelis, people are losing sight of something. People saying that, ‘Oh, the response is gonna be too intense for what happened.’ Well, you don’t get to decide on the response when you do heinous things to civilians. You don’t get to say, ‘Oh, that’s enough, that’s enough retaliation.’ No, it doesn’t work like that. When you cross that line, you’re burning people, you’re slaughtering people, you’re raping people, you’re just killing people, after what happened at that festival you don’t get to say, ‘Okay, your revenge can be this much.’ No. Payback’s a mothereffer. And I come from that school. You cross that line, you know… shit’s gonna happen. Sing it out, boys.”
Everyone’s problematic
Valid criticism, but how does he feel today? Because on October 7, I was pretty supportive of strong retaliation, too.
Then I saw what Israel actually did, which was far beyond a military response on military targets. It wasn’t long after they started that they lost my support. I can support the concept of justice, I can’t support genocide.
I don’t know how he feels about that today, but it is possible that his feelings in November, immediately following the attack, changed after the atrocious response. I think a lot of peoples’ did.
Yeah I agree for the most part. I can’t find anything about him retracting this comment in the aftermath though. Maybe he did.
But his implied question is deep, what amount of retaliation is the correct or maximum amount? Not just in this case, but any case.
Well, for Israel, they have a deep-seated teaching of their culture that straight up tells them what is the appropriate amount of retaliation: it’s called the Torah. All these “ultra-Orthodox” people in the Kinesset should know what their Bible says about retaliation. “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” This law actually is intended to place limits on retaliation in that one is only owed what has been taken–with many rabbis seeing it as a means for financial compensation. As I understand it, in places like Egypt (where, according to tradition, Israel’s forebears were exploited workers, basically slaves) had an unbalanced legal system that allowed for disproportionate retaliation (“you took my eye? Well now your family is dead”), especially as applied for aristocratic types. But the Torah was presented as universally applicable to every Jew.
So, leveling Gaza is disproportionate retaliation according to the very law they claim God Himself gave them.
That’s the eternal question. Too much retaliation isn’t just immoral, it’s tactically foolish. You horrify your allies and incite revenge. Too little on the other hand and you don’t deter.
While I think we should have gone harder in punishment to the active members of the axis governments, I think the post WW2 rebuilding is probably best. Leaders and propagandists are targeted and punished and there’s a period of hardship, but you help them rebuild while pressing them towards a less destructive attitude towards you.
The only way to kill your way to peace is to kill everyone. Real peace requires creating an environment where enough of both sides want peace and violence isn’t worth it.
It’s pretty obvious innit? Targeted counter terror operations. Use the considerable power and expertise available to the government to bring those responsible to justice without demolishing the whole country. Like America should’ve done (and eventually did) with bin Laden, instead of invading the countries next door for over a decade.
I mean that’s what I would do, but to answer more broadly, I think the maximum amount should definitely be constrained to what is legal.
Playing devils advocate for Snider, November 2023 was right after October 7th and I don’t think there were nearly as many people pointing out and shouting about the ethnic cleansing Israel was using the attack as an excuse to partake in until we got into 2024.
Honestly that was me too, I was also for squashing Hamas until I saw that this turned into genocide.
Indeed.
I know “Well, you don’t get to decide on the response” certainly aged like milk, but I think folks in 2023 could be forgiven to be thinking “IDF is going to strike Hamas and Hamas brought them on themselves” as the wanton collateral harm largely wasn’t on folks radar at the time. Some folks with more nuanced understandings sounded alarms and were dismissed, but having to respond to that situation mere weeks after October 7th… That’s going to be a tough scenario for most people to come out looking ok.
Only naive people and people who had no clue what they were talking about. In 2023, israel had been a settler colonialist genocidal ethnostate for half a century already
Naive is right. I knew straight up anarchists that somehow didn’t know the score RE Palestine until they started digging after 2023.
Oh fuck. I thought I liked him. Turns out he’s a hypocrite :(
There’s a long list of people. He’s nowhere near the top. He has time to realize his mistakes, apologize, and get on board in a genuine fashion.
Here’s hoping he does realize. But somehow I haven’t seen that with anyone so far who was defending the Israeli crimes against humanity in Gaza and elsewhere. Everyone decent so far has been able to both condemn Hamas AND the genocide of the Palestinians.
It’s almost like the situation in the ME is exceptionally nuanced and no amount of armchair discussions on social media are going to explain or resolve it.
I’m saying this as a non-Jew who married a Jew and had 3 kids with her.
The situation in Gaza is not nuanced. There’s a genocide happening there - the single worst crime possible. There’s no nuance, it’s as extreme and clear cut as it is possible to be.
Talking about it on the internet is important, because ideas can spread.
This isn’t about Jewish identity. It’s about a state committing genocide on another state.Sorry to fire back at you like this, but I really don’t know what you’re trying to achieve with your comment, and it didn’t make sense to me.
Condemning settler colonialism is pretty simple. Maybe you’re overthinking it?
Nobody cares who you married, and I’m saying this as a mischling jew.
I listen to a lot of Jewish comedians, does my opinion count?
Depends how many of them are named Jerry Seinfeld, I guess 🤷🏻
Is one of them Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofsky?
And believe it or not I agree with you but that said it’s not so cut and dry and if you were Jewish you would understand that much.
And being clear no one cares that you’re a mischling Jew, and I’m saying this as a Canadian.
I guess it depends on what concepts you are willing to let go of. If you think Jews have some kind of holy right to land occupied by other people, yes, things are goig to be complicated because you also want to protect your ability to think of yourself as a good person, and that precludes you from supporting ethnic cleansing and genocide
If, on the other hand, you see Israel as a settler-colonial project no morally different than the Dutch in South Africa or the British in North America or the Spanish is South America or the Belgians in the Congo, it becomes a much easier ethical calculus.
There are plenty of Jews who view Israel as the latter, and the fact an identity “makes things complicated,” points to self-interested decision. Just like being white makes the concept of removing barriers to employment by black people “complicated”, or being a man might make supporting female rape victims “complicated.” The fact that a choice might not benefit a group you identify with is not an argument in favor.
And, yeah, nobody should listen to “as a mischling jew.” That’s 1/4th Jewish.
Personally speaking they should pave over the entire ME. No one is showing they have the maturity to live there so take it away from everyone.
That said, not possible lol
Plenty of Jewish people interpret the slogan and promise Never again to refer to all genocide, not just that committed against Jews. Israel has been committing human atrocities for a while now, but under the authoritarian Netanyahu administration, they’ve burned the nuance right out.
Israel has become the monster it was once afraid of, and once promised never to be.
Israel has become the monster it was once afraid of, and once promised never to be.
I am sorry to inform you that it never promised that. On the contrary, from its outset Zionism has been a colonial project fundamentally premised on the displacement, dispossession, and ultimately genocide of the Palestinian people.
The language of colonialism hadn't gone out of style yet when they started, so Zionist writing in the 19th and first half of the 20th century was much clearer about it:
[It is the] iron law of every colonizing movement, a law which knows of no exceptions, a law which existed in all times and under all circumstances. If you wish to colonize a land in which people are already living, you must provide a garrison on your behalf. Or else – or else, give up your colonization, for without an armed force which will render physically impossible any attempts to destroy or prevent this colonization, colonization is impossible, not “difficult”, not “dangerous” but IMPOSSIBLE! … Zionism is a colonizing adventure and therefore it stands or falls by the question of armed force. It is important to build, it is important to speak Hebrew, but, unfortunately, it is even more important to be able to shoot – or else I am through with playing at colonialization. - Ze’ev Jabotinsky
See also Jewish Colonisation Association, Palestine Jewish Colonization Association, Jewish Colonial Trust, Zionism as settler colonialism, …
Note also that from the beginning there has been strong Jewish opposition to Zionism, starting with opposition by Jews who were living peacefully there and wanted nothing to do with the project.
What is nuanced about shooting starving children in bread lines and bombing hospitals? Please enlighten me.
There are many, many, many Jews that feel their culture and their right to exist is under attack and the actions are justified and those walls they have built are there for good reason and exist over hundreds if not thousands of years of persecution.
This in no way makes it right and I agree with you, but we need to acknowledge the conversation comes with a history that is extremely loaded and I’d argue many of us are not in a position to fully cover the nuance.
I love the anger I get back for simply stating this.
That’s fair, and I’m sympathetic to that fear and that concern, but for all the nuance of how it got to this point and why there’s still too much support, I do think that the reality as it has become has removed all nuance from the situation as it currently stands.
Israeli soldiers are engaging in genocide with all the gleeful torture and killing that is associated with the crime. They need to be stopped, leadership needs to be punished, and the everyday people need to be deradicalized.
A lot of people’s anger at the calls for nuance comes from the fact that we keep being told there’s nuance and that we need to be sympathetic to israel as they commit horrifying crimes and not only is nothing done to stop them, people in western nations are being prevented from stopping our governments and institutions’ assistance to them.
feel their culture and their right to exist is under attack and the actions are justified
And I feel like I deserve a harem that sucks my dick every hour. That doesn’t make me nuanced, it makes me a dumbass. Pretending like the history matters at all is just a way of justifying evil actions to yourself.
Why is it impossible to discuss important things with people who act like fucking children? Maybe because they are? 🤷♂️
Anyways neither of us are solving this problem so I’m dipping out of trying to have a discussion with a dumbass. Your words not mine.
