In an odd twist, rightwingers decide to boycott Tom Morello and his music

danishbacon

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/rage-against-the-machine-right-wing-conservatives-politics-boycott-tom-morello-a9558241.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3kzv1cv61jE5d8vGFa9z5QTrLxhtV8qlueXldF-4P3qY-O4BMWfYGbnWE#Echobox=1591802143

RaymondLin

Snowflake? 

danishbacon

I mean, it reads like an article you'd find in the Onion. Surreal 

Caffeine_Vampire

A very appropriate story for these strange times.

fretmeister

a ha hahahahahahahaha!

That's brilliant!

octatonic

LOL.
Just LOL.

prlgmnr

This is what we're up against.

It's enough to make you want to find a reason to just stay in your own house for months on end and never see any other people.....

kentuckyklira

I love Aerosmith and wouldn´t dream of shunning them just because Joe Perry is a republican.

prlgmnr

I'm immensely curious as to what they thought "some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses" meant for all these years.

danishbacon

prlgmnr said:

I'm immensely curious as to what they thought "some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses" meant for all these years.

I suspect they just never paid attention to the actual lyrics

tony99

prlgmnr said:

I'm immensely curious as to what they thought "some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses" meant for all these years.

they thought it was in reference to a work "force" who are employed in large scale production of bakery items such as hot cross buns, where the bun tops are actually cooked / burned to have a cross in the top of them, these items are closely associated with the festival of easter, from the religion of Christianity which of course has a long held association with the american right and or republicans

kentuckyklira

danishbacon said:

prlgmnr said:

I'm immensely curious as to what they thought "some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses" meant for all these years.

I suspect they just never paid attention to the actual lyrics

Some right wing "news" outlet probably managed to inform their readers about the lyrics in very very short sentences so they finally figured it out!

WiresDreamDisasters

LMAO. Funny stuff, but looks to be just one person. So "a number of" is ... poetic license, to be charitable.

I listen listen to Rage, even though I find their lyrics pretty sophomoric now.

bbill335

every 6 months or so some semi-prominent US right winger sees a tom morello tweet and loudly declares "i won't listen to you any more". it's quite the self-own, to declare that you are that bad at listening to music, or that bad at pretending to have liked a band.

Funkfingers

The Republican Party has previous history on this one.

The Reagan 1984 re-election campaign coopted Springsteen’s Born In The USA, without permission from the artiste or record company and without paying attention to the verse lyrics.

OTOH, Republicans are not noted for their sense of humo(u)r or their grasp of irony.

Generally speaking, well crafted lyrics leave room for interpretation. People can and do choose to relate to songs and artists without necessarily understanding what any of the material means.

Those listeners declaring a sudden change of attitude to songs or artistes are deluding themselves. The United States regards itself as a champion of free speech but takes umbrage when some choose to deviate from the consensus.

If you want to see this in terms of Left and Right, Republicans not only seek monetary betterment, they consider it their manifest destiny. Some go so far as to think this to be the will of their preferred deity. 

mbe

prlgmnr said:

I'm immensely curious as to what they thought "some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses" meant for all these years.

It references the shamans, who ply their paranormal power to work supernatural forces, who have an affinity with Peter of Bruys ( fl. 1117– c. 1131), who burned crosses in protest at the idolatry of veneration of crosses. 

Philly_Q

This story could have appeared any time in the last 20 years, I don't understand why it's suddenly emerged now.

Funkfingers

Trump. Specifically, his Presidential re-election campaign.

vasselmeyer

When the lyrics said "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" did they think they were referencing their Mom and Pop?

WezV

They never said what machine!

mburekenge

WezV said:

They never said what machine!

It was the bigsby vibrato after 15 unsuccessful restringing attempts