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[–] [email protected] 197 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This reminds me of that guy who declared he wouldn't be listening to Rage Against the Machine anymore because Tom Morello had become too political 😂😂😂

[–] [email protected] 137 points 3 months ago (5 children)

How about when a republican Tweeted:

"Bummed to learn that @deesnider, the man with the perfect song written decades ago about the attack on traditional, conservative American values… “We’re Not Gonna Take It” is riding the train in the wrong direction. How could it be that he sang for us but now fights for them?

And Dee Snider:

You think i wrote a song in support of "traditional American values"? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! You funny.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 months ago (3 children)

the man with the perfect song written decades ago about the attack on traditional, conservative American values

Ah yes, the famously conservative hair metal singer whose stage getup was just shy of a drag performers. How could one forget this pinnacle of conservative values.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 months ago

I've seen drag performers with less makeup than Dee Snyder. He was approaching "circus clown" in that song's video.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago

That's the funny part, and why he destroyed tipper gore's dumb parental advisory witch hunt; He doesn't drink or smoke, and is a family man. He's much closer to conservative family values than people expect. Here he is recounting that time he made a fool of Congress

You should also watch his full congress speech if you have time

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago

They saw it was from Twisted Sister and probably thought they were into incest like them?

[–] [email protected] 78 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My favorite response the Morello tweet got was "what 'Machine' did you think he was raging against? The dishwasher?" Lol

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Nah, definitely was a printer.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Well, in a way, raging against a printer usually is just raging against late stage capitalism with extra steps

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Lol, yes. My dad worked for them and can attest, printer ink is peak late stage capitalism.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've definitely raged against printers........ (I'll see you in hell Epson ink refills!)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

My favorite response the Morello tweet got was “what ‘Machine’ did you think he was raging against? The dishwasher?” Lol

Epson didn't refill itself!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Pretty sure that's canonically done to "Damn it feels good to be a gangster" and not RATM. Could have been an air conditioner though.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

“Ms. Gore claimed that one of my songs, ‘Under the Blade,’ had lyrics encouraging sadomasochism, bondage and rape. The lyrics she quoted have absolutely nothing to do with these topics. On the contrary, the words in question are about surgery and the fear that it instills in people. … I can say categorically that the only sadomasochism, bondage and rape in this song is in the mind of Ms. Gore.”

-Dee Snider at the PMRC Congressional hearings.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dee-snider-on-pmrc-hearing-i-was-a-public-enemy-71205/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Art is subjective, it's funny how often it says more about the viewer than the person who made it.

Heck I always intrepreted the song Dream Thieves by Sonata Artica to be about betrayal at the hands of an oppressive authority figure...

It's actually about music piracy, how it negatively effected the band's income, with the implication that a fan who pirates music is disloyal as a true fan would want to contribute to the livelihood of a musician they like..

I don't really agree with the intended message and I still like the song because of MY interpretation, but damn that does make the line "Download new lies on your scythe" make more sense in context

Personally I feel like "Piracy is always morally correct" and "Support Indie Creators whenever possible." are not contradictory viewpoints. (Admittedly the song was written when digital media was a new concept)

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago

The most stereotypical drag band aren't conservative? What a shocker

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Did they not see the music video for that song where a rebellious kid using the power of rock rebels against his authoritarian father? Turning into the effeminate-looking singer of the song in the process, a song by a band named twisted SISTER? Said father who is heavily implied to be a former US Marine?

Yeah that's about as "Traditional American Values" and "Pro-Conservative" as a black lesbian burning down a Chic-Fila-A on June 1st with a molotov cocktail made from a bottle of Bud Light (It's not very Left Wing, but the brand triggers the fuck out of Righties) while making out with her transgender undocumented immigrant girlfriend, who had a perfect 15 inch girl-cock boner the whole time, because she is non-op and does not desire Bottom Surgery nor feel she should get a procedure that would be more effective on someone who actually does have dysphoria down there... She does however hope to have implants some day, and will look into it after gaining citizenship via marrying her black lesbian lover... However said Black Lesbian Lover gets SSI on account of being epileptic and cannot marry anyone without it harshly affecting her benefits and jeopardize her already vicarous living situation, so the wedding is off until they can find a lawyer to show them the right loopholes.

Oh dear God help me this is becoming a short story......

(Not a threat or call to arms, please do not burn down any establishments chicken or otherwise, voting for Biden will be enough, thank you)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My wife's theory was they only caught the first 20 seconds of the video and assumed the father was the protagonist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That kind of requires an astounding ignorance of the tropes of what was considered "Cool" at the time... Meaning for a Republican that's pretty damn plausible

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Get this in front of AMC to get picked up for 5 seasons with 3 or 4 good ones

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago (1 children)

smh Tom Morello talks so much about politics these days you'd think he has a degree in it

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I love when I learn things from sarcasm.

He attended Harvard University and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Morello

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Back when I used to watch Bill Maher's show before I couldn't take him any longer, Morello was on, and some right-wing guest said something like, "white guys like you and me" to Tom Morello and he just slowly and calmly told the guy that he's black in such a disarming way that the guy had absolutely nothing to say in response and it was awesome.

Any more assumptions you idiots want to make about Morello and his band?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This reminds me of people who accuse Star Trek of being too political also.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I saw one a while back where people were getting upset that X-Men had become "woke" lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (11 children)

As a gamer, I am constantly rolling my eyes at people claiming that a gay character with a same-sex love interest being a minor character in a massive game makes it "Political" and "Forces an Agenda"

Especially as the "Non-Political Games" they stick to are always the most Leftist shit like BioShock (Why Libertarianism is bad and will always lead to someone destroying the world to stack the deck in their favor), Fallout (Blind Nationalism is meaningless and will force you into a conflict that causes you to lose everything you held dear), and Residnet Evil (America's For-Profit Healthcare System creates company that are evil and cannot be trusted with people's lives)

Funny, it seems like Right Wing Politics actually make game stories worse, like Dead Rising 3 (Vaccines are evil and a means to spy on you, also the President is an expy of Hillary.... this is also where Dead Rising fell into a spiral with 4 finishing it off) and BioShock Infinite (Good game, but also another franchise killer with a story that pisses off everyone.. One of the key points of the story? Black slaves revolting against their highly bigoted white owners are just as evil as the people who kidnapped them, took them to a city in the sky, and forced them to do all the labor)

"The only difference between Zachary Cumsock and Daisy Fitzroy are how you spell their name!" - Booker DeWitt being the dumbest man alive

God what's another game with terrible Right Wing politics? Hard to say because most of them are budget title shitposts like the Kyle Rittenhouse game on Steam or the various "Play as Trump and save America" games on Steam

I actually can't think of much media considered "Good" by anyone that's right leaning at all aside from The Dark Knight Returns (Where humanely treating and rehabilitating criminals is seen as foolishly naive and the government is incapable of helping anyone... To be fair Reagan was President), King of The Hill (and even then Hank would be a solid never Trumper, don't get me wrong, as much as I love Hank I don't see him being much an LGBT Ally (Especially not to T's) without breaking character), and..... huh.... I can't think of anything.

Does that show Ben Shapiro's people made to be a Pro-Right Cartoon, but failed when the super woke antagonist was... a far more likable character than the protagonist, and said protagonist was so accidentally queer-coded as a closested gay bear with a crush on the woke antagonist guy that it attracted a Leftist fanbase that ships the Protagonist and Antagonist together? To such an extent that it might as well be a canon pairing?

Yeah does that show count? Sorry I don't remember the name

Anything else?

Nope that's about it, it's almost like Conservatism is a backwards ideology that can only bring destruction in its wake and deep down we all know that it inevitably leads to fascism.

I also find it funny how much stuff gets called "Woke" when it really isn't..

Like the Tomb Raider prequel-disguised-as-a-reboot where it's called woke because Lara's sexualized less. Which while true, is only to an extent, she still has the largest chest in the game (To the extent that it looks like she has implants, especially in scenes with other female characters) and every camera angle is throwing her delicious cake in your face (Which appeals to my bisexuality, just cause I'm female doesn't mean I don't like fanservice), and personality-wise... Lara spends a large amount of the game helpless, looking up to a male role model, with her combat prowess being based more in acting on a combination of fear, instinct, and adrenaline than anything else. She's constantly shown as being in a state of fear to such an extent that some parts of the prequel/reboot trilogy dubbed "Survivor Trilogy" might as well be a Horror Game, and people who work on Horror Games for a living agree since Lara Croft's the most recent addition to the big Horror Crossover game Dead By Daylight!

Oh and her iconic weapon is a makeshift bow (You'd think she'd start carrying heavier ordinance in the sequels), she never even gets her trademark Dual Pistols (the first game implies she hasn't earned them yet.. but they're not in the sequels at all), a weapon of last resort crafted in desperation.

Meanwhile Original Lara is a wise-cracking adventure seeker never backing down from a challenge, with her iconic weapon being a stupidly large amount of ammo fired out of two guns she keeps on her person at all times, ready to fight. This weapon speaks more to someone ready to kick ass and take names.

Original Lara is often seen outdoing her male peers with her biggest rival being another woman, as if to say that literally no man can be her equal.

If we put them side-by-side, it's actually Original Lara that feels more like the typical "Strong Female Lead" they complain about, but it's the reboot that's woke?

For the record, I like the Survivor Trilogy, but Original Lara is still my favorite Lara. (And you bet your ass I bought the Classic Lara skin the second it was available for DBD) We need more chicks who are "Basically the female equivalent of Duke Nukem", and only Lara and Bombshell (from Ion Fury) come close to that bill. (And well original Lara is more recognizable from a visual standpoint, reboot Lara doesn't stand out as much to the point that I sometimes get her mixed up with REmake 3's version of Jill.. My autistic face blindness doesn't help)

Sorry I kind of went on a tangent there. I LOVE LARA~!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Black slaves revolting against their highly bigoted white owners are just as evil as the people who kidnapped them, took them to a city in the sky, and forced them to do all the labor

That pissed me off soooo much. Really soured the game for me. The imagery of worshipping the founding fathers was the best part.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

It's funny, it's so rare in a work of fiction that I can point to the EXACT moment that I stopped caring about the narrative in a piece of media.

It's centrist "BoTh SiDeS" nonsense

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I know the "both sides" thing is something we're all sick of now, but there's no way Levine could have imagined what 2020+ would look like. Not to say that isn't something that's always happened, but man 2012 didn't have it to our current degree of insanity. Also I always figured the Vox were modeled more after the Russian revolution which... yeah... Stalinism was the end result, so it fits. I think that's the crux of the bad writing. You model the Vox after real world socialist uprisings, but they're predominantly black in a crazy racist planation in the sky. Now you're borrowing context from two real world things, and need to be careful about what you're saying, intentionally or not, about each of them. You have a responsibility in your messaging now. Given how it landed with you, I'd say they didn't do a great job.

Also Booker's view of it fits. He's a drunk, gambling, Pinkerton who sold his daughter. He's going to be a jaded misanthrope. Oh yeah and the part where he is also Comstock. Everything is there for us to know this is not a character we should be rooting for. But while these are facts about him, they never really make it into the "feel" of booker. So the information is there, it's just not great writing.

In contrast Elizabeth is really well done. She starts naïve and pure (if only because of the whole fucked up locked in a tower bit), and Booker does genuinely "lead the lamb astray". He's the reason she gets exposed to everything, and as a result rains fire from the sky. While we know booker is an asshole but doesn't feel like one, we definitely feel Elizabeth getting darker. I also think it's a great touch that the one that saves Elizabeth is, Elizabeth. Booker can't even take credit for that one.

I'm rambling now, I have a lot of mixed feelings on the game. It's got some really great and well done parts, and some serious blunders.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Nah, that wasn't a "looks bad now" thing, it looked bad any time. Saying that people rising up against their oppressors are just as bad as the oppressors is bullshit in any era. One can claim that that was just Booker's point of view and the game wasn't saying he was right, but the narrative did nothing to imply that he was wrong in any way, especially considering you were encouraged to mow down the slaves who were revolting just like you did the slavers previously. And having them dress like this? What were they thinking?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I agree with all of this except what you said about Hank Hill... I think he would be very uncomfortable at first, then get to know them on a personal level, and then become cautiously accepting by the end of the episode.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And while King of the Hill features a bunch of right wing characters, I don't think I'd consider the show itself right-leaning. It respected its characters but also constantly made fun of them regarding their beliefs. Like when Hank would say Bobby isn't alright, I didn't get the impression that's what the show wanted to say; the show respected Bobby as much as it did Hank. And Peggy and Luanne.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

True, but there were plenty of episodes where Hank Hill is shown being in the right for combating "New-fangled Liberal Nonsense", like the episode where they ban transfats to be more like NYC, or the episode where he finds it disrespectful to tone down the details of "The Alamo".. There are also plenty of episodes where the opposite happens and Hank realizes he is indeed stuck in the past and the ideals he holds close are not best for everyone, or maybe even anyone.(Like when he realizes an overly strict parent of boy scouts is overly strict for a reason, or when he realizes that growing roses is a legitimate sport that requires practice and discipline)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Similar, but also remember that by the 10th season ole Hank was a lot more open minded than when the show started lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because when the show started Hank was still a characture from Beavis and Butthead, and the writers grew him into something pretty awesome.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

as much as I love Hank I don't see him being much an LGBT Ally (Especially not to T's) without breaking character)

Hank meets a trans woman who tries to explain being trans to him, and he just doesn't get it. He has a mental block. He insists that she's a beautiful young woman and he also likes her "brother" quite a lot.

In another episode he helps Bobby buy a bra so he can dress up as a woman.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but like you said he didn't understand the concept.. and as for the latter example it was for Powder Puff Football and he even stresses that Bobby can basically "Never dress like this again" afterward

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I can imagine Hank being ignorant, stubborn, and dismissive, but I can't imagine him being directly hateful. I think his behaviour at the grocery co-op is a good indicator. Hank got along perfectly well with potheads, hippies, and vegans, as long as he was able to teach them the value of hard work.

If I meet Hank Hill I'd tell him "I ain't no woman and I ain't no man. And if I catch you running your mouth to the contrary, I'm gonna kick your ass. You can call me Mx. Mindtraveller, and refer to me with the pronoun "they". Understood?" And that would be that. He'd mess up, of course, and I'd respond with a stern look and a faint growl, and he'd get the hang of it sooner or later. The key to these kinds of men is simply speaking their own language. You have to demonstrate your rugged individualism and ability to fight for your own dignity, and you need to phrase bigotry as a violation of the social contract and of good manners.

The only people who Hank really gets mad at in the show, are those who are violent towards women and children, and those who lack the determination and good sense to accomplish what they set out to do. Hank respects people who can look after themselves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Hell ya! You said it

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