Rage Against the Machine

Off Topic Politics and World Issues
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[quote]skaz05 wrote:
They are unbelieveably over-rated in my opinion. One time in high school I went to a party with a bunch of people I didn’t know. I was about two hours into it. There were a bunch of preppy/frat-type white guys there, a couple black guys, I really don’t remember much because I got totally shit faced.

Anyways… Most of the music playing was rap music, but they decided to play a rage against the machine song - the one where he screams “fuck you I wont do what you told me” over and over at the end… Well…

All the preppy white guys started screaming along to it… “FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TOLD ME!”… GOD it was SOOOOOO fucking LAME! A bunch of lame white boys screaming at each other “fuck you I wont do what you told me!” and they were acting all tough like they were ready to fight somebody… OH MY GOD! I just couldn’t stop looking at it… They were just acting retarded, it was seriously lame.

I actually got goosebumps up my back because of the lameness. Like those times where you are embarassed for someone? Yeah, just like that.

It’s a shame when good, even semi-good music goes to lamer white frat boy jock types like that. I stopped liking rage against the machine altogether after that shit.

Ugh… Just thinking about that night gives me goosebumps. It was just a total train wreck.[/quote]

Hey its hard being a white, preppy, jock, Guido’d out, d-bag. With your parents buying your way through life and pretending that mindless pipe dreams are viable careers. Gotta fight the system.

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[quote]Dedicated wrote:
skaz05 wrote:
Dedicated wrote:
SUPERIORITY COMPLEX Def:
An exaggerated feeling of being superior to others.
A psychological defense mechanism in which feelings of superiority counter or conceal feelings of INFERIORITY.

Please… If you knew me you would know that I am NOTHING of the sort.

You know what happens when you ASSUME…

LOL. Maybe maturity will one day bring you clarity for what you cannot see now.

Take er easy.

D[/quote]

:slight_smile:

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One Day as a Lion is Zach Dela Rocha’s new band… Get it… if you like Rage…

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Good band. SOme of their stuff is a little too lefty for my taste but I wouldn’t ban them or anything.

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[quote]Vegita wrote:
tom63 wrote:
Vegita wrote:
Ok so we all know they kick(ed) ass musically, now what does everyone thing of thier politics. Since they put quite a bit of it in thier songs, I say we see what people think. I find that I agree with some of their sentiments, though I generally don’t agree with all of thier nuanced positions.

Take the Power Back is my favorite song.

V

I think they’re a pack of scumbags. On a good day. They played a concert for that cop killer from Philly. Enough for me to ignore them.

Not that I agree with killing anyone, but why should killing a cop be any more looked down upon than killing an innocent civilian, At least the cop knows people might try to kill him and he has training and weapons to defend against it. I don’t know the specifics of the case so I can’t comment unless you give me more info. I’m pretty sure there must have been some controversy over the incident like the cop must have been overstepping his bounds or something. I’m sure they wouldn’t play a concert for a guy who just walks up and pops a cop for no reason, or to get out of a speeding ticket or something. I’m not sure why I responded to this, just something about how it reads when you use the word cop killer. Sorry if I am taking this out of context.

V[/quote]

It’s a little out of context. Wesley Cook is a cop killer and the poster child for the anti death penalty crowd. and he’s guilty as sin.

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[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Vegita wrote:
tom63 wrote:
Vegita wrote:
Ok so we all know they kick(ed) ass musically, now what does everyone thing of thier politics. Since they put quite a bit of it in thier songs, I say we see what people think. I find that I agree with some of their sentiments, though I generally don’t agree with all of thier nuanced positions.

Take the Power Back is my favorite song.

V

I think they’re a pack of scumbags. On a good day. They played a concert for that cop killer from Philly. Enough for me to ignore them.

Not that I agree with killing anyone, but why should killing a cop be any more looked down upon than killing an innocent civilian, At least the cop knows people might try to kill him and he has training and weapons to defend against it. I don’t know the specifics of the case so I can’t comment unless you give me more info. I’m pretty sure there must have been some controversy over the incident like the cop must have been overstepping his bounds or something. I’m sure they wouldn’t play a concert for a guy who just walks up and pops a cop for no reason, or to get out of a speeding ticket or something. I’m not sure why I responded to this, just something about how it reads when you use the word cop killer. Sorry if I am taking this out of context.

V

The concert was for Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was arrested and convicted for the murder of Daniel Faulkner, a Philadelphia police officer, in 1981,

It’s a contentious issue, with a lot of people believing Mumia was framed, and a lot of people convinced he did it, and should surely hang for it.

His death warrant was signed by none other than Tom Ridge, then governor of Pennsylvania, later head of Homeland Insecurity. Mumia languishes in SCI Green prison to this day.

Rage Against The Machine indeed dedicated a concert to the “Free Mumia” movement, which led to their being protested in Massacchusetts by over five hundred policemen.

The band bought donuts for them all.
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The he’s innocent crowd is full of half truths and speculation. He was not framed. He shot the cop with eye witnesses with a gun registered to him. He confessed to the crime which was heard by a few people that night. He had powder burns on his hands and so on.

The he was framed crowd is basically making shit up. I live in Pa. and followed this trial when I was a kid. Also, Ed Rendell, governor of Pa. was one of the prosecuters.

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Buddy of mine was an LA cop during the riot in 2000 and the DNC. He got hit in the face with a piss bottle and subsequently fired 3 basic loads of plastic batons at rioters. When we lift, he gets furious when the gym plays Rage Against the Machine. The music’s okay. I wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire for the politics.

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[quote]FrankNStang wrote:
Buddy of mine was an LA cop during the riot in 2000 and the DNC. He got hit in the face with a piss bottle and subsequently fired 3 basic loads of plastic batons at rioters. When we lift, he gets furious when the gym plays Rage Against the Machine. The music’s okay. I wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire for the politics.[/quote]

Wouldn’t want to be pulled over by him. He might have an “episode” and blow my brains all over my dash. “He didn’t comply” and that was the end of that.

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[quote]FrankNStang wrote:
Buddy of mine was an LA cop during the riot in 2000 and the DNC. He got hit in the face with a piss bottle and subsequently fired 3 basic loads of plastic batons at rioters. When we lift, he gets furious when the gym plays Rage Against the Machine. The music’s okay. I wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire for the politics.[/quote]

About 8 years ago I went to see a local cover band. Someone requested Rage Against the Machine. The lead singer refused to play them. When the guy asked why, he said, " whah, whah, whah, I have a million dollars, whah, whah. I hate those guys."

I laughed my ass off.

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Their political views are fucking stupid and their music isn’t much better.

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[quote]belligerent wrote:
Their political views are fucking stupid and their music isn’t much better.[/quote]

I’d agree, whah, whah, whah, I have a million dollars sums it up pretty well.

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I think that they are the least talented, most annoying fucking piece of left wing trash ever to actually be popular. I obviously hate their politics. Mumia Abu Jamal should have been fried years ago. When he is, I wanna go take a leak on his grave.

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[quote]tom63 wrote:
whah, whah, whah, I have a million dollars…[/quote]

I don’t understand. What does the amount of money one has have to do with how they feel about political situations?

If I have over a million dollars, I can’t complain about the state of things?

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[quote]malonetd wrote:
tom63 wrote:
whah, whah, whah, I have a million dollars…

I don’t understand. What does the amount of money one has have to do with how they feel about political situations?

If I have over a million dollars, I can’t complain about the state of things?[/quote]

They’re not the poor or oppressed. They don’t speak for them. They do benefit concerts for cop killers. And all their whining will do nothing. They might feel a little better and think they did something, but they didn’t.

They’re a bunch of whiny scumbags.

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[quote]phil_leotardo wrote:
I think that they are the least talented, most annoying fucking piece of left wing trash ever to actually be popular. I obviously hate their politics. Mumia Abu Jamal should have been fried years ago. When he is, I wanna go take a leak on his grave.[/quote]

I wouldn’t waste my piss on him, but I see your point.