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If you like Griffith, I don't wanna be your friend (europe.pub)
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[–] 8 points 1 month ago (27 children)

Who's the dude in the bottom picture?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (25 children)

    What’s Tom doing in that list? From everything I’ve heard about him he seems like a great guy

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  • [–] 70 points 1 month ago (12 children)

    I wonder if the message is about Rage Against the Machine and how conservatives always misunderstand the lyrics because they have zero media literacy.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

    When did rage against the machine go woke?

    Edit: Damn. It's funny how much you all suck.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    Do you ever consider why being aware of and against horrible things happening to innocent people, aware of the people in charge scamming and laughing at you while you scrabble around in the dirt blaming other people being scammed just like you is considered an insult by your kind?

    Do you just enjoy the feeling of constantly being made a fool? Is that why you think 'woke' is such an insult? Some kind of weird kink about being robbed and abused?

    Well fuck me I fell for it. It's real hard to tell these days when someone's being facetious or not on the internet :(

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    It turns out Lemmy is full of humorless morons.

    Rage against the machine going woke is a very common joke on the internet. XD

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago

    People get used to assuming other people are dumber than them, especially online. So they see an obvious joke and instead if thinking "well obviously they didn't mean the thing they are pointing out, so they are pointing it out to mock that perspective", they just accept it face value, and then when called out on it go "poe's law" or argue that the fact that they didn't understand says a lot about society instead of doing any introspection.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    It's a "misunderstood the message" in the opposite direction. He wrote angry songs about how the establishment is evil, and pro-establishment people thought they were angry songs about how people trying to change the establishment were evil.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Given there lyrics that's less of a misunderstanding and more illiteracy. The lyrics themselves were pretty damn clear.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I remember a classmate of mine thought the "some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses" lyric was saying "Satanists are infiltrating our pristine and flawless police force!" And of course there's the quintessential "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me!" that all republicans thought meant "Fuck you, I won't do the bare minimum to care about others!"

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Sure, but in the former case that takes some extreme cognitive dissonance. Rage wasn't ever really hiding things in their lyrics.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Oh, they were certainly enraged. Those damn satanists! But yeah, nobody I knew actually knew what the lyrics were - we all just mumbled along incoherently until we yelled out the few parts that everyone knew, so none of us were actually certain that the conservatives were totally misinterpreting what the song was saying.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Oh, lol, I get it. I was the kid that read through the lyrics books while playing the albums. Hell, I did some English assignments in school disecting their lyrics. Every time my conclusion was the translation was fairly literal. XD

    I never lost points for that part though, because I think the teachers found the exercise to be creative enough and applied to something that I was interested in.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Right wingers are too dumb to have media literacy and tend to love RATM. I do agree just a photo of him was probably the most confusing way to convey that message though.

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