Sure. But it also makes knowing who to shoot a whole lot easier, too.
Part of it is they support tankies and a group that massacred indigenous peasants in Peru.
I’m not sure what RATM’s deal with the (so-called) “Shining Path” lot was… there’s nothing unique about leftists having shit takes or throwing their weight behind the wrong cause. It comes with the territory.
RATM’s previous support of Shining Path, or for that matter the USSR, would probably be quite forgivable if they admitted that they made mistakes—confessions, if you will.
Have they written anything about their beliefs, and explaining such, besides very generalized stuff like “fuck capitalism,” “fuck imperialism,” “fuck fascism,” “fuck American foreign policy,” “fuck this,” “fuck that,” whatever?
It’s why I’m still ticked at Cat Stevens/Yusef Islam, and his endorsement of the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie, and his later denials of such.
Most fascists don’t.
And up until very recently a whole bunch of them thought Rage Against The Machine was theirs, too.
They seem most powerful in uniform—I guess that’s what helps ties those little sticks together into their mighty hammer, FWIW.
I don’t like Rage Against the Machine.
Part of it is musical, I suppose.
Part of it is they support tankies and a group that massacred indigenous peasants in Peru.
Sure. But it also makes knowing who to shoot a whole lot easier, too.
I’m not sure what RATM’s deal with the (so-called) “Shining Path” lot was… there’s nothing unique about leftists having shit takes or throwing their weight behind the wrong cause. It comes with the territory.
Yes, it does make fascists better targets.
RATM’s previous support of Shining Path, or for that matter the USSR, would probably be quite forgivable if they admitted that they made mistakes—confessions, if you will.
Have they written anything about their beliefs, and explaining such, besides very generalized stuff like “fuck capitalism,” “fuck imperialism,” “fuck fascism,” “fuck American foreign policy,” “fuck this,” “fuck that,” whatever?
It’s why I’m still ticked at Cat Stevens/Yusef Islam, and his endorsement of the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie, and his later denials of such.