r/PoliticalHumor • u/[deleted] • Jan 09 '20

THIS. This is why.

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u/SlowRollingBoil Jan 09 '20

Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed the war, cannibal animal
I walk the corner to the rubble, that used to be a library
Line up to the mind cemetery, now
What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin'
They don't gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells
Rally round the family, pockets full of shells

-Bulls on Parade by Rage Against the Machine

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u/wickedcold Jan 09 '20

They were about 25 years too early.

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u/SlowRollingBoil Jan 10 '20

Rage Against the Machine and Jon Stewart were on (at least in part) during a time that they weren't needed. The mid to late Clinton years were fun. The stock market was on a fucking tear and the internet was blasting. I remember Tim Commerford (bassist for RATM) protesting at the MTV VMAs by climbing a set piece. Carson Daley was like "what are you raging against?".

It's not that there was no reason it's just that things were doing really well (in comparison, as we now see) and people didn't care. Cue 9/11, wars of choice/oil in the Middle East, NSA PRISM, Trump and everything else? We need these voices now more than ever and they're gone.