Someone has to work at McDonald’s I suppose, and it’s not going to be Timmy from the Hampton’s.
You know this even extends to Rage Against the Machine, which is a band whose lyrics are maybe two degrees away from directly advocating mass revolt. The guitarist graduated from Harvard and his dad was Kenya’s ambassador to the US, the bassist’s dad was a NASA engineer.
They’ve always been an anomaly to me. How are they able to get record deals and play concerts? They’re openly socialists and don’t even shy away from it.
Because the lyrics are so esoteric and all over the place that chuds can be fans of theirs. They’re turning exactly zero people from liberals into communists. I feel like Immortal Technique, Bambu, etc. are a lot clearer in the message to the point that it can’t be ignored, and they seem a little less well known. And RATM is only a little less “left-wing-as-an-aesthetic” than Run the Jewels (which isn’t really left wing at all). Any “dissent” is mostly an aesthetic that adds a tiny bit of meaning to something that is otherwise just silly.
