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[–] 107 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (28 children)

Two more for the pile

Edit: ironically, it seems my media literacy could be called into question here too based on the mismatch between the tone of OP meme and the tone of the responses I posted. Context for anybody missing it below.

The punisher is a revenge fantasy carried out on corrupt policemen. The message was basically acab before acab was a thing people said. Policemen, who tend to have IQ that matches their best mile time in minutes, love to plaster his logo all over everything they own.

The bottom photo is Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine. Rather than summarize his story, I'll share his response when a prominent conservative politician tweeted about RatM being their favorite band. "I wonder what [Paul] Ryan's favorite Rage song is? Is it the one where we condemn the genocide of Native Americans? The one lambasting American imperialism? Our cover of "Fuck the Police"? Or is it the one where we call on the people to seize the means of production? So many excellent choices to jam out to at Young Republican meetings!"

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  • [–] 0 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    Damn, “Arm the homeless” is a hell of a take.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago

    Yeah. The leftist in me thinks it goes kinda hard, but the volunteer social worker in me has spent a lot of time and effort making absolutely sure the homeless folk I've interacted with were not armed. I thought it said "arm the hopeless" when I found the picture

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  • [–] 33 points 13 hours ago

    I know the point of Tom Morello being included is because RATM is completely misunderstood by conservatives, but it makes me giggle because he did a song for Final Fantasy XIV because a friend he played D&D with also knew a guy involved and it just happened.

    But progressives can have hobbies. It's fine. Lol

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  • [–] 50 points 15 hours ago (3 children)
  • [–] 14 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

    Morello was in a Voyager episode?!?!? I don't even really like RATM, but holy fuckin BASED

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  • [–] 9 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    ‘Good Shepherd’ S06E20, it’s just a cameo appearance though.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 hours ago

    Good lookin out! Voyager is one of the few Trek shows I haven't seen every episode of, I mean I've seen most of Voyager, so I might've seen that one. It just makes sense, Starfleet is the embodiment of leftist socialist idealism, I do love it so

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  • [–] 8 points 15 hours ago (20 children)

    Who's the dude in the bottom picture?

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  • [–] 10 points 14 hours ago (18 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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  • [–] 63 points 14 hours ago (10 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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  • [–] 14 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (6 children)

    When did rage against the machine go woke?

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

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  • [–] 0 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 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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  • [–] 32 points 14 hours ago

    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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  • [–] 26 points 14 hours 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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