umm, yes they can. They consider themselves (or at least i know Morello does) communist.

In a related story, Rage Against the Machine sleep on a pile of money, courtesy of America's disaffected youth.

Hooray capitalism.

SilentStrider: umm, yes they can. They consider themselves (or at least i know Morello does) communist.

Facepalm

SilentStrider: umm, yes they can. They consider themselves (or at least i know Morello does) communist.

Communists that happen to have their checks signed by a corporate major label. Communist, my ass.

Because Che was peace loving freedom fighting God!!!

Yanks_RSJ: In a related story, Rage Against the Machine sleep on a pile of money, courtesy of America's disaffected youth.

Hooray capitalism.

lol. how are they gonna rally against a system which gives them their voice? Bush, a war criminal? Under international law? I don't know enough to make an informed decision but I will go as far as to say Bush's actions are questionable.

El Freak: SilentStrider: umm, yes they can. They consider themselves (or at least i know Morello does) communist.

Communists that happen to have their checks signed by a corporate major label. Communist, my ass.

Rock bands and logic are not something that usually goes hand in hand together.

SilentStrider: umm, yes they can. They consider themselves (or at least i know Morello does) communist.


RATM communist? uhmmm they seemed firmly lodged in the capitalistic scheme of things it seems like....


excuse me to scoff at that statement , given they ve done an ad for THE GAP

and what is their excuse to the pathetic irony that their are wearing a communist leader on their chest, someone who fought and died fighting the evil forces of capitalism , to end up on a shirt mass-produced and sold in very capitalistic store
is a cheap irony, but one nevertheless

neilnole: El Freak: SilentStrider: umm, yes they can. They consider themselves (or at least i know Morello does) communist.

Communists that happen to have their checks signed by a corporate major label. Communist, my ass.

Rock bands and logic are not something that usually goes hand in hand together.

And neither does my sentence. d'oh!

El Freak: SilentStrider: umm, yes they can. They consider themselves (or at least i know Morello does) communist.

Communists that happen to have their checks signed by a corporate major label. Communist, my ass.

hey, you must still make a living in a system that cannot be escaped, political affiliations aside.

HappyHarryHardOn: excuse me to scoff at that statement , given they ve done an ad for THE GAP

Dude... wait, what?

HappyHarryHardOn: SilentStrider: umm, yes they can. They consider themselves (or at least i know Morello does) communist.


RATM communist? uhmmm they seemed firmly lodged in the capitalistic scheme of things it seems like....


excuse me to scoff at that statement , given they ve done an ad for THE GAP

and what is their excuse to the pathetic irony that their are wearing a communist leader on their chest, someone who fought and died fighting the evil forces of capitalism , to end up on a shirt mass-produced and sold in very capitalistic store
is a cheap irony, but one nevertheless

a means to end perhaps?
/*cough* sellouts *cough*

I wonder if the "Recreate '68" assholes are gonna blare RATM on a boombox in Denver this August before one of them hucks a brick at the cops, and the cops respond by shooting that sonic riot control thing that makes you shiat your pants on the spot.

One can only hope.

yes they done an ad for the GAP


*AND* how do or could they reconcile their "communist" view with the fact that they prostituted themselves for money by doing a song specifically for the "Godzilla" soundtrack ???

HappyHarryHardOn: yes they done an ad for the GAP

I'd love to see it.

HappyHarryHardOn: yes they done an ad for the GAP

Lay off the drugs.

You're remembering their video for Guerilla Radio, in which they imitate the Gap ads of the time.

HappyHarryHardOn: yes they done an ad for the GAP


*AND* how do or could they reconcile their "communist" view with the fact that they prostituted themselves for money by doing a song specifically for the "Godzilla" soundtrack ???

Well, that movie did suck balls and was a complete bomb at the box office.

Pull my finger

//yeah, subby is a dumbass

Rage Against The Machine call for a "war crime" trial for George W. Bush, branding him a "war criminal" over the conflict in Iraq

Shut up and give us more song and dance, minstrels.

HappyHarryHardOn: their are wearing a communist leader on their chest, someone who fought and died fighting the evil forces of capitalism

Che was little more than a thug. Most cubans outside cuba believe that. He died like the little biatch he was.

SilentStrider: umm, yes they can. They consider themselves (or at least i know Morello does) communist.

Perhaps you did not get the memo that Che Guevara was a murdering bastard? And that RATM makes a fortune?

St_Ides: HappyHarryHardOn: yes they done an ad for the GAP

Lay off the drugs.

You're remembering their video for Guerilla Radio, in which they imitate the Gap ads of the time.

No, no... i do know about the video. What I saw was a poster about 20 feet tall, for clothes, saw that in New York around 1996... now because I cant find anything on the net about it, im second guessing myself if its the GAp, now. but in looking and searching for that on Google I saw their very capitalistic clothing lines , which is not quite as incriminating, but pretty bad....


do you have your hip "RATM" shirt and cap for the revolution?


Bleeech

Hey, I think he's a war criminal, too.

I agree.

I also think Rage Against the Machine's music is a crime against humanity.

Pelosi: "I told you, we don't have the clout to...what? Rage Against the Machine said that? Well then let's fry that sonofabiatch!"

kruuth:

Che Thomas Paine was little more than a thug. Most cubans outside cuba believe that. He died like the little biatch he was.


FTFY. Actually insert an American patriots name

If in protest to their war you burn down the American embassy... It's up to us, generation after generation to beat the system which perpetuates war.

That's a brilliant strategy.

HappyHarryHardOn: and what is their excuse to the pathetic irony that their are wearing a communist leader on their chest, someone who fought and died fighting the evil forces of capitalism, to end up on a shirt mass-produced and sold in very capitalistic store is a cheap irony, but one nevertheless

cretinbob: kruuth:

Che Thomas Paine was little more than a thug. Most cubans outside cuba believe that. He died like the little biatch he was.


FTFY. Actually insert an American patriots name

No. You're woefully ignorant if you believe that. American patriots didn't send death squads after people. They didn't execute people without trials for suspected defections. They didn't lead suicide squads then flee to safety themselves, leaving compatriots behind.

On the other hand, the man you tossed in as a comparison, Thomas Paine, wrote pamphlets, opposed slavery, believed in a minimum wage, and free public education without killing people.

So the next time you think you're bright, do a bit of research first to keep yourself from looking like a complete idiot.

Just because you disagree with Rage Against The Machine's politics or don't like their music doesn't mean it's not a valid point.

(Personally, I think the lionization of Guevara is a bit ridiculous, but I do like some of RATM's music.)

The Bush Administration SHOULD be held responsible for war crimes. What about Abu Ghraib? What about Guantanamo?

thalassatx: No. You're woefully ignorant if you believe that.

I generally find that presenting facts to trolls is a wasted exercise.

cretinbob: FTFY. Actually insert an American patriots name

You're not too bright, are you?

I like that one RATM song where Morello plays a variation on the same riff he always plays, and then there's an effects-pedal solo.

HappyHarryHardOn: *AND* how do or could they reconcile their "communist" view with the fact that they prostituted themselves for money by doing a song specifically for the "Godzilla" soundtrack ???

Godzilla is a commie

cretinbob: kruuth:

Che Thomas Paine was little more than a thug. Most cubans outside cuba believe that. He died like the little biatch he was.


FTFY. Actually insert an American patriots name

Here is a great article on Che.

FTFA: Since the Soviet Union was too soft for his tastes, there were only two countries that Che found truly admirable: Maoist China and Kim Il Sung's North Korea. He bragged that there was "not a single discrepancy" between Mao's world view and his own. As Che was happily fawning over Mao in the flesh in Beijing, in the surrounding countryside there was an epidemic of mothers cutting off the flesh from their inner thighs to feed it to their starving children. The programme that caused this biting hunger - the mass collectivisation of the farms - represented "true socialist morality", Che said. The dictator killed 70 million people in the end, cheered on by his guerrilla friend at every stage.

thalassatx: cretinbob: kruuth:

Che Thomas Paine was little more than a thug. Most cubans outside cuba believe that. He died like the little biatch he was.


FTFY. Actually insert an American patriots name

No. You're woefully ignorant if you believe that. American patriots didn't send death squads after people. They didn't execute people without trials for suspected defections. They didn't lead suicide squads then flee to safety themselves, leaving compatriots behind.

On the other hand, the man you tossed in as a comparison, Thomas Paine, wrote pamphlets, opposed slavery, believed in a minimum wage, and free public education without killing people.

So the next time you think you're bright, do a bit of research first to keep yourself from looking like a complete idiot.

Central America would like a word with you.....

mandingueiro: Central America would like a word with you.....

What the hell is that suppose to mean?

Here's a picture of Alan Keyes moshing at a Rage Against the Machine Show. They have a secret republican agenda.

They are against Bush because that is the current republican posture.

cretinbob: kruuth:

Che Thomas Paine was little more than a thug. Most cubans outside cuba believe that. He died like the little biatch he was.


FTFY. Actually insert an American patriots name

You are the most appropriately named person on Fark.

Rage Against the Machine: annoying the crap out of me since the 90's.

cretinbob: kruuth:

Che Thomas Paine cretinbob was little more than an thug ignorant needle dick. Most cubans outside cuba believe that. He died like the is a little biatch, he was is.


FTFY. Actually insert an American patriots name his name once again because it's double true

The Coup are better, anyways...

wanna hear my new riff? It really rocks!

no?

wanna hear my new thesis on international law?

log_jammin: wanna hear my new thesis on international law?

Only if you scream it in falsetto over hip-hop beats.

Whoa, hey, everybody! Never mind how the current Bush Administration has farked up monstrously; them RATM felas are waering Che Guevara shirts!

/For the record, the first RATM album came out in the early 90s. so it's not not like they're an anti-GWB project

//Many of their lyrics, about how people are easily distracted from the issues that actually effect them, are proven true by this thread

martosko: I like that one RATM song where Morello plays a variation on the same riff he always plays, and then there's an effects-pedal solo.

Nice. At least when they were playing with Cornell they mixed things up a little.

Love Boat

Stop trying to make photoshops.

You just don't have the skill or the wit.

Prospero424: Only if you scream it in falsetto over hip-hop beats.

I do that everytime I type in my posts

ah, logic. whether or not Bush is a war criminal depends on whether Che is one because some band wears his image on their shirts. OK!

Frank N Stein: mandingueiro: Central America would like a word with you.....

What the hell is that suppose to mean?

Possibly, he means that the US is responsible for far more deaths in that part of the world than Che.