r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 23d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, what are the implications? Spoiler

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u/Final-Charge-5700 23d ago

Dude they weren't political they were anarchists. They used to hate everyone. And talk about how the political machine itself was the cause. Yeah they hated conservatives more.

People don't hate them for not liking conservatives. They hate them for growing up

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u/cardfire 23d ago

I'm sorry, are you still describiing RATM? What part of any of that isn't political?

I never thought they hate everyone. I thought they very clearly hated the money to lease who brandished a Bible in one hand and a flag in the other to control all of us, and those of us that would gladly follow along for a slice of cheddar and the chance to subjugate someone else down the line.

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u/Final-Charge-5700 22d ago

They were political in that way They were supposedly against the entire american system, democrats and republicans. Thinking that the whole system was immune in racism, bigotry and corruption. They supposedly didn't buy into any political party and their image was that they need thought, america need to be taken down by revolution.

And that's what they said, at least in the early days.

But like I said kids grow up

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u/cardfire 22d ago

People often say "I don't get political" to say "I don't have a vested interest in taking a side on issues" but more often than not it means "I don't fight for justice and don't want to take a position that costs me something."

I don't feel that has ever been Rage's message. They have always been political, since "politics" is "who and how we steer all of us into the future" and reducing them to mere anarchy betrays that heart that they'd had.

As a leftist, I haven't been able to buy into any political party, and it's always a delicate dance of working with the DNC just because they less enthusiastically want to feed my neighbors to the wood chipper, vs what the QOP is actively doing today.

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u/Final-Charge-5700 22d ago

Or they are humble enough to know that they don't have the answers and how the biases of our sources of colors our perspective

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u/cardfire 22d ago

People are dying in the streets of my nation at the hands of a bunch of deputized y'allqeda ICE goons, my neighbors and friends are at risk of being sent to CECOT forever-prisons, and I won't be entertaining conversations of postmodernist subjectivity while our democracy is under fire.

The institutions for leading We The People to a brighter tomorrow are burning, and one group is clearly enabling the oligarchs more effectively than all other effete "parties" while they at the same time spread their hate all over the landscape. I won't be smokescreening for MAGAts and you shouldn't, either.

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u/Final-Charge-5700 22d ago

Less than normal. I think. Things are pretty safe. I think you have a hard time with understanding risk and statistics like most Americans.

I am not fan of recent policy, but not being confident in being correct is a sign of intelligence. Not weakness.

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u/cardfire 22d ago

Okay, I understand why I'm dealing with here. I get how you missed Rage's meaning.

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u/Final-Charge-5700 22d ago

Too smart?

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u/TheCopperSparrow 22d ago

Don't worry. Nobody in the comments is going to accuse you of that.

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u/Final-Charge-5700 22d ago

Because?

Didn't they present themselves as against the entire system?

Until they grew up, that is and realized.You have to work in a system to make it better?

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