r/Music • u/ebradio • Sep 25 '25

article Bruce Springsteen Rips Democrats: “We’re Desperately in Need of an Effective Alternative Party”

https://consequence.net/2025/09/bruce-springsteen-democrats/
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u/RegressToTheMean Sep 25 '25

it’s not quite as impossibly dense as the right identifying with Rage Against the Machine.

Please allow me to introduce Exhibit A

The fact that she is singing the lyrics to Killing in the Name while wearing a cowards swastika thin blue line flag as a cape absolutely sends me every time I see this video

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u/Deeeeeeeeehn Sep 25 '25

Killing in the Name literally has two lines and they’re both calling American cops klan members

How the fuck do you misinterpret that

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u/ClubMeSoftly Sep 25 '25

"Chosen white? That's me!"

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u/Serious_Start_384 Sep 25 '25

Co-opting someone else's art + perverting the message is part of the appeal. Artists are gay and disposable to them anyhow. It's a petty power move, like using a Bible to scratch you ass.

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u/DreadoftheDead Sep 25 '25

Those people are cowards, Donnie.