• A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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    Drove all the way to NYC to see them with Run the Jewels after the pandemic. 100% worth it, one of the best shows I’ve ever been to.

    Tim Commorford is weird to watch though. He kinda hops awkwardly from foot to foot.

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      We cannot accurately judge your dedication until you tell us from where you drove to NYC. New Jersey and Anchorage have very different weights here.

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      It’s so disappointing to hear Killer Mike spit revolutionary lyrics like in ‘close your eyes’ only to find out IRL he’s into lame shit like black capitalism.

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        only to find out IRL he’s into lame shit like black capitalism.

        Does it mean something other than what is here, or did I miss something offensive in skimming through the entry?

        This isn’t one of those lame “now they are the machine” posts is it?

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        Yeah. The music still slaps though.

        RATM’s bassist is into some weird fringe right-libertarian stuff too if I recall

        Nobody’s perfect 🤷‍♂️

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          or they changed. 30 years is a long time.

          their debut was released

          • 3 years after the fall of Berlin wall
          • a year after the dissolution of USSR
          • 9 years before the September 11 attacks
          • 15 years before iPhone
          • 24 years before the election of a reality tv entertainer/real estate conman as POTUS
          • China wasn’t a superpower back then
          • EU didn’t exist in its current form
          • Apartheid was still an actuality
          • internet wasn’t omnipresent
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            How was China not a superpower then?

            They were easily a superpower since before they were backing Vietnam and Korea in our shitty wars with them.

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              China’s GDP was lower than Canada’s. Economic strength is not the only factor of a superpower, but it’s significant. It’s hard to project power effectively without sufficient wealth to fund those efforts.

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      I saw them in Cleveland on that tour. Zach had hurt his foot so he sat on the monitor speaker the whole time, but the rest of the guys made up for it.

      I paid a LOT of money to get good tickets, and it was 10000% worth it. I’d never seen rage live and figured I might not get to again, so spend the money. Also I’m an rtj fan.