Tom Morello, the longtime guitar hero of Rage Against the Machine — now better known as “Rage For the Machine” — stopped by the White House this week to take a selfie in a “Destroy Fascism” T-shirt. Nothing says “I’m resisting” quite like posing for a government-approved photo op on the steps of the most powerful building on the planet.
Morello posted the picture proudly, apparently unaware that taking a smiling selfie at the home of the President kinda defeats the point of claiming America is a fascist dictatorship.
Political commentator Greg Price summed it up perfectly: the fact that Morello can walk up to the White House wearing that shirt without getting arrested is “proof that you are not in fact living under American Fascism.”
It’s the new era of rebellion: millionaire rock stars staging anti-fascist cosplay, raging against imaginary villains while standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the very institutions they claim to resist. The band that once screamed about fighting “the machine” now can’t fighting for it.
This is the modern left-wing rebellion: millionaire rock stars doing government-sanctioned cosplay, raging against imaginary dictatorships while basking in the spotlight of the very institutions they claim to oppose.
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