#You should definitely check out System of a Down they're very apolitical
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fruityshirts · 1 day ago
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OK but Tom Morello??? Tom. Morello. Of Rage Against the Machine. Tom Morello of Prophets of Rage. Tom Morello of Axis of Justice (also seriously, go see how many of your faves are on that list).
Morello developed left-leaning political proclivities early, following in his mother's footsteps. He described himself as having been "the only anarchist in a conservative high school", and has since identified as a nonsectarian socialist. In the 1980 mock elections at Libertyville, he campaigned for a fictitious anarchist "candidate" named Hubie Maxwell, who came in fourth place in the election.[citation needed] He wrote a piece headlined "South Africa: Racist Fascism That We Support" for the school alternative newspaper, The Student Pulse.[16] Morello graduated from high school with honors in June 1982 and enrolled at Harvard University as a political science student that autumn. His band Bored of Education won the Ivy League Battle of the Bands in 1986 with Carolyn Bertozzi, a laureate of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, on keyboards.[17][18] Morello graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in social studies.[19] He moved to Los Angeles, where he supported himself, first by working as an exotic dancer:[20] "a woman phoned up to the office and wanted to complain that there were Mexicans moving into her neighborhood. I said to her, 'Ma'am, you're a damn racist', and she was indignant. I thought I was representing our cause well, but I got yelled at for a week by everyone for saying that! I thought to myself that if I'm in a job where I can't call a damn racist a damn racist, then it's not for me."[20]
THIS TOM. MORELLO. What planet are you from???
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You hate that your favorite bands are exercising their free speech.
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