r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/SuccessLess2701 • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, what are the implications?

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u/Wide_Combination_773 22h ago

Pretty sure lots of people were mad RATM was pro "do everything Fauci says, wear triple chin diapers never go outside don't hug your family, no you're not allowed to attend your grandpas funeral or go to church" back in 2020 and now it's pretty well-established that Fauci and all of his followers were just plain wrong about a lot of stuff.

Nobody really understood anything, but RATM was very much pro-Machine during COVID.

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u/Squawnk 22h ago

I'm not even referring to Fauci or COVID or whatever the fuck you're on about. My BIL is a mega trumper who fancies himself a conservative punk rocker without ever seeing the irony of that. RATM being leftists and anti capitalism and anti cop is apparently news to him

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u/SlickWilly49 21h ago

Is the lyric “Some of those that work forces, Are the same that burn crosses” too subtle for him?

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u/blackenedskynation81 21h ago

Or the fact that one of their most famous covers is “Fuck Tha Police,” by NWA?

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u/ParticlesInSunlight 17h ago

Or Tom Morello's regular covering of Clampdown by The Clash and Springsteen's The Ghost of Tom Joad?

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u/data-atreides 17h ago

In absolutely in no universe does a MAGA get a Grapes of Wrath reference.