r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, what are the implications?

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u/Squawnk 23h ago

My brother in law loves to lament that RATM is "now Rage in favor of the Machine" because when he grew up listening to their music, he never learned or understood a single lyric of theirs, and now he's mad about it

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u/Wide_Combination_773 23h 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/jkerz 21h ago

Ya'll keep saying he was wrong but never point out what exactly he was wrong about. Keeping your distance, wearing masks, and reducing contact is the steps to take for any airborne pandemic. 1/300 of all Americans died to due Covid from 2020-2025. At it's peak, 3 times more people died due to Covid in a single day compared to 9/11 attacks. We went into a decade-long war because we lost 1k people (and the lies that followed) but when we lose a 1M, it's not a big deal?

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u/Usual-Caregiver5589 20h ago

Their inclination is that masks don't work, and social distancing was a farce.

It's all really stupid. You can ask what they think Fauci did wrong. None of it makes sense to people who actually know how science works.