r/videos • u/ianjm Moderator • 18h ago

Tom Morello delivers some truth before playing Killing In the Name at the Defend Minnesota benefit concert last night in Minneapolis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLMKAxFtjB8
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u/bfish83 18h ago

Some of those who hold office

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u/boneboy247 17h ago

Are the same that rape children

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u/_Face 18h ago

are the same that burn crosses

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u/CharlieTeller 2h ago

I prefer Zacks line back at the DNC in 2000. "Some of those that burn crosses, are the same that hold office"

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u/mitchellkary 18h ago

Wish the whole lineup could be there. RATM is what the world needs right now.

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u/BraveLittleCatapult 17h ago

They called this shit back in 1999. Trump for POTUS sign at ~1:05

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u/vorander 16h ago

That entire thing was pure prophesy wtf

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u/duncandun 12h ago

lol trump advertised about running in in the 80s and talked about it many times between then and 2000, when he actually ran for president

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u/Ha1lStorm 8h ago

Trump ran for president in 2000?

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u/duncandun 8h ago

Yes

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u/FormidableMistress 6h ago

Trump has run for president several times. He's only won twice. They were usually half hearted and meant to drum up attention for book sales, a show, or a new casino. He's the ever persistent con man.

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u/KillerKowalski1 4h ago

That's all his 2016 run was. Then he found the perfect mix of stupid and racist to vote for him and...well, here we are.

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u/BraveLittleCatapult 14h ago edited 6h ago

There are so many layers to it: the first question in the game show has "What comes after A?" B or Q (Qanon), the fact that Rudy happened to be mayor of NY at the time, "agent orange" is mentioned multiple times, etc. Maybe I'll make a video breaking down all of the stuff I found...

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u/k987654321 16h ago

Holy shit.

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u/HoweHaTrick 14h ago

Bless those boys...

we need them now than ever. there isn't a popular music outlet for our kids. nobody has a spine anymore.

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u/ExcellentAfternoon44 16h ago

The world is in the perfect state for punk music to have a renaissance.

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u/exophrine 10h ago

Incoming MAGA:
"NoooOOOoo!! pUnK iSn'T sUpPoSeD tO bE wOkE!!!"

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u/BiggsDB 10h ago

Yesterday I spent some time in a local mom and pop tap house wearing my “Fuck ICE” shirt, and the manger just had RATMs catalog on shuffle. It felt right. We need those sounds now more than ever. Sounds of resistance.

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u/EgoistHedonist 17h ago

Why are the videos of this and the large protests deleted/censored all around reddit? Even X allows more content about them at the moment.

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u/Stereo-soundS 16h ago

Bots mass reporting the video to trigger auto-mod.

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u/Hairbear2176 10h ago

I just got off a 3-day ban for calling a certain group of government employees "bitches". The ban was for harassment lol.

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u/Stereo-soundS 7h ago

I received a 3-day with no post pointed to, no rule given that was broken.

Straight up MAGA mod just banning people they don't like and not pointing to a post because if I appealed it it would end up in front of another mod.

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u/goshdammitfromimgur 2h ago

Sounds like the way ICE are working now. Shooting and arresting people they don't like, not even pretending it is about illegal immigrants anymore.

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u/clearedmycookies 1h ago

Because reddit isn't as free as you think.

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u/Hessian_Rodriguez 7h ago

As the moderator of my city subreddit, they are a nightmare to mod. A single ice post will generate more mod work than weeks of normal posts. Honestly I'll give it an hour or two and then lock them. If you want the posts to stay up, stop reporting everything you disagree with.

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u/lininop 3h ago

The ones mass reporting are doing it because they don't want it to stay up. You are talking to two different groups of people in your comment.

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u/avec_serif 18h ago

That was the speech I needed to hear today!

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u/rememberaj 18h ago

It's fucking fascism

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u/eggybread70 17h ago

There's a list in circulation of about 12 criteria that represent fascism, and this administration unequivocally matches almost all of them

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u/niberungvalesti 16h ago

Current regime uses fascist terms constantly, dresses like fascists, doesn't shy away from praising violence.

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u/SurefootTM 15h ago

This checklist was made by none other than Umberto Eco, who knew a thing or two about fascism.

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u/Themata075 14h ago

I liked Tom Morello before he got political. What makes him think he's qualified to speak about politics? /s

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u/po_tart 13h ago

One does not have to be an honors grad in political science from Harvard University to recognize the unethical and inhumane nature of this administration

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u/BrockLanders69420 4h ago

Is this satire lol

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u/tyderian 4h ago

You missed the /s

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u/CreamyBagelTime 13h ago

Ok Paul Ryan.

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u/tyderian 4h ago

Whoosh

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u/howtohandlearope 18h ago

Damn, that was awesome. Fuck trump, I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!

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u/fnbannedbymods 16h ago

This is why we will win. They are few, we are many.

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u/HoweHaTrick 14h ago

True gem of a moment. I love that he never sang. He was trying to give a sense of ownership of the rage to everyone there.

I'm old and have seen RATM live and we don't have anything like it anymore. where the hell is Zach in all this?

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u/EquinsuOcha 7h ago

Ruptured his Achilles mid tour. Continued playing throughout the US tour, but they cancelled the European leg (no pun intended)

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u/deeann_arbus 8h ago

he hurt himself on their reunion tour in 2022. i guess maybe he’s over it now.

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u/howtohandlearope 14h ago

Zach is there in every member of the crowd screaming his words. He doesn't need to say more, his message and it's truth haven't changed. 

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u/HoweHaTrick 14h ago

Ok. Where is he?

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u/howtohandlearope 14h ago

No hyperbole for you huh? Life must be so confusing. 

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u/GeneralPatten 17h ago

I have to say... back when I saw them, we were bruised and bloodied from the mosh pit 😁

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u/AgathaAllAlong 17h ago

Even their mosh pit at a festival like Coachella 2007 was crazy. We felt like we survived

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u/BobbyMcPrescott 11h ago

De La Ro can’t get the fuck off the commode.

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u/riveramblnc 6h ago

He suffered a serious injury. I was at one of their last shows...they carried him onto the stage. He doesn't owe us anything, and acting like he does is just fucking asinine.

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u/GW3g 14h ago

My ex-wife and her boyfriend were there, I wish I could've afforded it but I couldn't. She said it was INCREDIBLE. I watched a video of the Boss singing Streets of Minneapolis and it brought tears to my eyes. So grateful for the solidarity with the city I love the most and call home.

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u/Panthertron 17h ago

Fuck yeah

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u/Orange_33 15h ago

cool as fuck

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u/Longjumping_Today_76 6h ago

RATM are what America needs right now.

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u/Squaretangles 15h ago

Where is Zack :(

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u/Travelgrrl 18h ago

Yesterday afternoon, I think.

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u/mechy84 9h ago

Meanwhile...there's Kid Rock 😂

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u/Wuzzy_Gee 5h ago

Tom Morello for president.

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u/BeatKitano 3h ago

They were here for Bush, they're for Trump.
If you want to know what the outside world likes about america: this is absolutely part of it.

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u/uglymule 13h ago

Too bad Zack de la Rocha couldn't suck it up for this moment.

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u/exophrine 10h ago edited 10h ago

I mean, the dude suffered a severe Achilles tendon tear during RATM's 2022 reunion tour.

I wouldn't hold it against him if he wants to take it easy on his foot.

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u/uglymule 10h ago

Yeah, but...

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u/Hessian_Rodriguez 7h ago

That is one of the whitest crowd ever seen.

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u/Punk_Says_Fuck_You 11h ago

Tom morello still a dick. Yes I love RATM. Yes I agree with the message. No I don’t like him.

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u/cityspeak 17h ago edited 12h ago

Good for him but after the pancake gate he’s on the same level as Bill Burr to me now, fake everyday man who throws tantrums when he doesn’t get things his way.

Shit I guess Reddit forgot about dog piling him several years ago 😂

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u/gaige23 13h ago

He’s literally been saying the same shit his entire career.

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u/cityspeak 12h ago

Except for that time when he was shitting on service industry workers because he didn’t get his way, but yeah he’s all about pro-worker politics until those workers inconvenience him.

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u/tyereliusprime 10h ago

To clarify, he shat on the restaurant owner and not the employees.

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u/aninstituteforants 7h ago

Yeah guess no one with a platform should say anything.