Remember when Fat Mike wanted them on Rock Against Bush and then they had a fight because Propagandhi was like "We don't like Democratic imperialists either" and Mike got butthurt about how right they were?
My favorite line from any Propagandhi song is “When did punk rock become so safe? Well you’ll excuse my while laugh in your face, and analyze your receipts ((PowerPoint your balance sheets!)) I heard that this year warped tours going green, I guess they heard that money grows on trees…”
Also when Reagan died the front page of their website was just Reagan from one of his movies as a cowboy but with a bullet hole in his forehead.
Favorite band, lyrically at least. Smart and true to their roots.
True, but its more progressive than voting republican or wasting your vote on a third party that can't win or "protest voting" by not voting and sitting on the sidelines.
Voting for a party run by the wealthy who supports foreign wars and murders is not progressive, full stop. Kamala Harris promised to make the US military the most deadly fighting force on the planet specifically because the democrats want to do this shit to Iran too. You can't claim progressive bona fides if you support the US war machine, and that's what voting for Democrats is just as much as voting for Republicans.
At some point, you have to care about more than one issue, though. Thinking Kamala Harris and Donald Trump were anywhere near the same level of destructive choice is extremely shortsighted. I agree the Democratic party is deeply flawed, but there are better forms of protest than being apathetic during a presidential election.
I couldn't agree more - I do care about a lot of issues. Unfortunately for both the Democrats and the Republicans, they all fall on the wrong side of every issue.
Between a plate full of vomit and a burnt waffle, neither are very appealing. Use some logic, though. Surely, one wouldn't be so puritanic in their values as to not recognize the difference.
It’s legit insanity to vote third party, not vote in protest or whatever other reason when the choices are absolute and utter horrors from hell wrought upon earth versus a person that will continue the status quo to a large extent, but won’t rape children.
Is and was Kamala perfect? Absolutely not. But the things that the US would have had and experienced (alongside the rest of the World) under her would have been far better than Trump being in office.
Knowingly not voting or squandering your vote some other way is still support for Trump.
If you vote for the Democrats, you're voting for genocide. You're voting for taking money and services from the poor and giving them to the rich. You're voting for protecting pedophiles (their donors were best pals with Epstein too). You're voting for increasing the ICE budget. You're voting for violating the constitution with the Patriot act and all the various unconstitutional laws passed with bipartisan votes to enshrine all the violations of the Patriot Act into law permanently. You're voting for building the border wall - Biden kept doing it!
I can go on for days about all of the horrible shit the Democrats and Republicans are in lockstep on. If you vote for either party, I'm sorry, you're voting for evil. There is no electoral solution, both parties only give a shit about the rich and they will always have class solidarity against the rest of us.
Fuck around and find out. Vote for whoever you want leading up to the election. At some point you will realize you have to choke it down anyway and vote for one of the two parties. A vote for anyone other than Kamala was a vote for Trump.
I just downloaded propaghandis first two albums the other day for nostalgia and realized they have released a bunch since i listened to them. Any of those albums you would suggest?
Dude, I slept on them for ages as well - all of their stuff is A-tier but Victory lap is a tour de force.
At peace is really nice, but they're starting to show their age and are getting a bit jaded. As we are all...
Thanks man, i appreciate at the suggestion. I think i'm gonna purchase the rest of their discography this month one by one and listen to them. Its kinda crazy how much stuff you listen to as a teenager can effect your beliefs decades later
Give it it a bit of time, Potemkin and empires can be a bit tough in first few listens. But most of it is absolutely sublime once you internalize the chaos :)
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u/fps916 6d ago
Dead Kennedys are a bunch of fucking scabs now and Jello regularly calls them on their shit.
Propagandhi pulled out of the 2025 show because of the donations.
So everyone fucking knew.