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Where are all the stupid people from?
And how'd they get to be so dumb?
Bred on purple mountain range
Feed amber waves of grains
To lesser human beings, zero feelings
Blame it on
Human nature, mans destiny (mans destiny)
Blame it on the greediocracy (greediocracy)
Fear of God
The fear of change
The fear of truth
Add the Bill of Rights, subtract the wrongs
There's no answers
Memorize and sing star spangled songs
When the questions
Aren't ever asked
Is anybody learning from the past?
We're living in united stagnation
Father what have I done?
I took that .22
A gift to me from you
To bed with me each night
Kept it clean
Polished it well
Cherished every cartridge, every shell
Down, by the creek, under brush, under dirt
There's a carcass of my second kill
Down, by the park, under stone, under pine
There's a carcass of my brother William
Brother where, have you gone to?
I swear, I never thought I could
I see so many times
They told me to shoot straight
Don't pull the trigger, squeeze
That will insure a kill
A kill is what you want
A kill is why we breed
The Christians love their guns
The church and NRA
Pray for their salvations
Prey on the lower faiths
The story book's been read
And every line believed
Curriculum's been set
Logic is a threat
Reason searched and seized
Jerry spent some time in Michigan
A twenty year vacation, after all he had a dime
A dime is worth a lot more in Detroit
A dime in California, a twenty dollar fine
Jerry only stayed a couple months
It's hard to enjoy yourself while bleeding out the ass
Asphyxiation is simple and fast
It beats seventeen fun years of being someone's bitch
Don't think (Stay)
Drink your wine (Home)
Watch the fire burn (Be)
His problems not mine (Safe)
Just be that model citizen
I wish I had a schilling
For every senseless killing
I'd buy a government
America's for sale
And you can get a good deal on it
And make a healthy profit
Or maybe, tear it apart
Start with assumption
That a million people are smart
Smarter than one
Serotonin's gone
She gave up, drifted away
Sara fled, thought process gone
She left her answering machine on
The greeting left spoken sincere
Messages no one will ever hear
Ten thousand messages a day
A million more transmissions lay
Victims of the laissez faire
Ten thousand voices, a hundred guns
A hundred decibels turns to one
One bullet, one empty head
Now with Serotonin gone
The man who used to speak
Performs a cute routine
Feel a little patronized
Don't feel bad
They found a way inside your head
And you feel a bit misled
It's not that they don't care, yeah
The television's put a thought inside your head
Like a Barry Manilow, jingle
I'd like, to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
A symphonic blank stare, yeah
It doesn't make you care
Not designed to make you care
They're betting you won't care
Place a wager on your greed
A wager on your pride
Why try to beat them when, a million others tried?
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>>9646213
We are the whore
Intellectually spayed
We are the queer
Dysfunctionally raised
One more pill to kill the pain
One more pill to kill the pain
One more pill to kill the pain
Living through conformity
One more prayer to keep me safe
One more prayer to keep us warm
One more prayer to keep us safe
There's gonna be a better place
Lost the battle, lost the war
Lost the things worth living for
Lost the will to win the fight
One more pill to kill the pain
The going get tough, the tough get debt
Don't pay attention, pay the rent
Next of kins pay for your sins
A little faith should keep us safe
Save us
The human, existence
Is failing, resistance
Essential, the future
Written off, the odds are
Astronomically against us
Only moron and genius
Would fight a losing battle
Against the super ego
When giving in is so damn comforting
And so we go, on with our lives
We know the truth, but prefer lies
Lies are simple, simple is bliss
Why go against tradition when we can
Admit defeat, live in decline
Be the victim of our own design
The status quo, built on suspect
Why would anyone stick out their neck?
Fellow members of
Club "We've Got Ours"
I'd like to introduce you to our host
He's got his, and I've got mine
Meet the decline
We are the queer
We are the whore
Ammunition
In the class war
We are worker
We love our queen
We sacrifice
We're soilent green
We are the queer
We are the whore
Ammunition
In the class war
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Holy shit man
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>>9646228
I know, its not mine though.
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>>9646213
This deserves a bump
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>>9646213
This is literally "The Decline" by NOFX
lol
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>>9646213
I looked up lyric genius for this and subsequently wept for our future
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>>9646213
ah man, takes me back. 2000 seems like a simple time now, doesn't it?
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>>9646360
Yeah but all the messages are still incredibly relevant.
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>>9646213
>I'd buy a government
>America's for sale
>And you can get a good deal on it
>And make a healthy profit
>Or maybe, tear it apart
>Start with assumption
>That a million people are smart
>Smarter than one
This strikes me as one of the big changes in the intervening 16 years. Does anyone really trust democracy any more? From the election of Trump, Duterte, Brexit, and the rejection of the Colombia/FARC peace deal, it increasingly seems that the masses can't be trusted, or rather they are easily manipulated.
17 years of advances in advertising, we now have 'targeted advertising' and 'alternative facts'. It is increasingly difficult to know what is true and false in such a flood of information.
Democracy seems to be a giant exercise in bribery. This is why libertarians don't stand a chance in democratic politics, they aren't promising anything.
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>>9646409
Well, yeah, they got it right. The only thing they couldn't predict is the advent of mobile data, which of course, only made things worse.
I know its technically /mu/ but these lyrics are relevant poetry to me.
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>>9646572
well, I'm saying they got it wrong. The last thing I believe in right now is that there is intelligence in the millions of people on this globe. I'd believe in the intelligence of a well selected cohort over the masses.
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>>9646583
That's not he's saying. He's saying people are willfully ignorant, and have just as much capability to be intelligent and make selections for the people by the people. What you're saying is the polar fucking opposite man, this oligarchy is tearing our country to shreds. This is an incredibly hope-crushing time to live in America, to see how far its fallen. We are headed towards a war, or a recession, or some sort of decline. That is the message, we're on our way out. Act accordingly.
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>>9646583
I think I understand what you're saying now. You're saying that the uneducated masses are too stupid to be trustworthy, yes I can see that theme here as well. I didn't consider your post fully before, friend.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA fucking embarrassing.
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>>9646409
>traditional media loses its grip over the means of information dispersal
>oooh nooo I wonder who will save the public from themselves now :(
Thanks, but no.
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>>9646409
>it increasingly seems that the masses can't be trusted, or rather they are easily manipulated.
>implying this is new
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>>9646795
It was me, and I was bumping the thread until a single guy responded, then I talked to him. Why do you care? Read the song, faggot.
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