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Ukrainians were not the intended audience of this political stunt. The target audience was Americans, to drum up feelings of jingoism and nostalgia for the empire. And in that aspect, this stunt has worked well. It's like playing born in the USA at pro war American political rallies. The lyrics don't matter, it's about the optics.
of course the lyrics dont matter, fortunate son is the shooty war song... :D
Same, it's just complete and utter lack of awareness. The choice of the song is also very on the nose. Clearly they didn't bother to check the context for it.
motherfucker was around when the song came out and the ironic Bush speech references were current, it's mystifying
I could imagine it has something to do with feeding his ego.
To get bloodthirsty Americans to think he's cool and America is still the top dog
Blinken can really sing "We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand" without a sense of irony.
I thought y'all were fucking with me about this, but I guess it's true.
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Who tf thought this was a good idea?
They lied to the band and told them it was gonna be Neil young so they'd let him play with them and then were pissed off lmao
Yea I'm pretty sure that's what the band said when some dipshit lanyard walked out on stage and starting playing a song about how this is one big game for us
If I was promised Neil Young and Blinken walked out, I would do an adventurism so hard.
There's colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin' their feet
People sleepin' in their shoes
But there's a warnin' sign on the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them
So I try to forget it, any way I canRemember that episode of Party Down where Kyle's band plays a bunch of unintentionally Nazi songs with lyrics about "my struggle" and such? My guess is that Blinken in a band is a lot like that, but intentional.
"This was the moment when we recieved the cowardly and treacherous RIFF IN THE BACK"
With friends like America, who needs enemies?
