That is the point, it's a continuation of woke tyranny: you're either with us or against us and you risk your career / cancellation / public shaming and bullying, doxxing and simple physical intimidation and violence if you're against us.
Luckily Metallica and most others don't give a fuck about those people anymore.
Hamas rapes children. You guys love those dudes. People like you are fucking hypocrites. You don’t give a shit about children. The Epstein shit is just something you and your liberal echo chamber keep in your pockets to try and rub in people’s faces that don’t align with your narratives.
Fuck hamas, and fuck anyone who hurts children and innocent civilians.
See how easy that is?
If you took 30 seconds to google hamas you would know they are a terrorist organization condemned by the majority of the Palestinian people.
That’s like lumping you or your neighbour in with the KKK because you both believe in Catholicism.
But I don’t expect anyone who thinks caring about the Epstein files is a liberal echo chamber narrative to have the ability to read anything longer than a tweet, or to digest anything more complex than the story line in an episode of paw patrol.
Sometimes I worry that I may be one do those people who thinks they are somewhat intelligent, but actually I’m just to dumb to know. Then I interact with people like you and I feel much better about myself 😎
No, it’s because Metallica used to not be scared to speak up to corporate interests, and now they are. This should be obvious unless you are too young.
Fuck politics! I mean, I can't stand it. It drives me crazy. And there's politics within music; the business side a lot of times really, really bothers me. I like playing music. We were asked to play, and I said, 'OK. I wanna play. There's a lot of people that are gonna be watching that show.' . . . I don't like talking politics.
We've steered away from all that, we've had numerous letters asking us to play for this cause, that cause. We're a musical band, not really into political shit.
When people talk about Metallica being good, they're talking about the 80s, before they sold their souls and started making radio-friendly rock, suing kids for downloading music and cheering on the CIA torturing random goat herders with their music.
I don't think anyone is surprised that Metallica has continued their trend of sucking. It's still worth pointing out that they're hollow shells of their former selves and that their younger selves, who made their best music, would have disagreed with their current stance.
Because the full comment chain including OP's screenshot is about politics. If you meant to talk strictly corporations then idk how that's relevant here?
And when eventually James comes out as a card carrying republican (which ffs everyone has known James' politics for a long time) he and the whole band will be crucified because that's not the "correct belief"
People want Metallica to stop being hypocrites and sellouts. Their early songs were anti war, anti corruption, and now they’re like “we don’t want to take sides”
What they said is "we're not going to lecture you." Not everybody goes to a concert to be pumped into a frenzy about the current world political situation.
I get the impression they prefer to let the music do the talking instead of the kind of empty lip service and land acknowledgements that interrupt the set. Idk I prefer this myself, I'm here for a concert not a campaign rally or a uni lecture.
Curious…. Why not just play the music then? Why make the comment no one asked for or needed?
What’s worse? Speaking up for those who can’t? Or complaining about those who are speaking up?
Isn’t it a jab more at people who decide they wanna communicate about injustice?
If he didn’t wanna make the jab he could have said “you know where we stand by listening to the music”
Making the jab invites the criticisms (because he is being critical himself) doesn’t it?
Ehhh I think a single sentence is pretty different from "LOUD POLITICAL STATEMENT".... (wait for applause, please clap Jeb Bush energy) rinse and repeat for several minutes
Not really, because one is an actual political opinion/stance. Tge other is a clarification that they aren't going to be doing that exact thing, because this is about your entertainment and not about pushing the band's opinions on fans needlessly.
Like I'm genuinely curious are you stupid? Or do you just hate people who don't fellate you after you say the most bog standard political statement?
There is a massive difference between playing a piece of art, and letting people form their own opinions on what that art says, even if there is a consensus opinion. And picking up a bullhorn to shout at people what you want them to think.
Them playing Creeping Death is what it says on the tin for your ticket. James Herfields opinion on Middle Eastern conflicts is not.
Nah, it’s just that if more people in power actually stood up against the ones committing corrupt and evil actions, then the world would actually change for the better instead of having this defeatist viewpoint where it doesn’t matter what we do and everything sucks anyway
Metallica isn’t in power. Nobody gives a fuck what they think except for people too stupid to think for themselves. We should be grateful when celebrities stay silent because it frees up room in stupid heads for novel thought.
Or maby they care about the people that just want a little escapism from the word. Litteraly everything doesn't have to be about the political agenda you have
Metallica is a boomer metal band(fine... Gen X metal band). They have no power. You, and a lot of Redditors, just get irrationally angry whenever you see someone not enthusiastically supporting your worldview.
Literally just open any mainstream news website or any major social media website (including Reddit) and you’ll see someone crying about Palestine in 5 seconds. It’s the most talked about political topic in the world right now. A couple commenters in a Reddit thread (who clearly care, by the way, otherwise they wouldn’t click on or comment on a thread about this subject) claiming that they don’t care does not mean that nobody here cares. This thread is filled with people clearly on your side expressing the same opinions as you.
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u/DeFlatDeSpare 12h ago
People don't want Metallica to tell them how to think. People want Metallica to agree with them.