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Depeche Rule

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At this point I think the Right does this simply to get more publicity.

Pick an artist you know will call you out, and then use their music. When the band says they aren't Right Wing it's just more coverage. Even better, people will associate the movement with the music either way.

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- No publicity is bad publicity.
  
  But it's exhausting.
  
  Fuck those crap sites conveying it as news too.
  
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- Alot of that shit is just bait to get free advertising, to eventually sell you some shit
  
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If the neo-nazis knew anything about Depeche, they would know how much they are hated by them.

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- But they are neo nazis, they are hated by everyone already so how could they tell
  
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- People are people
  So why should it be
  You and I should get along
  So awfully
  
  Those lyrics - among many others - are aimed directly at the sort of intolerant scumbags that always seem to be festering in the right wing toilet of society, just as relevant today as it was in 1984 when the Some Great Reward album was released.
  
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- To begin with, they would need to know the concept of consent to worry about being hated by them.
  
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My only complaint is that it took 3 weeks

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- They were probably busy doing Depeche Mode things and didn't hear about it right away 🤷
  
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  True, we too rarely get missives from the office of Depeche Mode.
  
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  Doing Depeche Mode things like Enjoying the Silence?
  
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- Just hope they never let you down again.
  
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Adopting leftist music by perverting its meaning is pretty much the M.O. of far-right anthems/songs, no matter what the song was about originally. See: Tomorrow Belongs to Me, Fortunate son (to a milder extent), Born in the U.S.A as some of more well-known English examples.

I wonder if this was an attempt at doing precisely that, or was it just some publicity stunt for the movement.

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- Everything the far-right uses is stolen. Libertarian used to be synonymous with anarchist till they stole it. Hell they even went after anarchism directly when the invented the walking contraduction "anarcho-capitalism." Every neo-nazi symbol is some cultural symbol they stole. Stealing stuff so others can't use it is the far-right's favorite pass-time.
  
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- they usually misinterpret the meaning especially if it is used in a movie or they assume most agree with them
  
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Ah, good old Richard Spencer.

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- That looked like a nasty elbow for a nasty guy.
  
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  The true People’s elbow
  
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There are dozens(maybe, I don't keep a list) of alt-right bands and musicians they could choose from. Do you think their feelings are hurt whenever they're not picked? Oh right, nazis have no feelings. Fuck them.

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- I think the real goal here is to get artists to either support the glorious leader Trump or oppose him. Which is disturbing.
  
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  I agree, this was defiantly a calculated move to stir shit. If they wanted to have a legit event, they'd be making arrangements to have the band on site for a show.
  
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  Then the answer is "oppose".
  
  Richard Spencer and Vice President Donald Trump are cunts.
  
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Imagine if someone picked Joy Division.

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Burzum: I'm a joke to you?

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They should pick Pigface next.

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Sadly, this happened with Pink Floyd and the Hammerskins, who were inspired by the neo-nazi sequence of The Wall

Meaning I don't get to make references to Run Like Hell or Follow the Worms when someone gets carried away puttin' on the Reich. Nope they appropriated that culture.

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- Dude. Just because they try doesn't mean we have to let them.
  
  Roger Waters is one of the world's foremost anti-fascist pro-BDS artists and that sequence in The Wall was NOT intended as complimentary 🤦
  
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  So you're saying I should resume using the original material to mock fascists, neo-nazis and, well, the transnational white power movement that has control of the federal government of the United States
  
  ...Sitting in a bunker here behind my wall...
  
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