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    Wage theft is bigger than all other theft, but far fewer people are dragged onto the sidewalk and strangled to death for it. Maybe that should change.

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      Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure during the last days. Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.

      James 5:1-6

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        Dayum! New favorite bible passage for being obnoxious towards hypocrites with just dropped!

        And by “just” I mean “a thousand years ago”, or whenever that part of their book was written 🤷

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      “When the truth walks away, everybody stays 'cuz the truth about the world is that crime does pay. So if you walk away, who is gonna stay? 'Cuz I like to think the world is a better place.”

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        To add to your punk rock reference :)

        The power is in the hands of the few
        There are too many homeless too many starving
        They don’t care they don’t listen
        Their profit is more important than our pain
        Than our oppression than our human rights
        Sure take from the rich and give to the poor
        But when will the greed stop when will the human rights
        Be of some importance
        They can have their money and their system
        We can’t have freedom with restrictions
        We can’t have freedom and equity with an entire
        System based on competition

        Defiance - Hands of the Few, 1995. This shit ain’t new.

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        Underrated Offspring jam! I feel like Offspring get written off as pop-punk but are generally underrated as political artists.

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          Listening to that album nowadays is hair-raising. It’s almost as though people have been screaming in Americans faces for decades about what’s becoming impossible to ignore, I know I was singing these lyrics since 1999:

          "Well, I’d like to tell you all about my dream

          It’s a place where strip malls abound

          And diversion’s mere moments away

          Where culture’s defined by the ones least refined

          And you’ll be left behind if you don’t fit in

          It’s all distorted in Americana my way

          Well, fuck you

          Whoa, whoa, whoa, well, my dream has come true

          Whoa, whoa, whoa, my vision has come true

          Now give me my cable, fast food

          Four-by’s, tat’s right away

          I want it right now 'cause

          My ge-generation don’t like to wait

          My future’s determined by thieves, thugs and vermin

          It’s quite an excursion but it’s okay

          Everything’s backwards in Americana my way

          Well, fuck you

          Whoa, whoa, whoa, well, my dream has come true

          Whoa, whoa, whoa, my vision has come true

          Yeah, it’s all coming true

          I’m a product of my environment

          So don’t blame me, I just work here

          But I wanna fuck it up

          My rights are denied by those least qualified

          Trading profit for pride but it’s, it’s okay

          Everything’s backwards in Americana my way

          Well, fuck you

          Whoa, whoa, whoa, my nightmare has come true

          Whoa, whoa, whoa, my nightmare has come true

          Yeah, it’s all coming true

          Yeah, it’s all coming true"