France has FREE health care, paid parental leave, paid family leave, FREE child care, FREE preschool, 5 weeks paid vacation, a 35 hour work week, generous unemployment and housing benefits, and heavily subsidized higher education.
Everything the left says they want AND THEY'RE STILL PROTESTING AND BURNING SHIT DOWN.
Since the wave of support, but also hate, for Metallica is showing no signs of slowing down, here's a bit of history that will ruffle the feathers of a few communism enthusiasts.
On 28 September 1991, Metallica, along with rock legends AC/DC and Pantera, whose career was about to skyrocket, performed at the Monsters of Rock festival in Moscow. It was the first time the festival had been held in Russia.
Those who lived through Soviet occupation or have relatives who lived under Soviet communist control, whether in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, the Baltic states or elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe, will understand the significance of this.
For decades, Western music faced censorship and restrictions under communism. You couldn't simply walk into a shop and buy the latest Metallica album. Fans often had to rely on bootleg recordings and pirated tapes.
Many of those people craved the West, its culture, its music and the freedoms that people on the other side of the Iron Curtain took for granted.
That's why, when Metallica and the other bands performed in Moscow that September, it was about so much more than music.
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered to watch Western rock bands perform in the heart of the Soviet Union, although some estimates put the crowd at over a million. This was at a time when communism was finally crumbling.
James Hetfield recalled that even Soviet soldiers and police simply let go and joined in with the crowd, headbanging to the music.
Less than three months later, the Soviet Union would collapse.
That concert became a powerful symbol of the end of a dark chapter in history.
And most importantly, and this will really annoy all the right people, no political statements were made by the bands. No preaching, no telling people what to think.
As James Hetfield recently said, the audience came to escape reality.
And as for any of the material performed by the bands being political in nature, well, they simply played their songs and let the music do the talking instead of preaching to the audience.
@8NewsNow Yes... because this is what effects change...Effect ACTUAL change, Get involved and vote and make sure that the district attorneys take these kinds of cases seriously. Get involved and mentor young people teaching that consent is important & that no means no.
Metallica frontman James Hetfield took a swipe at artists who use their concerts to lecture audiences about politics during the band's Las Vegas residency.
In what could easily be seen as a dig at the likes of Macklemore, Hetfield told the crowd:
"Unless you live in Vegas, you've come a long way to spend some time with Metallica. We're grateful for that. Your travels, the money you spend, the time it took, thanks for coming to celebrate with us.
And I just gotta say, Metallica is not here, like some other entertainers, to influence you with their bullshit. We are here to forget about all the outside shit. Metallica's agenda is love, energy and heavy music, baby!"
Hetfield has rarely spoken openly about his politics, but past interviews suggest he holds many conservative values.
On Joe Rogan's podcast in 2016, he explained how he'd moved his family away from the San Francisco Bay Area, having grown tired of what he saw as its political intolerance and elitism.
As a Metallica fan, this is incredibly based! 🤘
@tlynch6708@MarkRPellegrino So many of these keyboard warriors are little trolls who don't have any real world experience. They don't know how to have a coherent, intelligent conversation, all they have is their little, uninformed, worldview and a sense of superiority.
@HMM2425@spnconsarchive He was not banned, neither was/is Osric or DHJ, you all should actually read legal paperwork before you speak about things you don't know about.
Today is Shannon and my wedding anniversary. I’m so proud to be standing beside her. She is the love, life, and moral compass of our family. Without her, I’m sure I would have been an empty shell of a man. I’ve married Shannon twice, and will marry Shannon again. And again. As long as I live. I love my wifey. 😍
My dream Gen X retirement community isn't a golf course or a luxury resort.
It's a fully renovated 80s/90s shopping mall.
Half the building is apartments. The other half looks exactly like the mall we grew up in.
The Waldenbooks is now a massive library where you can spend hours getting lost in books.
The food court is part of your meal plan, so you can grab an Orange Julius, a slice of pizza, Chinese food, or sit down for a proper meal at Shoney's whenever you want.
The movie theater plays classics every night.
The arcade is free and packed with Pac-Man, Galaga, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Donkey Kong, and every cabinet game we spent our allowance on.
Sam Goody is still there. You can browse CDs, listen to Bowie, The Ramones, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, or whatever you love. They even host monthly dance nights for anyone who still remembers MTV when it actually played music.
The Sharper Image has massage chairs you can reserve whenever your back reminds you that you're no longer 25.
The pharmacy is still an Eckerds.
Blockbuster is fully operational. You can rent movies, video games, and spend 30 minutes wandering the aisles before choosing something you'll probably fall asleep watching.
There's an aerobics studio offering Tae-Bo, Richard Simmons, MTV's The Grind workouts, and every fitness craze we survived the first time around.
There are fountains everywhere, a lazy river because we've earned it, and plenty of benches where people can sit and talk instead of staring at their phones.
Every morning we go mall walking before the stores "open."
Every evening we meet friends at the food court.
No algorithms. No endless scrolling. No influencers.
Just books, music, movies, arcades, friends, nostalgia, and the feeling that for a few hours, it's 1995 again.
Honestly, I'd put my name on the waiting list today.
@madisonclaccy9 What the hell is wrong with this person posting this. I remember doing this as a child growing up, and I am 60. I would rather see kids be creative out in there as long as they're being safe and not being hit by cars.