Tom Morello says "when people say that musicians should not be involved in politics, it means they are people that disagree with your politics."
"The second that you write a song that agrees with their politics, all of a sudden they're all for it. So, one, it's very hypocritical, but two, I also think that, why should you give away your free speech rights in the job that you do? Because it offends someone? I think the converse is what is actually true.
"I think that you do yourself and your times a disservice by censoring who you are in your work. Not just musicians. I think, one, it's sort of weirdly sort of selfish to kind of ghettoize musicians as, like, 'Oh, they shouldn't say anything.' I think in your work as a music journalist or in your work as a tour manager or as your work as a bus driver, whatever, you should not leave behind who you are and what you believe.. There's an extra hot layer of hell for people in times of great injustice who censor themselves and remain quiet when they should have spoken out because they're afraid of some Internet troll."
(via @metalhammer_de)
📸: Rob DeMartin
“To be very clear, nobody should be planting cannabis in public gardens, council gardens, nature strips, traffic islands, or the flower bed in the middle of the roundabout near the old council building” lmaooo
The new #MorrisJE is a full-electric van built on an aluminium skateboard platform with a carbon-fibre body. And it could be coming to #Australia.. https://t.co/7090V9B0VU
Prominent economist Saul Eslake demolishes LNP’s ‘aspiration’ myth saying their 1999 CGT discount failed to build a nation of entrepreneurs & shareholders, in fact, those rates only fell since 1999, while “disproportionately favouring richer & older Australians”💥 #auspol
Prof Hal Pawson says Labor’s CGT changes are “to be commended” & shreds the LNP’s “well out of line” tax scheme that incentivised investors to pile in “causing inflation in the system”💥
Says we’re “already seeing the beginnings of the beneficial impact” of the changes✅ #auspol
It appears that exposing charlatans in Australian politics is now down to our cartoonists and a few independent journalists - not the mainstream media.
It will be interesting to watch Hanson at the #npc this week.