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Renegades of Spunk: Rage in Approval of the Rainbow Machine

Woke revolutionary self-parody

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Matt Osborne
Jul 12, 2022
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I’m a Tom Morello fan. In 2015 I was also one of the prime movers behind the trend of repro rights activists naming their enemy “forced birth.” This photo of the Rage Against The Machine reunion tour set is giving me hives

No matter how hard we cry, you can't give in now
No matter how hard we cry, you can't give in now

We're the pink brigades of this ironic rage
This ironic rage of gender-days
Pink brigades of this ironic rage
This ironic rage of gender-daze

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Since our early childhood ages and the days of puberty
Right up through our elder ages
Our bodies keep going through changes
But then the pronouns came, orthodoxy continued to change
Nothing stayed the same, but there were brand-new genders made
Like Eli Erlick, Ezra Miller,
Dana Rivers, Cherno Biko
They have genders made of porn-addled rage
So many renegades

We're the renegades of spunk
We're the renegades of spunk
We're the renegades of spunk
We're the re…

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