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80s, 90s rock band. You might remember songs such as "Losing my religion", "Everybody hurts", "The one I love", "Man on the Moon"
They made this music project in response to Trump cutting USAID funding.
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/rem-radio-free-europe-2025-ep-benefit-trump-cuts-1236384894/
https://archive.is/mThRV << radiofree europe article
I never realized that R.E.M. had an anti-communism stance. They first recorded the song "Radio Free Europe" in 1981, using nonsensical lyrics. Some music critics interpreted the song to be a criticism of Radio Free Europe, using nonsensical lyrics to symbolize misinformation. This new re-recording of the song with new lyrics, just outright supports Radio Free Europe.
Some articles refer to R.E.M. as a Georgian band. They are from Georgia the US state, not Soviet Georgia.
I think the Ukraine war put the pacifist crowd firmly into the US hegemony camp. Everyone seems to think the war is entirely about Russian territorial expansion, rather than responding to NATO. If you believe that it's only natural you'll drink the red white and blue cool aid
Ukraine was a relief to most libs I knew because it finally allowed them to be the mask off jingoistic war hawks they always wanted to be, but couldn't because its a bad look. Which is why stuff like Trump being fully extortionist really makes them mad, because then it is giving up the game of it actually being about influence and material resources and not 'protecting democracy'. Basically, they are always looking to fall for this stuff.
It’s so weird to me, I feel like if you were already even slightly poised towards “The US does bad shit” it was so incredibly obvious that the Ukraine war is the US’s fault and Russia was defending itself.
Why the fuck are my fellow westerners, including a lot of self-described leftists (I’m looking at you, Trashfuture discord) too stupid to recognize that incredibly obvious fact?