Matty_the_Emo_Slayer wrote:
For starters she spent her entire senate career opposing gay marriage and also defended Bill Clinton's crime bill publicly by referring to young black men as "superpredators." There's some interesting stuff in wikileaks as well about casual racism of the DNC in general, like referring to chasing the latino vote as "taco-bowling."
How anyone can think she is a liberal is beyond me. She's a rich white girl from the midwest who married into the southern anti-civil rights wing of the Democrat party. Depending on how you view things Bill maybe has an excuse for still have backward views and coming off with comments like "Obama should be making us coffee" to Bobby Kennedy Jr. as he was raised in Jim Crow land, but Hillary? She only became a part of that world when she met Bill in college and starting being mentored for politics by KKK recruiter Sen. Robert Byrd.
She's a bit of a flip flopper on that part, she and Bill did admit that "don't ask don't tell" in the military was a compromise they had to make but regretted they couldn't do more when they initially wanted to allow openly allow homosexuals into the army; then her Senate career undermines the whole of it by voting against most pro homosexual legislation.
On the second point, you only have to look at the policies she was advocated on the campaign trail, she wasn't a million miles away from Trump when you actually read into it (although she didn't openly soundbite her way to full blown loon like Trump); it's interesting people only refer to her as liberal when you compare her to Trump, before the DNC Bernie held that mantle. Clinton is a careerist, she's only as liberal as the Democratic party allow her and when public opinoin is swaying that way.
Gandalf the Red wrote:houston4044 wrote:Gandalf the Red wrote:I understand that, it's the interview in the article I posted (I think).
Dee and the band probably don't want to be politicised as many bands do. How many dislike
Megadeth or Ted Nugent
because they've said daft political comments over the last few years? Quite a lot.
But they're still buddies. Even says so in the interview.

To be fair, Mustaine only started getting called out when he making pro-right wing comments; Irish comments aside he didn't get a lot of crap pre 00's politics wise... although the stuff he came out with pre 00's wasn't batshit insane, "put a cork in it" anyone?

That's why I said the last few years.
As with all musicians and celebrities in general, "keeping your gob shut" is a good idea when it comes to politics.
Ah my mistake then. Personally I don't mind articulate celebrity political discussion but for the most part it either boils down to short soundbites (which to be fair could be down to media editing any discussion to make the story more compelling/keep it brief) or Twitter shit, why fans latch onto their views which are only 140 characters long (and half of that is hashtags) is beyond me (then again Trump used to win an election so hey, what do I know?)