A half measure

Didn’t the founders call it project freedom?

And now’s the time to pause it. Got it.

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“Who’s gonna help me get up?” 😭

Rise Against - Megaphone (2018)
Rise Against - The Numbers (2021)
Rise Against - The Answer (2022)
Macklemore - fucked up (2025)
Carsie Blanton - Ugly Nasty Commie Bitch (2024)
Sorry that these are all YT links.

Clearly I’m a RA fanboy, but I look at the state of the world and I hear their songs, and they’re the same picture. I can’t ignore their music.

(ehem…except for the new Ricochet album with its questionable production decisions)

Like a contest to determine who gets to marry Texas’s 14 year old daughters.

They might eat ‘around’ hers.

Like the lady with whiteout in Erin Brockovich

And at the exact same site that birthed the meme

Nuclear fusion is only 9 more years away.

rising up against all of this

Does Rise Against count?

I am not a good gatekeeper of “mainstream” or “sellout” etc but this feels like a hostile thread so I guess criticism is incoming.

I feel like the entirety of RA’s discography fits this theme perfectly. The songwriting is part of why I can’t get enough.

(I can’t speak for their recent Ricochet album - the sound quality is poor and lots of fans hate it; we hope we get a rerecording some day. Set aside Ricochet and I feel like you can’t go wrong with anything else of theirs.)

Trying to list deeper cuts that might be good hooks:

Album / Song:

The Black Market / Bridges
The Black Market / People Live Here
Endgame / Disparity by Design
Endgame / Midnight Hands
Endgame / A Gentleman’s Coup
Nowhere Generation / The Numbers
Nowhere Generation / Sudden Urge
EP Nowhere Generation II / Holding Patterns
Wolves / Welcome to the Breakdown
Appeal to Reason / Entertainment
EP / Megaphone

And you can’t go wrong with the back to back tracks “Prayer of the Refugee” followed by “Drones” from the album The Sufferer and the Witness.

Even older albums have good stuff but I didn’t list them since idk if you’d call them “modern”. Tip the Scales + Give It All are good tracks.

It gets easier and easier to envision the “Peewee German” moniker sticking forever.

Seconded on that Wheeling video

FWIW I took it to be a response to OP rather than you. Perhaps they felt their comment was a continuation of yours so they replied to yours. Idk

It became a true moral thing, by letting him just say all of this, I felt like I was saying it was okay.

A thousand times, yes.

“Dishonest Harmony” is a term I’ve never heard but wow it is perfect.

I’m… lucky?.. that my dad was a shitbag for other reasons. He was already on thin ice prior to 2016. My mom “isn’t interested in politics” but even that’s feeling unforgivable for me nowadays.

My parents have gone from seeing their 2 grandchildren biweekly, to me limiting visits with their 3 grandchildren to 3-4 times a year. Even those times are intentionally with my dad absent, and are only at extended family gatherings.

Fuck. Them. Both.

I feel like he could capitalize on a Random Acts of Steak forum. And so could we, eventually.

It’s just one song, but in Only Murders in the Building, Steve Martin sings Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?