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I have not found a "play action" translator yet but I did enjoy early RATM but now they have ironically became Rage FOR the Machine.
Ive always liked RATM and some of their themes, if not significantly toned down. But if we're being brutally honest, RATM have always been idealogues and maybe most of the band members would see their behavior, words, or ideals back then as naivety, youthful indiscretion, or a little bit hypocritical, they'd likely say now that they oppose "certain types of machines", and if there were a regime or government that resembled, symbolized enough of what they sung or believed in, they probably fight for it, even despite its flaws or structural, idealogical contradictions.
The crazy, ironic thing about RATM is that despite all the band's radical far-left politics, themes, in the Soviet Union, Moaist China, or anyone of the Cold War Warsaw Bloc's Soviet Eastern European satellite states, they would've likely been imprisoned, beaten, tortured, sent to Siberian gulags or " reeducation camps" or beaten to death by Mao's Red Guards for being "revionists". If Tom Morello had grown up in Idi Amin's Uganda, he wouldve likely been imprisoned or killed for those same far-leftist beliefs which is also ironic, because Amin fashioned himself as an anti-Western Third World leader who hated and despised the British.
As dedicated and highly intelligent as he is, you can't tell me he hasn't wondered that himself countless times. Zach, too for that matter. If he had been born and raised in Castro's Cuba, how different would his own individual life had turned out to be living in a one-party, authoritian Communist dictatorship where his chances for social mobility are severely limited, or if that wouldve been plausible? Would he have become a symbol of what he detests so much?
I have not found a "play action" translator yet but I did enjoy early RATM but now they have ironically became Rage FOR the Machine.