#why don't presidents fight the war? why do they always send the poor?

[jack-crow-lantern]

I had some scrap fabric laying around and wanted to get rid of it so I made these. Go listen to B.Y.O.B. by SOAD.

[sawthatmountainburn]

kind of just want to scream System of a Down lyrics at people

[virtue-and-beneviolence]

i only saw this now, so i’m probably way too late but i’m gonna try my luck anyway ∞

might steal this too

you depend on our protection yet you feed us lies from the tablecloth

b.y.o.b. system of a down

hello there holly :3

[frankbelloriley]

Cut Millennials a little bit of slack. For most of us, our first introductions to left leaning politics were Jon Stewart and System of a Down lyrics

[frogspawned]

this is such incredibly poor reasoning. biden is actively alienating his own party, you know, the thing he needs to have behind him to win, the people who want him to win this fucked up binary of bad options, to appeal to people who absolutely will not vote for him. who cares if they are stirred up! they don't like him anyways! they were never going to be swayed to the left, particularly in the current extremely polarized political climate in the united states. you're alienating your base for ZERO return. why are mainstream democrats always pulling this same tired routine? it has NEVER worked! you're just cutting away your own support, like some idiot sawing at his own rope while dangling over a cliff, because some of the other guy's might slip loose (spoiler they won't).

if trump wants to be the most pro-israel president in history, why are you competing with him for it? let him fucking die on that hill. your actual voters, your staff, the whole fucking world world are all BEGGING you to get off the hill.

"my opponent wants to wear the shit crown, but gosh, his followers -- who hate me viscerally and will never support me under any circumstances -- won't like it if i don't fight for the shit crown. oh well! guess i better wear it first!"

i'm already holding my fucking nose knowing i'm going to have to vote for this joke, because the alternative is the the same but worse! at least i can try to shame biden, and pressure him! we've moved the needle incrementally, and the momentum is building. too slow, but it is. the us abstained for the last UN vote for ceasefire. which is not enough, laughably paltry by any stretch, but at least it's creeping in the right direction. trump's going to continue to fund israel's war machine gleefully, with no hold's barred, if not ramp it up. he will actively enjoy any protest as red meat for his followers. because then he can whinge and posture and puff himself up. biden has an emotional attachment to the idea of israel? who gives a shit joe! maybe one should care more about the reality than the idea, and the reality is undeniable at this point. it's standing stark and naked before the world.

the reality is the united states has poured BILLIONS into a genocide machine who openly celebrates ethnic cleansing. idf soldiers put up selfies and funny tiktoks, and loot the homes of the palestinians they've slaughtered for the crime of existing on land they want. idf snipers target aid workers and doctors and children. they block food and medicine. they blow up trucks of flour. this is not speculation -- even if someone doesn't believe what their own eyes can see, every day, of the horrors pouring out of palestine, then take israel's word for it. they're proud of what their doing. they celebrate it. they snipe old women and beat old men to death, use children as bait for ambulance drivers, tear down homes and temples and mosques and centuries old olive groves then post it for their friends and family to see. they actively corroborate their own war crimes on tiktok.

but because it's easy, because the us has always done it, because it makes money for contractors and makes evangelicals giddy about the apocalypse, we'll just continue to pour anti tank rounds into their hands, missiles, drones, whatever tools they need to """mow the grass"""" in gaza. the military industrial complex has the us in an inescapable chokehold, in every facet of our lives, and god forbid we stop throwing lives and money and blood down the endless money hole. they might stop bombing people if we stop sending them bombs! and then how will israel sell that prime beach front property?

and in a decade we'll wring our hands and coo about what a tragedy it was, how sad, how inevitable, and throw up a fucking memorial in some park so we'll never forget.

[szyszkasosnowa]

A single soul dwelling in two bodies - a Xeno x Stan playlist

(extra stuff under the cut)

I. Before the stone

Nirvana - Drain you

One baby to another says, "I'm lucky to have met you" I don't care what you think unless it is about me It is now my duty to completely drain you

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Road tripping

Now let us drink the stars, it's time to steal away Let's go get lost right here in the USA Let's go get lost, let's go get lost

System of a Down - B.Y.O.B.

Where the fuck are you? Why don't presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor?

ACDC – Dirty deeds done dirt cheap

Concrete shoes Cyanide TNT (Done dirt cheap) Neck ties Contracts High voltage (Done dirt cheap)

Muse - Knights of Cydonia

No one's gonna take me alive The time has come to make things right You and I must fight for our rights You and I must fight to survive

Pixies - Hang Wire

Every morning And every day I'll bossanova with ya

II. The ultimate knight

Archive - Bullets

Underneath my skin there is a violence It's got a gun in its hand

Confine me let me be the lesser of a beautiful man Without the blood on his hands

Bullets are the beauty of the blistering sky Bullets are the beauty and I don’t know why

Ready to take Ready to take out anyone, anywhere Anyone, anywhere

Jack White - Love is blindness

Love is blindness, I don't want to see Won't you wrap the night around me?

Love is clockworks and it's cold steel Fingers too numb to feel Squeeze the handle, blow out the candle Blindness

The Stooges - I wanna be your dog

Now we're gonna be face-to-face And I'll lay right down in my favorite place And now I wanna be your dog

System of a Down - Jet Pilot

Wired were the eyes of a horse on a jet pilot One that smiled when he flew over the bay

The White Stripes - Jolene

And I can easily understand How you could easily take my man But you don't know what he means to me

You could have your choice of men But I could never love again He's the only one for me

Soap&Skin – Sugarbread

Where the sight rather flees And the heartbeat leaks And the lighted mouth Rather chokes

Lux perpetua luceat eis

System of a Down - Soldier Side Intro

Welcome to the soldier side, where there's no one here but me People all grow up to die, there is no one here but me

III. A scientist of darkness

King Crimson – 21st century schizoid man

Death seed, blind man's greed Poets' starving, children bleed Nothing he's got he really needs Twenty-first century schizoid man

Soap&Skin – Me and the Devil

Me and the Devil Walking side by side And I'm gonna see my man Until I get satisfied

You may bury my body Down by the highway side

So my old evil spirit Can Greyhound bus that ride

Nirvana - The man who sold the world

I gazed a gazely stare At all the millions here I must have died alone A long long time ago

Who knows? Not me I never lost control You're face to face With the man who sold the world

Placebo - Battle for the Sun

I, I, I, I, I will brush off all the dirt Dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt And I, I, I, I, I will pretend it didn't hurt Hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt

Dream brother, my killer, my lover

Ozzy Osbourne - I just want you

There are no unlockable doors There are no unwinnable wars There are no unrightable wrongs Or unsingable songs

There are no impossible dreams There are no invisible seams Each night when the day is through I don't ask much I just want you

Hole - Nothern Star

And blackest night and I wait for you It's cold in here, there's no one left And I wait for you And nothing stops it happening And I knew, I'd cherish all my misery alone And I wait, staring at the Northern Star I'm afraid it won't lead me anywhere

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here

How I wish, how I wish you were here We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl year after year Running over the same old ground, what have we found? The same old fears, wish you were here

IV. To the Moon and back

Muse - Starlight

Far away This ship has taken me far away Far away from the memories Of the people who care if I live or die

Hold you in my arms I just wanted to hold you in my arms

The Doors – Moonlight Drive

Let's swim to the moon Let's climb through the tide

Paloma Faith - Never tear us apart

Two worlds collided And they could never tear us apart

We could live For a thousand years But if I hurt you I'd make wine from your tears

[robotgirlfoxears]

love how system of a down will go from "everyone's going to the party gonna have a really good time" and "why don't presidents fight the war? why do they always send the poor?" in the same song

[avesblues2]

Why don't presidents fight the war, and why do they always send the poor?

[scary-ivy]

God I love political music much actually, finally some relatable lyrics

[musicsavedmylife16]

Why don't presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor?

B.Y.O.B. // System Of A Down

[insomtiny]

WHY DON'T PRESIDENTS FIGHT THE WAR WHY DO THEY ALWAYS SEND THE POOR 🗣🗣🗣

[riverthemessiah]

post-soad mini binge. 

[weareasong]

...

You!

...

Why do they always send the poor?

Barbarisms by Barbaras

With pointed heels

Victorious, victories kneel

For brand new spankin' deals

Marching forward hypocritic

And hypnotic computers

You depend on our protection

Yet you feed us lies from the tablecloth

...

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, oooh

Everybody's going to the party, have a real good time

Dancing in the desert, blowing up the sunshine

Kneeling roses disappearing

Into Moses's dry mouth

Breaking into Fort Knox

Stealing our intentions

Hangars ceiling dripped in oil

Crying freedom

Handed to obsoletion

Still you feed us lies from the tablecloth

...

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, oooh

Everybody's going to the party, have a real good time

Dancing in the desert, blowing up the sunshine

Everybody's going to the party, have a real good time

Dancing in the desert, blowing up the sunshine

Blast off

It's party time

And we don't live in a fascist nation

Blast off

It's party time

And where the fuck are you?

Where the fuck are you?

Where the fuck are you?

Why don't presidents fight the war?

Why do they always send the poor?

Why don't presidents fight the war?

Why do they always send the poor?

Why do they always send the poor?

Why do they always send the poor?

Why do they always send the poor?

Kneeling roses disappearing

Into Moses's dry mouth

Breaking into Fort Knox

Stealing our intentions

Hangars ceiling dripped in oil

Crying "Freedom"

Handed to obsoletion

Still you feed us lies from the tablecloth

...

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, oooh

Everybody's going to the party, have a real good time

Dancing in the desert, blowing up the sunshine

Everybody's going to the party, have a real good time

Dancing in the desert, blowing up the sun

Where the fuck are you?

Where the fuck are you?

Why don't presidents fight the war?

Why do they always send the poor?

Why don't presidents fight the war?

Why do they always send the poor?

Why do they always send the poor?

Why do they always send the poor?

Why do they always send the poor?

Why do they always send the poor?

Why do they always send the poor?

They always send the poor

They always send the poor

(end)

[deathclassic]

hey! (gl w the job applying)

thank you! waiting for someone to make sure my cover letter is alright lol

Why don't presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor? 

byob by system of a down