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And I talk about Federated Computer all the time.
They're not my sponsor.
They don't give me any money at all.
In fact, I'm the one that gives them money.
I digress.
It's a hell of a service.
And I keep saying that I'm going to go through it and talk about it.
And I probably could do that, but this is like an audio show.
I really would like to do that as a video so you can see what you're getting.
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They are stupid fast.
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Yeah, it's, I love it.
Anyways, I digress.
So the media's pivot to AI is not real and not going to work.
This is from 404 Media again.
AI is not going to save media companies and forcing journalists to use AI.
It's not a business model.
Did you know that Microsoft employees, they're totally unrelated here,
but Microsoft employees are now being forced to use AI
in their jobs.
They are really pushing that go pilot.
Yeah, I logged into the Windows partition here on the laptop.
I got it upgraded to 11, you know, just because it needed to be updated
because Windows 10, the Windows 10 that was on it was like
a year or so ago since updates were done.
But I logged into the Windows 10 partition, got the laptop updated
and they upgraded to 11.
And dude, Copilot is fucking everywhere in Windows 11.
It's on your task bar.
It's in Microsoft Edge.
I log into Outlook for work and there's the big Copilot button,
even though we don't have Copilot for our Microsoft account at work.
And which by the way, we're getting rid of.
Yay.
Because the company that bought our company, they use Google Workspace.
They've got a Microsoft license for like Excel or something like that.
But they don't have the full Microsoft bullshit.
So at least I'm getting away from Microsoft, but it's being replaced with Google.
So anyways, I digress.
I don't know if that's better or worse.
But yeah, this is on May 23rd from 404 Media.
We got a very interesting email from Ghost, the service we used to make 404 Media.
Paid subscription started, the email said.
Which is the subject line of all the automated emails we get when someone subscribes to 404 Media.
The interesting thing about this email was that the new subscriber had been referred to 404 Media
directly from ChatGPT.com.
Meeting the person clicked a link to 404 Media from within a ChatGPT window.
It is the first and only time that ChatGPT has ever sent 404 Media a paid subscriber.
From what I can tell you, ChatGPT.com has sent us 1600 page views since we founded 404 Media
nearly two years ago.
To give you a sense of where this slots in, this is slightly fewer than the
and Hungarian news portal, telex.hu.hu.
The Polish news aggregator, ycop.pl.
And barely more than the Russian news aggregator, dazen.ru, are you, sorry.
The paywall jumping website, removepaywall.com.
And a computer graphics job board called 80.lv.in.
Oh, .lv.
Period.
Next sentence is, in that same time.
I thought the .in, I thought that was part of the web address.
I'll digress.
In that same time, Google has sent roughly 3 million visitors or 187,400%
more than ChatGPT.
This is really neither here nor there because we have tried to set our website up
to block ChatGPT from scraping us.
Though it is clear this is not always working.
But even for sites that don't block ChatGPT,
now new research from the internet infrastructure company, Cloudflare,
suggests that openAI is crawling 1,500 individual webpages
for every one visitor that it is sending to a website.
Google traffic has become the dry up.
And as both Google's own AI snippets and AI-powered SEO spam
have obliterated the business models of many media websites.
This general dynamic, plummeting traffic because of AI snippets,
ChatGPT, AI slot, Twitter, no workies so good no more,
has been called the traffic apocalypse
and has all been killed some other smaller websites
and has been blamed by executives for hundreds of layoffs at larger ones.
Despite the fact that generative AI has become a destructive force
against their business, their industry, and the truth more broadly,
media executives still see AI as a business opportunity
and a shiny object that they can tell investors
and their staffs that they are very bullish on.
They have to say this, I guess, because everything else
they have tried hasn't worked
and pretending that they are forward-thinking or have any clue
what they are doing will perhaps allow a specific type of media executive
to squeeze out a few more months of salary.
But pivoting to AI is not a business strategy
telling journalists they must use AI as a business strategy
or as not a business strategy.
Partnering with AI companies is a business move
but becoming reliant on revenue from tech giants
who are creating a machine that duplicates the work you've already created
is not a smart or sustainable business move
and therefore it is not a smart business strategy.
It is true that AI is changing the internet
and is threatening journalists and media outlets
but the only AI related business strategy
that makes any sense whatsoever
is one where media companies and journalists
must go to great pains
to show their audiences that they are human beings
and that the work that they are doing
is worth supporting because it is human work
that it is vital to their audiences.
This is something GQ's editorial director Will Welch
recently told New York Magazine
the good news for any digital publishers
that the new game we all have to play
is also a sustainable one.
You have to build a direct relationship with your core readers.
Becoming an AI first media company
has become a buzzword that execs can point at
to explain that their businesses can use AI
to become more efficient
and thus have a chance to become more profitable.
Often but not always
this message comes from executives
who are laying off large swaths
of their human staff.
In May, Business Insider laid off
a 21% of its workforce.
In her layoff letter, Business Insider CEO
Barbara Peng said there's a huge opportunity
for companies who harness AI first.
She told the remaining employees there
that they are fully embracing AI.
We are going all in on AI
and said over 70% of Business Insider employees
are already using Enterprise Chat GPT regularly.
Our goal is 100%.
And we're building prompt libraries
and sharing everyday use cases
that help us work faster,
smarter and better, she added.
They are exploring how AI can boost
operations across shared services
helping us scale and operate more efficiently.
Last year, Hearst Newspapers
executives who operate 78 newspapers nationwide
told the company in an all hands meeting
audio obtained by 404 media
that they are leaning into AI
as Hearst overall, the entire corporation.
Examples given in the meeting included
using AI for slide decks,
a quiz generation tool for readers,
translations, a tool called Dispatch
which is an email summarization tool
and a tool called assembly
which is basically a public meeting
monitor, transcriber, summarizer all in one.
I've got no problem with companies
big and small using AI
to help them work.
I use AI to make this podcast.
I use AI to make my music,
to convey messages.
I use AI to prove for what I write
because I suck when it comes to writing.
Not so much the concepts
it's getting it down into words
where I have the problem.
This kind of goes along with
all these videos that I keep seeing
from the big YouTubers
in the music industry
griping and complaining about Suno.
Anybody can write a song, a hit song
and there's one AI band
on Spotify
that's got way over a million
listens.
I can't think of their name right now.
It's not my kind of music
but that's why I don't listen.
And plus I'm not on Spotify
because I got kicked off.
Which side note
I do have an opportunity
and I want to get you guys as input.
I can submit
the podcast version of the show
to Spotify
through Substack.
So it's not going to be in my name
so I could
get back on to Spotify
without
having my name on it
should I do it
or should I just stick the finger to Spotify
and tell them to go fuck off.
Because there's a
we've got a podcast on Substack
there's a button that says
you know
to Spotify.
So I'm thinking about hitting that button
because it's just like a
one-click thing and I don't have to really
go to Spotify to use it
or to do it
but it would be
it would be nice to be able to say
if you can't find me on this, this and this
look for the show on Spotify
because nearly everybody's on Spotify.
But anyway, I digress.
These YouTubers that are
griping and complaining
that you can go create
a song
on Soono
with quote-unquote no effort
and it's all done because somebody else did it
blah blah blah
you're stealing other people's work
blah blah
okay I'm going to argue
with that point
because
even if at this point
in the history of music
there is nothing original
there is no lick
no guitar riff
no drum riff
no bass riff
no lyric
no story
no concept
that has not been done already
by many, many other people
before you
I get, you know, I am a musician myself
I played guitar since I was 13 years old
and I'm 55 now
there is no
song that I've ever wrote
even when I was in the band
no part of any song
that we ever wrote
was 100% original
there is no song on
anywhere
that is 100% original
everything is based off of
that user
or that user
that individual musician
or group of musicians
is based on their experiences
with other music they've heard
before
so are they
original
did they not rip off and copy
other songs
I mean yeah there are blatant
rip off songs out there
and there is copyright infringement
galore in the music industry
but you know
arguing the point that
AI and sudo
is blatant rip offs
is not the point you should be making
if you want to go after AI music
go after them
for
what's the word I'm looking for
scraping
the music to train their models for free
that's where
the argument should be made
the argument should not be made
that
the entirety of AI music
is a rip off
because
it's not
the only reason you're saying it's a rip off
and especially these large youtubers
is because they want their money
they want their little world to check
they want to be like sting
and get paid $2,000
anytime
was it every breath you take gets played on the radio
no matter where it is in the world
they want that
they want their notoriety they want to be known
they want their 15 minutes of fame
they don't really care about the music
they don't care about
an idea that they're expressing
a story in the song that's why I like indie music
independent bands, independent music
that's why I've been doing that since 2006
because the music better
there's more passion than what you listen to
on the damn radio
I can't tell you the last time I listened to a terrestrial radio station
because it's literally nothing more
than
a record label
a music label saying
I can't really say record anymore but
a music label
endorsing and telling you who you should be listening to
and liking now
it's got nothing to do
with whether or not the song is good
I've heard indie songs
tiny little indie songs
and then I'll go listen to the radio
just not purposely listen to the radio
but I'll just be walking by somebody
and they'll be playing this thing
and it's like somebody big like Taylor Swift
and the song sounds
just like an indie song that I heard
and it's like, really?
who's this?
Andrew Loper says that
he does listen to fluid radio
what is that some kind of
LGBTQ radio
the music is fluid
it might be hard
it might be Lawrence Welk Polka
he says not gender fluid
music fluid
I know
I've heard him before
sorry Andrew Loper
see this is kind of fun we could have
in a chat room
watch for the show notes
the show notes will be over at libertytunes.substack.com
and yeah
the Maik Street chat room will be in there
so anyways
now that I've got D-Rail there from Andrew Loper
back to the thing
AI is just a tool
these people that use it
it empowers
the little guy
and the ones that you're hearing the bitch the most about it
are the big corporations
when it comes to like music
you don't hear
the little independent
musician
bitch about
you know somebody
you do hear them gripe
mainly because they didn't get their royalty
or what have you
but I'm of the sound
my brain thought
I believe information should be free
it should not be pay walled
it should not be gate kept
by
anybody
and I feel the same about music
if you are truly and really
about the music and you're passionate
about what you write as a musician
if you want people to hear it
you want people to play it
you don't want
some multi
mega million dollar corporation
to gate keep it
because what they will do is they will
they pick and choose the winners
there are lots and lots
of times and examples
over the years in the music industry
where a music label will sign
an up and coming local band
somewhere in the states it's real popular around
Nashville, LA, New York
they will sign these bands
give them a 2 EP
record contract
and then they disappear
they record
their music
and then they never get promoted
they never get thrown on the national stage
unless they fit a certain
mold
that they can
market towards on a national
stage
there are different levels
in the music industry
just like any industry you got the small
little people then you got the mid range
and then you got the national
and then you got the world stage
me, my band
we were on the local
almost pretty much at the state level
we didn't really get
outside of the state of Michigan
but we were known
as a live band
and we never want, not once
recorded at actual CD
or EP
if you look for it you'll find
clips of us and even full songs of us
playing live on stage
a slight case of death
it's, we were known as being
a party band
and we did have a little
small little following that would follow us from city to city
whether we played in Saginaw, whether we played in Lansing
whether we played in Detroit
it didn't matter they would be there
they were like our own little
dead heads, you know the grateful dead head
people that would follow them around the country
we had the Scott squad
and it was fun
but if we would have gotten the sign
we never would have gotten anywhere
mainly because one of our most popular songs
was called Dear Mother
and the chorus of it was literally
Jesus doesn't love you anymore
we were not a polka man
and we had another
song that was quite popular
it was meant to be a joke song
that Gary the singer he wrote it
and it was not meant to ever
get popular because it was just a joke
it was a comedy song
and it came to be known as ALB
which stands for awesome lesbian boobies
and it's like a country little folk song
and it was fun
but it got to be one of our most requested songs
every time we showed up to a show
and that's usually what we ended up
with was awesome lesbian boobies
and it's awesome
it's fun hearing people sing along to that song
but I digress
let's move on to another new story
holy shit we're like
three-fourth of the way through the show
damn
here
okay let's get into some kind of scary news
the EU could be scanning your chats by October
here's everything that we know this is from techradar
Denmark has
Denmark has reintroduced
excuse me the disputed
excuse me I shouldn't try to check that while I was
playing that promo
anyways Denmark has reintroduced
the disputed child sexual abuse scanning bill
or CCA
on the first day of its EU presidency
the so-called chat control proposal could be
adopted as early as October 14th, 2025
the proposal has been failing
to attract the needed majority
since May of 2022
Denmark kicked off its EU presidency
on July 1st and among its first actions
lawmakers swiftly reintroduced
the controversial child sexual abuse scanning bill
to the top of the agenda
having been deemed by critics as chat control
the bill aims to introduce new obligations
for all messaging services operating in Europe
to scan users chats even if they're encrypted
the proposal however has been falling to attract
failing to attract the needed majority
since May 2022 with Poland's presidency
being the last to give up on such a plan
Denmark is a strong supporter of chat control
now the new rules could be adopted
as early as October 14th
if the Danish presidency manages to find a middle
ground among the country's members
the Danish parliament has not yet disclosed the contents
of the new compromises at the time of writing
we know that another meeting is scheduled
for later this week July 11th
so the stories can hold
with lawmakers expected to deliberate on the bill
on October 14th
we also know that among the objectives of the Danish EU presidency
there's a commitment to focus on strengthening the abilities
to make use of the digital development law enforcement
when fighting serious crime
while also addressing the misuse of new technologies
for criminal or harmful purposes
so-called chat control
aims to halt the spread of CCAM content
online by scanning all communications
especially encrypted ones
over the years however the proposal has seen some twists
and turns as privacy advocates, technologists
and even politicians have raised concerns
experts worry that these new obligations
will undermine encryption protections
encryption is the technology that likes the likes of
WhatsApp signal proton mail
and even the best VPN apps used to scramble
user's messages into an unreadable form
preventing unauthorized access
and guaranteeing that chats remain private
as per its first version
all messaging software providers would be required
to perform indiscriminate scanning
of private messages to look for CCAM
so-called client side scanning
the proposal was met with a strong backlash
and the European Court of Human Rights
ended up banning all legal efforts to weaken encryption
of secure communications in Europe
in June of 2024, Belgium then proposed
a new text target, only shared photos
videos and URLs
upon user's permission
this version didn't satisfy either the industry
or voting EU members
due to its coercive nature
as per the Belgian text
users must give consent
to shared material being scanned
before being encrypted
to keep using the functionality
fast forward to February 2025
Poland tried to fight a better compromise
by making the scanning of encrypted chats voluntary
instead of a mandatory and classified prevention
while experts found this version to be major progress
they still lamented the risk of mass surveillance
and ultimately lawmakers failed to attract
the needed majority
we could then expect the Danish text
to try finding a compromise
that appeals to most of the country's members
according to the former MEP
for the German private party
Patrick Breyer, Denmark
crucially needs to manage
to convince Germany
of its proposed text
the new government has not yet taken a position
at the time of writing
what's certain however
is that controversial CCM scanning bill
is far from being the only purpose
proposal
threatening encryption in Europe
in the latest of these efforts on June 24th
the EU Commission published the first step
in its protect EU strategy
which looked to enable law enforcement
bodies to decrypt
your private data by 2030
encryption is going to be illegal
whether you like it or not
I'm telling you guys
it's getting extremely extremely
extremely scary
yeah
he's saying that the interoper
we're saying that the one that I'm reading
is related to the one I read earlier
see how British government
silenced the free press
and made truth illegal
this is from Reclaim the Net
if you guys haven't
ever checked out Reclaim the Net
they got some really great articles
ReclaimtheNet.org
there are cover-ups and then there's
whatever the British government just pulled
imagine torching 7 billion
pounds that's 9.4 billion
US of public money
risking 100,000 lives
creating an immigration scandal
and then when the inevitable
outrage starts to bubble
slapping a gag order on the entire country
and pretending it never happened
this is banana public behavior
with better tailoring
almost sounds like the US
anyways because the
yeah because for nearly two years
they said super injunction
the kind usually deployed when a
Premier League footballers
pants have wandered off again
was used to silence journalists
and the free press
gag parliament and stopped the public
from learning that the Ministry of Defense
had done something
catastrophically inept
it began in August 2023
when journalist David Williams
discovered that the Ministry of Defense
had managed to leak the identities
of 18,800
Afghans
who had worked with British forces
drivers and translators
their families included
we're talking about 100,000 people now
allegedly squarely in the
Taliban's crosshairs
all because some bright spark
couldn't handle a spreadsheet
someone in Whitehall realized
explaining to the public how
a government that wants to introduce
digital IDs
biometric databases
and centralized health records
can't even keep the data of war zone
informants safe might just
might be a tough sell
now in a functioning
democracy this is what
this is the point where
the government admits the error
apologizes profusely
and gets on with fixing the mess
that's not what happened
indeed the conservative government
went nuclear
it reached for a super injunction
a legal instrument so secretive
that you can't even mention that it exists
it's the Voldemort of British law
he who must not be named
and also must not be reported on
discussed in parliament
or even acknowledged in polite German
or polite company
ever since the day to hit the
fan ministers
hidden behind a wall of censorship
so thick that it could double as a
North Korean border post
have been quietly orchestrating
one of the largest peacetime
migration missions in British history
not that they told the
tax-paying public of course
or parliament
or anyone
who wasn't legally bound to pretend
it wasn't happening
they went full cloak and dagger
smuggling thousands of Afghans
out of a collapsing country
into Britain on taxpayer funded flights
all while maintaining the
straight-faced lie that nothing
was going on
so far 18,500 people who
stated it was lost in the ministry
of defense's catastrophic blunder
have either arrived in Britain
or on in route
stuffed into chartered jets
the public paid for
without being asked
another 5,400
are queued up to follow
they're currently being housed
in M.O.D. homes
or hotels on the taxpayer's dime
another reason Prime Minister
Keir Starmer's government
likely wanted to keep the
super injunction in place when he became
Prime Minister
for fear of facing even more public at
backlash that he's already receiving
let's be clear about what this
super injunction did
it did more than ban journalists from
publishing the truth
it prevented parliament from
talking about it
it made it illegal to reveal the existence
of the order itself
for nearly two years
Britain was living under a state-sanctioned
lie of omission
and the people who were
gagged
the very ones tasked with holding
power to account
this is not typically how a democracy
behaves this is how a
dodgy offshore bank operates
or a mid-tier dictatorship
with delusions of grandeur
you do not
under any same definition of a free society
get to blow 7 billion
pounds on a secret
resettlement program
and then deploy stealth censorship
to bury the consequences for your own incompetence
yet that's precisely
what happened
Justice Chamberlain who heard
the case in secret courtrooms was
reportedly stunned to learn
that government officials were actively
planning to lie to MPs
his actual words
a very very striking thing
for a high court judge
that's basically incandescent
rage
we've now entered a world
where the government can simply decide
that public interest isn't
well in the public's interest
super injunctions originally
designed to stop tabloid editors
from splashing scandal across every page
three have become the swiss army knife
of political embarrassment and management
and what's more disturbing
is how quietly it all
happened no headlines
no debates just two years of eerie silence
while the government conducted
one of the most politically
expensive operations in modern British history
never had I witnessed such
an extraordinary scene
in almost 30 years of reporting from the press
bitches of the royal courts
wrote Daily Mail
chief reporter Sam Greenhill
saying that the judge
appeared genuinely
incredulous that the government
was preparing to actively proceed
DC parliament
here are the ways the British state
just showed us it can gag
mislead and trample liberty
and a silk glove
they gagged the press from reporting
on matters of public interest
the super junction wasn't
content only hiding the details
of the MOD's monumental
data catastrophe
if forbade anyone from even acknowledging
the gag existed
that's reality control
Orwell would have lit a cigarette and wept
journalists couldn't report
editors couldn't a hint
the public
the people paying for all this
were told nothing
number two
they allow the government to mislead parliament
and the public
with the press
ministers had a field day
spinning fantasy in the commons
they deliberately concealed the fact
that they were moving thousands of Afghans
into the country and at a time
when immigration is the number one concern
of the public according to the polls
justice chamberlain
reportedly looked visibly disturbed
in one secret hearing when
officials revealed they were
preparing to tell the elected members
of parliament something deliberately
and misleading and what happened
nothing
courts nodded gag remained
taxpayer misprinted
democracy is treated
like an inconvenient bump in the road
number three
they bypassed democratic oversight and institutional checks
even parliament's intelligence
and security committee
the people who were legally
were supposed to know about this stuff
were left out of the loop the executive branch
simply decided it didn't need the supervision anymore
number four
the invert the role of the courts
in a free society
here's a fun twist the courts
whose job is ostensibly to protect
civil liberties were used
as the government's personal bodyguard
shielding ministries from embarrassment
while throttling the press
judicial robes
returned into legal armor
for executive lockups
you expect judges to be the firewall
between government overreach and public freedom
instead they were the gatekeepers of secrecy
the legal system was weaponized
against the very people
it was supposed to protect
they prioritized state embarrassment
over genuine security
the dsma notice system
originally designed to stop packs
from leaking nuclear launch codes
or troop movements
was activated because ministers
were at risk of a bad headline
the real national emergency
was a pr fallout
number six
they threatened journalistic freedom
and chilled investigative reporting
journalists were legally strangled
even as the government later admitted
these reporters had performed
a very necessary public service
they still tried to gag them
for nearly two years
number seven
they contradict the liberal democratic
principles
in case we've all forgotten
in a liberal democracy
the government is supposed to fear the press
not the other way around
super injunctions flip up
flip this on its head
creating a reality where public servants act like
private oligarchs
hiding decisions that affect millions behind
legal iron curtains
number eight the UK lacked a constitutional
free speech guarantee
here's the tragic punchline
unlike the United States where the First Amendment
would treat a super injunction
like the bubonic plague
the UK has no constitutional projection
for freedom of expression
which means when ministers decide to shove
dissent into a sack
and drown it in legalese
there's precious little the courts can do
or will do to stop it
number nine
they undermine public debate on critical
policy decisions
this was a seven billion dollar
migration program carried out
in total darkness
it involved flights, housing, free hotels
resource allocation
and massive public impact
and the public
utterly excluded from the debate
were still when local tensions flared
including riots in towns, housing
migrants
no one could speak honestly about what was going on
because honesty had been declared illegal
number ten
they established a dangerous precedent
for future censorship
and finally
the real horror this worked
for nearly two years
the government ran a secret
expensive risky and morally fraught operation
and got away with it
if this becomes a playbook for future crisis
then they've just
pioneered censorship by precedent
what began as the emergency measure
is now a neat little work around
for policy failure
don't want the answer for it
slap a gag on it
don't want the public involved
call it classified
don't want parliament
poking around
say it's out of preview and carry on spending
because now they know they can
and unless this entire fiasco
sparks real reform
actual limits on injuctions
real free speech protections
and courts willing to rediscover their spines
they will do it again
and once you've seen a scandal like this
dragged kicking and screaming into daylight
you can't help but wonder
what else is being hidden behind
velvet curtain courtrooms
and conveniently redacted memos
it's a million dollar
multi-billion pound operation
involving national security
mass migration
and a catastrophic data breach
can be buried for years
under legal quicksand
what smaller disasters are quietly
rotting in the dark
how many other narratives have been
quietly managed
into non-existence
while the public is spoon fed
whatever sanitized dribble passes
to cabinet office sniff test
is there a byline on this
cause that was very well written
scroll to the top
the cam wake
wakefield cam wakefield
over on reclaim the net
dot org
great great article
I love his love that
I'm going to
do some more searching for him
um
yeah we're down to 14 minutes left
wow
this two hours
just went by fast
usually
there's times that I'll be like
okay
I gotta find something to talk about
or something to play
and then it comes up with something like this
and it's like
wow
that went super quick
that went stupid quick
but I've got two songs I want to play
um
yeah
this is a hammer on down
this is the other one that I wrote
yeah
I've written all the songs
but yeah all the songs
that I play are great
anyways I digress
here we go
in every reason to run
I'll break the dawn
yeah
I do feel
I don't want to sound like
I'm throwing pity out there
because we really don't have it
that much better over here in the states
but I do feel
bad for you people over
in the EU because
you don't have that constitution that can
somewhat
protect you
but it doesn't really
even the US constitution
doesn't
the way it's doing now
anymore it's not really
protecting us
all that much at all
um
but yeah we're getting close to the end here
one final
song that I'm going to play
it's blood on the stripes
and it's calling out
a lot of things that the US
government did to its citizens
everything from
killing the Indians
and massacring them to
you know
wow I mean it's just
a good question Interloper
I told him it may not be
economically feasible to
but you know move
and he said the question is
where to that's a great question
because the entire world is becoming
blatantly
fascist
there's I mean there's no other
word to say it
you know it's
if you haven't
figured out by now it's not
left versus right
it's not red versus blue
it's the state
versus you
the state being the government
to put it in you know
the bare
minimum terms
the state
versus you
now listen to this
and we'll see you guys again next week
I'm going to do my best to actually do it
on Friday night
and Saturday afternoon next week
so we'll catch you guys again
the next time be good be safe
don't stick your finger where you went
stick your face
oh we'll lose it all
stand up and burn your home
they'll break your will
stack the bodies hide
or is there thrill
fast and furious guns in the night
rubies go scream
this ain't right
the feds to leave
suckin life away
rebel every dawn
or we're slaves by day
every deal in the dark
every law they bend
steals your voice brings the end again
they shred it slow
piece by piece they take
a quiet theft till the spirit breaks
but the fire's alive
in the rebels vein
smash their grip
unleash the pain
paint scars carved
tales of the betrayed
from 90s planes to the games they played
each song a brick
in the wall we tear
a battle cry loud through the poisoned air
liberty's shredded
but the spark holds tight
every fist we raise keeps the flame
alight stand every hour
guard what's yours
so they'll lock the cage
and bolt the door