They are at least somewhat based. ‘Prison Song’ talks about the prison industrial complex and imperialism. There are also some other songs like toxicity or protect the land that sound anti-capitalism. I also just like there music in general. Their album Hypnotize is one of my favorites overall. Unfortunately, the song of the same name seems to talk about the Tiananmen protesters in a positive light and also talks about propaganda. My inference is that they see China as an “authoritarian” (capitalist?) country. They also talk a lot about freedom or liberty which is kind of cringe. So, what do you think?
It’s often hard to tell pro/anti China for things like this. Reminds me of the jreg video where he’s like “I love authoritarian China/s” then he’s like “and so, we should totally invade this place we didn’t care about til a second ago”
Understandable, but in their defense, most of the left was anti-China prior to the last 5 years. In many places it’s still the default. It’s reminiscent of the Sino Soviet Split and the USSR’s footprint left in the world.