System of a Down drummer John Dolmayan has made it known that he’s not a fan of mandates saying they were on par with “self-imposed tyranny and mental slavery.” He posted on his Instagram page on Sunday: “And just like that c*vid will slowly go away. This is and has always been about money … Ukraine is about money. Resources equal wealth, stability, and power. Theres a game of chess being played by those in the real positions of power and we’d like to think we’re the pawns but the truth is we’re not even on the board.”
One of Dolmayan’s followers responded, “If it was about money then shops would have stayed open. Small business went bankrupt … it was never about money it was about saving lives.” The drummer responded: “Do you have any idea how much money Amazon made … ? Not to mention pharmaceutical companies? Of course it’s about money.”
Filter’s Richard Patrick and Queensryche’s Todd La Torre weighed in after Dolmayan’s comments began to circulate on Monday. La Torre called Dolmayan “moronic” and Patrick wrote “Not a very bright man …” Patrick and Filter released a video, “Murica,” late last year which took a shot at former president Donald Trump. “These guys that are so far right that they think CNN, NBC, ABC, MSNBC [and] BBC are all out to get our President Trump,” he told Alternative Press last year. “Like they’re all in a conspiracy to be super-left-wing, crazy liars. I’m trying to make an attempt to show them what they look like.”
The main character in the video is a “a Trump-supporting, gun-loving, unmedicated, super-freak ‘merican unhinged and at his wits’ end,” said Patrick. “Who is the character aiming at at the end of the video? He’s aiming at anyone from the left and at anyone from the normal middle. The regular folks who make up the country that are pretty much normal and just want to raise their kids and stay (healthy) and try and make a living.”
A year ago, La Torre criticized science deniers and anti-maskers, telling Greece’s “TV War”: “Science is important. Skepticism is important. But in America, people, they don’t believe what’s happened over the last several years. People have gone from skepticism to just complete disbelief of anything and everything they hear or see. So you can have an epidemiologist that spent their life as an expert in this field, and then you have other people that just think it’s B.S. — they don’t believe it. So you have this weird thing where, as a matter of public safety, [some people say] ‘You are infringing on my rights. This is America,’ and that kind of mentality. And you say, ‘Wait a minute. Your rights stop when you are in a public place, and now public health and safety is the concern.’”
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