Every time System of a Down drummer John Dolmayan speaks, it adds more fuel to my theory that SOAD aren’t recording any new music because Dolmayan is bunkering down in a caravan à la Into the Wild, donning a tinfoil hat to protect himself from the mindreading powers of the US government.

As political tensions reach a boiling point in the United States amid the election and unfurling Black Lives Matter movement, System of a Down’s John Dolmayan and Serj Tankien have both used their social media as a tool for (wildly differing) political didacticism.

While Tankian called for the president to resign, Dolmayan has praised Trump. Where Tankian stated that people who are both fans of his music and Trump are idiots, Dolmayan told followers that they can’t handle free speech because they’re “cowards.” It’s a never-ending cycle of (admirably diplomatic) beef.

In his latest tirade, John Dolmayan has taken to social media to blame the death of a young girl on Black Lives Matter organisers, a movement he has deemed a “Democratic Party propaganda tool.”

On Monday, July 6th, the drummer posted a photo of deceased eight-year-old Atlanta girl, Secoriea Turner — who Dolmayan claims was murdered by “BLM radicals” for crossing a protest barricade.

Turner was fatally shot on Saturday evening. She was in the car with her mother and anther adult when an unidentified armed individual shot into the vehicle.

“The supposed black lives matter movement never had legitimacy in my view and were always a Democratic Party fundraiser and propaganda tool,” wrote Dolmayan. “Along with Antifa they have shown themselves to be the enemy of the people of the United States and have adopted lawlessness emboldened by a sensationalist media and the moronic Hollywood elites who pander to them at every opportunity.

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He continued, “They will be brought to justice but when? How many more innocents need to be murdered before we come to our senses.”

In the comments of the post, one person warned the drummer that he was  “playing a dangerous game” by “downplaying systemic racism in the U.S.,” to which the Dolmayan responded. “There is no systemic racism in the United States. Name one example.”

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