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Reminds me of Tom Morello’s response to Paul Ryan claiming his favorite band was RATM.
I wonder what Ryan’s favorite Rage song is? Is it the one where we condemn the genocide of Native Americans? The one lambasting American imperialism? Our cover of “Fuck the Police”? Or is it the one where we call on the people to seize the means of production? So many excellent choices to jam out to at Young Republican meetings!
Maybe he’s right.
Billie Joe has been married to the same woman for more than 30 years. That’s a lot more family value than the MAGA idol ever managed in any of his several marriages.
Green Day also didn’t encourage people to attack the Capitol, unlike the “patriot” MAGA idiots.
It’s a low bar, but Green Day is a lot more respectful and respectable, even by their own definitions.
Billie Joe Armstrong: Strong advocate for monogamy and heterosexual marriage.
Taylor Swift: Serial dater. Pegs exclusively.
Also Billie Joe: Openly bisexual since 1995. Love the one you’re with. That’s literally the only thing that matters.
Guess he don’ wanna be an American idiot!
I would be curious to see if people from the “counterculture” tend to have longer relationships/be more faithful than traditionalists… I know my ex colleague who spent February 2022 on Parliament Hill in Ottawa must have cheated on his wife with dozens of women…
He had me in the first half. I’m not gonna lie.
Why are republicans such fragile snowflake little bitches
Why are lemmings so socially inept that they can’t pick up on something so obviously satire
“No no no, he clarified that those who die are justified by wearing the badge… and that they were the chosen white, obviously he supports Qualified Immunity. No I’ve never heard of Sarcasm, is that a peasant thing?” - Republicans Unironically
this is a parody account right…
right?
Brother, if you gotta ask that question you might want to take a good hard look at your own social media literacy. This is one of the most obvious pieces of satire I’ve ever seen. It has all the subtlety of a kick in the balls.
Yeah. It’s called low quality facts.
Poe’s Law got me here…
I follow them on Mastodon. They’re my favorite source of the lowest quality facts on the internet, behind fox news.
Don’t wanna be an American Idiot Don’t want a woman on my news media And can you hear the sound of hysteria The libtards mind fuck America
Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alienation Where it’s man and woman married okay In television Dreams of tomorrow The F16 flyovers were meant to follow The American Anthem
DUNUNUNUN DUNNUNNUNUN
This is shadowboxing someone who doesn’t exist. I know this is parody, but the ironic twist of saying Green Day was never or shouldn’t be political…nobody was saying that.
Obviously people who like the thing they were protesting against will say something to the effect of “F this band who disagrees with me politically” or even “they shouldn’t have been political in a NYE performance” but that is disagreeing with the content or timing of the message. There’s nothing to parody there.
There were quite recently a few outraged people on Musk’s weird platform crying over Green Day and Tom Morello being too political. Not “I don’t like them because they are political” but “stop being political and return to making music” comments.
Edit, here’s the first I found:
I wholeheartedly support BJA and Green Day for the message of what they did, but holy shit I can’t stand to listen to their music. I hate that I have to know make a whole “I swear I’m not MAGA” preface to my inability to tolerate them.
The American Idiot album is good and the anti-Bush aspect feels less political these days because everyone hates Bush now.
Maybe I’m a suckered for a rock opera though. I never got into their actual punk early stuff.
In this thread: People who are incapable of understanding the most transparently obvious satire ever written.
I mean it’s a dead giveaway at the first bullet, but I totally get the knee jerk reaction because there were people who said Green day had “lost their way”.
That said, always thought Green Day was everything wrong with punk because of how pop they were when they first started. To me they’re still pretty pop. They’re like the hot topic of punk.
People have said so much insane shit over the years that it is genuinely becoming harder and harder to tell what is being said sarcastically and what is not
Yeah but this one was still super obvious. At least if you read the whole thing.
I have met people who do believe everything the meme said unironically, though. They’re rank authoritarians.
Yeah I guess that’s fair, there are a lot of those types in the world in recent years…
I mean I’ve heard more idiotic shit said sincerely.
Reminds me of those trump rallyists dancing to rage against the machine.
You fools! You’re raging WITH the machine! THAT’S the machine!!
This is a laundry list of things that are just very obviously the opposite of punk, though. It’s like if you asked someone to define “anti-punk,” they’d rattle of something very similar to this. It’s also in “Microblog Memes,” a meme community. The things posted here are jokes, and as such its nature as a joke is reinforced by the context in which the text is presented. This is Media Literacy 101, stuff.
This person clearly listened to a different brand of punk than what I listened to. He should run this by Jello Biafra.
is the changed lyric really all that different from the original lyric of “redneck agenda”?
Green day is still considered punk? Or is that part of the joke? (Serious question)
Are you fucking KIDDING ME?
Oh, yeah you’re fucking kidding me.
Ok, carry on, then.If you get offended by music then may I suggest a white noise machine
WHITE noise? Clutches pearls
