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!
Are you fucking KIDDING ME?
Oh, yeah you’re fucking kidding me.
Ok, carry on, then.
In this thread: People who are incapable of understanding the most transparently obvious satire ever written.
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
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.
Yeah but this one was still super obvious. At least if you read the whole thing.
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 now make a whole “I swear I’m not MAGA” preface to my inability to tolerate them.