• @[email protected]
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    2812 months ago

    Green Day used to be anti-establishment, now they are the establishment.

    American Idiot is almost 20 years old and the message hasn’t changed. Do these people just have zero media literacy?

    • PorradaVFR
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      2082 months ago

      Yes. They also think Rage Against the Machine “got political”.

      RATM.

        • PorradaVFR
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          392 months ago

          chef’s kiss

          Morello is a crazy talented guitarist and overall nice guy but he’s also really intelligent and educated which tees up idiots for easy humiliation. He rocks in all the ways.

          • Flying Squid
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            92 months ago

            Tom Morello went to Harvard and got a PoliSci degree.

        • @[email protected]
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          212 months ago

          Ah, yes. The far away time when “Far Right” just meant ideologically conservative and not the wannabe brownshirts. So long ago, 2012.

          A simpler time.

          • @Eldritch
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            52 months ago

            Republicans and Wealthy businessmen plotted a Nazi style overthrow of FDR and the US government in the 1930s. Republican Nazis have been a trope and a joke throughout the last 40 to 50 years. I’ll give you this, they went from being quiet and out of sight to front and center.

      • Scratch
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        182 months ago

        That is my second favourite thing to happen on the internet ever.

          • Scratch
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            62 months ago

            https://youtu.be/rokAtlFGa7Y?t=2088&si=9hcvrdysNfdXQmwG

            There’s a bit of context here…

            Pink Floyd’s The Wall. It’s a fine movie where the metaphor swings between subtle as a shadow’s whisper and blunt force trauma.

            Derivative Angry Video Game Nerd Clone makes a “parody” of it, but misses an incredibly obvious Nazi reference. Which is not a good look as a white skinhead.

            The fact he missed something so plainly obvious makes me laugh, a lot. It so clear he skimmed the movie looking for things to make fun of.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      Media literacy has never been a thing with conservatives - to this day they don’t understand what the Bruce Springsteen song ‘Born In The USA’ is really about. Reagan famously wanted to use it for his campaign in 1984.

      Also somehow conservatives have been so keen on appearing as ‘not the establishment’ that by now they have terminally deluded themselves into believing that they really aren’t part of the establishment. How their voters believe this is anyone’s guess.

      And let’s not talk about how the self-proclaimed defenders of free speech constantly take issue with speech they don’t like.