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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?
Yes
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.
Yes. They also think Rage Against the Machine “got political”.
RATM.
Take the power back.
Also, WAKE UP
That is my second favourite thing to happen on the internet ever.
What’s your first?
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.
Remember when Tom Morello had to slap down Paul Ryan? https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tom-morello-paul-ryan-is-the-embodiment-of-the-machine-our-music-rages-against-246033/
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.
Tom Morello went to Harvard and got a PoliSci degree.
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.
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.
So Green Day does the most Green Day thing ever and the MAGA crowd loses their minds. Who are the snowflakes again?
It’s almost like they have never actually looked at the lyrics of a green day song.
Snowflakes. There’s nothing too petty to get their blogosphere fired up and pissing themselves everywhere.
Oh do conservatives not like a bisexual man singing about how bush is a war criminal anymore?
ROFL!! Apparently the folks complaining haven’t actually ever listened to Green Day. Though the severed Trump head at the concert was probably a bit much.
I went to a green day concert before trump was even president and they had the crowd cheering that line, its not new. They were awesome by the way.
It was a mask, “severed trump head” is an extreme and inaccurate description.
Maybe they’re confusing the mask with the Kathy Griffin photo from years back?
maga chuds live on extreme and inaccurate descriptions.
Awww. Cry
Did these conservatives miss American Idiot, or are they just being reactionary as they so often are?
Most of them are just peanut brains with the Goldfish attention span who only like the sound but never listen to the lyrics. Hell one of the local grocery stores around here in their mix has a few tracks by the stones in particular give me shelter. It’s an iconic song. But most people have no idea what the lyrics are. It’s sort of surreal to walk through the store listening to the singer scream out rape and murder it’s just a shot away. It’s a fun sort of irony I suppose.
This is the same group of people who (somehow) thought Killing in the Name Of was aligned with their views, and now make comments like “I liked RATM until they got so political.”
Tbf, they did sell out a tad after that album
American Idiot and the what, 3 albums before it and all the following, were all on Reprise Records (Warner). American Idiot specifically had some very strong marketing campaigns. If one really does subscribe to that “selling out” rhetoric, they did so much earlier than that.
Trump supporters are the American idiot
What year is it? Are they going to be offended by SouthPark next?
cuntservatives have been outraged by SOMETHING literally every year I have existed on this planet, and my first console controller only had one button…
Still remember my mother freaking out over a satanic panic and throwing away all of my action figures because I was apparently worshipping satan by playing with my Ninja Turtles.
They think the Olympic games were somehow against them too and got triggered. Conservatives are the biggest freaking snowflakes
Shocked Pikachu Face when France does a weird performance art thing.
Obviously this was meant to be offensive to me!
Suck a dick
I’m sorry objective reality is sad for you.
I chuckled heartily earlier today when I saw a post on the front page of the R-word site that was posted to the conservative sub. It was a picture of the band holding up a mask of Trump with idiot written on it and a title along the lines of “After Trump assassination attempt, Green Day holds up head of Donald Trump”.
Literally, it was just a mask of Trump with something like “Idiot” written on it from a band that quite literally is known for criticizing the government (understatement).
They were making it sound like it was an implicit threat to Trump and hateful rhetoric inciting further violence.
I swear there must be some brain damage involved in those types of conclusions.
Meanwhile there were several effigies of Obama with a noose around their necks
no no no, you see that was just a metaphor for states rights.
Methinks this moron started the pearl clutching:
Oh no
What a bunch of snowflakes.
And of course they love The Boss’s Born in the USA.
A “severed head”? Jeez, where are these people’s minds at?
