• rwhitisissle@lemy.lol
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    10 months ago

    In this thread: People who are incapable of understanding the most transparently obvious satire ever written.

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      10 months ago

      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.

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        10 months ago

        Green Day is “mainstream punk.” Which is as damning a description of a punk band as you can probably get without calling them cryptofascist.

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        10 months ago

        Also the unconditional support for military (especially veterans) is a cultural point that many otherwise OK people have big trouble with…

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      10 months ago

      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

      • rwhitisissle@lemy.lol
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        10 months ago

        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.

      • Kiosade@lemmy.ca
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        10 months ago

        Yeah but this one was still super obvious. At least if you read the whole thing.