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.
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...
That's a lot more family value than the MAGA idol ever managed in any of his several marriages.
Is MAGA US version of United Russia? And MAGA idol US version of Putin?
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.
If someone in full seriousness says something like in the screenshot, it unintentionally becomes satirical.
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.
this is a parody account right.....
right?
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.
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.
No, they're quite serious about providing statements of dubious factuality.
Who would say they want to uphold the patriarchy? That part would be covered by the "traditional family values" if they really supported the idea and they'd deny that there is a patriarchy (but only if asked about it, they wouldn't bring it up unless it was a troll, and in that case I don't think they'd start with a real complaint).
He had me in the first half. I’m not gonna lie.
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.This has to be a joke.
Low quality facts only posts the highest quality facts
It doesn't have to be but it is.
Well that's nice of it
Jokes? From user Low Quality Facts? Never!
What gave it away?
It's so blatantly satire that the humor is missing.
From "Low Quality Facts", it's probably a joke. If not, they need to explain what Anarchy in the UK meant to 1970s Britain. Or show what they mean in the following 2 decades of punk.
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
All true but Green Day hasn't been punk since just before Dookie. If you want to hear Billy Joe Armstrong in a punk band check out Pinhead Gunpowder.
Its funny, reading this post outloud to a friend and his reaction was "if Green Day doesn't support Trump's campaign then I don't anymore." He was serious too. Sometimes the dumbest things can change someones mind.
Yeah but like he could have guessed. Like I can guess right now that if I go turn on the sink and touch the water it will make my hand wet. Like I don't know for certain but I am pretty God damn sure.
As shown above he isn't the sharpest tool in the shed and because he doesn't follow politics at all it's all word of mouth to him. His actual views aren't inline with Trump's
I'm a Patron of this low quality genius.
Sure, everybody knows that.
Punk is a religious cult Punk ain't thinking for yourself You ain't hardcore if you spike your hair! Let a jock still live inside you head!- the Living Reagans.
Boycotting punk? Now THAT'S punk!
Also "punk" is an excellent way to not swear! Because punk is also about punkin CHRISTIAN VALUES, you stupid motherpunkin' punks!
MxPx plays on a huge PA in the high school auditorium as he raises his arms over his head, fists clenched, salmon polo shirt collar rippling around his neck in the thick spring breeze somehow, even though it's indoors
Jesus was the first punk, you punks!
crowd noise surges to almost painful levels, he walks off stage holding a large burning cross above his head given to him by an assistant. The crowd pulsates closer to him as he walks away, and he sticks out his tongue and gives people the finger... the ring finger.
Frick off, you punkers! WTF!! What True Followers! LOL! Loving Our Lord! Thank you, good night!
crowd noise recedes as they all begin clapping and praying in the distance. Cut to a car, him, driver's seat, driving and Hawk Nelson playing in the car
Punkin' nailed it! Like our father to the cross! I'm so gay for that hot-abbed Jesus! Toga! Toga! Toga! I bet he had a great ding-donger on him. What a beseeching and beautiful man our savior was...
pulls into his fraternity parking lot
This was fantastic! If you haven't seen it already, I think you might enjoy Jenny Nicholson's introduction to the Church Play Cinematic Universe: https://youtu.be/ZK4gM7RC1M0?si=pjoHwez2JKdYHWUp
This... is. I can't tell you how happy I am right now, this is incredible. Thank you my punk in christ.
Also punk: dripping wet sarcasm about current events. Carry on.
If a MAGAtard gets pissed off that means they must be doing something right.
If you get offended by music then may I suggest a white noise machine
WHITE noise? Clutches pearls
"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
is the changed lyric really all that different from the original lyric of "redneck agenda"?
MAGA trying to COOP punk pisses me off.
Even with sarcasm my blood is boiling.
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:
Haha. Tim Pool is such a tool (rhyme unintended).
kekw
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.
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.
Hunh. Their early stuff was "punk"? Interesting.
Nah, it's a tiny bit of extra effort. Fuck Green Day, but Fuck Fucking Trump. It's that extra bit that we've had to add on recently, like Fuck Hamas, but Fuck me, Fuck the fucking IDF.
This person clearly listened to a different brand of punk than what I listened to. He should run this by Jello Biafra.
Just don't run it by Johnny Rotten
Image Transcription: Mastodon Post
Low Quality Facts, @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social
I am officially boycotting Green Day after they insulted the MAGA agenda on NYE. Punk rock should NOT be political. Punk rock is about and has ALWAYS been about the following:
-maintaining traditional family values.
-upholding the patriarchy.
-respecting authority figures.
-saluting the flag, standing for the national anthem, and unconditionally supporting the military.
Yes. When did punk rock become unsafe?
Meanwhile, country went from 1.5/4 to 4/4
