• bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
    181·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      10 months ago

      Billie Joe Armstrong: Strong advocate for monogamy and heterosexual marriage.

      Taylor Swift: Serial dater. Pegs exclusively.

      • bmsok@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        10 months ago

        Also Billie Joe: Openly bisexual since 1995. Love the one you’re with. That’s literally the only thing that matters.

        • Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.worldEnglish
          141·
          10 months ago

          Unless in a polycule… In that case I think it’s something like “do your best to make sure everyone is doing okay, feeling loved and supported and frequent check ins for consent are done.”

          It’s too socially complicated for me but if you can make it work then what turns your crank ain’t none my bizznizz…

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      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…

    • uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      10 months ago

      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?

  • rwhitisissle@lemy.lolEnglish
    1441·
    10 months ago

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

    • nifty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      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.

      • rwhitisissle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        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.

      • grepe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

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

    • conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
      39·
      10 months ago

      I follow them on Mastodon. They’re my favorite source of the lowest quality facts on the internet, behind fox news.

    • rwhitisissle@lemy.lolEnglish
      214·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      10 months ago

      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).

      • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        Who would say they want to uphold the patriarchy?

        I wish I could be that naive. Come visit red city USA, some people say the most interesting things. And when you meet women who expect it… yeah. It is a thing.

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Though in that case, wouldn’t it be a troll? Like I assume that those who do talk about it in a positive way are doing it specifically to piss off feminists. Or women who want to “virtue signal” to men.

          It just seems like such a weird way to approach that in a positive sense.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    10 months ago

    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!

    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tom-morello-paul-ryan-is-the-embodiment-of-the-machine-our-music-rages-against-246033/

  • Facebones@reddthat.comEnglish
    301·
    10 months ago

    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

  • sploosh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    293·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • ProxyZeus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • Daft_ish@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • ProxyZeus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        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

  • Rolando@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    10 months ago

    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!