Likewise, if you don’t understand how art and music have been using harsh and “offensive” language to make valid criticisms of our society for decades, then I really can’t help you. Despite what you said above, it actually sounds like your offended at the song, not at my simple quoting of it. Fair enough, I guess. Plenty of people here may know punk music, but did they miss the whole point?
Like you said, “this is c/politicalmemes”, it’s not that deep…
In any case, I don’t recommend letting offensiveness be something that makes you miss the point of what’s being said. Everything that we’re seeing today is a consequence of the American populace neglecting democracy and policy over 50+ years. We’ve been in an out-of-control corporate, military-industrial oligarchy for a lot longer than 2 weeks. Now the only difference is that the mask is off.
Trump enters his second term with something he never had in the past: a real democratic mandate from the American people (he won both the EC and the popular vote in 2024. So yeah, whatever happens from this point on, America fucking “voted for that guy”. That fact can fill you with existential dread or you can laugh at the absurdity of the whole thing. But if the one unifying goal of the right is to “own the libs” and fill people like us with dread, then I recommend getting tough and rolling with the punches instead.
I’ll jump in here and point out that the militarism decried in the song is one of the less-applicable criticisms of Trump. If anything the criticism is that he’s too willing to take Putin’s side, not that he’d lead us to nuclear war. At least not intentionally.
If you want a more Trump-appropriate 80s punk song to select lyrics from I might suggest “Kill the poor” by the Dead Kennedys (referring to the apocryphal notion of using neutron bombs to eliminate the poors without harming property values). Although honestly if you wanna get some proper hot takes on maga you’ll do best dispensing with the 80s entirely and going with NOFX.
I’ll jump in here and point out that the militarism decried in the song is one of the less-applicable criticisms of Trump.
Do you need me to list the number of countries Trump has threatened to invade and/or ethnically cleanse in his first 2 weeks, or can you fill in the blanks yourself? You might also want to look up the statistics of Trump’s use of military drone strikes in the middle east before you continue spewing regurgitated nonsense about how non-militaristic he is.
The stupid fact is that the dipshit dumbfuck piss-for-brains American populace has once again elected an unhinged authoritarian fascist oligarch (this time with a democratic mandate) putting us on the brink of a new civil and/or world war, socioeconomic collapse, climate annihilation, and the fall of the American republic. The subhumans who voted FOR him did it, as did the subhumans who failed to vote AGAINST him. And to that, I can only say nice work morons, you did it to yourselves.
Hello, this is c/politicalmemes.
Where nobody listens to 80s punk music.
No, plenty people here know the Circle Jerks. It’s the way you used the line from that song that’s the problem.
How so?
If you don’t understand how a line laughing about people dying applied to the reality of this situation is offensive, I really can’t help you.
Likewise, if you don’t understand how art and music have been using harsh and “offensive” language to make valid criticisms of our society for decades, then I really can’t help you. Despite what you said above, it actually sounds like your offended at the song, not at my simple quoting of it. Fair enough, I guess. Plenty of people here may know punk music, but did they miss the whole point?
Like you said, “this is c/politicalmemes”, it’s not that deep…
In any case, I don’t recommend letting offensiveness be something that makes you miss the point of what’s being said. Everything that we’re seeing today is a consequence of the American populace neglecting democracy and policy over 50+ years. We’ve been in an out-of-control corporate, military-industrial oligarchy for a lot longer than 2 weeks. Now the only difference is that the mask is off.
Trump enters his second term with something he never had in the past: a real democratic mandate from the American people (he won both the EC and the popular vote in 2024. So yeah, whatever happens from this point on, America fucking “voted for that guy”. That fact can fill you with existential dread or you can laugh at the absurdity of the whole thing. But if the one unifying goal of the right is to “own the libs” and fill people like us with dread, then I recommend getting tough and rolling with the punches instead.
I’ll jump in here and point out that the militarism decried in the song is one of the less-applicable criticisms of Trump. If anything the criticism is that he’s too willing to take Putin’s side, not that he’d lead us to nuclear war. At least not intentionally.
If you want a more Trump-appropriate 80s punk song to select lyrics from I might suggest “Kill the poor” by the Dead Kennedys (referring to the apocryphal notion of using neutron bombs to eliminate the poors without harming property values). Although honestly if you wanna get some proper hot takes on maga you’ll do best dispensing with the 80s entirely and going with NOFX.
Do you need me to list the number of countries Trump has threatened to invade and/or ethnically cleanse in his first 2 weeks, or can you fill in the blanks yourself? You might also want to look up the statistics of Trump’s use of military drone strikes in the middle east before you continue spewing regurgitated nonsense about how non-militaristic he is.
The stupid fact is that the dipshit dumbfuck piss-for-brains American populace has once again elected an unhinged authoritarian fascist oligarch (this time with a democratic mandate) putting us on the brink of a new civil and/or world war, socioeconomic collapse, climate annihilation, and the fall of the American republic. The subhumans who voted FOR him did it, as did the subhumans who failed to vote AGAINST him. And to that, I can only say nice work morons, you did it to yourselves.