Like a lot of fascism, it makes perfect sense if you understand the code words. "Inserting politics" or "getting political" means expressing a disallowed opinion that should be silenced. You'll never hear this kind of language used about the approved opinions, only the to-be-silenced ones.
Exactly this.
Kneeling for the anthem is inserting politics into sports, playing the anthem before the game? Not at all inserting politics into sports.
Pride night? Not allowed. First responder (read: cop) Night? Totally cool.
If first responder night was just fire department and EMT itd be infinitely better, fun fact a bar in my city banned that type of event since the fire chief nearly got into a fight with the police chief.
For context, original lyrics:
Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Don't want to be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
It's calling out to idiot America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Super tame.
In the New Year's show, they changed "a redneck agenda" to "the MAGA agenda". Okay, little bit more explicitly partisan, but basically the same thing.
And yet, as a leftist redneck, I whole heartedly approve of the change.
Feel a little more seen, even if it doesn't mean anything.
I've known many rednecks who were good people. If you aren't hurting people, you do you, friend! Also, chunk those punkins!
“a redneck agenda” to “the MAGA agenda”
If MAGA as a name for these people had existed then, they would have used it. They're the same people.
Hashtagnotallrednecks.
I think part of the problem (aside from people that don't ever listen to the words in songs) is less that the song/green day is apolitical in their interpretation, but more that for a lot of people the word "politics" means partisan politics. Being explicitly about a party or one of their core issues is what makes something 𝓅𝑜𝓁𝒾𝓉𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓁 to them.
It's tame by today's standards but at the time it got quite a few people in a tizzy
Well that change in lyrics certainly got the point across. 😂
It’s the rage against the machine all over again. Shows how truly dumb people are. Like do they even listen to the lyrics?
I doubt they're even real people. This sniffs of a Russian campaign.
The line between russian propagandists and MAGA idiots is indistinguishable.
Nah, I've got a family member who voted for trump and loves RatM. They honestly think the lyrics support conservative ideals, and advocate for violence against people who would change the country from the "good ol' days."
They just like the idea of killing in the name of. Sounds like a hoot.
I die a little inside every time someone gets offended by Money For Nothing.
But he’s wearing an EAR RING AND MAKE UP!!!
That’s his own hair, for Christ sakes!!!
Politics? In my Green Day?
~It's~ ~more~ ~likely~ ~than~ ~you~ ~think.~
He's the one who likes
All our pretty songs and he
Likes to sing along and he
Likes to shoot his gun but he
Don't know what it means
It’s like they interpret music as just a noise that sounds appealing with no meaning.
Fuck you I won't do what you tell me!
No idea on the rest of the lyrics, something about forces and crosses. I wasn't really listening. I like crosses! Woo, Trump!
Hence former House Speaker and Ayn Rand-lover Paul Ryan's favorite band being Rage Against The Machine
That's how they interpret all art.
You don't get to get away from it. MAGA politics has made life a living hell for so many people that can't get away from it, and the only thing anyone can do is confront you with it every waking moment of yours.
The joke is that the song is inherently political, even before the language change to be current, and even without that change the song is explicitly about those people anyway.
Maybe conservatives just take a sharpie and put a comma on the album cover so it says "American, Idiot" as in they are yelling at someone that they are American and that they should have known by their ignorant angry voice.
American Idiot was already political and already critical of the Republicans. I guess all these American idiots didn't know the lyrics before?
"He's the one
who likes all our pretty songs
and he likes to sing along
and he likes to shoot his gun
but he knows not what it means"
Anyone who wants to censor culture is a fascist at their core. In a liberal democracy you can say anything but you're not immune from the consequences.
That being said these users look fake AF and we should stop pretending Twitter/x/whatever is anything but a dead forum
Incredible that they can just keep coming up with shit like this day after day, indefinitely. Truly astonishing
Guy who shocked by green day probably never existed back in 2004 or just want a piece of cake for attention. Green Day always has been political in some of their song release since Warning(?), even on The Network side project ~~am I supposed to think The Network is Green Day?~~ Am no American and enjoyed Green Day from Dookie to Revolution Radio (not really listened to them since FOaMF release).
Making fun of the people who didn't like the political statement is fine, and there were plenty of high profile people to dunk on for that, but this is literally some rando this person searched up, the original tweet had basically no interactions. This could even be satire for all we know.
Effectively, if not possibly literally, nobody really said this.
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