American conservatives have been frighteningly effective at pushing this narrative that they are the outsiders, that they’re fighting against the status quo, so it doesn’t surprise me that they would steal punk.
They consider it a radical act to be straight, white, and Christian, when in fact that always has been, and still is the majority, as well as those who hold the money and the power.
From my perspective, this has been one of their most successful moves and it’s been brewing for decades - look at the tea party. There has never been a leftist or even liberal machine to rage against, but pretending that there is gets all the normies to feel special and oppressed at the same time, culminating in this fucking shitshow you have over there.
Fuck these Nazis
There has never been a leftist or even liberal machine to rage against,
I wouldn’t rage against him, but The Iron Giant is a pretty leftist machine.
Same with British conservatives …the media all push right wing politics, but it’s the left that are brainwashed. Does my nut in.
NAZI PUNKS FUCK OFF!!
Republicans have the Presidency, the House, the Senate, a majority on the Supreme Court, a majority of state and local legislatures, and a cabinet full of rich billionaires.
Republicans: We are punks fighting The Man!
No, absolutely not
Fuck conservatives and Nazis stealing words from the people respecting individualism
They already stole ‘libertarian’ and ‘freedom’ from us.
I’ll never give them ‘Punk’
Fuck those assholes
This! Most punks are from leftist countercultures. Let’s keep it that way.
(They are also trying to steal “anarchism” with their whole “anarcho-capitalism” BS)
God i hate Nazis trying to steal culture. And, you know, in general.
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Yeah and punks are generally on top of it. Afaik punks only stopped actively hunting Nazis once the government got big on protecting them.
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Lol good luck. Everybody in the punk scene has been calling out maga and Republicans.
Other than that cunt Johnny Rotten. Fuck him and his butter commercials. The sex pistols sucked anyways.
Danzig
John Lydon
Johnny Ramone
Are there any other the right can legit claim? I’m sure there are a few more, but this is all I can scrape from the top of my brain.
Good point. Got me thinking. Jerry Only AND Michael Graves are right-wing shit asses as well.
They keep saying that and yet they refuse to build systems of gutter trash mutual aid, which any punk knows is the foundation of every punk scene. It’s a bunch of 20 something alcoholics crashing on each other’s couches, running books to prisoners programs, and taking on so much antifascist labor they crack under the pressure.
Trey Parker makes one comment about saying you like George Bush is punk rock in L.A. and conservstives have been slowmotion orgasming over it for twenty years.
conservative punks be like “Nazi Punks Please Quiet Down At The Premises”
“Nazi punks stand back and stand by”
Conservative punks be like “I like Nazis”
Yeah, conservatives remind me of all those times I hung out in punk houses watching people eating dumpster dived food and stitch up deep lacerations with fishing line because they couldn’t afford food or medical insurance.
Conservashits talk shit about everyone and then try to steal their culture
…???
That is, indeed, nauseating
The hair says it all. These people are fucking chonks.
Anyone here remember Negative XP? Yeah like, we had this discussion 6 years ago or smt. Although I would never agree with this fascist piece of shit, what I take of this thumbnail is indicative of a very real phenomenon. Western countries becoming more progressive and integrating values of former counter-cultures over the last decades actually is doing new-right/alt-right movements a favor – at the moment, at least. If we’re lucky it will backfire in a few years.
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Yes. All I’m saying is please don’t simply dismiss this, it shows how adaptable right-wing ideology is.
I agree with everything else you said.
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