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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
Yeah but this one was still super obvious. At least if you read the whole thing.
I mean I've heard more idiotic shit said sincerely.
Reminds me of those trump rallyists dancing to rage against the machine.
You fools! You're raging WITH the machine! THAT'S the machine!!
I have met people who do believe everything the meme said unironically, though. They're rank authoritarians.
Yeah I guess that’s fair, there are a lot of those types in the world in recent years…
Also, posted in a meme community. So, like...doubly obvious to anyone who spent literally more than a second thinking about what they were reading.
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.
Green Day is "mainstream punk." Which is as damning a description of a punk band as you can probably get without calling them cryptofascist.
They’re pop rock, basically.
Huh, I always thought they were alt rock.
Also the unconditional support for military (especially veterans) is a cultural point that many otherwise OK people have big trouble with...