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    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

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        You’re of the opinion that the Bay-area pop-punk band wanted to be like the PNW grunge band?

        Kerplunk and Bleach sound nothing alike, I think I’m misunderstanding what you meant?

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          Ya, not even the same genre. If you don’t like the music just say that instead of comparing them to someone else that you do like

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            They didn’t even have the courage to say they don’t like Green Day (I’m not a huge fan myself), all they did was show their knowledge of music is paltry.

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          I don’t listen to Green Day, so I don’t know about any of their albums’ specifics. After Nirvana ended I saw Green Day first on a late night talk show, and they came out and played the same style of music that Nirvana made popular, with a similar stage presence and style. That’s when I assumed they wanted to be Nirvana.

          Later they changed into modern Green Day that is completely different than what they were at the start.

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            What composed the “style of music” that you feel Nirvana made popular that Green Day was imitating? Music with guitars and distortion?

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              Specific chord structures and rhythms actually. If you knew much about guitar you could see the similarities in their early stuff and Nirvana’s popular songs. Overall the same punk-grunge style basically.

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            “I don’t actually know anything about music but I saw a talk show once in the 90s”

            lol

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              Yeah he’s just an old dude that trolls, but he’s an actual troll, so it’s not like he’s doing it to be a dink for karma, he’s just really insufferable as a person. He migrated over from Reddit where he did the same thing there.

              The amount of hours this guy has invested across Lemmy and Reddit is insane, so, at some point, you just have to respect the dedication and interact with him at your leisure. At least, that’s what I do.

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                Really, you must be very interested in my comments then. What’s my Reddit handle, since you know so much?

                You must really not like all the things that I’m right about, have you seen a therapist about your cognitive dissonance problems?

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    oH My GoD ThEy sHoUlDnT Be PolitIcaL like ThaT!

    Hey maga people, remember when you were really concerned about free speech and people being canceled for “just voicing their opinion”?

    Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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    Finally someone criticize fascist Trump. Our government, using it’s CIA hand did their part in silencing MAGA stupids on facebook, twitter and reddit. Good that we use artists to send a message too. /s

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          “As far as i’m concerned you and Pink are completely done.”

          I know the article calls this out too but WHAT!? I mean, good for this guy for having diverse tastes in music, but Pink went full pop basically in her second album. (If I recall correctly, it was a long time ago and I’m not a huge Pink fan). But Pink has never hidden her tendency towards activism.

          And not to gatekeep, I get that people enjoy music for different reasons, but it just seems odd that someone would actually be a fan of Rage Against the Machine and expect anything less. And again, the guy acknowledges Rage’s political activist nature in the article, but now it’s apparently too much since he no longer agrees with their message. That sure sounds like “cancel culture” to me.

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            Yes, the tendency of right wingers to define themselves as oppressed victims seems to add to them regularly identifying with left perspectives for all the wrong reasons.

            Another very weird example if this was a young female nationalist and xenophobe from Germany, who unironically covered the radical anti colonialist Get Up, Stand Up by Bob Marley and The Wailers, in a cringe af YouTube video. Before anyone asks, I sadly was not able to find it anymore, otherwise I would have posted a link for your amusement of course.

            Then there was also the teenage anti-vaxxer, who held a speech at a protest organized by the Querdenker movement (german localization of QAnon) and seriously compared herself to Anne Frank during WWII, because she illegally held her birthday party in secret during the covid lockdown. You can´t make this shit up …

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    Tangential point but I do wonder how much of an effect Taylor Swift will have on voter turnout this year.

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      MAGA already tried to cancel her and failed when she encouraged people to vote. Imagine if she actually endorsed a candidate.

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          You know what… Why not? It’s no worse than MAGAts voting for Trump because “all the current politicians are corrupt, so let’s vote for a non politician” and Taylor has an arguably better business acumen than Trump. As far as I know, she hasn’t bankrupted any of her own businesses nor has she defrauded a charity bearing her name.

          But I question her ability to make the difficult life or death decisions associated with the presidency. Armed conflict is a simple reality of the world today.

          So who would be her running mate?