Joan Jett Rule

Because the Nazi skinheads did a great job of co-opting the punk title for most people who weren't actually interested in punk. The news media were very complicit in pushing that specific image to undermine the punk movement to the general public.

Some people just like the music and are either bad at media analysis or don't care enough to look into to further than the surface level.

Because the right have been carefully spending decades rewriting history and dumbfucks keep falling for it. Punk, doctor who and ratm were never conservative but pundits will tell you at great length how shocked and appalled they are when these things keep being left af

I mean a pretty popular punk song is NOFX Ronnie and Mags. It just talks incredible shit about Regan and thatcher. Listen to NOFX Jesusland and that should indicate what it’s all about. Damn I love punk.

Some people are weird.

Cause the majority of people on this planet are idiots?

It's one of those things I don't mind seeing over and over. It makes for a good song too.

Same with rap in the 90-00s and even still to this day to some extent.

And I’m pretty damned sure some moderate liberals were wrapped up in it as well. It is America after all, where everyone’s a judgmental bigot.

Basically what happened is some people started to pretend good art has absolutely no politics in it, except they decided what constitutes as politics, usually giving free pass to the "offensive humor" types like South Park and iDubbz.

Star Trek has gone woke is the one that gets me. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield was not subtle and by the time of Far Beyond the Stars they weren't bothering with analogs.

Don't know about the Nazi analogy, but in the original Book (The adventures of Luke Skywalker) on which the original movies are based, the emperor is literally described as being Nixon.

The Empire is America, the rebels were the Vietcong. Lucas has said this specifically in multiple interviews. The Nazis helped with the uniforms, but The Empire is directly based on Wilsonian Doctrine.

Here, you seem to be running low: . . . .

Don't forget Star Trek.

As long as conservatives continue to breathe the air of the living, there will be oppression.

It’s so ridiculous that part of me always thinks it must be a cynical evil distraction while all they really care about is continuing to transfer wealth from those already with less to those already with more. Because of course decent people care way more about human rights than a couple percentage points in their tax rate.

But I guess it doesn’t matter what truly motivates these supposed puppet masters when the hate around the world is very real.

And then they go after Tom Morello without realizing he has a political science degree.

https://x.com/tmorello/status/1270419869524094976

"Scott, what music of mine that you were a fan of didn't contain 'Political BS'? I need to know, so I can delete it from the catalog"

• Tom Morello

They think Killing in the Name is a celebration of how things should be.

She rocked the pink and black equally well.

Thanks for the yellow pin picture. Surprisingly few direct matches for that phrase. Harvard has record of a shirt of the same design:

That music video rocks!

God DAMN does Noel Fielding pull off the Joan Jett look.

"Is the woke in the room with us right now?"

"Point on this dolly where the woke hurt you."

it’s understandable that they don’t

If you ask a millennial then woke is a sarcastic term for someone who cares about fake social issues: like needing to stop gay marriage for society to exist

If you ask a zoomer then woke is a non-sarcastic term for someone who cares about real social issues: like needing to permit gay marriage so people can be equal

Obviously the zoomers are wrong about the term because they came after but enough of them use the term that way that it is no longer wrong

WOKENESS? In MY Utopian Space-Communist future!?

Star Trek isn't woke enough these days.

TNG had Picard give a speech to a person from the past about how the Federation was able to accomplish so much only because society stopped being oriented around the accumulation of wealth.

Discovery had a character praise Elon Musk for being a pioneer.

To be fair to Discovery I think that was written before Musk had completely (or at least publicly) gone off the deep end, but even at the time I thought it was extremely stupid to have a character praise an early 21st century oligarch in the same sentence that they mention actual inventors and engineers.

The bare minimum is 15 pieces of flair. This is unacceptable.

conservatives and reactionaries either want to keep the status quo or regress, but they know the concept is super uncool so they have to do all these mental gymnastics to pretend progressives are the ones in charge (just by the virtue of slow progress through the decades) so by being regressive they're actually part of an anti-establishment subculture. it's wild, but you can't be conservative without seeing the world upside down so it tracks in a sense.

that's why some of them like bands like rage against the machine, not realizing they are the machine the band is talking about.

Yeah, everyones opinion on punk is their own.

Now that is real Anarchy

Some people liked her song.