This goes for every anarchist i've actually met. Reddit "anarchists" have so little to do with irl anarchist praxis that i feel bad calling them anarchists even when i use scare quotes.
One time a reddit anarchist told me that green day were the best anticapitalist band. Even a fed wouldn't be stupid enough to say that; hating green day is the biggest requirement to be an anarchist
There's a few Green Day songs that are guilty pleasures of mine. They're always goofy as fuck, and swerved way too hard into stadium rock bs later on, but they didn't only get so big because they're cringy pop sellouts, they also always had a rhythm section that fucking bops. The bass and drums on Dookie are amazing and if i get the wall for saying that, then do your duty, comrades.
Haha nah there's nothing wrong with liking Green Day. Their first few albums are really good and they really connected with the sort of aimless feeling in young people in America at the time. It's kind of a meme to rag on them in punk circles because they got mainstream popularity and an image of being this mad subversive band with some of the most milquetoast, myopic anti-war music ever and if there's one thing punks love it's saying things aren't real punk.
This goes for every anarchist i've actually met. Reddit "anarchists" have so little to do with irl anarchist praxis that i feel bad calling them anarchists even when i use scare quotes.
One time a reddit anarchist told me that green day were the best anticapitalist band. Even a fed wouldn't be stupid enough to say that; hating green day is the biggest requirement to be an anarchist
There's a few Green Day songs that are guilty pleasures of mine. They're always goofy as fuck, and swerved way too hard into stadium rock bs later on, but they didn't only get so big because they're cringy pop sellouts, they also always had a rhythm section that fucking bops. The bass and drums on Dookie are amazing and if i get the wall for saying that, then do your duty, comrades.
Haha nah there's nothing wrong with liking Green Day. Their first few albums are really good and they really connected with the sort of aimless feeling in young people in America at the time. It's kind of a meme to rag on them in punk circles because they got mainstream popularity and an image of being this mad subversive band with some of the most milquetoast, myopic anti-war music ever and if there's one thing punks love it's saying things aren't real punk.