There's a person from the solar punk lemmy posting in there about how the american flag stands for freedom and equality for all and I can't help but cringe at how much they're not living up to the "punk" part with their bullshit nationalism lmao
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Punk is an aesthetic
That's all
An aesthetic that developed from rebellion against unjust hierarchies in society. Art doesn't exist in a vacuum.
Yeah, it got its start that way, but at the end of the day, if you picked out 5 self-described punks, you're liable to get a bunch of really disjointed political beliefs
The punk scene has been divorced from its origins and is mainly just set dressing for a kind of aimless, plaintive rebellion
Not to say that there aren't any punks out there who aren't cool, just that like a lot of other movements its been reduced to a commodity
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Pretty much these days
Kind of sad really
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There's a person from the solar punk lemmy posting in there about how the american flag stands for freedom and equality for all
and I can't help but cringe at how much they're not living up to the "punk" part with their bullshit nationalism lmao
You don't even need to leave the conventional AmLit canon to make a joke of that many times over. I know that you know this, of course, but other people sometimes benefit from these references being posted.
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Most compound words with punk as the suffix are super duper not punk. If it's two separate words it's probably not poser or nerd shit. Thisbinclude cyberpunk.
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Well sweaty have you considered that we NEED to use right-wing symbology to own the TANKIES??? 
The creator of the flag was not only a slaveowner but also owned a port where an estimated 100,000 slaves were brought in from Africa.
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Ron Paul was a mistake, leading to the creation of Ron Swanson introducing libertarianism to millennials.
I don't know what's worse, the ham radio Ayn Rand libertarians from the 70s or the Ron Paul gold standard meme libertarians from 2008
I briefly lived in a student co-op, and the best house meeting we had was when we got to kick out this guy who disappeared and left everyone else to cover his shifts. He turned back up after two months and it turned out he had been in another city campaigning for Ron Paul. He somehow felt like this was a good reason to not get kicked out
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I thought they wanted to keep politics out of there
Politics are when you are left of Biden.
But if you do moderation and curation on a web forum, that’s a violation of free speech. And people who infringe on free speech clearly cannot be truly trans. Freedom is what the Burgerland ruling class deems it to be. This is how we defeat cisheteropatriarchy.
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Thirty minutes from now: "why do all these freedom-loving libertarians want me dead?"
Fifty minutes from now: "why are they all asking if I'm under 18 in my dms?"
Wait so did this person ever say that they were trans, they were asked and dodged the question
I actually am very interested to know because ideology can inhibit LGBT community outreach (re: make people shut-ins because they don't like other trans people because of what they've been told) and it's useful to me to understand how these kinds of trans people think so I can make ones nearby touch grass
Trawled their(her? Not listed) profile: seems like a pretransition egg that browses /TTTT/. usually when these people transition and are discriminated against, they come to the irl trans community for solutions (doctors lists, survival tips, free therapy) and slowly build class consciousness as bad experiences accumulate and information is shared (along with hugs) face to face.
They will eventually realize at this stage the only people that tangibly helped them were socialists and become more amicable towards socialist ideas. I've seen it happen a lot, it's not guaranteed obviously and the archetype varies country to country and by ethnicity but that's the vibe I'm getting.
Most normal day on the Blahaj instance.
holy shit, the comments on that post 
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What the fuck
What is bahaj? I think I've seen some of them post in here before but don't know what their instance is about.
Anti-communist Vaushite chaser instance spun off from r/196. We were federated with them for a minute until we realized how intolerable they were.
Well, it started as a small kind of libby trans friendly space on Lemmy for just a handful of users that was a spin off of the blahaj.zone misskey instance on fedi (mastodon basically) but because of the Reddit stuff it swelled in size and then r/196 asked if they could migrate to it and suddenly the entire culture of the instance was up ended by chaser vaushites.
also it's become the 1 token trans friend for all the Lemmitors that agrees with their shitty opinions because they can't bear to acknowledge that the instance with the most trans users on is hexbear
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So it's NATO leftist central. I'm starting to realize why every one of them posting here was insufferable as hell.
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Just for a little clarification.. Blahaj is also the name of the shark plushie at IKEA that has become sort of a symbol of trans support. That predates the cringe lemmy instance you're talking about (which I had never even heard of until today, but the shark thing has been a phenomenon for years)
Liberation for me but not for thee, apparentlee?
deeply deeply cringe
Yikes. This is literally no different than a rainbow swastika or something equally tone deaf.
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I can get behind the libertarian sentiment of “I want gay couples to own machines guns and grow weed,” but unless they always vote for libertarian parties, their default course of action is to almost always support the Republican Party because guns and money and “free speech” will always be more important than the lives of marginalized people.
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e: why are you all calling me slurs
I only make communist are in GIMP, sorry sweaty
Looks like they had the decency to at least take it down.
Prolly cuz people were roasting it in the comments. 
ITT non punks arguing over what counts as punk. Punk is having generally leftist politcs, looking really cool, listening to sick bands like Electro Hippies, Zyanose, Instinct of Survival or Framtid and having drug problems.
Punk is rebelling against authoritarianism, like state-enforced meals for school children, so-called "human rights" for minorities (censorship), top-down literacy imposed on innocents and it's about eating fast food.
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Shitty photoshop job, too
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