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I wanna be a Xitter Idiot
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this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2024
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Super tame.
In the New Year's show, they changed "a redneck agenda" to "the MAGA agenda". Okay, little bit more explicitly partisan, but basically the same thing.
I think part of the problem (aside from people that don't ever listen to the words in songs) is less that the song/green day is apolitical in their interpretation, but more that for a lot of people the word "politics" means partisan politics. Being explicitly about a party or one of their core issues is what makes something ๐ ๐๐๐พ๐๐พ๐ธ๐ถ๐ to them.
What is and is not political is defined by oppressors. Their crosses, punisher skulls, and blue lives matter stickers are not political. The atheist symbol, antifa arrows, and black lives matter stickers are political. A keffiyeh is a political statement, but an IDF shirt isn't. "Political" functionally means "talking about your oppression or the oppression of others."
JSYK, using special characters to write โpoliticalโ like that doesnโt work with screen readers. Best case scenario it skips the word entirely, worst case it reads out the name of each special character individually.
Yeah. Itโs fucking sad.