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Green Day just played "American idiot" at the Superbowl! (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
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I'm so proud of em, haha!

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[–] 176 points 9 months ago (28 children)

The people who this is directed at, won’t understand it’s about them.

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  • [–] [S] 41 points 9 months ago (27 children)

    Fair, but being Canadians in America, that takes stones big enough that atlas couldn't push.

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  • [–] 34 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Huh? It is one of their all time most popular songs in America. Same with Holiday, which is a protest song about the American invasion of Iraq. It would be unexpected if they didn't play one of these...

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Given the political climate of America right now? I'm still giving them props for having the balls to come here, knowing ICE is all over it and playing an anti-america song. The only thing that couldve made it better is a RATM guest during that or the halftime show.

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    The current political climate in the USA is Trump being booed by crowds at public events and MAGA being roasted regularly by comedians on cable TV or massively popular shows like South Park. His political party is in a panicked crisis over upcoming midterm elections that they are certain to lose across the nation, and Trump is polling at his lowest ever approval ratings.

    Green Day playing one of their most popular songs to an audience even more receptive to its message than when it was written is not very surprising. Like... it's literally their 2nd most played song on Spotify...

    Also what do you mean by Canadian? Green Day is an American band who's members are from California

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Given the political climate of America right now?

    Most of the ones it could or would cause issues with just think it's a popular song or unrelated to anything happening.

    Would be completely different if a brand new song but conservatives just think it's a fun song or about Iraq

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    Are you saying that Green Day is Canadian? Or?

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  • [+] -13 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    They are Canadian

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

    I looked it up, Wikipedia says that all the members are American. Edit: I wrote the complete wrong word. I said that they were Canadian instead of American. I was watching something while I was writing, should've paid more attention, mb.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Can't tell if you're serious, but none of them are Canadian. 2 are from Oakland, CA and one is from Germany.

    Edit: Just read usernames, not serious, oops.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Who's Canadian? 2 of them are from California, one is from Germany.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    This thread sounds like a lunch conversation over at ICE.

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    More like a group of birds "they're Californian" over and over. I wish people would read the full thread before replying, so if you make a mistake you don't have 40 lemmings saying the same fucking thing over and over.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    If you don't like it, you should have edited your posts as soon as you found out they weren't Canadian. It's now what, a day since you posted that they were Canadian here, then doubled down on that here, and you still have yet to edit either of those posts to indicate you now realize you were wrong.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt were born in Oakland, California. Frank Edwin Wright III (Tre Cool) was born in West Germany, because his father was a US Army pilot, they relocated to California. The band was formed in the Bay Area. There really isn't anything about the band that's Canadian.

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