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What does the word punk mean ? (retrofed.com)
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[–] 6 points 4 months ago (20 children)

Not sure I understand the meaning of your question. Maybe the Wikipedia can help? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_subculture

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 4 months ago (19 children)

    I understand that the word punk has to do with some kind of revolution or non conformism. The hippies could be categorised as punks.

    It does look a la mode in the Western World, but do you really need to label yourself something in order to carve out a self-identity ?

    Sometimes this is better than jabber !!

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Uh, categorizing self-absorbed hippies as punks is about as wrong as it gets 😅

    It's not about the lable, its just a shortcut to explain a common cause and idea how to interact with one another.

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

    Punks hated hippies. To punks, hippies were privileged kids that could always go home and get bailed out. Punks were treated like scum and fought for what they believed in.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    That's new, because where l am, l understand neither punks nor hippies. I simply know that for hippies, sex and drugs were the order of life.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Punk life was more self destructive and art aligned. Politics, drugs, sex, art, poverty, and alienation made punk, at least in the early stages.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

    Hippies look friendly on the outside, but are rotten and nasty at their core.

    Punks look rotten and nasty on the outside, and are friendly at their core.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    Are you talking about hippies or capitalists ??

    I've never seen any hippi though.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    I never said the word capitalist.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Replace the hippies with capitalists in your sentence and then read again.

    Does that make sense ??

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    I guess it makes sense. But I am not talking about capitalists.

    I am talking about hippies, and punks. I do not know any capitalists, but I was raised by two hippies, with lots of hippie friends. And I am a punk with many punk friends.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

    In solarpunk just like steampunk and cyberpunk I don't think the punk park hold much meaning.

    It is similar to porn in unixporn or foodporn. It just signals that whatever you are talking about is alao an aesthetic.

    Categorizing the hippies as a kind of punk ruined my day tho.

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

    I think you are right about steampunk, but cyberpunk does have an element of an anti-authoritarian counter culture (hackers going up against tech oligarchs). And solar punk evolved from there and is more explicitly political, although more utopian and I agree there is a bit of distance in the meaning.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah I was thinking about that, but it is not consistent across all punks so it can't be the meaning of punk right?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    That's.. Not how words work. Like, a silverfish is not a type of fish, bench dog is not a type of dog, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Silverfish is called so because it looks like a silvery fish. Bench dog in woodworking is something that holds things.

    But what is my point they are not fish and a dog(animal) so the words don't always hold exact meaning.

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