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Dropkick Murphys' Unveil Anti-ICE Song: "Too Scared to Join the Military, Too Dumb to Be a Cop" (consequence.net)
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[–] 1 point 10 months ago

Those are also called chickenhawks, like being hawkish but never served or avoid being drafted.

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    [–] 78 points 10 months ago

    Punk AF.

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    [–] 107 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    I know that many departments have a maximum intelligence limit, but is "too dumb to be a cop" really thing?

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  • [–] 80 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Didn't it come out that some ICE goons don't know how to read or write?

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  • [–] 40 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Half of the country reads at 5th grade level or below.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    I'd put that down to atrophied reading skills. Actual illiteracy is usually a sign that someone never learned, there's also functional illiteracy wherein someone can technically read and write but they aren't interacting with it beyond parroting the words.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    That factoid keeps getting pulled out.

    It's literally untrue, or at the very least misrepresented.

    Half of the country of the USA have only passed 6th Grade English exams.

    That does not mean they are incapable, just that they've only got a little piece of paper somewhere saying "I passed a test!" up to that point.

    https://porchroot.substack.com/p/why-half-of-americans-read-like-theyre

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    • [–] 46 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    If you can find it the Murphys’ St. Patrick’s Day show from 2024 was amazing. Billy Bragg played and Woody Guthrie’s daughter came on stage.

    Best concert I’ve moshed alone to in my living room since 2020

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    • [+] 35 points 10 months ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Using them as actual slaves. This guy is sick.

    Does your sister condone this or is she complaining to you about it? Take video of these threats, consider sendimg them to ProPublica or AP.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago*

    Knowing that information, and not making it public, makes you complicit.

    Figure out a way to safely and publicly disclose that information.

    If I had to guess, he's a Florida landscaper or contractor, because that's their MO, but just because it's commonplace, doesn't mean you're not complicit for choosing not to share the information.

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    • [–] 29 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Cops are too dumb to be cops

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    And yet...ICE agents are even dumber

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    • [–] 23 points 10 months ago

    For basically as long as they've been around, I've mostly dismissed the Murphys as "too Boston" (which, in this sense, means dickish Boston Irish). But these last few years have really shown me I was just an idiot and they are exactly the kind of Boston Irish I want around.

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    [–] 46 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    I recently learned there was a Trump-supporting bar near me with one of those TouchTune jukeboxes you can control remotely. Me and some other people started commandeering it with requests, but sadly a lot of picks were not availableβ€” namely Nazi Punks Fuck Off.

    If this could make its way into the TouchTunes library, I would be soooooo happy.

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I drove a Nazi out of a bar that way a few weeks back

    My friend works security there and sent me a pic of a guy wearing a shirt with SS lightning bolts on it

    Manager wouldn't let him kick the guy out because he wasn't otherwise causing an issue, and I wasn't available to go help cause a scene to give him an excuse, but I was able to queue up every anti-fascist song I could find on there and he up and left within an hour

    I consider those touchtunes credits to be money well-spent

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    "Schrei nach Liebe" bei Die Γ„rzte is a good options if they have that.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Oh fuck yeah:

    Deine Gewalt is nur ein stummer schrei nach Liebe
    Deine springer stiefel ziehen sich nach zaertlichkeit
    Du hast nie gelernt wie zu artikulieren
    Und deine Freundin/Eltern hatten niemals fuer dich seit...
    (Ooh-ooh-ooh)

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    In my youth my friend and I literally chased a pack of 6 or 7 Proud Boys out of a pool hall by just singing this song really aggressively at them lol… I highly recommend calling them out irl, they're a bunch of tough talking pussies

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    • [–] 20 points 10 months ago

    That song is beautiful and I love Dropkick Murphys!

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    • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    Fuck ya

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    [–] 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Saw these guys at Louder than Life in 2024. It was muddy as fuck because it basically monsooned the day before, and was still drizzling on and off that day. I was soaked to the bone, covered in mud up to my thighs, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Definitely one of the funnest, most high energy performances of the whole weekend.

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    • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Anyone got the audio link? They all are dead atm for me.

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    • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Kinda slept on them for a while tbh, I'll have to check em out properly

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    [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    They pulled an Elton John. It’s a reworded version of a song they already played.

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    • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I know it's pedantic, but many of them are ex-military. It's part of why they're so primed to shoot anyone they find inconvenient.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    yep unfortunately even people criticizing ICE often refuse to critically examine the military which is much much worse.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The thing is, the military is America's largest wellfare program. Reducing or cutting the military could directly lead to a localized demand-side recession in areas with large numbers of military recruits and/or contractors

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    • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Soldiers aren't brave other than that good to trash ICE.

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    [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Some branches don't accept GEDs either.

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    [–] 48 points 10 months ago

    Too dumb to be a cop is a whole other dimension of dumb.

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    [–] 21 points 10 months ago

    This is TERRORISM!

    -The Music NOT the people Murdering Americans Kidnapping Toddlers and Stealing from Children!

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    [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    they're on a generational run for being so far past their "switching to folk music" era

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    [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    🀘✊ Speaking truth to power, as always

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    [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    https://youtu.be/PUj2pAIQA6c

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    [+] -25 points 10 months ago (30 children)

    I like their music, I just wish they would stick to punk rock and keep their politics to themselves. Always sucks when a good band has to go woke.

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    I 100% believe this is a joke that just didn't land with the users here because almost that exact same thing has been repeatedly said by people who didn't know the machine they're supposed to rage at isn't the dishwasher.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    It's odd... Despite its userbase being overwhelmingly left and politically aware, when presented with the decision about whether a post is a sincere chud or mocking chuds, Lemmy users assume the former extremely often.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    I mean, I get it. We're also overwhelmingly neurodivergent. We've also seen people say this shit for real. We've also seen a ton of folks say "it was just a joke" to defend the indefensible. Let's add to that we don't know who we're talking to and tone doesn't always transfer to text. So a lot of us (me included) will sometimes see someone mocking jackasses and think they're the jackass.

    I caught this one because I make this joke A LOT. All the time. It will never not be funny to me. My buddy is writing a song right now that's a pretty thinly veiled indictment of influencer and grind culture (it's about giving up a piece of yourself to make a buck basically, and when you're not willing to do it you don't get to eat). He was bouncing ideas off me and I made that joke.

    And when he releases it I will recommend it to everyone by making the exact same joke again. Folk musicians should stick to music and not be so damned woke! Can you believe this?!? Then I'll link the song.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah cuz punk isn't political or inclusive (woke) lmfao

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Thatsthejoke.jpg

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    i think the problem here is too many people actually hold this position on the dropkicks

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I guess i can kind of see that, especially if you stopped listening to them around 2005 or so. The songs about working class people, drinking, fighting, and the old country would all appeal to the typical right-wing dipshit with their own idea of what solidarity means.

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  • [–] -3 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    wow.

    there it is.

    you just put that out there, like you actually meant to. with all the charisma and delivery of a wet fart.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (11 children)

    It is absurd the number of people who legit cannot identify sarcasm without the SpongeBob text or a flashing red "/s" tag.

    Chill the fuck out lmao.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I refuse the /s.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The /s is like wearing a condom. Yeah it's safer, but sometimes you just need to live dangerously.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    how would you incorporate vasectomys into this analogy?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Serious answer: I wouldn't--not every analogy works in reverse.

    Non-serious answer: not giving a shit about downvotes is like getting a vasectomy. You can post all the "/s"-free sarcasm you want, but knowing there is no negative consequence means a bit of the thrill is gone.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    nah just use the /s tag, I'm great at picking up on sarcasm via text. Your fault, stop bitching about what you've reapt and sowed.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yep. All great jokes conclude with a "just joking". Brevity is the bane of wit.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago

    Well, you see, the way human communication works is that we use details from our surroundings called "context". A big part of that context is what's called "human expression", which includes "facial expressions" and "hand gestures", which we use to "indicate" that we are joking.

    That's the purpose of tone indicators. Sorry, you're wrong, ending a comment with /s does nothing to reduce the effectiveness of the joke.

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