I wanna be a Xitter Idiot

Like a lot of fascism, it makes perfect sense if you understand the code words. "Inserting politics" or "getting political" means expressing a disallowed opinion that should be silenced. You'll never hear this kind of language used about the approved opinions, only the to-be-silenced ones.

For context, original lyrics:

Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck America

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Don't want to be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
It's calling out to idiot America

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

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.

It’s the rage against the machine all over again. Shows how truly dumb people are. Like do they even listen to the lyrics?

Politics? In my Green Day?

_{It's more likely than you think.}

He's the one who likes

All our pretty songs and he

Likes to sing along and he

Likes to shoot his gun but he

Don't know what it means

It’s like they interpret music as just a noise that sounds appealing with no meaning.

We found him, its the American Idiot!

You don't get to get away from it. MAGA politics has made life a living hell for so many people that can't get away from it, and the only thing anyone can do is confront you with it every waking moment of yours.

Maybe conservatives just take a sharpie and put a comma on the album cover so it says "American, Idiot" as in they are yelling at someone that they are American and that they should have known by their ignorant angry voice.

American Idiot was already political and already critical of the Republicans. I guess all these American idiots didn't know the lyrics before?

Anyone who wants to censor culture is a fascist at their core. In a liberal democracy you can say anything but you're not immune from the consequences.

That being said these users look fake AF and we should stop pretending Twitter/x/whatever is anything but a dead forum

That X is pronounced "sh" right?

Guy who shocked by green day probably never existed back in 2004 or just want a piece of cake for attention. Green Day always has been political in some of their song release since Warning(?), even on The Network side project am I supposed to think The Network is Green Day? Am no American and enjoyed Green Day from Dookie to Revolution Radio (not really listened to them since FOaMF release).

Incredible that they can just keep coming up with shit like this day after day, indefinitely. Truly astonishing

Making fun of the people who didn't like the political statement is fine, and there were plenty of high profile people to dunk on for that, but this is literally some rando this person searched up, the original tweet had basically no interactions. This could even be satire for all we know.

Effectively, if not possibly literally, nobody really said this.

Punks and politics are like peas and carrots.

Does anyone think people like that do this on purpose?

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PStarzynski Discruntled Rangers/NYY Fan, @PeterS_Tech

You know the more I thought about it, why did Green Day have to insert politics into their performance of American Idiot? We're trying to get away from that for a few hours.

Vas Drimalitis, @vasdrimalitis

"Why did Green day have to insert politics into their performance of American Idiot" is a truly incredible sentence to read.