• AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    punks are politically all over the place. traditionally the scene has always had a strong anarchist bent, but few of it was grounded in a thorough ideological framework and there's unfortunately always been reactionary-leaning edgelord tendencies as well. Half of the Ramones were republicans. you'll find shit takes in a lot of punk lyrics, often scattered throughout otherwise fairly based stuff. It's entirely normal that bands from the 1980s shit on America in the most wonderful ways possible for an entire album, then drop some ecofash nuclear take or some nonsense like that. Large parts of the scene also became a lot less diverse after the first few years, punk was very queer when it started out, there were lots of women active in the scene, some really great black artists like the Bad Brains had a great influence on the genre - but when the initial hype died down and concerts became more and more toxic and violent, a lot of it turned into a scene for straight white dudes with rich parents who only cared about shock appeal.