106 points

Folks, the world use to be fully of 30 year olds making music for 15 year olds so giant record companies could sell CDs. Then woke happened.

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Before black people made it illegal to be white you could rock out.

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40 points

Clutching a DVD of “Mystery Men” to my chest and gently sobbing, because I don’t want William H. Macy to see what has become of our beautiful country.

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Ok that movie slaps though…

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75 points

You may not like it, but American Pie style college comedy movies are actually where US culture peaked

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38 points

You’re right, I don’t like it lol

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26 points

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

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I’ve always been saying this

Sum 41, Blink 182, American Pie, Van Wilder, Smash Mouth, Super Troopers, all had basically the same vibe
Probably 100 other things I could add to this list

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1 point

It truly was a better time.

The matrix got it right 1999.

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60 points

Tough being a RETVRN guy these days if this is the barrel they’re scraping the bottom of.

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30 points

Reject Harry Styles RETVRN to the Offspring.

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17 points

Thinking about it, I kind of unironically believe this.

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6 points

Even though The Offspring is weirdly reactionary for being a punk band, I still agree with this.

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RETVRN to the age of looking like smash mouth

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60 points

Back in my day black hole sun would wash away the rain but not anymore because of WOKE

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46 points

Black hole sun won’t you come?

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25 points

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57 points

The guitarist wore a hammer and sickle shirt to a live show and it didn’t seem sarcastic

https://youtu.be/OOvszAyFlk8?si=XeNwggrzZMSkgdQN

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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

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all artists are bourgeois

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25 points

wha

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1 point

You spotted an actual tankie

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Well slap some duct tape on my bananna!

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12 points

This comment feels like a Poes Law situation… surely this is a bit, right?

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Ok fine youre right. All western art is bourgeois

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Whatever who cares

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