• WithoutFurtherBelay@hexbear.net
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      what is wrong with hexbear users and punk? actually, scratch that, what’s wrong with them and music in general? can’t go a single second mentioning a band or something without someone shitting out their own random take about music as if it’s a gift from God themself.

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        you come onto the Posters Instance, and complain about people posting about one of the most postable topics in existence

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          It’s not the posting, it’s the posting as if your post is somehow objective fact

          like “i dont like this genre” is a normal and fair thing that people say, but “this genre is BAD” is a weird way to put it

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            You can interpret through context cues whether a statement is an opinion or a fact without someone pointing it out as a disclaimer. If I say ‘the red hot chili peppers suck’, it should be pretty easy to figure out its a subjective statement because whether or not music is bad is inherently subjective and you can tell its just my opinion because I’m the one who said it. No one is ever stating that these are demonstrable facts because that would be impossible so even if somehow that is what they mean it can’t possibly be true and must therefore be a statement of their opinion despite their intent and should be treated as such.

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                My gripes are personal. I’ve lost all my high school friend to folk punk, not that they died from it, (those were people I met later) they just started dressing like Peter pan and calling themselves stuff like Feather and Navi and starting bands called Drop Out/Fall in Love and Buy Nothing Life despite being recent high school graduates with swimming pools cause at the end of the day they were just upper class band geeks. Punk is loud and noisy rock n roll that gives you permanent hearing loss from basement shows. Punk is about wearing studs and having cool hair.

                Me barely ironically

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                  “Real Punk” only consists of the nyc/london Classic Punk scene and the 80’s hardcore scene and its descendants. What is known by “Folk Punk” is nothing but Folk music with questionable real punk influence. When people try to argue that bands like Billy Bragg are not real punk, while saying that Johnny Hobo is, I can’t help not to cringe because they are just as fake punk as Billy Bragg (plus the adolescent cringe). Real punk sounds ENERGETIC, POWERFUL and somewhat HATEFUL. Fake punk is weak, self pity and a failed attempt to direct energy and emotion into music. Some examples of REAL PUNK are Amebix, Catharsis, Blackbird Raum (the only real punk band from the folk punk scene) and Man is the Bastard. Some examples of FAKE PUNK are Pat the Bunny, Chris Burrows and Defiance, Ohio PUNK BELONGS TO HARDCORE NOT TO FOLK, POP PUNK, ALT ROCK OR ANY OTHER MAINSTREAM GENRE

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              No, It’s consistently treated as fact and used as a way to ridicule and attack people. Not in this thread, but previous ones.

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                A person can speak an opinion objectively and it’s still an opinion. It’s a very very common use of speech. That doesn’t mean it isn’t inherently an opinion, if you respond to an opinionative statement as if it were factual I’d say that’s more on the respondent. If someone is stating an opinion factually and making bild statements around it, they could in fact be using hyperbole. This is all really normal forms of communication thst as soon as people log on they lose the ability to parse.

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                  Im not saying you’re wrong, I’m saying that a lot of (other to be honest because it’s not really present here) times I’ve seen people then take that opinion and then start attacking or demeaning for instance, people who like what they said they dislike. I’m talking about music here specifically, not Treat Discourse.

                  I am somewhat disconnected from the whole thing because I have a hard time really, like, genuinely finding genres bad. There’s probably something out there I dislike but calling it “bad” gives me bad feelings, because I’m constantly aware of the fact that other people can have different tastes, and have had my tastes change dramatically, so I could just end up accidentally implying I have bad taste later in life or something.

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                    I think I can enlighten a bit. Music dorks who are REALLY into stuff and especially similar genres where you can split hairs and be nervy have a tradition of being harsher than they really mean or making disagreements seem bigger than they are. I used to argue passionately and loudly about music with this older dude who ran a record store and midway he stopped as any 35 year old arguing with a 15 year old did and asked “just to be sure, you’re having fun right now right?” And I totally was cause arguing passionate with people over which album by The Cure and going full debate lord about it (it’s Seventeen Seconds btw) is fun as hell for many people that are just that into music. There’s a general understanding that it’s dumb as hell at the end of the day. This especially applies to more underground stuff where if you’re involved you probably know half of the people you’re talking about.

                    And I will reiterate if you call.something bad it’s the same as saying you don’t think it’s good because you’re speaking about a subjective thing. I guess it’s more assertive but that’s it.

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          The amount of time I spend with this community correlates with how different from other places online I perceive it to be. It’s waxed and waned over the last 6 or so years, but lately I feel like I’m biding my time until someone enthusiastically different (better) than the rest of the Internet comes along

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            Imagine the worst house show you’ve ever been to

            “This song’s called ‘I Hate My Life But Live My Friends’”

            Friends: cheer

            Everyone else: silent

            *unintentionally muted or randomly sttummed too hard acoustic guitar *

            IM SAD

            CAUSE IM SOMEWHERE I DIDNT GROW UP

            PARKING LOT

            I HATE FRIEND

            I LOVE FRIEND

            I WISH THE LEFT WING REVOLVED AROUND ME

            AND MY FRUSTRATION WITH MY DAD