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i already have a job and it's called keeping myself alive. why do i have to be employed on top of that

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they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit your tv when it didn't work good.

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"Your taxes are funding a genocide in Gaza"

Seen in Long Beach, California

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X-Men The Animated Series - Intro

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i still think about "aye moira am oan the protein" way too often

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Messages of support and strength from Rafah, Palestine to the US student movement.

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reading this deposition that just got dropped where someone sued musk and ohhhh my god it is this funniest thing ever . i can see why his lawyer tried to keep this confidential . they’re both maybe the biggest idiots . this is like ace attorney

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Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon sorta shared the same amount of screen time on my TV growing up, but CN had Toonami which aired DragonBall Z and that plus Sailor Moon and Reboot was EVERYTHING to 10-year-old me.

Yes this poll is very biased in favor of North America lol

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if you don‘t personally own one but your roommates/parents do and you are allowed to use it, that counts as yes

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So a little bit of punk history

Did punk start in America or England?

Yes

Okay this is something that people will debate but it’s actually really hard to answer because that means deciding who the first punk band was and that’s a contentious topic

The real answer is that the American and UK punk scenes evolved separately from each other. It’s not a matter of it started in one country and crossed over, but it was two separate scenes that came about roughly the same time out of similar influences and global events. Punk was in a lot of ways a reaction to the failure of the cultural revolution of the 60’s, a lot of the protopunk bands toured and played with each other or attended the same shows.

So regardless of whoever produced the first “true punk band” the existence of punk was already independently evolving in each location. There’s actually evidence of a similar music scene occurring in a part of Mexico at the same time independent of the others

The real interesting thing is that American punk and UK punk crossbred to create punk as we know it. From the style, to the music, the combination of the two created punk. American bands toured Britain and British bands toured the US and both influenced the other scene.

Punk as we know it didn’t exist until after the two scenes interbred

So yeah, it’s debatable which country produced a punk band first, and there’s a chance it was Mexico, but that’s because it was separately being invented around the same time. And any attempt to claim “first” is made complicated by a shit ton of briefly together bands in these music scenes. I can’t emphasize how tricky this is because influential bands existed for a couple months before breaking up without any recordings of their music, but then spurred on another wave of performers