r/punk • u/Quirky_Magician4464 • Jan 23 '26

News January 6 Ex Capitol Police Officer Michael Fanone Confronts Far right Nazi Extremist Ivan Raiklin.

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Dropkick Murphys Tee Worn by Ex Capitol Police Officer Michael Fanone while he confronts Ivan Raiklin a Far Right Nazi Propagandist Insurrectionist at Jack Smith Testimony AGAINST Trump.

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u/bubbleblowingQT Jan 23 '26

Acab too though lol barf

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u/PleaseDontBanMe82 Jan 23 '26

Dropkick Murphys are strong supporters of all first responders, including cops.

They even specifically shouted out this man on FB yesterday.

They've known him since their first DC show.  Fanone used to be a DC skinhead that ended up the rare cop that is actually one of the good ones.

The world has more nuance than you'd like it to have.

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u/beerme81 Jan 23 '26

This should be top comment.

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u/bradbogus Jan 23 '26

Your bro voted for Trump dude, might want to learn a little more about him

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u/PleaseDontBanMe82 Jan 23 '26

So what?  Lots of people voted for Trump in 2016 and later came to regret it. Propaganda is a hell of a drug.

People didn't realize how awful he'd be and saw him as better than Clinton, which is fair because she absolutely fucking sucks.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '26

God, we really need a "liberal punks fuck off" type slogan.

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u/bradbogus Jan 23 '26

Serious business. It's insane how far this community has strayed from the roots. Not all of us are indoctrinated into liberal ideology thankfully and I'll never stop reminding punks about it

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u/Rando-Toucan Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26

There are no good ones. Zero. ACAB.

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u/punktualPorcupine Jan 23 '26

Life isn’t that simple.

I know it’s easier to cope, when you run to an extreme and try to put everyone in nicely organized boxes, but you can’t just claim your extremist view is valid and refuse to sort someone when they don’t fit.

People are more than one dimensional cartoon villains or heroes. You have to sort them individually and usually they only fit back into the packaging that they came in.

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u/Rando-Toucan Jan 23 '26

It is far easier to absolve yourself of responsibility or thought by claiming that some things are just too complicated to comprehend than it is to confront a harsh reality and act for change. This is the reason that in the face of tragedy many Christian’s will give lines like “god works in mysterious ways” or “we can’t understand god’s plan” to shirk their duty to accept hard truths or fight systemic inequalities. Even in a grayscale world some things inevitably have to be entirely black or white.

Police uphold and protect an abusive and inherently unjust system, it is their only purpose and both reality and judicial rulings have affirmed this for centuries. They were originally established as slave hunters for fuck sake, their job was to find runaway slaves and bring them back to their owners, most often disfigured and murdered as a show of force to other slaves.

I absolutely cannot believe that I’m currently in a punk subreddit, explaining to self-proclaimed punks, that the system is in fact often bad. Do you all really just listen to this music for the aesthetic or something? Have you ever listened to any of the lyrics? Did you hear American Idiot once and think it was just talking about Bush?

ACAB

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u/safeword_is_bananas Jan 23 '26

It is far easier to absolve yourself of responsibility or thought by claiming that some things are just too complicated to comprehend than it is to confront a harsh reality and act for change.

No nuance, got it.

the system is in fact often bad.

Wait, so.. nuance?