>>128395223
That's funny. I could never get into punk rock but I like industrial music which was influenced by punk, and writing "Obey the Rules" on the wall as part of a performance sounds like something an industrial group would do as a statement about totalitarianism. The vibe isn't like punk where you're like "I don't need your rules, man," it's taking "the rules" to an extreme or something like that:
https://youtu.be/FIyL8ti3SME
Oppressive systems usually don't outright say they're here to enslave you. The ideal communist subject in that sort of propaganda is like a cheery airline flight attendent. I could see Death in June having slogans on stage like the Afropunk Fest as a way of subverting it. Those stark black banners with NO [THING], NO [THING], NO [THING].
>>128395634
I think the plot twist is that a lot of those guys also voted Trump. There were huge swings towards Trump in immigrant-heavy hoods in NYC then back towards Mamdani. You have a bunch of immigrant boomers from India or Egypt or whatever and they haven't been assimilated into the two-party system (which I think is partly a "tribal" conflict within American culture and society) so they're sort of up for grabs.
>>128400492
Being off-putting to 99 percent of people is sort of "the point" I think, like the appeal of that sort of thing is like romantic violence where you're fighting against the whole world. You'll see Hitler fans say "well he lost but he took on ~the whole world~ and nearly won." The mindset of a hardcore neo-Nazi is narrow vision of duty and idealism surrounded by an ocean of threats.
