Johnny Rotten was recently photographed wearing what appears to be an official Make America Great Again shirt and "punks" worldwide have decided that he isn't punk. The comments are full of some chuckle-worthy seethe and a few actually intelligent(!) posters defending Rotten.
Apparentky punk now has a dress code or something.
Your first mistake was going to r/(broadTopic). They are almost all astroturfed by the mods, with dissenting opinions being banned and pushed away.
But I have noticed that the left still thinks that they are the counterculture. If you try to bring it up to them, that left wing ideas have the attention and power right now, they will either dismiss it as not being left, if they happen to be socialist or communist, or the leaders of a list of countries are right wing so the left is just countering that, even if you are talking about a country with a left wing leading party.
Punk doesn’t even have a political leaning, because whoever or whatever the “machine” happens to be is always shifting.
Even whenever punk was just starting as a genre, there were both right and left wing punks. Some of the genre is inherently political, just because the machine is often defined as being the current government structure or mainstream belief system.
They are trying to gatekeep people that were already there, just like they do with everything else