Standing out from the crowd isn't necessarily a bad thing. Your audience might appreciate hearing something fresh more than hearing a band that sounds basically the same as all the other bands in the area. The most important thing is whatever style you choose to play you should play it well. Both for yourself and because if you do what you do well then eventually you will find people who are into it even if you're playing something really out there.
As for the deeper question of what punks want to say with their music these days...I'm not sure it can be answered really. Punk isn't (and shouldn't be!) something monolithic. No art form should be. I don't think the genre itself can really say anything; there's just whatever individual artists have chosen to say.
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