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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Wait till they see the latest Gen V episode. They exploded a goat named Elon Musk. The goat was deliberately named like that, so that nobody cares if it dies.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Goddamn season 2 is out?

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 22 points 22 hours ago

So gwar is still doing Gwar stuff and maga are still doing maga stuff. Just another day like any other

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I saw them in like 2009 and they did the same thing to Obama and Hillary.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Could You even imagine Obama getting mad at GWAR for being GWAR?

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 3 points 15 hours ago

I could see Obama asking to come on stage to be devoured by the World Maggot.

It was good enough for Jerry

[–] RaoulDuke@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They hate everyone equally.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

They don't perform these acts because they hate anybody. It's theater. But Donald Trump will never accept that as long as he is one of the caricatures on stage. His ego is too fragile.

[–] SGG@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago

Yes, but while one side can accept it, Turnip throws a tantrum

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 86 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The organizers behind Riot Fest said it the best, really:

“Like I know this is a rage bait engagement farming twitter account, but ‘GWAR crossed a major line’ is one of the funniest fucking things I’ve ever heard.”

[–] towamo7603@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Based from orbit.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 110 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They've never seen GWAR before I guess.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 90 points 1 day ago (2 children)

... these are the people who think the 'Machine' that Rage Against the Machine is raging against...

... is the liberal mainstream media.

We are talking about people with negative amounts of media literacy... as well as very low levels of actual literacy.

[–] BJ_and_the_bear@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The thought of this dopey fascist goof listening to RATM while working out in his stupid hat is hilarious

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Hey, uh, can you return those to the weight rack when you're done with 'em?

Fuck you I won't do what you tell me!

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I mean, in all fairness RATM is raging against the mainstream media, they’re just also raging against everything to the right of the mainstream media too.

[–] miked@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait, I thought they hated washing machines. So confused.

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

No, actually. They just hate it when people say "ATM machine." They want that machine dropped from the common vernacular.

[–] Klear@quokk.au 3 points 11 hours ago

RATM Machine.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 4 points 15 hours ago

If we do not have ATM machines what will I do with my PIN number?

[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was this before or after they were sprayed with alien semen?

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 day ago

Due to tariffs and inflation they only do blood spew these days.

[–] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Some things change. Some things stay the same. At least GWAR is still GWAR.

I like to think that Dave Brockie is laughing his ass off in hell over this while sharing a needle with Satan

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lmao, is that supposed to be Taylor Swift? That's awesome.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes it is. It was the intro to Womb with a View.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago
[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The "readers added context" under the bullshit pearl clutching tweets is so sweet.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Readers added context
This is a long-running part of GWAR's performances. They have simulated killing a number of famous and influential people since the 90s, including every US president since Ronald Reagan.
villains.fandom.com/wiki/GWAR

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 53 points 1 day ago

Yes, but 20th century snow was not the same thing as 21st century snow.

I think I saw gwar once birth a Hillary Clinton fetus, and then kill and eat it

[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago

Lordy, I had to read the article. It's beautifully written. Highly recommended.

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I bet people who know exactly who and what GWAR is, decided to do this as a promotion for GWAR, its just way too obvious. GWAR has been on fox news, its well known they do this, and the fact that the outrage was over musk and not trump goes to show whoever started it knew there would be a response pointing out they've done it to ALL the former presidents. It just seems so unlikely that anyone would see a gwar show and think "if only more people saw* this, they'd be canceled", there's just no way.

They've been killing musk since at least may of this year so even that isn't new. Honestly after this I kind of hope they do make one of Charlie Kirk just to keep the rage going, but honestly I don't think kirk was that well known until after he lost his last debate.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 3 points 14 hours ago

Not sure libs of TikTok would be doing a promotion for GWAR. Maybe others started it and they picked it up.

[–] Soulg@ani.social 2 points 14 hours ago

Never ever underestimate the stupidity and the bubble. They don't care about facts or truth. They won't care that they've done this multiple times before, that it's a decades long tradition for them, none of it matters.

They're looking for a reason to persecute the left, this is ammunition to convince the voters that it's okay to do so, and they'll try to make it happen. Maybe they'll overreach like they did with Kimmel, maybe not, but don't try to use logic with these people.

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm pushing 40 and GWAR has been doing this since before I was born.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This year is their 40th anniversary.

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gwar, often stylized as GWAR, is an American heavy metal band formed in Richmond, Virginia, in 1984

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I thought this years tour was for their 40th, but it is the Return of Gor-Gor.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Now we need their birthday and the founding day. We can't let this approximation slip

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I began watching this in an ironic kind of way. Fuck, was I glad I did. It was an amazing dive into a band I thought was KISS 2.0. Watch the documentary.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt12104436/

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Graduate hotel in Richmond had a sick GWAR painting in the bathroom of my hotel room.

That is all.

[–] Pavidus@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I've stayed at that hotel before. I'm sad to say my room didn't have that kind of cool ass art. I did eat at the GWARbar though, so I still got some good GWAR memories in on my trip.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago

I’d gone to a concert that night and was kinda drunk so when I pissed in my hotel bathroom and saw more band art I was kinda confused lmaoo

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

C'mon, they know what they're doing. No such thing as bad ~~attention~~ publicity.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/there-is-no-such-thing-as-bad-publicity.html

[–] Soulg@ani.social 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Yeah they're doing the same thing they've done for decades lmao the right just needs anger and outrage to let them get away with crimes against humanity and highlighting this at this exact moment in time, while they're pushing the narrative that the left are hyper violent extremists, might strengthen that view among the idiots