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For more than four decades, GWAR has been pissing people off. They’ve “killed” countless controversial figures and it’s raised the hackles of emotionally weak fuck faces. It’s unavoidable. Yet the recent on-stage “disembowelment” of President Donald J. Trump pissed off the MAGA cult so you know what that means — they sent death threats to the guys parading around as fake intergalactic aliens in fake armor.

The main incident that got people up in arms was the band’s performance at Riot Fest in Chicago last year. During that particular show, they featured a little simulated murder of noted racist net negatives to society and wastes of valuable oxygen Elon Musk and President Donald Trump. It was all in good fun worthy of a good “hahaha” or a “hehehe” during your metal show.

Well, that was too much for the MAGA crowd. No, they couldn’t stand to see an effigy of their God Emperor and his minion getting fake murdered, so their influencers got all mad and condemned GWAR for their act for allegedly normalizing political violence. So they apparently responded by sending the band death threats, which is an act of political violence in its own right.

Never mind they’ve killed countless politicians over the years, but now was when they were fomenting violence. It was a situation that frontman Blöthar the Berserker laughed off at the time in an interview with Billboard.

“The idea that Gwar is normalizing violence is patently absurd.

“We’re not millionaires that are afraid of what people are going to say when they see what we do… Yeah, it pissed me off! We’re a group of artists that makes art, and it’s really the idea that what we have done is normalizing violence… there’s nothing normal about the violence that goes on at a GWAR show. It’s a cartoon, it’s Looney Tunes.”

Since then, GWAR’s only ratcheted up the vitriol, killing figures like now former Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem. But that’s not to say the anger from the right has subsided at all. In fact, in an interview with The Guardian, guitarist Mike Derks (a.k.a. Balsac The Jaws Of Death) explained how the whole situation’s been frustrating and scary at the same time. He also took umbrage with a group of people who claim to be pro-First Amendment to then go on to try to censor a band like GWAR.

“In a sense, it’s just laughable, but it was scary when we were getting death threats over social media. It did get me very upset when people were trying to say: ‘Oh, you can’t do that.’ This is the country where we’re supposed to be able to do that! People were saying we can’t do it after we’d been doing it for 40 years.”

But once again the obvious should be stated: the MAGA cult is so rotten with nothing but a buncha whiny, pasty white, piss-soaked, crybabies that couldn’t take a joke if it were handed to them with soft kids’ gloves. Sure, their ideology is the catalyst for this country’s backsliding into fascism, but they’re still somehow just soft as baby shit.

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Even if I don’t listen to GWAR I always appreciated their theatrical presentation. Good to know they’re also on the right side of history.

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

The MAGAt morons probably had no idea who Gwar was until this.

Lol

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 45 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)
[–] Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 72 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I bet there was MAGA GWAR fans who thought GWAR was like them. Just like RATM some bands music just goes right over the MAGGOTS heads.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 34 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

There was a post here on Lemmy right around the time of the superbowl where some guy was looking to form "the right wing version of RATM".

I'm still unclear if he's a comedic genius, or an idiot.

[–] Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I remember that. It's probably true for some right winger out there. When I did flooring, there was always other work crews around who you could tell were maga listening to musc like Ratm. Like the message just didn't click with them.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

"Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses"

"Ah, what a wholesome message! I like these good ol' boys, rage against the machine!"

everyone else facepalms

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Back before I left Facebook I was part of the Bohab group that was a continuation of the bohab forums, there were A LOT of hard right fans that thought GWAR were also hard right.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

Assumption: The left are blue-haired SJW liberals and the USA tried to beat them up and take their property for not being on "their side" during the McCarthy era...you know, when men were men! They do wimpy and gay things. They're also so DUMB and uncreative even though they think they're so great, and they put DEI in video games and are groomers.

Fact: GWAR does GWAR things, like violence, gore, blood, piss, heavy metal, growling, screaming, loud, lights, electricity, power.

Incorrect Conclusion: GWAR is not left

They just can't imagine leftist thinking being anything but the strawman set up by their propagandists

[–] BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

"The swastika, and the bloody old cross. Two great hates that hate great together."

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 29 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

GWAR decapitates or sodomomizes with a sword any politician in the spotlight. It's just an excuse to spray the audience with stage blood. It's not a GWAR show without a bloody pit. They made a whole album called The Bloody Pit of Horror. They did it to Bush and Obama and I didn't hear any complaints. Certainly not on Lemmy. magas could look at it like baptism and maybe they'd understand it a little better.

[–] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 23 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Literally watched GWAR cut the tits off a fake Hillary Clinton and spray the crowd with blood and semen years ago.

It's like complaining that South Park is making fun of Trump lol

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

I'm like 99% sure I saw them kill Trump back in 2017.

[–] Thassodar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I saw them in 2018 and they used the same Trump on stage, but wearing a crown, and cut his stomach open to spray the crowd with "blood". It was great, and the blood washed out surprisingly well.

[–] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I've got a close friend that wore a white t-shirt to every GWAR concert she could get tickets to when we were younger. She's got a collection of like 9-10 now with different colors from the blood, semen, puke, etc that they sprayed from the stage.

Fucking sick.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

When noem complained to them on twitter, sp replied, so I guess we are relevent, #eatabagofdicks

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 39 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Somehow I don't think Gwar is gonna be intimidated.

Gwar always retreat from controversy.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 hours ago

there’s nothing normal about the violence that goes on at a GWAR show.

Hahahaha

[–] mrbeano@lemmy.zip 20 points 7 hours ago

Scumdogs of the Universe don't care about your feelings

[–] Janx@piefed.social 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They don’t really get GWAR, I gather. Fucking ignorant snowflakes. It’s telling as they attach so much of their personality to someone who is as equally fragile.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 4 points 4 hours ago

Some people just don't like highbrow art

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 hours ago

The public media episode collab with John Oliver was pretty awesome ngl, raised a lot of money for local public radio stations :)

[–] homes@piefed.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Hey Mark, you sure play a mean guitar, it's too bad you have to... Die.