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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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[–] Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 133 points 2 weeks 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 70 points 2 weeks 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 27 points 2 weeks 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 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"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

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I had heard a rumor that the original lyrics were “some of those that hold office, are the same that burn crosses”

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

I mean.....also historically accurate in certain parts of the country.

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My understanding is that's a live edit of the song from its original recording. It's not incorrect at all though.

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[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 24 points 2 weeks 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 20 points 2 weeks 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

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 81 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)
[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

How is that mocking? Seems pretty on point.

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 52 points 2 weeks ago (2 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.

[–] jarmitage@mander.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I saw them in the late 90s and they brought out a JonBenet Ramsey doll to bang and decapitate.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 47 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Black guy here who normally doesn't go for music like GWAR... I fucking love GWAR and their tunes and even more now that they have shown they have a spine.

In the race ~~Olympics~~ draft, I'll trade Kanye for GWAR.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We don't want Kanye. GWAR is worth at least both Bad Brains and Living Color. Send Kanye to the Amish so he doesn't have an Internet connection.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You can't have Living Color. How's about I give you a three in one? TLC's Chili, Kanye, AND Nikki Minaj for GWAR?

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Keep all of those. And Diamond. How about Jimi Hendrix and Little Richard. I thought about Tina Turner but I'm pretty sure she was covered in a previous draft.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Little Richard yes. Jimi Hendrix? No. If I add James Brown, we got a deal?

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Whites claiming the godfather would be an injustice. I think we are at an impasse. Or maybe we are thinking about it incorrectly from the beginning. The scumdogs of GWAR belong to all the people. Or rather the people belong to them, to slaughter.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
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[–] TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)
[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 19 points 2 weeks ago

In a stunning move, the Asians announce they have picked the entire Wu Tang Clan.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago
[–] mrbeano@lemmy.zip 26 points 2 weeks ago

Scumdogs of the Universe don't care about your feelings

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 weeks ago

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

Hahahaha

[–] Janx@piefed.social 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 19 points 2 weeks ago

GWAR would literally eat all those MAGA pissbabies and turn it into another skit.

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 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 7 points 2 weeks ago

Some people just don't like highbrow art

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m not a fan of their music (and I love metal) but I LOVE their stage presence. I’ve seen them once in the early 2010s, and it was an incredibly fun show. They did indeed decapitate George Bush. Hitler came all over me. I never washed those clothes.

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[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

Time to give this Nazi skinhead one more haircut.
Real close to the shoulders, like.
Whoa! His heads been decapitated.
Look at all that PSI in his aorta artery.
Whoa! Is he a gusher or what?

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

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

Lol

[–] Suggestionofhuman@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gwar was making fun of Trump way before he got into politics

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[–] homes@piefed.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's literally just bots. Maga fucking barely exists IRL. We all saw when twitter let you see where people were posting from that all the chuds were foreign accounts.

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