Several bands have dropped out of an upcoming metal festival in Orlando after Kyle Rittenhouse was announced as a special guest.

Several bands have dropped out of an upcoming metal festival in Orlando after Kyle Rittenhouse was announced as a special guest.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    29 days ago

    I commend the other bands for not dropping out, as it really does save us a lot of effort Googling to see if somebody is a Nazi band or not.

  • barsquid@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    He deliberately brought a gun to a situation where he knew he could provoke an altercation. The only part of his actions that weren’t premeditated was the people he shot.

    Anyone willingly associating themself with this cretin is likewise also despicable.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    If veteran charities could stop trying to align with fascists this veteran would be a lot happier. I have PTSD and I don’t want a dime of this money. That dumbfuck created his situation and killed someone over property that wasn’t his after threatening to kill protestors. The only reason he isn’t locked up is because the judge is as fascist as he is.

    I lost 4,000 friends fighting Authoritarianism and Religious Extremism. I’m not sure where the fuck anyone thinks it’s a good idea to associate us with far right stuff except for the guys trying to recruit us.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      30 days ago

      In addition to murder, Kyle also used a gun that he obtained illegally from a friend as a minor and crossed state lines with illegally.

      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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        30 days ago

        But his victimassailant had a skateboard. Was that skateboard obtained illegally? Did they cross state lines with the skateboard? If they did, then clearly they deserved to be killed.

  • grte@lemmy.ca
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    30 days ago

    On Instagram, Shell Shock founder and CEO Tyler Hoover rebuffed the bands ditching the festival, and those criticizing it, saying, “I’m here to tell you, you’re not punk, you’re not hardcore. You people, the people that are trolling and the people that are talking shit, you guys are the mentally ill portion of society. You guys are the ones that are manipulated.”

    Historically reactionary genre, punk.

        • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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          30 days ago

          Historically speaking Dictator was a more popular title for the leader of a republic, but President would be used for minor leadership roles like book clubs.

    • assembly@lemmy.world
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      30 days ago

      This CEOs comment is as far removed from punk as possible. I mean that’s like saying Reagan was punk. Opposite ends of the spectrum. I fear these pieces of shit are going to start pushing Nazi punk. Nazi punks fuck off!

    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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      30 days ago

      Tyler Hoover is part of the machine and represents The Man, most square and uncool. Can’t trust Tyler Hoover to understand why he is part of the problem because he isn’t smart enough for self reflection.

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      30 days ago

      and CEO

      Dude is the opposite of punk, and a victim of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

      • Billiam@lemmy.world
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        30 days ago

        You know that line from Don Henley’s song Boys of Summer that went:

        Out on the road today
        I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac

        That’s this guy.

          • Billiam@lemmy.world
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            30 days ago

            While I’m firmly in the “The Ataris’ cover was better than Henley’s version” camp, and I get the punk/Black Flag connection for this particular comparison, I feel that in general the original gets the point across better. I think more people would have gotten the dissonance of a Caddy driver with a Grateful Dead sticker when the original was recorded, versus the cover.

      • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
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        30 days ago

        Who else knows punk better than the guy profiting off of it?! (big ass /s)

  • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
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    30 days ago

    As a veteran, I get the worst shit thrown at me. All the ads for black rifle coffee and the worst “for men” products. Also, they just assume I’ll vote republican so all the bs that comes with that assumption.

    They haven’t really missed until my generation so I get it. A lot of the vets from the 90s and further back are pretty “conservative” to the point that I avoid them at the VA and won’t join those socials anymore.

    • ...m...@ttrpg.network
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      30 days ago

      …the only veterans i know who support fascist values are either stolen-valor opportunists or television-brainwashed senile geriatrics…

      …all the real veterans i’ve known who still enjoy command of their faculties support legitimate american values instead…

    • baldingpudenda@lemmy.world
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      30 days ago

      I feel you. I like to shoot, gardening, and woodworking. Aparently, that makes me a prepper and a fundie. I just want tomatoes and pretty begonias. I purposefully watch leftist stuff on YouTube to “reset” their algo. Works for a few months.

      • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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        30 days ago

        Yeah, turns out a lot of preppers can food.

        I love canning! Hate everything else. I just want to look up recipes for candied jalapeños without also hearing about batshit theories.

  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    30 days ago

    By all rights, this kid should be in prison. Since we couldn’t do that, shunning him relentlessly will have to do.

    • zcd@lemmy.ca
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      30 days ago

      I can’t think of anything less metal than this loudmouth, crybaby murderer

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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        30 days ago

        Hes kind of the bad parts of metal tbh, like the sort of metal that sings about nazi victories. Still, he fits in more at a country music festival that Kid Rock shows up to and doesnt perform at because it rained for 15min.

  • dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    30 days ago

    How could this chinless monster be any less counter culture than murdering ‘undesirables’ while shielded by cops and the republican establishment?

    Nazi punks fuck off!

  • mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml
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    30 days ago

    Let Me Bleed said, “Though we are advocates of free speech we are collectively not a political band.“

    This would be funny if it wasn’t so fucking dumb.

  • averyminya@beehaw.org
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    30 days ago

    It’s crazy how many metal bands are pieces of shit and then how simultaneously so many are so accepting and defend humanity with their actions.

      • averyminya@beehaw.org
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        30 days ago

        I moreso meant from the metal culture itself. Each genre has inflections that create that like-minded sense of community, so for a community that loves darkness, twistedness, and a wide range of what some consider evil, I find it very funny how the majority of metal, despite this darkness, is often very humorous, loving, and joyful, all while the bands name is Cannibal Corpse or something like that.

        Meanwhile you’ve got nonces like Lost Prophets who end up living up to that evilness more than people realized.

        So I was coming at it from the cultural lens, with each genre having a different interaction of “bad apples”. In rap we’re seeing another example right now, in rock it’s been happening since forever from Zeppelin to the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

        Basically I was laughing at the irony of true evil in a metal band. Because true evil exists in all musicians, country, rap, rock, but because of the affiliation metal has with evilness, you would think metalheads would be predisposed to being worse about it. The reality is just the opposite, so it’s funny.

        • emmanuel_car@fedia.io
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          29 days ago

          Yeah it’s like the kink & BDSM community. I’m not exactly involved in it, but every time I interact with them they are some of the kindest, most accepting people around, a really lovely community compared to the perception and what goes on behind closed doors.