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Bands Ditch Metal Fest After Kyle Rittenhouse Announced as Special Guest

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kyle-rittenhouse-metal-fest-booking-bands-drop-out-1235125091/

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

LillyPip - 1.2yr

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

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dylanmorgan @slrpnk.net - 1.2yr

And punishing any organization that platforms him.

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Scratch - 1.2yr

I’m sure conservatives have no issue with the free market deciding.

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Yankee_Self_Loader @lemmy.world - 1.2yr

“NO! Not like that!”

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TheLowestStone - 1.2yr

Looks like people can get refunds up until a week before the event. I hope they are taking advantage.

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Dasus @lemmy.world - 1.2yr

I was browsing newest comments for the lulz, and saw your comment without the context. I knew it would be that douche.

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trainsaresexy - 1.2yr

Woah I didn't know you could browse lemmy by comments. That's a whole new zone of content. Scaled still doesn't make sense.

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AllNewTypeFace @leminal.space - 1.2yr

Didn’t he have a Harvard scholarship and clerkship under a Supreme Court justice lined up?

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grte @lemmy.ca - 1.2yr

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.

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rtxn @lemmy.world - 1.2yr

and CEO

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

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Billiam - 1.2yr

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.

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dylanmorgan @slrpnk.net - 1.2yr

More the Ataris’ cover:

Out on the road today

I saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac

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Billiam - 1.2yr

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.

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Ech - 1.2yr

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

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assembly @lemmy.world - 1.2yr

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!

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Lemmynated @lemmy.zip - 1.2yr

Maybe he only listens to neonazi punk?

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lemmyng - 1.2yr

Neonazi Punks Fuck Off!

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andrew_bidlaw - 1.2yr

The CEO of punk.

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ByteOnBikes @slrpnk.net - 1.2yr

I vomited a little.

Like "Leader of Anonymous" or "President of the Anarchy Club".

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DragonTypeWyvern @midwest.social - 1.2yr

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.

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ChicoSuave @lemmy.world - 1.2yr

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.

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SacredHeartAttack @lemmy.world - 1.2yr

I would LOVE to meet this guy in a moshpit. Easiest crowdkill in history.

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Maggoty @lemmy.world - 1.2yr

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.

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finitebanjo @lemmy.world - 1.2yr

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.

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themeatbridge - 1.2yr

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.

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webadict @lemmy.world - 1.2yr

The only way to stop a good guy with a skateboard is a bad guy with a gun!

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Facebones @reddthat.com - 1.2yr

70% With TDIU here and 100% agree.

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TwoBeeSan @lemmy.world - 1.2yr

That chinless murderer can't fade away quick enough.

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zcd @lemmy.ca - 1.2yr

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

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finitebanjo @lemmy.world - 1.2yr

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.

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nocturne - 1.2yr

Quick someone get him a black hoodie and send him to George Zimmerman’s neighborhood.

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Crashumbc @lemmy.world - 1.2yr

That's the other fuckwad! I get them confused.

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dethedrus @lemmy.dbzer0.com - 1.2yr

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!

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queermunist she/her - 1.2yr

Nazi punks
Nazi punks
Nazi punks-Fuck Off!

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ChickenLadyLovesLife @lemmy.world - 1.2yr

Take a skinhead bowling, take them bowling.

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tacosanonymous @lemm.ee - 1.2yr

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.

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baldingpudenda @lemmy.world - 1.2yr

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.

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RebekahWSD @lemmy.world - 1.2yr

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.

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Captain Aggravated - 1.2yr

You got a tested recipe for shelf stable water bath canned candied jalapenos/cowboy candy? I've made them as refrigerator pickles but I don't have a pressure canner and I'm a bit too nervous to try canning peppers.

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SacredHeartAttack @lemmy.world - 1.2yr

Good on Evergreen Terrace. If you didn't know, they rip and you should listen to them.

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philycheeze @sh.itjust.works - 1.2yr

The fact that one of the only replacements they could find is a Slipknot cover band is hilarious

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Cadeillac - 1.2yr

Do you have any comparisons? I've saved your comment to look them up later, I'm just curious as to what I should expect

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hactar42 @lemmy.ml - 1.2yr

They do rock. They are metalcore with a punk edge. I'd say most similar Sick of it All. Maybe Blood for Blood, H2O, or Agnostic Front.

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Cadeillac - 1.2yr

Now I have five bands to look up

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SacredHeartAttack @lemmy.world - 1.2yr

Yeah these are decent comparisons. They were just heavy, fast old school hardcore punk. Also do a bunch of killer covers.

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Cadeillac - 1.2yr

I read that as Killers covers at first, and couldn't figure out how that worked

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BeeegScaaawyCripple - 1.2yr

dude invites a fascist and then tries to tell punks that they're not punk when they do the second most punk thing they could do, the first being punching him in the face.

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barsquid @lemmy.world - 1.2yr

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.

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grasshopper_mouse @lemmy.world - 1.2yr

I hope this bastard never gets laid

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explodicle @sh.itjust.works - 1.2yr

The good and bad thing about getting laid is you only need to find one other person.

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Blackmist @feddit.uk - 1.2yr

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.

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mortemtyrannis @lemmy.ml - 1.2yr

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.

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averyminya @beehaw.org - 1.2yr

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.

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Jo Miran - 1.2yr

You get good and bad apples in every genre of music.

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averyminya @beehaw.org - 1.2yr

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.

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emmanuel_car - 1.2yr

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.

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averyminya @beehaw.org - 1.2yr

That's a really good analogy lol!

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circuitfarmer - 1.2yr

Great thumbnail. Really highlights this POS's stupid face.

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YeetPics @mander.xyz - 1.2yr

Maga's terrorist darling himself.

Did he release an awesome video game a few years back? I bet hes loaded from all the sales.

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