• Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 days ago

    Metal and rock bands have always been trying to say and do provocative things because it’s part of their act. The only reason this caught on is because Trump is such a powerful media presence that anything mentioning him automatically gets attention.

    The Beatles: “we’re bigger than Jesus”

    RATM: “fuck the establishment and state tyranny”

    Twisted Sister: dress in drag and criticize the status quo

    GWAR: mock executions of state leaders

    Ozzie: bites head off a bat

    • SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today
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      7 days ago

      Tenacious D also wrote “the Government Totally Sucks” (you motherfuckers). Maybe they feared legal repercussions or public backlash for endorsing violent solutions to violent problems.

      But we didn’t start the violence. Are we supposed to do nothing while we’re all systematically enslaved and slaughtered? Luigi acted in self and public defense, and he is not the only one.