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

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    2292 months ago

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

      • Scratch
        link
        fedilink
        English
        822 months ago

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

      • TheLowestStone
        link
        522 months ago

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

    • @Dasus
      link
      382 months ago

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

      • trainsaresexy
        link
        342 months ago

        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.

        • @Dasus
          link
          202 months ago

          Yeah, at least on PC.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    222
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    How fucking tone deaf to have a wanna be vigilante, who terrorized people on our own soil, and who killed innocent Americans, be a guest speaker for a charity event benefiting veterans and first responders with ptsd. Honestly, it’s insulting

    Edit: also what the fuck, the ceo said the people who are calling out the bad choice are “mentally ill”. I am a veteran with ptsd, I know I’m mentally ill. Don’t fucking diminish my struggle because you don’t like people bringing up valid concerns. Someone needs to smash a guitar over that fuckwad’s head

    • nocturne
      link
      fedilink
      562 months ago

      also what the fuck, the ceo said the people who are calling out the bad choice are “mentally ill”.

      I think saying mentally ill is them trying to say the R slur without saying it.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    1622 months 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.

    • @rtxn
      link
      English
      1532 months ago

      and CEO

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

      • Billiam
        link
        83
        edit-2
        2 months 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
            link
            232 months 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
        link
        fedilink
        English
        22
        edit-2
        2 months ago

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

    • @assembly
      link
      452 months 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!

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          4
          edit-2
          2 months 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.

    • @ChicoSuave
      link
      272 months 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.

    • @SacredHeartAttack
      link
      English
      142 months ago

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

    • @Nuke_the_whales
      link
      42 months ago

      Since when is being a conservative PUNK?? lol what an idiot

  • @Maggoty
    link
    1312 months 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
      link
      39
      edit-2
      2 months 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
        link
        242 months 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.

        • @webadict
          link
          252 months ago

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

  • @TwoBeeSan
    link
    1172 months ago

    That chinless murderer can’t fade away quick enough.

      • @finitebanjo
        link
        82 months 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.

    • nocturne
      link
      fedilink
      72 months ago

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

      • @Crashumbc
        link
        English
        42 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    982 months 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!

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    642 months 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.

    • @baldingpudenda
      link
      262 months 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
        link
        122 months 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.

        • Captain Aggravated
          link
          fedilink
          English
          72 months ago

          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.

    • ...m...
      link
      fedilink
      19
      edit-2
      2 months 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…

  • Lad
    link
    fedilink
    552 months ago

    You must be tone deaf if you think metal bands are going to stand for this sort of shit.

      • @dvlsg
        link
        English
        132 months ago

        There’s always some oddballs, unfortunately.

        “Nazi punks fuck off” implies Nazi punks have to exist.

  • @SacredHeartAttack
    link
    English
    502 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      332 months ago

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

    • Cadeillac
      link
      English
      82 months ago

      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

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        62 months ago

        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.

        • Cadeillac
          link
          English
          42 months ago

          Now I have five bands to look up

        • @SacredHeartAttack
          link
          English
          32 months ago

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

          • Cadeillac
            link
            English
            32 months ago

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

  • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
    link
    English
    402 months ago

    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.

  • @barsquid
    link
    322 months 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.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    252 months 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.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    232 months 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.