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      … these are the people who think the ‘Machine’ that Rage Against the Machine is raging against…

      … is the liberal mainstream media.

      We are talking about people with negative amounts of media literacy… as well as very low levels of actual literacy.

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        I mean, in all fairness RATM is raging against the mainstream media, they’re just also raging against everything to the right of the mainstream media too.

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          Hey, uh, can you return those to the weight rack when you’re done with 'em?

          Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me!

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    The organizers behind Riot Fest said it the best, really:

    “Like I know this is a rage bait engagement farming twitter account, but ‘GWAR crossed a major line’ is one of the funniest fucking things I’ve ever heard.”

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    I bet people who know exactly who and what GWAR is, decided to do this as a promotion for GWAR, its just way too obvious. GWAR has been on fox news, its well known they do this, and the fact that the outrage was over musk and not trump goes to show whoever started it knew there would be a response pointing out they’ve done it to ALL the former presidents. It just seems so unlikely that anyone would see a gwar show and think “if only more people saw* this, they’d be canceled”, there’s just no way.

    They’ve been killing musk since at least may of this year so even that isn’t new. Honestly after this I kind of hope they do make one of Charlie Kirk just to keep the rage going, but honestly I don’t think kirk was that well known until after he lost his last debate.

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      It looks like Kevin Coyne, DuPage County GOP Chairman may be the source of this.

      CHICAGO (WKRC) - A GOP chairman was slammed as a “dork *** loser” after he criticized a gruesome political stunt that occurred at “Riot Fest” in Chicago.

      DuPage County, Illinois GOP Chairman Kevin Coyne went viral on Monday after criticizing a gruesome political stunt at “Riot Fest” in a now-deleted post to X.

      Screenshots of the now-deleted post appear to show that Coyne, who was in attendance at Riot Fest, wrote the following in reaction to GWAR’s stunt:

      “Riot Fest, it’s always so … Interesting. Could’ve done without all the politics from the stage but it was fun nonetheless. Apparently we can’t even go to concerts now without the political divide being tossed in our faces. We’ll still go back but it was obnoxious.”

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      Not sure libs of TikTok would be doing a promotion for GWAR. Maybe others started it and they picked it up.

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    So gwar is still doing Gwar stuff and maga are still doing maga stuff. Just another day like any other

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    Wait till they see the latest Gen V episode. They exploded a goat named Elon Musk. The goat was deliberately named like that, so that nobody cares if it dies.

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        I’ve stayed at that hotel before. I’m sad to say my room didn’t have that kind of cool ass art. I did eat at the GWARbar though, so I still got some good GWAR memories in on my trip.

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          I’d gone to a concert that night and was kinda drunk so when I pissed in my hotel bathroom and saw more band art I was kinda confused lmaoo