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NOFX kicked off own festival for making Las Vegas shooting jokes: "At least they were country fans."
- Thread starter ElectricBlanketFire
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Terrible sentiment from NOFX. I'm glad they got kicked off.
Any country fan, regardless if you're a fan of Sturgill Simpson or Luke Bryan, deserves to remain protected at their music show.
Any country fan, regardless if you're a fan of Sturgill Simpson or Luke Bryan, deserves to remain protected at their music show.
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Here's their formal apology:
https://www.punknews.org/article/66987/nofx-release-formal-apology
And yeah, seeing Descendents is much better. In fact, check out their Instagram. They just posted a video where they got Jello Biafra to come out and sing "Police Truck" with them at this show.
https://www.punknews.org/article/66987/nofx-release-formal-apology
And yeah, seeing Descendents is much better. In fact, check out their Instagram. They just posted a video where they got Jello Biafra to come out and sing "Police Truck" with them at this show.
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I've seen 100+ punk bands and I've never heard a joke like that.
They're known for saying some really dumb shit in their shows but this was just beyond any of that.
This isn't even he first time the band has shit on country music or it's fans as a whole, see the song "Leaving Jesusland" where they sing that country musicians wouldn't be welcome in what they consider their perfect society.
I'm just saying, a band that once put out an E.P. with a cover depicting Jim Bakker being pegged, a band that released an album titled "Heavy Petting Zoo" complete with two different covers depicting a man involved in sexual acts with a sheep, a band with one of their more popular songs titled "Murder the Government", and a band where the singer dressed up as a coked out clown and pretended to pour urine on the crowd at one of their shows, making a joke like this really isn't out of their realm.
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Old people trying to stay relevant. I'm surprised their fans, as old as they are, all found babysitters. Guess their kids have gone off to college.
How is the joke even remotely relevant to what you're saying??
This joke was based on a real, tragic event. They crossed the line.
I'm not offended, just annoyed by something this stupid.
What? No.
We should be mocking the people who stop us from doing anything constructive about this, not the people who literally died.
I've probably heard worse shit from punk bands, for sure. However, those were different times when saying outlandish shit was seen as a form of meta-protest against religious busy-bodies. You could say anything and people could laugh that you didn't mean it. Those days are gone, and probably for the best. Punk of all genres should know how some ill-intentioned groups can use irreverence as an insidious recruitment tool. Nazi imagery was used ironically, then actual Nazi punks started showing up. Fast forward 30+ years and it's how 4chan became a Republican voting bloc.
That kind of makes it sound like they are deflecting to a current event to make what they did seem not as bad in comparison
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I mean most punk rock is about inclusivity and anti fascism these days - NOFX represents the edgy shitty 90s era.