From Punknews:
Notorious comedy website Something Awful has set its sights on Anti-Flag in the latest of their Garbage Day features. Author Andrew Miller took the band to task saying:
"Anti-Flag communicates its revolutionary angry-liberal fervor by placing the word "fuck" in front of the many societal ills to which its heroic members feel passionately opposed: "Fuck Police Brutality," "Fuck The Flag," "Fuck The Pope." "Fuck Police Brutality" might be the most useless of Anti-Flag's "Fuck Something" songs, because there's no vocal advocacy for that cause. Police officers who enjoy brutalizing must be discreet about expressing that preference
Anti-Flag combines kids' music with a Kids News take on politics. It's impossible not to outgrow these guys by your twenties, unless you're facing serious intellectual stultification. Yet these people will be branded with indelible proof of their taste-impaired youth long after they start cringing at phrases like "War sucks, let's party."
http://www.something...ti-flag-gun.php
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Yikes...this one's harsh
Started by El Jorge, Jun 12 2009 12:29 PM
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Posted 12 June 2009 - 01:05 PM
Why exactly is this on punknews? It's just one man's opinion of Anti-Flag. They don't post reviews from actual credible review sites, (90% at Absolutepunk.com) so why post an opinion article from a website that doesn't even take itself seriously?
I'm PRG/Poofah, and I ran http://peacepunk.net for nearly 5 years before being promoted to the official Anti-Flag website. It's nice to meet you all! I will be administering this forum alongside Anti-Flag and the A-F Records crew.
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We don't think like you think/And we move like no one moves
Posted 12 June 2009 - 03:49 PM
Man, he didn't understand the sarcasm in "War Sucks, Let's Party" at all.
History is not something that happens to people--it is the activity of people. Culture does not dictate human behavior--it is the sum of human behavior. Technological progree is not a force of nature, either.
There is no civilization without civilizing, no capitalization without us capitalizing and capitulating.
There is no civilization without civilizing, no capitalization without us capitalizing and capitulating.
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But I inspired it with my... selfishness? No, Self*less*ness
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Posted 12 June 2009 - 04:39 PM
I laughed at his statements when I read the line: "The group is trying to seduce the punk scene, either literally with the old sensitive-guy fuck-scam, or figuratively by parroting its prevailing views using the most artless, unsubtle language possible to make sure nothing's lost in the regurgitation."
Seriously? Wow.
That guy was full of nonsense. I liked how he tried to come off all macho-intelligent too.
What a joke.
Seriously? Wow.
That guy was full of nonsense. I liked how he tried to come off all macho-intelligent too.
What a joke.
There's images of love and war, and everything's here to explore
Gibby said:
I feel shocked and appalled. There is no place for such inappropriate content in the Riot Zone.
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pure motherfucking hate
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Posted 12 June 2009 - 04:40 PM
SomethingAwful is not to be taken seriously in the first place.
NICKxSUTTON, on 06 June 2009 - 12:45 PM, said:
ok punk by the book. which is a FUCKING OXYMORON YOU DUMB PIECE OF SHIT. you need to go brush the fuck up on your local black bloc. you probly live out in the woods somewhere
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More like Low Key
Posted 12 June 2009 - 09:14 PM
All Dead, on 12 June 2009 - 04:40 PM, said:
SomethingAwful is not to be taken seriously in the first place.
QFT
Their reason d'etre is to make fun of everything. They've even made fun of themselves on TV.
¡uʍop ǝpısdn ʇsod uɐɔ ı 'sǝʎ ʎɥʍ
Nina Green, on 10 December 2010 - 10:04 PM, said:
But just similar everything in invigoration, there is no illusion contraceptive.
mickjian, on 03 August 2011 - 03:24 AM, said:
A like humor, another like terrorist, novels, plays, and activities and thus and so on.
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Posted 12 June 2009 - 09:27 PM
"Fuck The Flag" is a bit bolder. It might seem overapt, given the band's moniker, but Anti-Flag was careful to clarify in the liner notes to 1999's A New Kind of Army: "Anti-Flag does not mean anti-American. Anti-Flag means anti-war. Anti-Flag means the common people of the world are better off living in unity and peace." The group must have realized that using the less ambiguous, more precise name Pro-Peace would have outed them as fucking hippies
Haha
Haha
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Posted 13 June 2009 - 07:19 PM
http://www.punknews.org/article/33953
i was shocked and surprised at the same time
whatever they think or say, you still gotta love a-f
as for me, i'm failing to hate a-f as a result of the article
i was shocked and surprised at the same time
whatever they think or say, you still gotta love a-f
as for me, i'm failing to hate a-f as a result of the article
"We are not countries. We are not nations. We are not religions. We are not gods. We are not weapons. We are not ammunition. We are not killers. We will NOT be tools." (A-F)
"The truth in lies, the freedom dies. The mind it numbs, the spirit breaks! With all our rights, it kills our future. Our reasons why: we are born to die." (CV)
"The truth in lies, the freedom dies. The mind it numbs, the spirit breaks! With all our rights, it kills our future. Our reasons why: we are born to die." (CV)
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Posted 13 June 2009 - 07:28 PM
Thanks guys, but Jorge posted about this the other day. I'm going to combine these topics. 
I'm PRG/Poofah, and I ran http://peacepunk.net for nearly 5 years before being promoted to the official Anti-Flag website. It's nice to meet you all! I will be administering this forum alongside Anti-Flag and the A-F Records crew.
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the longer that i'm out here the better you sound
Posted 13 June 2009 - 10:19 PM
Punk Rock Geek, on 12 June 2009 - 01:05 PM, said:
Why exactly is this on punknews? It's just one man's opinion of Anti-Flag. They don't post reviews from actual credible review sites, (90% at Absolutepunk.com) so why post an opinion article from a website that doesn't even take itself seriously?
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Posted 13 June 2009 - 11:53 PM
whoa it's right up there. i found it!
"We are not countries. We are not nations. We are not religions. We are not gods. We are not weapons. We are not ammunition. We are not killers. We will NOT be tools." (A-F)
"The truth in lies, the freedom dies. The mind it numbs, the spirit breaks! With all our rights, it kills our future. Our reasons why: we are born to die." (CV)
"The truth in lies, the freedom dies. The mind it numbs, the spirit breaks! With all our rights, it kills our future. Our reasons why: we are born to die." (CV)
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Posted 14 June 2009 - 06:16 PM
Wow the person who wrote that article is ignorant, especially about police brutality and the "fuck the kkk" song, that stuff is still around and he makes it seem like it's not.
You wave your flag, tell me I'm free then use the word fag to fuck with me
Go and wave your flag I'm free, fucking free!!
Go and wave your flag I'm free, fucking free!!
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