From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This machine kills fascists
This machine kills fascists
Variations
• Anti-Flag bassist "Chris #2" has the same phrase
seemingly written with a marker onto one of his
Fender Precision Basses.
• Billy Bragg, who set previously unheard Guthrie
lyrics to music on the 1998 album Mermaid Avenue,
has a guitar stencilled "This machine kills time".
• Art rapper Busdriver has a 2002 compilation titled
"This Machine Kills Fashion Tips".
• Toronto Bubblegum Pop Group The Bicycles used to
use a guitar adorned with "This Machine Kills
Fashions".
• As a tribute to both Guthrie and Seeger,
Decemberists guitarist Chris Funk has written "This
Machine Kills Thieves" on his banjo (which, in
addition, is a reference to a 2005 incident wherein
Woody Guthrie in 1943 with guitar labeled "This machine kills the band had all of their instruments stolen).
fascists" • Folk artist Donovan played a guitar with a sticker
reading simply "This Machine Kills".
"This Machine Kills Fascists" is a sticker on Woody • Fallout: New Vegas, a video game by Obsidian
Guthrie’s guitar, that has inspired many artists. It is Entertainment, features a rifle named "This
based on inscriptions painted on the sides of airplanes Machine". On the side of the rifle is carved "Well
used in the Spanish Civil War. This Machine Kills Commies". Obsidian has
Guitar manufacturer Gibson has replicated Guthrie’s confirmed it is a nod to Guthrie.
1945 Southern Jumbo complete with sticker. • New York Gypsy Punk band Gogol Bordello parodied
the phrase on fan merchandise by depicting
"This Machine Kills Fascists" is the title of handlebar mustached lead singer Eugene Hutz with
• an Anti-Flag track on their 2001 album the caption "This Mustache Kills Fascists" above him.
"Underground Network" and on their 2004 DVD • In the video for the song "National Shite Day" by
"Death of a Nation", and also seen on Chris Barker’s Half Man Half Biscuit the band is shown with a guitar
bass guitar. that has the phrase "This machine kills wasps"
• a Today Is the Day track from their 2004 album "Kiss written on it.
The Pig" • Nerd musician Hank Green performs with a guitar
• an album by Ethan Daniel Davidson that says "This Machine Pwns Noobs." It is also the
• the 2005 album by US jazz trumpeter Nate Wooley name of his second album.
• the 2005 film by Stephen Gammond • Pete Seeger’s banjo reads "This Machine Surrounds
• the 2009 album by Beatnik Hate and Forces It to Surrender".
• the 2010 album by D.O.A.. • Star Fucking Hipsters frontman Stza Crack, has a
In the Bob Dylan biopic "I’m Not There", the character variation of this slogan on his current guitar that
"Woody Guthrie", an 11-year old African American boy, reads: "This Non Gender-Specific Machine Kills
carries a guitar case with the same label. Fascists"
It is also the name of an effect pedal by TYM Guitars. • Punk-folk musician Austin Lucas, has a variation of
The title of French punk rock compilation "Cette Ma- the slogan on his guitar which reads: "This machine
chine Sert A Tuer Tous Les Fascistes" translates as "This kills zombies"
Machine Is Used To Kill All The Fascists". • Canadian band The Tragically Hip features the
Micah P. Hinson also adorns his guitars with this slo- phrase on Rob Baker’s guitar in their 1998 video for
gan. "Bobcaygeon."
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This machine kills fascists
• On the New Orleans-based TV series Treme, Harley earthers, hate-speak, crypto-fascists, and Brit Hume
(Steve Earle) plays a guitar with the message "This screaming from the room". Zimmerman plays the
machine floats," a reference to Hurricane Katrina. song on a banjo which has "This machine drives
• Satirical Folk Guitarist Roy Zimmerman wrote a song neocon, homophobic, war-mongering, corporatist,
entitled "This Machine" in reference to the phrase, anti-intellectual, polluting, imperialistic, crypto-
which grows longer with each chorus. At the end of fascist, hate-speak, faux-populist, theocratic
the song, the entire phrase is "This machine drives chickenhawk privateers from the room" in a capital
neocon, jingoistic, war-mongering, theocratic, faux- letters written in a spiral pattern on its body.
populist, anti-intellectual, drill-a-holic, social • In a line from Australian songwriter Duncan
darwinist, racist, sexist, isolationist, derivative Graham’s song "(I’m Through) Bein’ Born, he sings
insecureties, tax-cheating, C Street, hard line, strip "When I pick up my machine/It don’t kill fascists -
mine, tea-bag, confederate flag, Birthers, Flat- that’s a whole other scene"
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