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It was Kyle Gass' birthday and they brought a cake on stage and he blew out the candles and for his wish he said "Don't Miss next time".
I think cancelling the tour over that was completely unreasonable, I think Kyle Gass was not only correct but voicing the opinion of the majority.
I agree. It was a knee-jerk reaction of Al Franken proportions.
Tours involve a lot of people, ensuring the safety of all of those people is one of the responsibilities of the performers and other decision makers. That is hard to do against a rabid fan base of Trump supporters that Kyle Gass/Tenacious D pissed off.
If Kyle Gass’ comments only affected him or Jack Black then I am sure they would have just ignored the backlash or made a simple apology. His comment didn’t just affect the two of them but everyone who worked on the tour, including the venue employees, promoters and anyone else in their proximity. Putting the livelihood and safety of the people you are responsible for is an entirely different situation than just acquiescing or giving into the MAGA crowd. It is about being responsible with the platform you have and protecting those who may be hurt by how you use that platform.
It sucks it went down the way it did as they clearly aren’t Trump supports but taking responsibility to protect others they care about was an empathetic and responsible thing to do for the thousands of people they put at risk during their international tour as any future concert could have become a target.
Jack Black is not a dumb guy and every thing I have seen or heard of him beforehand gave me the impression that he is a caring and warmhearted person. I can easily see a person like that would make a choice to take the reputational and financial hit to protect his fans safety and wellbeing.
It wasn’t about whether Kyle Gass was right or the fans didn’t agree with it. Kyle Gass and Jack Black didn’t want to gamble the safety of their fans by stepping into a huge ongoing and developing international political quagmire.
Commenters acting like the MAGA crowd aren't above committing mass shootings as a treat
You're not ensuring the safety of anyone by refusing to oppose Donald Trump. You're endangering them all. Safety comes with solidarity and numbers. Danger comes from unopposed autocrats.
Safety doesn’t only come from solidarity and numbers, danger comes in many forms and through many means.
Kyle Gass’ comment threatened the safety and security of everyone involved with their international tour, employee, fan and etc at a time of heightened political tension.
Cancelling the tour was to the benefit of others and should not be seen as Jack Black agreeing with Donald Trump or disagreeing with what Kyle Gass said, it was the responsible thing to do.
The two things can be true.
Are you honestly saying that Tenacious D cancelling their tour endangered everyone?
Yes, I do say that, particularly Kyle Gass. Jack Black should have not made a big deal out of the joke at all, but furthermore Jack Black should have stood alongside Kyle and everyone else who opposes Trump. The more people who openly vocally oppose Trump, the safer they all are. Jack Black cancelling the tour did not magically make Kyle unsay the words, far from it.
I'm an old tenacious d fan, everything from the movie and after is rehashed crap
Kyle Gas is my hero. Fuck Jack for not being vocal, at the very least
I'm a consequentialist and I adhere to the intolerance paradox. Trump has killed millions indirectly, perhaps even millions directly with his policies, and has called for violence against his opponents, even invaded US population centers with the national guard. He is running labor camps and forcing migrants into them with no due process to enrich himself and the private prison industry.
I think Trump should be killed, Putin should be killed, Xi Jinping should be killed, etc. The social contract can never be one sided, that isn't how anything works.
The world has one fewer asshole in it.
Taken to the extreme, the next asshole steps up, and gets his head blown off. This continues until the person who steps up isn't an asshole.
Instead what happened was Trump didn't get his head blown off, and Alex Pretti did.
P1 trump is an asshole
P2 fewer assholes in the world is a better world than one with more assholes.
C1 Had trump been removed from the world, there would be fewer assholes and as such been a better world.
P3 trump would have probably been succeeded by another asshole.
C2 had that asshole been removed from the world, the world would have fewer assholes still, and be better for it.
Instead we have fewer nurses.
Ah yes, the reign of terror — that worked out so well last time.
Typical privileged liberal response. For people target by ICE, they are already in the reign of terror. For women losing their rights, they are already in the reign of terror. For lgbt having their rights removed, they are already in the reign of terror. For those with families in Palestine, they are already in the reign of terror. I'm happy for you, you don't know any of these groups, you have no empathy for these groups.
Those people being terrorised, no reign of terror. Alex pretti being shot, no reign of terror. A rich cishet white pedophile male being shot? Now you're terrorised.
Wanna deal with my premises and conclusions now? Would you like to disagree with P1, P2, P3, C1 or C2? Or just tell me your terrorised by fascists having violence visited upon them?
So, let's examine the possibilities:
You are a U.S. citizen and therefor a hypocrite for not having died on your sword already.
You are a foreigner with no skin in the game who should be focusing on problems at home (because there are).
Robespierre was killed by the end of the reign of terror. Maybe you should look at what happens when we indiscriminately kill people*.
Edit: because I don't just disagree with them, fuck the conservatives — I just also recognize your suggestions are equally shit and reductive.
What do you disagree with? P1, P2, P3, C1, or C2? Or do you want to keep telling me how you're not terrorised by the current regime, but would be terrorised by fascists having violence visited upon them.
You want to learn from history? Historically, how have fascists successfully been handled?
Tell me the difference between fascists and those who fight fascists? You: "I can't"
Purging comments. It's clearly got heated, so I'm just purging the chain.
Saw this after I sent my reply? Want me to delete it? I tried to stay level, for what it's worth, while being called stupid, an idiot, and being told to go fuck myself.
No, I've just deleted when it got bad. I realise the chain of affairs, but I thought it was just best to purge it all as I've been down this road before and more new chains kept popping up. I'm sure you realise you do have highly contentious views on this topic that will rile some people up.
I do. I tried to keep it level. It's your house, I'm not arguing.
I meant I sent a reply at the end of the chain, where it got 'heated'.
Eh, Jax replied. I'm happy with those being the last words.
You came to me, you didn't have to, you can leave at anytime.
Once you proved you were ignorant about the reign of terror already happening, you could have left.
Once you proved you were ignorant about how fascists have been successfully handled in the past, you could have left.
Once you proved you were ignorant about how appeasement doesn't work you could have left.
I don't owe you anything: you do not get to come to me, ignore everything I say and demand answers from me. You can, instead, leave.
You can educate yourself about what's happening right now. You can read MLK's letter. You can educate yourself about how fascists have been successfully handled in the past. You can educate yourself about how appeasement doesn't work. You can become a better and more educated person. Or you can tell me to go fuck myself while saying it's me full of hate.
Yes I ignore everything you're saying because you're obviously someone that loves to speak without doing much. Fall on your sword for the cause, or continue bloviating on a public forum. Your choice.
Mods, you might want to sweep these up too.
Robespierre has entered the chat.
Demanding Trump go to prison is a consequence.
You're an accelerationist.
That's a demand.
Him actually going to prison would be a consequence if it ever happened.
Also two things can be true at once, wanting consequences and those consequences accelerating something can both be true.
Speaking from a purely technical viewpoint I'm not sure how you get acceleration from this assassination. What would accelerate exactly?
When the optimal solution failed, and it did fail, Trump avoided prison by becoming president, then the next best solution is NOT to surrender. That's just dumb. Trump becoming president is accelerationism, him becoming dead is a step towards return to normal democracy.
A good quote that I don't know who to atribute to but 'I don't wish death upon anyone, but there are obituaries that I'll read with great enthusiasm.'
Why? The US government directly under Trump's command is already assassinating US Citizens via ICE for political reasons.
Then you are wrong, simple as.
Only way to get him out
fucker shouldn't have said it out loud, clearly this is why the other assassin's also missed
Jinxed it.