I love how people can't take jokes anymore. That sounds exactly like some stupid joke every 14 yo would make. If you know someone said something as a joke, and you still get offended that's on you.
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/tenacious-d-concert-postponed-trump-comment-1235729676/
What a foolish thing to say. Sounds like Jack Black was blindsided by it. Imagine tanking your own career and dragging all of the support for Tenacious D down with you because you want to be a smarmy edgelord.
Jack Black will be fine but there's backup musicians and techs and roadies and managers and merch people etc etc who are all gonna lose money because of Kyle's stupidity
so celebs usually had enough sense to not make it.I think this might be the issue here, jack black is definitely a celebrity now but kyle is probably still in his mind a dude in a rock band
It was a dumb thing to say out loud
That sounds exactly like some stupid joke every 14 yo would make
While I think it was foolish of Kyle to do, he's apologized. I would never say something like he did, but I think it'd only be fair to shit on him if he was unapologetic about it. The whole thing really sucks.
Or maybe Trump was never "basically Hitler"?lol
Is it though? People on the left have been saying for about 8 years that Trump is "basically Hitler". If he's "basically Hitler", then what's the position on shooting Hitler? People are apparently against that now? At least when it comes to not getting themselves cancelled. Or maybe Trump was never "basically Hitler"?
I'm not advocating for shooting someone. I'm advocating for consistency. Don't say someone is "basically Hitler", then act outraged that someone would try to assassinate "basically Hitler". Either own up to that level of disdain for the man, or don't express that level of disdain.
You seem to be having some pretty severe misunderstandings of what is happening. Given you're supporting Trump I can't say I'm surprised.
I absolutely don't support Trump, so it seems like you're the one with pretty severe misunderstandings of what is happening.
What I do support is consistency, and I think a lot of people on the left are deeply inconsistent and presently eating their own to avoid cancelling themselves, when in privacy of their homes, they are lamenting that shit sure would have been easier for them come November.
But Kyle Gass expresses something along those lines, and everyone falls over over themselves.
Everyone? Jack Black did what he had to do to protect himself.
As for anyone else you want them to get banned or whatever?
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinsons who said some people need to be murdered got invited to give a speech at the RNC.
You're a hypocrite. "Liberals" don't get support when they do fucked up shit. Conservatives do. It's consistent. Liberals who do fucked up shit always get shut down. Conservatives always get support for fucked up shit. ITS CONSISTENT!
Right, because he'll be cancelled by people that agree privately, but won't air it publicly.I get your point. The thing is, Hitler was killed in a different way than an assassination during a speech. I don't like encouraging violence against Trump because I think the Republicans are radical enough for that to simply bolster them. If we were literally at war, then it's a bit more fair game. If someone randomly offed Hitler during a speech in '41, I doubt it would've stopped the Nazis in their tracks. But I get your point that people aren't consistent and are very slapdash with their language. Trump has the potential to be an authoritarian and he has authoritarian tendencies. A straight comparison to Hitler doesn't really help anyone.
Same as above.
Because the Republican platform has become a platform that rewards hate. Trump helped really push that. But of course, we're all nice on the left, and certainly want to make sure he's nice and healthy so he can keep pushing that. At least, that's what we apparently tell each other to express, lest we get cancelled.
Who is shutting down the liberals? The conservatives? Or other liberals?
I get your point. The thing is, Hitler was killed in a different way than an assassination during a speech.
I don't like encouraging violence against Trump because I think the Republicans are radical enough for that to simply bolster them. If we were literally at war, then it's a bit more fair game. If someone randomly offed Hitler during a speech in '41, I doubt it would've stopped the Nazis in their tracks.