Jack Black cancels Tenacious D tour after Kyle Gass's comments about Donald Trump
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Kyle Gass sparked an outcry with a comment on stage about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

Jack Black announced on Instagram that he’s cancelled the rest of the Tenacious D world tour and placed future projects on hiatus.

This happened after his bandmate Kyle Gass sparked controversy by commenting on the recent Donald Trump assassination attempt.

At their recent Sydney show, Kyle Gass was given a birthday cake and asked to make a wish for his 64th birthday, to which he said “Don’t miss Trump next time.”

In his later statement, Black said he was “blindsided” by his bandmate’s comment and condemned any calls for political violence.

  • Yprum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    And your proposal is that justice should prevail by a public mass shooting to kill the orange turd?

    So your thinking is that because trump tried to end democracy, now you have the right to kill him?

    The only way to defend yourself is with guns and killing those who attack you? I wonder what group of people keep proposing that…

    People like you, already defeated months before the election, saying that voting doesn’t matter, have a lot to do with the end of democracy. Go vote, make it matter.

    Shit’s real fucked, you have in the states a candidate for presidency instead of being in prison like he should. And the problem is that no one has killed him yet? No wonder that justice won’t work…

    Either you are just trying to help the orange shit posting this kind of defeatist comment on purpose or you are just as bad as a republican that keeps saying those who oppose him should be killed.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      How many lives do you think Trump will destroy? If the answer isn’t “a lot”, you haven’t been paying attention. His supreme court justices from his last term have already started racking up one hell of a body count.

      Would you object to police officers gunning down a mass shooter rather than allow them to continue taking innocent lives? How sacred is a single life against the lives of their many potential and actual victims?

      From a purely ethical standpoint, it’s hard to argue that killing fascists is anything other than a net moral good. At the end of the day, it’s taking one life to save many, something that we accept as an unfortunate moral necessity all the time. Obviously, we prefer to exhaust other options first, but ultimately we still accept the use of violence to protect the innocent when strictly necessary.

      (I am, of course, speaking purely in terms of ethical hypotheticals here)

    • Zoot@reddthat.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      It would be considered Self Defence to shoot the person who has already waved a bat at you, and just got done beating up the crowd behind them.

      In case metaphors don’t work for you; Trump already told his goons to attack the capitol because he didn’t like the results. He will do it again, letting him do so is being a defeatist like you so very much wish to be.

      As far as voting goes; I did vote, I voted for bernie in 2016, I voted for Joe in 2020. I begged for there to be anybody but Joe again this year. All I’ve learned so far is that it does not matter who I vote for, democrats will not fix anything, and they’ll actually spite you for voting for them, because in reality it helps them a whole hell of a lot more when a republican wins.

      I’m not advocating for any action to be done, but I sure can be extremely disappointed that this assassination attempt will only help him, and the fact that we have so many people and politicians like you who are sticking up for him.