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Jack Black has said he’s cancelled the rest of the Tenacious D world tour after his bandmate Kyle Gass sparked an outcry with a comment about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

The comedy rock group were on stage in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday when Gass was asked to make a wish after being presented with a cake for his 64th birthday.

He appeared to reply: "Don’t miss Trump next time."

Gass also split with his agent following the incident.

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[–] [email protected] 224 points 6 months ago (72 children)

Serious question for anyone who believes political violence is never ok: at what point on the timeline do you think it was ok to respond to Hitler with violence?

1923 Beer Hall Putsch? SA violence in the early 30s? The Nazi party being sworn into power in 1933? Reischstag Fire? Night of the Long Knives?

Trump already has the support of a bought and paid for corrupt court, and we've already had Jan 6th. He's promised to be dictator on day 1.

Is political violence truly never the answer?

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

I wouldn't want to share a stage with someone actively encouraging the assassination of a political figure - even if I agree with the sentiment...

I talk to my friends about wishing he was gone but I don't want to be around him if he's shouting about it at work, either.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Never thought I'd see the day where, when it comes down to it, JaBles shows he has no spine and folds like the cheap suit his character wore in school of rock.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If they can say the quiet part out loud, why can’t we?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Because everyone outside of the right thinks you have to uphold decorum while they burn shit down around our ears.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

You’re not wrong, but not normalizing political assassinations is about quite a bit more than “decorum”

This is like saying “well this guy is doing date rapes so I don’t see why I can’t joke about raping his sister”

The answer is 0 assassinations. The answer is the rule of law. I actually 100% agree with you that most of the political left has its head in the sand about the urgency of coming to grips with what the right wants to do and stopping it, but “let’s go ahead and have the civil war then, what’s the worst that could ensue” is about the worst possible take and strategy that you could employ in response

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating for anyone being assassinated at all. But my point still stands, in that the right has no sense of decorum and everyone else falls over themselves to tone police anything even slightly unseemly.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Because of mods. Most other communities on Lemmy will let you crack jokes like that. There are two specific mods who just perm ban anyone saying that about Trump, but not about Biden

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I would be extremely surprised if joking about assassinating Biden was kosher with any of the mods

[–] [email protected] 70 points 6 months ago

Today we are all Kyle Gass fans

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I understand Jack here.

[–] [email protected] 111 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Trump assassination attempt causes Tenacious D to break up was not on my 2024 bingo card.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And here we are with the unpredictable ridiculous shit happening purely because Trump is around again. I for one did not miss 2016-2020.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago

Comedy group makes joke on stage, more at 11

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Last week  Kyle quit the band  Now we're back together  Misunderstanding  Didn't understand  It doesn't matter  Now we're back together again

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

I so want this to be an epic version of that song.

[–] [email protected] 188 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I guess trump is the only one allowed to make disrespectful comments about other people that almost die and it is just ok.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

No, it's not okay. Two wrongs don't make a right. Criticizing the language Trump uses but then praising Kyle would be hypocrisy.

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