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Tenacious D’s Newcastle show postponed after comment about Trump assassination attempt
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Y'all are fucking weird. When a right winger makes comments encouraging violence, you denounce it and demand that person face the consequences of their actions. But the Trump assassination attempt has revealed to me that a lot of you are just as reactionary as right wingers. Trump is a horrible person and the world would be better off without him, but if you can't see why assassinating him is not only morally wrong, but also just a bad thing for anyone who has faith we can win the fight against fascism, then quite frankly you've lost the fucking plot.
Kyle went made a joke that condoned an assassination attempt hours after it happened. Literally everyone involved, including Jack Black, and Kyle himself realize that what he said was extremely inappropriate.
Literally everyone in the fucking world realizes that political assassinations are a bad thing, but y'all are over here in your bubble thinking it was totally justified because Trump is a horrible person.
Are you in favour of police brutality? Are you in favour of capital punishment? Why do you get to decide which violence is appropriate and which violence is inappropriate?
Seriously fucking annoyed with Lemmy's user base right now.
It wasn't too long ago that right wingers were marching the streets in the state of Victoria, calling for the then-Premier to be hanged. One woman who later got elected to the Victorian parliament said she wouldn't rest until she saw him hanging from the end of a rope.
Guess who didn't oppose those calls for violence? The same people who got their knickers in a twist over this one, that's right.
As someone who would have been glad he was dead, that's not the entirety of the reasoning. Plenty of horrible people don't deserve to be killed.
However, Trump is a specific type of "horrible person". He's one that is campaigning to be king for four years again (thanks to the supreme court and the toadies that make up congress), after having just fucked up the entire country for four years and then trying to overthrow the government because he lost an election. This asshole not only evaded but also destroyed the system of any other type of justice he can face.
He's extremely likely to bring down whatever is left of our democracy when he (seemingly inevitably) returns to power in around six months.
So, I don't give a single fuck about his troubles.
EDIT: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
And there are very literally hundreds of thousands of people who are dead because of him and his intentional choices to choose politics over public health in a deadly pandemic. When I saw the news I thought, while it could just be someone acting politically, there are also a lot of people who lost cherished family members to his actions and now see him not only not seeing any consequences, but on the path to do it all again. I'm surprised this is the first serious attempt, frankly.
Removed, advocating violence.
Removed, assassination apologist.
Lmfao happily. Hope we get a two for one
Thank you! I've been saying the same thing for days (and getting similarly downvoted by the lynch mob).
It's honestly been depressing seeing how seemingly universal this reaction has been. I expected jokes and made some myself amongst friends. But I did not expect the entire community to unite behind a legitimate desire for violence.
Feels like a mask off moment.
How do you expect people to react to having their rights taken away?
:sigh: Yep. Got me re-evaluating whether I even want to be here anymore if that's the kind of people that make up this platform.
But thank you for also speaking up against it.