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Jack Black axes tour over bandmate's Trump comment
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If they can say the quiet part out loud, why can’t we?
Because everyone outside of the right thinks you have to uphold decorum while they burn shit down around our ears.
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
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.
Like I say, you're not wrong on that; I only really said anything because of the topic where it's being discussed and the implication to this event.
Somewhere between tone policing, and approving of the assassination of your opponents, the truth lies.
I'd argue there's a big difference between wishing someone to be killed, and witnessing them almost die and wishing the outcome had just been a bit different. Like, you don't want it it happen in the first place, but have an opinion on the outcome if it did anyways.
He's not saying "I wish someone would go out and kill Trump", it's "if a bullet was already flying towards Trump I wish it had hit him, especially instead of a random crowd member behind him".
He said "don’t miss Trump next time".
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
I would be extremely surprised if joking about assassinating Biden was kosher with any of the mods