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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?
Calls for order over justice is the hallmark of someone who never had to fight for their rights. It's a position of privilege.
Something something letter from Birmingham Jail
Yup, exactly this. DARVO is the standard abusers’ playbook, and it also applies to oppression.
D is Deny/Downplay. “No, oppression doesn’t happen. And if it does, it’s not as bad as you’re making it out to be.”
A is Attack. When they can’t deny it anymore, they’ll go on the offensive. Try to redirect the focus back to the victim. “Well what about…”
RVO is Reverse Victim and Offender. When outright attacking the victim doesn’t work, they move on to playing the victim. Make the real victim look bad, to garner sympathy. Pretend to be the helpless one in the situation, and say that the victim is attacking you for no reason.
When the oppressed fight back, the oppressors will act offended and use it to further victimize the oppressed.
I guess trump is the only one allowed to make disrespectful comments about other people that almost die and it is just ok.
I don't think the comment was appropriate but I also don't think it was really necessary to cancel the tour over it. It was a joke made in poor taste. Worth an apology? Sure. But this seems like an overreaction.
The fact they cancelled the tour and that he split with his manager, makes me believe it wasn't that harmonic anymore and it was the final straw.
If not, I agree it was a massive overreaction.
Inciting violence is not appropriate, but he could've easily just said he should've kept it to himself and move on.
Maybe he feels he can't be a showman and be all fun when democracy is at stake.
Trump assassination attempt causes Tenacious D to break up was not on my 2024 bingo card.
Agreed, kind of a dumb comment to make in front of a large crowd. But the reaction is way overblown.
I guess because...uh...I don't know, other then black just wanting out of the band, this doesn't make a lot of sense.
He said he was "blindsided" by the comment.
Blindsided? Aren't they friends?
Blindsided? By a sentiment I imagine people had been making jokes about since it happened?
Huge overreaction by Jack Black.
He’s a comedian. Yes this was in poor taste but as a comedian sometimes you swing and miss.
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
I like how they managed to shoehorn Musk in there. Thanks BBC, very, uh, relevant.
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.
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