• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    Why can’t people see that this is about self-preservation, not PR.

    Like for fuck sake, do you need to see gay people lined up against a wall by conservative death squads before realizing how fucked up the situation here is?

    I’d be shocked if both of them (and their families) have not been receiving death threats since Gass made the joke.

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        3 months ago

        If you honestly cannot tell what’s different about the current political atmosphere in the US, then I truly don’t know what to say.

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                  3 months ago

                  Because you havent given any… You asked a question. I answered you didnt say why you disagree with the answer.

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                    3 months ago

                    When you’re in a world-famous band and have a family receiving a constant stream of (I’m sure sexually explicit and extremely violent) death threats describing to you in detail the horrific things they will do to your wife and kids in front of you if you choose to continue touring, then maybe you can fucking talk. Especially only a couple of weeks after the former (and at-the-time frontrunner to be next) President was literally shot at and missed getting killed by an inch or two.

                    Political violence in this country is very real. Sorry if I’m not going to shit on someone for putting the safety of their family over some (ultimately, let’s all be adults here, pretty cheesy) heavy metal parody rock band. I would do the same thing.

                    You have no idea what these people are probably dealing with in private right now. Big fucking tough guy on the internet.