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Jack Black cancels Tenacious D tour and places future projects on hold after Kyle Gass comments on Trump (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Jack Black announced on Instagram that he's cancelled the rest of the Tenacious D world tour and placed future projects on hiatus.

This happened after his bandmate Kyle Gass sparked controversy by commenting on the recent Donald Trump assassination attempt.

At their recent Sydney show, Kyle Gass was given a birthday cake and asked to make a wish for his 64th birthday, to which he said "Don't miss Trump next time."

In his later statement, Black said he was "blindsided" by his bandmate's comment and condemned any calls for political violence.

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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Most of the western world fought back against the Nazis in WWII for the very reason that fascism is deeply hostile to a healthy democracy and a free society.

Kyle was right: we didn’t teach our soldiers to miss back then, so there is no excuse to miss now.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Was a right wing idiot, listening to right wing hate and violence, who took a shot at a right wing idol.

Theres nothing "ours" or "soldier" about it.

[–] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Tbf, there was a WWII instructional film that taught "how to get killed", but that was sarcastic (and about the Pacific theater)