• fishos@lemmy.world
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    And in your worldview, it’ll just be a race to the bottom.

    JB did the right thing. Him and Kyle will be able to come back from this because of the actions of JB. After all, who is the heat on now? It’s not Kyle. He looks like a victim now. Jacks taking the heat. Heat he can easily handle. Heat that will fade away in the coming months and be forgotten.

    Instead of throwing a massive fight back and blowing the situation up even more out of proportion. Instead of now having to wonder if you’ve made yourself a target of insane Trumpers.

    This was masterful PR and it shows who knows actual PR and who has too much ego to take an L when needed. This pretty much guaranteed that JB AND Kyle are protected. Everyone took just enough dirt to look like they got punished but it’s not enough to actually end anyone.

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      The only race with fascist is the race to the gas station to make sure the eaves are strong enough

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      Glad there’s at least one other person here who gets that this wasn’t a political decision but a PR one

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        Literally everybody here gets this. It’s in the fucking title of the post… And it is also exactly why everybody is hating on JB now and downvoting your comments. JB should have stood by his lifelong friend and creative partner, and care fuck all about the corporatist PR image after one bad joke. Especially because Kyle’s joke wasn’t a career endingly bad one. But JB made it out to be one. He has effectively killed KG’s career now, by blowing the thing way out of proportion, completely unnecessarily. All because he thought that HIS career was in danger too. That is why everybody is angry at him now. He has acted 100% selfishly.

        What he should have done, if anything, was to say sthing like, “Kyle made a mistake, it was a joke in bad taste. But I’ve known him forever, I know he’s a good man with a good heart. He will reflect on this and learn from it and do better in the future. An assassination attempt, and the death of an innocent bystander can never be a joke. We will dedicate the oncoming stages of the tour and all proceeds from it to the family of the victim. Blah blah blah”. That’s all JB had to do and say.

        Instead he threw KG totally under the bus, ended his career, and by making the morally wrong choice, probably damaged his own as well.

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          I’m not going to retype my explanation of why this is a childish view of the situation. You can read my other comments in a different fork of this thread if you want to learn why this is self-righteous, self-satisfying crap. That’s what YOU want. It’s not what’s actually best for JB or Kyle.

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              Curious what sort background qualifies you to make better decisions than either of them and their undoubtedly overpaid yet highly experienced staff.

              The “escalation” wasn’t needless. In fact while it may appear to be an escalation, for all you know it was a mitigation against journalists who were already preparing to make giant headlines and give FOX news another thing to rile their base with.

              Sometimes you see a train barreling towards you and jump off the tracks despite the injury you know you’re going to take when you land.

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        I’m sure some vaudevillians were patting each other on the back and saying the same thing, right before World War II.

        They were wrong then and you are wrong now.

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          Speedrunning Godwin’s law, are we?

          Jack Black distancing himself from talk of assassination isn’t what leads us to WW3 you absolute mongrel. Trump being a malleable narcissist with delusions of dictatorship, a soulless GOP, funding genocide, failing to stop Russian westward expansion, and actual spineless Democrats who can’t play the game half as well as their opposition are what lead us to WW3