Personally, I think he's tired of Tenacious D and this was a good way to kill it. Plus he has more money to lose than Kyle. And I'm sure there was some concern about a concert getting shot up, but I'm sure it was a distant third.

[–] RinseDrizzle@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Obviously no idea, pure speculation, but I assume there would have been like, multiple careers in jeopardy if Jack stuck by Kyle initially. Jack Black got big dummy money now. Big dummy careers like this have teams of people involved. I'm sure he was getting threats of being dropped from agencies and upcoming gigs (no more Bowser unless you back off) that played a role in the choice. He's got enough money to be fine, but what about the others affected? I'm sure it was a terrible place to be.

Truly some devil's advocate thoughts here; was a punk-ass move distancing himself from Kyle instead of calling out the hypocrisy. Risky jokes have existed since forever - hell Gilbert had 9/11 jokes the very next night. The Right out here selling merch with violent rhetoric for years. The whole thing is goofy.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The way he sold it isn't that he cares about Trump, but that he cared strongly about being a pacifist. Yeah alright, fair enough. But Kyle Gass is also a pacifist, realised he fucked up, and apologised from that perspective. So is Jack a pacifist, or does he just never give people second chances? :/

[–] DR_Hero@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think he was just imminently concerned about their safety. Like the post suggests, many thought desperate times were coming and any rando in a maga hat might retaliate.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, but this excuse kind of falls apart when you realise they were on tour in Australia, where the likelihood of a) someone caring about Trump enough; and b) has the means to retaliate in a country with far more restrictions on gun ownership.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

His reaction might have made it into the top 5 reactions to the shots as far as severity of results. The only other reactions that weren't just words that I'm aware of are the SS eventually noticing and shooting the guy (plus increasing security), the one cop that shot the guy's gun, and maybe Trump himself getting PTSD. So Jack Black might have had the 4th most severe reaction by cancelling that tour and rethinking any future collaborations.

Hindsight is 20/20 but he probably should have just cancelled a show or two and then would have seen that the whole thing was dropped because it wasn't generating any sympathy for Trump (quite the opposite, the main sentiments I saw were "sucks he missed" and "we really shouldn't say that it sucks he missed, even though a lot of us are thinking that").

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

The Schutzstaffel were there? First I've heard of it.