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'Grow up': Rudd goes after Tenacious D for a Trump joke. It's 2024, baby! (www.crikey.com.au)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The joke was dumb, the online reaction to the joke was dumb, a random UAP senator's dumb comments being quoted globally was dumb and Rudd telling famous musicians and actors to "grow up and get a job" was very dumb. What a time we live in.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

but I can appreciate the dark humour in this situation, where a presidential candidate that has been endorsed by the NRA and refuses to entertain a conversation about gun control, was shot at.

I don't think there was that much thought put into it. It was likely just the first thing that came to mind, just as it was for the countless others who made the same joke before him. That's why I say it was dumb, because it was lazy and unfunny, but it was also pretty obviously played for laughs and not "aNoThEr CaLL fOR aSsAsSiNaTiOn".

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago

Right with you there - I doubt many would accuse Tenacious D of being funny nowadays, and lazy is right on brand.

[+] [email protected] -13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I get your perspective, and I love ious D, and I have no fond feelings for Trump. But however flippant and unserious, it is, on the surface, another call for assassination. Jokes encouraging political violence, especially about assassinating a presidential candidate right after an assassination attempt, are in pretty bad taste.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

it is, on the surface, another call for assassination.

Sure, if you strip away all context. You can criticise the joke without hysterically maximising the intent behind it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Yes, exactly, stripping away all context. It's not about intent, it's about the warped perception of public figures. The intent and context, no matter how true, are more subtle than the very real fact that it's bad business.