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Jack Black announces new movie ‘School of Spineless PR Management’ (chaser.com.au)

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[–] chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

it's kind of dramatic to frame "hey it's not cool to use our platform to jokingly encourage would-be assassins" as "capitulation" to such-and-such political movement. by all means make assassination jokes in private but it's different when it's through a megaphone like that - we live in an age of stochastic terror man, that shit's been weaponized for a decade now and it's silly to pretend it isn't as long as the "joke" reflects your own feelings. this is some maga-level mental gymnastics, maybe think more about it.