Mel Gibson Blasted After Backing Trump With Offensive Insult About Harris In Bonkers Rant
Mel Gibson Blasted After Backing Trump With Offensive Insult About Harris In Bonkers Rant
Keeping it classy as always, I see š
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Yes Mel Gibson is still bonkers.
Until producers stop giving him money and actors refuse to work with him he'll continue spreading hate, the guy has been an obvious bigot and moron his entire life
āI separate people and their artā people are the fuckinā worst and huge part of the problem, too, since they donāt do a damn thing to incentivise those losers to stop what theyāre doing, either.
When I learned that āSweet Home Alabamaā was in bitter response to Neil Youngās āSouthern Manā I just stopped listening to it. There is so much music in the world, Iāve been fine without Lynyrd Skynyrd. I also donāt think Iāve ever seen a Mel Gibson movie and I seem to be ok.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I would say that "Sweet Home Alabama" is very different. It was not written bitterly and it was written by a bunch of Neil Young fans (and Neil himself loved the song). The point of "Sweet Home Alabama" was to show that there were people who grew up in the South who weren't racist, who acknowledged and decried the racist history of the South, but who also felt resentment at being lumped in with the racists, past and present. Being both proud of being from the South and ashamed of being from the South at the same time even has its own term, coined AFAIK by the band The Drive-By Truckers: "the duality of the Southern Thing."
There are plenty of artists and musicians that should just be written off, but I don't think Skynyrd is among them. They were actually relatively progressive for their background and were trying to paint a fairly sophisticated and balanced story; it's not their fault that their fanbase evolved into a bunch of racist assholes who preempted the song for their own causes, especially since the heart and soul of the band died in a plane crash in 1977. But that's just my two cents as a huge music fan who grew up listening to Skynyrd in the 90's.
They heard āSouthern Manā and went so hard ānot all southernersā that they even included the line directly telling Neil to fuck off. One of their black back-up singers went on to cover āSouthern Manā as a little bit of a personal win for her. Lynyrd Skynyrd could have done a million things that werenāt that in response but instead they wrote that little piece of whiny-baby bullshit. They did it all on their own, without their base needing to misinterpret anything. Fuck āem, I got loads of fantastic music to listen to without giving that one any of my time.
People have literally died for their rights and weāre so damned soft we canāt even just consume different yet equally good, or better, media and thatās fuckinā weak. Sometimes we arenāt given much choice but itās not like weāre hurting for high-quality music, TV, and literature. Itās so fucking easy.
This is such a horseshit take.
The entire song is a screed to southern ignorance including the gem "Watergate does not bother me"
These assholes are part of the reason we ended up with trump.
Get fucked.
"Watergate does not bother me, does your conscience bother you?"
Bother in this case means he's not losing sleep at night over it due to any regrets. This was all Northern people being corrupt. An answer to southerners being bad and evil.
It was not meant to be interpreted as they don't care
I agree, but take a fucking chill pill. Everyone has an opinion.
Eh, Mad Max, Road Warrior, and Beyond Thunderdome are classics. Lethal Weapon was good.
He was even decent in the John Wick flashback "The Continental".
I havenāt seen āem and Iām doing perfectly ok. And guess what, I didnāt know he was involved and now Iām gunna not watch āem even harder. Itās just that easy.
Congratulations, you haven't watched some movies. Truly a saint