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Yes, we can say pretty much anything here. How accountable you are varies. Usually, if a famous person says something outrageous, as Mr. Rock did, the immediate accountability comes from social media. When he shot up some beer cans in his yard, that seemed to get a bunch of media coverage and social media attention. When he made his comments about Israel and that they should be killing Palestinian civilians 30-40 thousand at a time (not until all of Hamas are dead but he actually said until all the hostages are returned, if that makes a difference) I don't know if it moved the media and social media needle as much as him assassinating beer cans. Take that for whatever you will. I guess the way I would take it is his audience probably has more of an issue with a guy in a dress than a dead Palestinian child. It just seems that attracted more attention and more response than him talking about killing Palestinian civilians and I don't know if he realizes how many of those civilians are 18 and under. Maybe he does not care. 

I think that falls into line with a fundamentalist religious person's way of thinking. God kills people, that's part of his plan and we all have it coming, but god does not tell guys to wear a dress. I guess they believe god wears a pair of Levis and a jean jacket. So killing, large scale slaughter, that's fine, god's work after all, wearing different types of clothing...not permitted, god does not want to see that, causes great anger and the proper response is to shoot up whatever beverage a guy in a dress might enjoy drinking. I don't think it could make more sense or be made any more clear. 

Rogen, to his credit I guess, pointed out that would be a war crime to start slaughtering innocents at that clip which I don't think phased Rock much. Maybe Rock just wants to be asked by Bibi to play the victory celebration when Israel repaves all of Gaza and puts up new condos for Israelis. I won't try to guess what Kid was thinking, I'll just say it seemed like he was not. However, he is not alone in his disregard and lack of empathy for human lives. He gets to join a special club in that regard. 

It's not that important really what guys like Rogen or Rock think, except that a lot of people hear it. I don't know how it impacts the people that hear it. I just shrug and think, what a couple of morons, but I'm not the audience for these types. I have never listened to Kid Rock and I don't listen to Joe Rogen. I hear something when it gets brought to my attention but I am not tuned in to those clowns. 

I find Europeans to be very polite but I never really thought they were being more reserved because they felt they had to be or they would get in trouble. I just thought they were just more aware that is better to be more gracious in a social context. 

I thought the piano player you posted that was accosted by the Chinese people handled that in a much more polite way than if that Chinese guy yelled at someone in a mall here like that. I think there would be about a 90% chance the response would have been a profanity laced tirade, him getting his guts stomped out, or a combination of both...and probably if cops or security showed up, they would have participated in that response toward him. Good chance it would not have been as calm and collected as the UK response was. Plus with all of our guns, depending upon what state he pulled that in, he very well may have been shot, if not by the piano player he was yelling at but by the cops that responded to the scene. Then FOX news would have run with reports that a Chinese national that probably crossed the Mexican border illegally because of Joe Biden, had to be shot by police while attacking Americans in a shopping mall and Donald Trump would immediately put out a message that this would have never happened if he were president. 

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