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King of the Hill voice actor Jonathan Joss has died aged 59 after a shooting in Texas, police have confirmed.

Joss was the voice of John Redcorn for seasons two through 13 of the popular animated series. He had reportedly recorded bits for the show’s reboot, which recently began production for Hulu and is slated to premiere in August.

The actor was reportedly shot multiple times over the weekend after a disagreement with a neighbor, according to TMZ. San Antonio police responded to a home after reports of shots fired and found Joss near the road with gunshot wounds, according to Variety.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

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[–] [email protected] 442 points 1 week ago (12 children)

According to his husband’s posts on social media, these neighbors had subjected them to homophobic harassment and threats to burn down their home before now. And when they returned to find the skull of their dog out in plain view and started to cry, the neighbor came and killed Jonathan. His husband said he blocked the shot and saved his life.

What do you fucking do about a community like that? These people don’t exist in isolation. It’s scary as fuck and a heartbreaking way to start pride month.

[–] [email protected] 224 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

and yet I have people telling me I'm overreacting when I say we're sleepwalking into the next holocaust in this country, only instead of Jews it will be hispanics, trans people, gay people, and autistic people made out to be subhumans to be purged.

The Nazis didn't start with gas chambers, first they had to rile the population up to hate Jews all on their own -- or to regard the disabled as "parasites". Meanwhile in the present, we have politicians calling gay and trans people "groomers" and brainworms jackass calling autistic people, essentially, hopeless.

get ready, this sort of thing is only going to get more common. And if it doesn't happen quickly enough, it's entirely likely the ~~brownshirts~~ MAGAts will "help it along".

[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pretty sure it started with trans and gay folks last time too.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

eh, sorta. the books the Nazis burned in that famous photograph were the library of Magnus Hirschfeld, a Jewish sexologist who studied and supported trans people, and who even hired some as his assistants. did the Nazis burn his books because he supported trans people, or because he was a Jew? both, I think. the Nazis practiced intersectional hatred. they accused Hirschfeld of promoting degeneracy to undermine Aryan society, an anti-Semitic trope that continues today.

gay and trans people were sent to concentration camps, but not usually to the death camps.

likewise, the predecessor to the NSDAP specifically singled out Jews in its founding document, but (afaik) not homosexuals.

this is my recollection anyway, as a trans woman who's a potential convert.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There's also Ernst Rohm and (full disclosure I can't remember names or where I read this but I'm positive I did) several other members of the Nazi party having "proclivities" that were turned a blind eye as long as they continued to be good little Nazis (and, eventually, Rohm wasn't useful any longer -- but his murder had little to do with him being gay). Indeed, much like Hitler and Rohm, I'm sure Trump himself doesnt hold much ill will towards gay people overall on account of Roy Cohn (granted he holds ill will towards everyone poor but that's a different conversation). It's all the other people in his orbit that scare the fuck out of me as a gay guy.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There is a powerful key difference nowadays, two if you broke it down into its component parts:

  1. Information is much, MUCH easier to come by and because of that while hate and intolerance continues to be widespread you also see a larger number of at least partially informed people on average.

  2. Hitler got most of Germany to at least openly state they were on his side in some form. The U.S. is a rather large country and hugely diverse and growing more sharply outspoken by people who were once quiet, on both sides.

I also know that Trump doesn't have the charisma of Hitler and we are not a Nation still reeling from the economic effects of a World War.

However, that is not to say this won't get worse. It just won't be a blanket with pockets of resistance. More likely entire States will stand, as many already are. I just hope we the people decide to unite and do what we must before it gets worse.

[–] Stillwater 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For your first point, I'd say while there is more information there's also much more disinformation. I'm not sure which is winning, but I think it might not be the one we want.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

If Trump isn't the States' Hitler then he's the dress rehearsal.

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Killing a guy because you don't agree with who he loves is fucking disgusting.

Land of the free my ass.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

What do you fucking do about a community like that?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fucking hell. What can anyone even do if the police and local media is pretty much in on it. He was basically lynched.

The idea of this being an argument lays the foundation for a stand your ground defence for the murderer, one would assume.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So you're saying a Trump pardon is in the pipeline?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

Abbott, not trump, but yes I wouldn't be surprised. He's pardoned murderers who agree with him before

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The homophobic murder is absolutely horrific, but there is something about the dog skull that says “this is a next level psycho.”

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

What do you fucking do about a community like that

I'm not allowed to tell you directly on .world, but turnabout is fair play.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What do you fucking do about a community like that?

http://www.fox4news.com/news/neighborhood-rallies-after-carrollton-couples-gay-pride-flag-burned.amp

Organize. Stand up. Show yourself. Make them be the ones on the outside.

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[–] [email protected] 333 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (17 children)

Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales
Husband of Jonathan Joss

My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done.

Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic.

When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw.

While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired.
Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life.

Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future.

He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other.
I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved.

To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family.

My focus now is on protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together.

If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband.

Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built.

  • Tristan Kern de Gonzales

From Jonathan Joss’s Facebook post

[–] [email protected] 248 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The article title is really fucked up for making it seem like it was both sides arguing and it boiling over.

[–] [email protected] 167 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

That’s what they do. Our media absolutely covers for hate crimes right now.

I sent an email to their complaint department about the headline. Not likely to do anything, but I’ll still be annoying.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

I wish I had thought of doing that, thanks! I will join you.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 week ago

That is genuinely fucking horrifying.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Fuck the police

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[–] [email protected] 283 points 1 week ago (22 children)

Title is a lie. He was shot for crying over his dead dogs skull being placed near the mailbox of the recently burned down home they moved out of and shot by one of the homophobes who threatned to burn down said house who was also screaming slurs at him, while pushing his husband out of the path of the gun, saving his life. This was ALL preventable but the police force there allowed it to happen despite multiple years of reports.

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[–] [email protected] 201 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Read the story and be pissed by how any news outlet phrases it in any way other than "this man was murdered in a pre-meditated manner after prolonged harassment from psychotic neighbors who previously murdered their dog"

Rorschach was right about one thing, people like this shouldn't get to go to jail. Rabid Animals get put down.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 week ago

Same. The headline is journalistic malpractice at best. Joss was murdered by a homophobic terrorist.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

Like, I get you want to make sure information is true, but if a direct witness to the event said, "This was hate crime as fuck," you'd at least throw in an "allegedly" statement in there.....

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

Absolutely an injustice in framing. Despicable.

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[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

A homophobia-fueled pre-meditated murder is not simply a "disagreement."

For those that are wondering, he voiced John Redcorn.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 week ago

"Argument" ≠ hate crime

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago

Lawless Texas gun nuts kill again.

[–] L0rdMathias 68 points 1 week ago (1 children)

An argument.

The actor was reportedly shot multiple times over the weekend after a disagreement with a neighbor,

"Ahh gee hahaha just a small little kerfuffle happened, then someone involved in lost their temper and shot the other big sad wow carpe diem or something. No further looking into the situation required, just personal dispute Texas amiright lol."

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago

Weak ass title for a planned murder, hate crime, with animal cruelty.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Texas is a dumpster fire with barbecue.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Loved him in Parks and Rec too.

This is sad and awful.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago

Reading the story and I’m fucking mortified. Fuck America and their love for hate. The rise of American Christianity and white nationalism has justified being scum of the earth. These people deserve the fucking worst treatment imaginable. Fuck off.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Damn! Fucking America with every lunatic having access to guns.

RIP Jonathan Joss

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Damn.

Dale, Luanne, Lucky and now John Redcorn.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And this happened less than 3 days after everyone was pumped to see him back in the King of the Hill reboot. https://youtu.be/R189-YSWvsY

Fuck the absolute psychopath that took this man’s life.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

A GoFundMe was set up months ago and is still accepting donations.

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