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Kiss Singer Gene Simmons Tells Depressed People To Kill Themselves
Opposing Views ^ | 8-1-2014 | Michael Allen

Posted on 08/01/2014 10:52:37 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

Last month, Kiss singer Gene Simmons falsely claimed that the wealthiest one percent paid 80 percent of "all taxes" and created "all the jobs."

Eager to spread more love, Simmons recently teed off on his former Kiss band mates Peter Criss and Ace Frehley, and anyone suffering from depression or drug addiction.

When asked by SongFacts.com if he still gets along with Criss or Frehley these days, Simmons responded, "No, I don't get along with anybody who's a drug addict and has a dark cloud over their head and sees themselves as a victim."

"Drug addicts and alcoholics are always: 'The world is a harsh place.' My mother was in a concentration camp in Nazi Germany," added Simmons. "I don't want to hear f--- all about 'the world as a harsh place.' She gets up every day, smells the roses and loves life. And for a putz, 20-year-old kid to say, 'I'm depressed, I live in Seattle.' F--- you, then kill yourself."

(Excerpt) Read more at opposingviews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: genesimmons; suicide
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1 posted on 08/01/2014 10:52:37 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

He’s right.


2 posted on 08/01/2014 10:54:18 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Citizen Zed

BTW, very misleading title.


3 posted on 08/01/2014 10:54:54 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Citizen Zed

Simmons is an idiot


4 posted on 08/01/2014 10:55:32 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Citizen Zed

Tough love is only OK when Liberals do it.


5 posted on 08/01/2014 10:55:49 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: dfwgator

Yup he’s just telling it like it is.


6 posted on 08/01/2014 10:58:25 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: dfwgator

Yeah, he didn’t seriously tell anyone to kill themselves. He said it facetiously, to demonstrate that, as they aren’t willing to go that far, their problems are obviously not as bad as their whining makes them out to be.


7 posted on 08/01/2014 10:58:26 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: GeronL
Simmons is an idiot

Quite disagree. He is a very intelligent, well educated man. Quite narcissistic, but not an idiot by any stretch of the imagination and in this case, I quite agree with him.

8 posted on 08/01/2014 10:58:43 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: GeronL

Yeah but he hates Obama so he can’t be that much of an idiot.


9 posted on 08/01/2014 10:58:48 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: rjsimmon

He is a horrible perverted person, he should set an example if he thinks people should kill themselves


10 posted on 08/01/2014 10:59:35 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Boogieman

And he didn’t mean people who are clinically depressed, as the title implied.


11 posted on 08/01/2014 10:59:39 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Citizen Zed

Guess that explains why you don’t see a lot of Emo Kids at Kiss concerts.


12 posted on 08/01/2014 11:01:01 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Citizen Zed

I agree with him on the suicide thing, I think a lot of people do it with a revenge mindset.


13 posted on 08/01/2014 11:01:08 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Gotta admit, he’s got a point.

I lived for years with a family member with mental illness. It sucked for them and for the rest of the family too. But once we figured out they were using that ‘mental illness’ for attention and excuses to do or not do things. We all eventually quit enabling them.


14 posted on 08/01/2014 11:01:59 AM PDT by The Working Man
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To: Citizen Zed

he’s got a point


15 posted on 08/01/2014 11:02:05 AM PDT by sappy (criminaldems)
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To: sappy
he’s got a point

And it's on his tongue. ;)

16 posted on 08/01/2014 11:02:34 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Citizen Zed

I’ve come to have a grudging respect for Gene. He’s a really good businessman & he is pro-troops ..... still can’t stand “the tongue”, though. One of the people he was talking about in this article I know well .... and Gene’s comments on that score are accurate.


17 posted on 08/01/2014 11:02:56 AM PDT by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. (W.E. Johns)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I see his point, but by definition mentally ill people aren’t thinking clearly. And hence they aren’t able to process the tough love.

I had a cousin who committed suicide. He had no trouble in his life to come anywhere remotely close to being in a concentration camp. But the argument would not have swayed him.


18 posted on 08/01/2014 11:03:21 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Citizen Zed

The headline made it sound like he told a depressed person, literally, to go commit suicide. He did nothing of the sort. He made sarcastic comments about people who don’t count their blessings. Something I need to do more often!


19 posted on 08/01/2014 11:03:25 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Citizen Zed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aChRo7PrPQw


20 posted on 08/01/2014 11:03:52 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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