Despise seems a bit strong
Jesper's throwing out a few vague insults on facebook, he isn't holding Anders' kid hostage and posting live footage on YouTube.
It would be fine if they were both teenagers and the incident happened a few weeks ago. But years into his departure, as a grown man, after posing with SC willingly for a photo? It's all about the context.
Not to mention the always deleted, poetic, dark foreshadowings. Mumbling about betrayal, going down in flames, getting what you deserve from karma, etc. are a tad bit over the line of vague insults. Well, in a way it IS vague, but you know what I mean.
Why not take that energy and lyrical impulse to create something which will blow IF away? Frankly, I don't give a damn about The Resistance, but if Jesper were to hype it as a big fuck you to Anders, who betrayed him, and he will destroy him, and all the other bullshit he's been posting, I'd definitely listen to their new record. But right now...
- There's not much hype. It's not even reply-worthy from the rest of IF, it's just random shit being thrown out. Declare your personal vendetta, or anything, make it look more serious than some crazy dude's - who forgot to take his pills - facebook posts.
- It doesn't make Jesper look any better. Everyone loves a betrayal story with tons of drama, everyone likes to take sides even before the other guy could tell his side of the story. But there's no fucking story! Come clean or go home.
- It doesn't do anything with Anders' reputation. Probably everyone but me agrees here that he had the worst vocal performance in ASOP and I read some 2002 threads here, and even then it was a running gag that Anders can't sing. People who hate him probably go apeshit that their meme finally officially got recognized, but neutral guys won't think anything less of him. They heard his voice, they already decided if they like it or not. If anything, it might make them sympathize with Anders, because it's such an uncalled low blow. A few steps down and it's calling each other motherfuckers.
- It certainly resurrected this thread though, so I guess there's that!