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Really crazy how little the censoring is too. Like how was the right crying about censorship just a few years ago to the point that they changed every websites rules. Now they're getting people fired and making tip line to attack anyone saying anything and instead of rallying I see only a few places online making any noise about the censorship. Lots of jokes about Charlie but no real push at the fact these fuck heads are violating the freedom of speech Charlie supposedly fought for
"Cancel culture is wrong... except when it helps us."
"States rights need to be protected... except when they get in our way."
"The debt ceiling is sacrosanct... except when we're in power."
"The separation of church and state... only applies to non-Christian religions."
"The establishment pedo-ring must be destroyed... except when one of our guys is at the center of it."
"Political assassinations are intolerable... but not the ones that target our enemies, they are fine."
The list goes on and on.
This is America.
Don't catch you slippin′ now
Exactly my point. God damn there is so much material that can be created. But there's no channels. Why did the left kneecap itself
Because the left has been holding onto the false hope that things still work like they did up until the 2000s. The left hopes that someday we can return to a place where we disagree with each other but we can work toward a compromise that works for everyone. Then the 2000s hit and both sides began to move away from the center until they're not able to even communicate with each other in good faith. Now the right wants to perpetrate a genocide and the left is too worried about breaking the rules
both sides began to move away from the center until they're not able to even communicate with each other in good faith
I don't necessarily agree with this point. The right has moved much further from the center, and a decent chunk of the left has let themselves be dragged halfway there in the wake. A lot of American 'liberals' are considered right wing in other countries (especially European countries). That's always been true to a degree. But now it's becoming more pronounced. But to add extra noise, there's a portion of the left who are not more firebrand and have pulled further to the left. So the spread of 'liberals' goes a long way across the spectrum. Which also explains some of the fragmentation.
I agree with you, I was vague and that came across as a bit of a both sides argument. My bad.
I'm actually leaning towards the idea that we were herded here, away from the digital public squares. We're all now in a very small corner making it easier for private interests to manipulate our spaces with their causes and let's those interests unfettered access to the public. My main social media spaces are filled with people spreading all kinds of crazy shit and that's no push back, no fact checking no other side showing what is wrong
Because they are embracing fascism, which is about consolidating power and weaponizing society against their opposition.
Holy shit you're right...these whiny bitches cried so goddamn hard about "cancel culture"
There's a famous saying that goes:
You can start a war whenever you want, but you cannot end that war whenever you want.
In other words, when you attack someone, the other one has a right to defend themselves. And they can defend themselves however the circumstances require it, and the attacker has no say in that. So, it is dangerous for the attacker.
Nah I'm pro-violence. This was an amazing thing that happened and I'm still riding the high days later.
It was so satisfying. He was a Nazi, and good riddance.
Old Charlie before he reached his personal turning point used to like to talk about the Great Replacement, which is a white supremacist theory that says that white people are being replaced by non white people, mostly Muslims, and call it "white genocide". He also likes to talk about "prowling blacks" and a whole lot of other racist shit.
Just because he didn't wear a hood and have a swastika tattoo doesn't make him any less of a Nazi. Good riddance.
Another very important aspect of great replacement conspiracy (and most conspiracy theories, tbh) is that the Jews are behind it. Kirk was unsurprisingly extremely antisemitic as well.
I’ll say it, don’t decry political violence, it should just be done to an elected official or fascist leader. If all else fails democratically, that’s your duty. But not against a private citizen. I would much have preferred to have heard Charlie Kirk died of auto erotic asphixiation, while wearing a Wonder Woman costume and jerking off to gay porn. He was a dirtbag, and I’m glad hes gone but this means his message will live on
When you spent your entire life irl shitposting, don’t be surprised if someone shitpost you back with a fist or bullet…
Crazy stuff, coming from a sexual predator.
He jerked himself off in front of a couple of women. It was defo inappropriate, but calling him a "predator" is fucking psychotic. Comparing him to rapists and predators like Weinstein or Diddy cheapens their crimes and invalidates the trauma they caused. It's like equating a petty thief with a health insurance CEO, or Al Frankens' "hover hands" to Trumps pedophilia and dozens of sexual assaults.
None of the hundreds of female comedians and actresses he's worked with have ever said he treated them inappropriately.
I agree with your first part, your second part is wrong.
The ladies that made the accusations against him, which he confirmed were all true, were up-and-coming comedians.
They said because he was in a position of power they felt like they couldn't say no to his request.
To his credit, he validated every woman that made an accusation. He also said he didn't realize the women were saying yes because of the implication if they said no. I tend to believe his story because after the women came forward, he admitted what happened, and the allegations stopped, no one else came forward. That seems to me like a guy that used bad judgement and didn't understand the power he had.
I think him taking a timeout, realizing that women have a whole different set of circumstances to deal with that guys don't, and reflecting on that was warranted. I don't think he needs to be shunned forever.
Everybody deserves a chance to course correct after repenting for mistakes. Denying redemption is downright psychotic. You don't have to forgive or even forget, but if you don't acknowledge the work someone does in reparation, you yourself are broken.
If a guy jerked themselves off in front of you, in a work situation, where there were more senior than you how would you feel?
Yes there’s grades of sexual predators, they’re still all predators, no-one is comparing here.
He abused his position of power for his own sexual gratification. That's the definition of predatory behaviour.
Don’t make excuses for this man. He used his power over, as a successful comedian with a lot of control in the industry, to force sexual acts on unwilling women who feared for their careers. Then tried to justify it on a technicality. It’s creepy, it’s psychotic, and he should be on a list for it.
It would be adjacent to a prison guard dropping trow and making the inmates in his care watch him jerk off to them, their bodies, their presence. The guard in that scenario shouldn’t keep his job either. Or should he? He didn’t touch them right? He only touched himself, right? So that guard should keep his job, by your logic.
Louis had power over. Maybe not the same kind of power over but it was power. And he used it, and them, in a foul manner deserving of dismissal and possibly litigation.
It certainly puts his bit about men being the scariest thing for women in the dating world into perspective.
Did he said this?
Nah he was too busy masturbating in front of his support act
It's from one of his bits. Funny shtick.
"my kid has a peanut allergy, so of course I'm very careful about what I feed her. Of course I am..."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhzi3Ah3WAA
(I got the quote wrong, but you get it)
You'd waste a bullet of a TV star and not any one more deserving!?