I don’t know how to say this without doxxing myself so I guess all I can really say is some of his latest material borders on bigotry but doesn’t go far enough for you to be sure, and it could just be an ill thought out edgy routine. But I’ve spent a night drinking with him, and it’s not an edgy routine.
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5·4 days agoCan we skip to the part where Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, Farage, Wilders, Musk, Le Pen, the ICE agent that lives down the street, Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg, etc etc etc get what they deserve please?
It doesn’t seem to have happened yet.
A shame he’s a bigoted arsehole who thinks “you can’t say anything these days” now, but I felt obliged to link this standup
Little boxes, little boxes, little boxes made of ticky tacky
1·7 days agoMoney can’t buy you class
Says the xenophobe…
Well, yeah. You should be critical of all media empires, even the “good” ones or the ones with the same political biases as you.
Try and get your news from a variety of sources.
That’s why Reddit used to be, and why Lemmy/Piefed now, are good. Because you’ll see 3 or 4 copies of the same story from different organisations with slightly different stances.
Unfortunately the American media landscape is dominated by a handful of rich owners. Often even when you think you’re getting a story from 2 different sources they’re ultimately owned by the same person (e.g. Rupert Murdoch) and despite one showing a “left” stance and one a “right” they may still be manipulating the facts somehow.
Getting the “truth” in any news story is difficult and getting a full and proper grasp of what is going on in the world even more so, but we can at least try.
Personally I’m enjoying the likes of Novara Media who are run as a non-profit and rely on donations instead of adverts. This method of funding means they’re not beholden to the whims of advertisers nor are they beholden to shareholders who demand ever more engagement to drive profit.
In saying that, I’m still aware that they have biases and that no news organisation is perfect. We must also be aware that all of us, all of us, can fall victim to propaganda and manipulation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_reading
https://help.open.ac.uk/critical-reading-techniques/critically-processing-what-you-read
Amnesty International, Liberty, and the UN disagree with you.
https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-states/freedom-world/2025
A country actively kidnapping people off the streets, removing due process and habeus corpus, deporting prisoners to random countries, building concentration camps, and deploying troops on the streets has a score of 84/100. Forgive me for not feeling particularly free with my score of 91.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House#Criticism
Having a read of this I think it’s fair to say boiling down a nation’s “freedom” to a single number is a silly unacademic metric, before even getting into the likelihood of bias and manipulation.
If it looks like a
duckfascist, swims like aduckfascist, and quacks like aduckfascist, then it probably is aduckfascist. Regardless of what a likely bias think tank’s research may say.
I gotta ask you, if every time Snotboogie would grab the money and run away, why’d you even let him in the game?
What?
If Snotboogie always stole the money, why’d you let him play?
Got to, this America man.
The Netherlands, the country where Anne Frank famously hid from the Nazis. Which they now big up as a tourist attraction and evidence of their resistance to fascism. Now, likely going to bend the knee to fascism by sending modern-day Anne Frank back to the modern-day Nazis.
Fucking pathetic. No backbone, no courage, no morals.
The same, of course, can be said of my country as well.
Money, ignorance, ego, cruelty, hate, and idiocy rule the roost. Europe is not standing up to fascism as it should, but rather, embracing it. Forgetting all the lessons that were learned from the 1930s to 1945.
Never believe that
anti-Semitesfascists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. Theanti-Semitesfascists have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.- Jean-Paul Sartre
Thanks for the second source. The Telegraph is a right wing rag.
Hey now! The Americans have done far more than that, they’ve peacefully wandered around the neighbourhood and played some acoustic guitar. If that doesn’t attract the attention of politicians, what will?
/s
What are you talking about? I’ve been keenly following UK politics for about 15 years now and can’t think of any examples off the top of my head.
John Prescott got a reputation but that’s because someone threw an egg at him in the street so he punched the guy. Other than that I can’t think of any famous examples of politicians fighting.
I’ll take wasps any day over midgies.
Wasps will usually leave you alone, midgies will eat you alive!
That’s not exactly how it works though. Diplomatic immunity doesn’t have to be extended to anyone you don’t wish to extend it to. Ambassadors are regularly made to leave countries when those countries have disagreements. Diplomatic immunity is a courtesy, not a requirement.
If Putin steps foot in most European countries he should, by law, be arrested. There is no diplomatic immunity for him. This only happened because America isn’t signed up to the ICC and doesn’t give a fuck about basic decency, human rights, or war crimes.
They extended an invite to a war criminal, to supposedly resolve a conflict, without inviting the other side of the conflict. That’s not how diplomacy works. That’s corruption.
Also, England didn’t do shit. The UK did. Westminster. I should know, I live here. And I don’t live in England.
And it isn’t pro-Palestine speech, it’s pro a very specific group. I disagree with it heavily and view it as authoritarian, but let’s make sure we’re not spreading misinformation here. Support of Palestine Action is banned, not Palestine.
Pfft, check out this lil hottie and his hairdo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hamilton-Gordon,_4th_Earl_of_Aberdeen