• Imhotep@lemmy.world
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    I’m not sure we needed John Cleese’s acknowledgment, but yes it’s a good joke

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      All I know is: when a Python compliments your joke, you may have just peaked. Whoever wrote that needs to print it, frame it, and perhaps have it signed.

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        Sorry to be that guy, but John has gone down the “you can’t tell jokes anymore because woke” path and is also transphobic.

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    That’s rich coming from John Cleese, he was on the side of fucking over the peaceful state of international relatioships when it came to brexit, supporting the pricks that he’s now criticizing.

    He should just fuck off to the cayman islands and shut up. He cashed in all his Monty Python/Fawlty Towers goodwill when he became Basil

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      I feel thats two different things though. You can be an asshole about European union but still dislike Trumps antics.

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        “Deep down, I want to be a Cambodian police woman. Is that allowed, or am I being unrealistic?”

        John Cleese on trans people

        (He’s definitely an asshole about more than the EU)

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              We can’t unite against a greater evil because we look to the right and they’re always right of us.

              We look to the right and see the pro-trans crowd as well but making them our enemy while the people further right of them ruin the world won’t work out for either of us.

              That’s what people are talking about by the above. If you were better informed you would have already known that.

              Like cool, we disagree with him but we can disagree with him on those things not on war crimes. If supporting him would stop the war crimes then we could support him until the war crimes stopped though that isn’t relevant in this scenario.

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                  Yeah, the left doesn’t have gender differences (outside of biology) so people feeling like they’re a different gender means there’s too much societal power in the label. Take any person say they are xx or xy and then switch it. They’re still the same person.

                  However that wasn’t the point, it was about how not being left enough stops us from uniting against the people right of all of us.

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            It’s the virtue of the left.

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      There’s a big difference between supporting fascists and dictators, and supporting the UK shooting it’s own dick off.

      But yeah, people shouldn’t support either.

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        well, supporting one leads to strengthening the other. a fuckload of brexit propaganda money came from russia, which should make it suspect.

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      Dammit. I thought he was funny, turns out he’s a xenophobic fuckhead.

      I actually already couldn’t enjoy Fawlty Towers anymore, the racism is obvious to me now that I’m an adult. It’s distasteful. I guess for John, it wasn’t just “the times” the show was made in. Ah well, plenty of not-fuckheads whose work can be enjoyed.

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        He’s both: funny and a xenophobic fuckhead.

        Although… I’m not so sure that he’s still funny these days. It would seem not.

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          Yeah, I agree. I guess I should have said I used to think he was funny. It’s been a long damn time since he said anything that made me laugh.

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        You’re allowed to enjoy something for what it is while recognizing it’s problematic.

        Or follow gay humour where you find a bunch of fag jokes but you’re laughing at the bumbling fool/homophobic person.

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          But that’s what I’m saying - I don’t think those kind of jokes are funny anymore. When I was younger I thought it was all in good fun, that nobody really meant it and that’s why it was funny, but then I saw the world and realised it’s very much not. The humour was drained away by the hatred.

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      Literally how Mar-a-Lago works. He wants people to pay him to make a rich boys’ club for heads of state because all the other ones aren’t money to him based. They’re just about how much money does the country have, like the G8.

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      I think it’s that AND I suspect they allow corporations to join and that will legitimize corporations being as powerful as countries which allows dark enlightenment folks to have their corpo nation states

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          The economy funds all of us, disproportionately, but even on the elite end you have Taylor Swift, Bill Gates, and George Soros who are not Nazis or Pedophiles.

          Twitter exclusively funds nazis and pedophiles.

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            Twitter exclusively

            The employees are all certified Nazis & pedophiles: has anyone told the FBI?

            Any sign X has started turning a profit? Twitter was sold while operating with losses. It’s lost significant advertising revenue since then.

            Anyhow, everything in the economy is interconnected. Circulating money inevitably flows through every earner’s pockets. With enough degrees of separation, every spender pays for Nazis & pedophiles. The degrees are few for US taxpayers: Musk’s companies have a few government contracts. I guess you could burn it. 🔥

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              The employees are all certified Nazis & pedophiles: has anyone told the FBI?

              Why would they be against that?

              Any sign X has started turning a profit? Twitter was sold while operating with losses. It’s lost significant advertising revenue since then.

              Do you think Bezos bought a Washington Post to make money?

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    This one follows SciFi themes in which the most militant, oppressive, and intractable force is often called the peacekeepers.

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    Something’s uncanny about Putin here, is this a body double, AI, a much older photo, or has he had some work done recently?