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How dare she do something to help people.


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I was very confused in Kingsmen (which HOLY FUCK THAT MOVIE IS ALMOST 8 YEARS OLD) when Eggsy was accused of "nicking" someone's car. I was like "Nah, he did way more than nick the paint, buddy".

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Guerrilla Soldier posted...

i love mcu and i don't give a shit about the eternals. i'll watch it randomly some day.

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"Not one patriot is standing up for me," Ryan told The Post. "I'm a complete villain. I was down there based on what my president said: 'Stop the steal.' Now I see that it was all over nothing. He was just having us down there for an ego boost. I was there for him."

In the months since her arrest, however, Ryan's Twitter feed has continued to feature retweeted posts floating a baseless conspiracy theory that the FBI was involved in the January 6 attack and links to articles questioning the integrity of the 2020 election alongside links to her real estate listings.

"Yup, I learned my lesson, no more crazy conspiracies for me. I was lied to, I know that and it's embarrassing."

60 Days in jail and a $500 fine for attempting a fucking coup.

Unreal.

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Ah, America, where you absolutely cannot tax billionaires on unrealized gains, but you can definitely sue someone over imagined loses.

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wbloechel posted...

X-Men, the big one.

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Presidential pardon.

thronedfire2 posted...

Biden should pardon him

Dang, beat me to it.


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HesOurYou posted...

Fear Factor. And didnt he fight George Lopez?

sabin017 posted...

He ended Carlos Mencia's career.

He's popular because he does the centrist grift. The centrist grift is where you start out by saying you don't like either side, and that you're only interested in having conversations with people and asking questions, bro.

Then you spend decidedly more time talking to not just Republicans, but far right lunatics like Alex Jones, and you don't challenge them on anything. By not challenging them on their bullshit, you are by default presenting their nonsense as legitimate, because after all, if it were made up bullshit, surely Joe would be calling them out, right? But he's not ever interested in calling anyone out, he's just asking questions, bro.

Did you notice how Dave Rubin was a member of the highly touted member of the Intellectual Dark Web, until he kept making them look bad by saying absolutely idiotic things? Then Dave Rubin goes on Rogan's podcast, as he has many times before, but this time was different. This time Joe was challenging him. This time when Dave said something dumb, Joe didn't nod his head in agreement, this time he was being called out, and Dave Rubin looked absolutely gob-smacked at what was going on?

There's 2 ways you can take this.

1) Rogan had Rubin on numerous times through the years, talked with him on and off the podcast, had dinner with the man several times; as they would all always post selfies together, but suddenly only after talking to him for years did he realize that Dave Rubin was a moron.

2) Rogan and his IDW pals said "Man, this guy is saying some things that even we can't find a way to agree with and he needs to be taken down a peg".

Dave comes on the show, gets embarrassed, and hasn't been invited back since; nor has he shown up at any IDW gatherings.

So either Rogan is a complete idiot himself since it took him so long to realize that Dave Rubin shouldn't be listened to, or he's a grifter like the rest of the IDW and knows exactly what he's doing.

Pick one.

Why is he famous? IMO it's because he's mastered how to tip toe the grift between left and right. He's a borderline Socialist when he needs to be, but then has Ben Shapiro on to talk about how systemic racism ended after the Civil War. It's pretty wild.

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Things that didn't happen for $500, Alex.

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That didn't take long.

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Just keep working hard and one day in 10 or 11 thousand years you'll have your own rocket ship too.

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I feel like he could stomp the MCU Avengers, but not comic book Avengers. World Breaker Hulk, Rune King Thor, and whatever they called Doctor Strange after he sold part of his soul during the Incursion arc; they would all 1 hit KO Omni Man.

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Xethuminra posted...

Prometheus. I never showed an alien in it it still made $404 million at the box office and the studio said, See, it didnt do so well! Really?

That's not a terrific boast because he told everyone that Prometheus was a prequel to Alien, so everyone went to it expecting to see a Xenomorph at some point, and that didn't happen. So, congrats, you swindled your fans out of $404 million by loosely connecting Prometheus to Alien with the thinnest and shortest of threads. Which is why when Alien Covenant came out it didn't do nearly as well as Prometheus, because you alienated (heh) almost half of your audience.

Well, that and he let Damon Lindelof write the first movie. If there's one thing Lindelof does extremely well, it's introducing a bunch of mysteries and though provoking questions that he has absolutely no intentions of ever answering.

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If police were a business, that business would go under faster than a Blockbuster in 2013.

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This is about as risque as a typical Marvel MCU joke.

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masterpug53 posted...

That moment when you realize your long-running grift might actually have horrible consequences, and you don't quite know how to feel about it.

At least this reaction shows that this Kirk fella does at least have some semblance of a conscience, screaming out from a rusty cage in the pit of his soul.

You're still giving him too much credit.

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Valjackal posted...

This hit me hard.

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sktgamer_13dude posted...

People will stop posting when you pay us

Ransom. I like it.

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LightningAce11 posted...

Watching interstellar in imax is an experience unmatched by any other film.

Can confirm. Nolan and Imax is a wonderous combo, especially with Interstellar.

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Of course righties want to charge him. He made fun of the god emperor.

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Xethuminra posted...

You just described the slasher genre tho. Plus a budget, good cinematography, and decent acting.

You know what, you're right. I wouldn't say that for slashers of the 70's and 80's, but once you get to the 90's and especially the 00's, most of these do indeed apply. That's probably why I prefer the old ones.

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Because Rob Zombie is a hack director that relies on shock value to pass as horror.

The Rob Zombie Horror Movie Starter Pack:
White trash
Lots of drugs and alcohol
"Fuck" must be used 3 times in each sentence
Idiotic main characters
Gore, gore, more gore


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The movie or the documentary?

The doc was pretty good.

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Gobstoppers12 posted...

Or...OR...Nobody should be expected to pointlessly risk their lives doing said risky job when safety measures are readily available. If you had the option of:

1.) Confronting a potentially dangerous suspect alone

Or

2.) Confronting a potentially dangerous suspect with backup

Which would you realistically choose?

https://news.wttw.com/2021/10/20/five-times-many-police-officers-have-died-covid-19-gunfire-start-pandemic



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Blue lives matter more than children. We've known this for a while.

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It doesn't matter at this point. What matters to me is that the NFL knew about the abuse of cheerleaders for at least the last year and they covered it up with a sham investigation. Jay Gruden said on the team radio here that he was not ever interviewed by anyone doing the investigation. How do you not interview the 3rd most powerful man in the building, who was there for 5 years, specifically being there when said abuse was happening?

The investigator gave an oral report and that's it. There's no written report. We got 243 pages on Tom Brady's balls missing 1 PSI but nothing on cheerleaders being pimped out to VIP clients.

Unreal.

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DrizztLink posted...

Ok

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They were very clearly rushing to an ending by whatever means they needed to, logic be damned.

Even if we knew for certain that the way the show ended came from GRRM himself, it would have played it better if it happened over the course of a few seasons. People teleporting and doing things that they never would have done just a season, or even a few episodes before is really just the tip of the iceberg.

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Antifar posted...

Update: https://twitter.com/verge/status/1449082929808920587

The employee was terminated on suspicion of leaking metrics to the press related to the Dave Chappelle special. Those metrics about how much Netflix paid for The Closer and how many people it reached subsequently ended up in a report on Bloomberg. While the employee had shared the metrics internally, they spoke out against the leaks to colleagues, worried they might hurt the walkout movement.

A Netflix spokesperson confirmed the employees dismissal. We have let go of an employee for sharing confidential, commercially sensitive information outside the company, they said. We understand this employee may have been motivated by disappointment and hurt with Netflix, but maintaining a culture of trust and transparency is core to our company.

I have to imagine she knew how that would end.

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Lairen posted...

This is lowkey racist.

How are cardinal directions racist?

PatrickMahomes posted...

I dunno. Does California really have any redeeming qualities like those you seem to think are lacking in the south?

Yes, they pay for poor red states.

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Yeah, I thought I was correctly informing my 16 year old daughter the other day that she needed to double space her sentences and she looked at me like I was insane and speaking a different language. Can confirm that it is apparently no longer a thing.... I graduated in 2000, it was still a thing then at least...

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Depends on where you live. Where I currently reside? No.

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I'm shocked!!!

Also, release all the emails NFL.

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Dave "I'm keenly aware that my jokes were indirectly harming the black community in 2005, so I walked away form my own show and literally cancelled myself; but of course I can joke about an even more marginalized community, and if anyone thinks I'm causing harm to them at all, well that's just silly, they are just jokes and should not be taken seriously, you know, taken seriously like I did in 2005 when I cancelled my own show" Chappelle

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This is wrestling!!

*clap clap clapclapclap*

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Clutch posted...

This is Daves point. Who is doing something similar to this to trans people? Youre equating stand up to Jim Crow, and you see nothing wrong with that.

https://www.hrc.org/news/new-study-reveals-shocking-rates-of-attempted-suicide-among-trans-adolescen

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2021/05/19/terrible-time-for-trans-youth-new-survey-spotlights-suicide-spike---and-hope/?sh=4ec2cc2f716e

Yeah, they're only being harassed and bullied into suicide at a far higher rate than other people in the same age groups. Are you asserting that because there aren't more stories of transgender people being banned from restaurants that they aren't facing massive discrimination in other ways? FFS people don't want them to be able to use either bathroom and there's legislation in place to force them to have their genitals inspected. What the fuck are you even talking about?

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Here's why I truly have a problem defending Chappelle on this one, despite being a big fan of his.

Chappelle first spoke to Oprah in 2006 about the pressures and people around him that left him feeling "manipulated" when he quit. Chappelle later offered more details to David Letterman in 2020, saying, It was me dressed in blackface who'd pop up anytime a person felt the pains of racism, which is a tough trick to pull off. It's not a bad sketch, but hearing the wrong laugh, while you're dressed that way, it makes you feel shame." Ultimately, the incident with the skit was like a fatal blow after an exhausting pummelling of creative struggles with those around him.

Famously one of the reasons he stopped doing the Chappelle Show was because of this particular sketch that he's speaking on here. In that moment it became clear to him that there were certain people that were no longer laughing with him, but at him, and by extension, at black people. He's talked about this many times over the years since the show ended.

I've always wished that the show kept going, and as a white dude, it really pissed me off that anybody would laugh at Dave and the rest of the guys on the show instead of with them. At the end of the day though, I completely understood and respected his decision to call it quits. This is obviously not the only reason he ended the show, as he also famously gave the "Baboon and the salt" analogy; but this was the very first reason he ever gave as to why he ended the show.

My point is this: if Dave can be so keenly aware of racism that he was able to determine that white people were no longer laughing with him, but at him, and that his jokes were doing more harm than good at that particular moment to the black community; but he doesn't see how punching down on a marginalized community would do the same thing in this instance, well, that's either being purposefully obtuse, or completely ignorant about the situation.

He's either, at best, horrendously misinformed, or at worst, punching down and having no issues with it because it doesn't effect him. IE: he didn't want people laughing at black people, because he's black; but has no issues with people laughing at trans people, because he's not trans.

So which is it? Is he a hypocrite who has no problems making fun of people, as long as he's making fun of people that don't fit his particular demographic; or is everything fair game and he was full of shit for quitting his show when he did, for the reason he did? Because you really can't have it both ways. If you quit your show because you saw the damage your jokes were apparently doing to your own community, but have no issue joking about another marginalized community, then you're full of shit. And if you're fine with the reason he gave as to why he left his show, but also don't see a problem at making jokes at the expense of trans people, then you are also full of shit, because Chappelle is literally saying "I'm fine with making fun of everyone except for ME!" to the point where he walked away from $60 million dollars.

This man literally cancelled himself because he felt like his jokes were painting black people in a bad light, but trans people are fair game? All I'm asking for is consistency. If he felt like his jokes were punching down on black people and stopped, then why should punching down on an even more marginalized community be OK with him or anyone else? Either marginalized communities are off limits for jokes because jokes have the potential to be damaging to a community, or they aren't. Pick one.

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Clutch posted...

Except he mostly targeted the people getting offended on behalf of trans people, not trans people themselves.

You know who else made fun of people standing up for others?



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WeeWeiWiiWie posted...

Really fucked that Joe Rogan can use his gigantic platform to push medical advice that will get people killed and he will see no consequences for it.

"I'm just asking questions bro."

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Literal death cult.

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....

Yeah, I guess she could have gone in there and talked about how we faked the moon landing, the Earth is flat, and there's a firmament around us? Like.... what?

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I've been using them for about a year and a half, coming from a Gillete Fusion myself. I prefer Harry's, although like the poster above, I don't use mine too often. I keep a beard all year, so I really only use it every 10 days or so to trim up. That said, my first one lasted about 9 months with that limited use, where as Gillette was maybe 4 months max.

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cardoor123 posted...

They're fucking criminals, they don't get to decide what blanket to use. And if it's such a problem then they shouldn't have committed the crime in the first place. Fuck them

Psychopath.

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