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AceMos
02/14/24 3:20:58 PM
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https://www.reddit.com/r/saltierthankrayt/comments/1aqllqn/the_internet_went_from_complaining_about_female/

there are more on his twitter

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Hayame_Zero
02/14/24 3:22:58 PM
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Reminder that this is the "comedian" that Alex Jones and PragerU had to distance themselves from.

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AceMos
02/14/24 3:25:07 PM
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Hayame_Zero posted...
Reminder that this is the "comedian" that Alex Jones and PragerU had to distance themselves from.
jesus how vile do you have to be for alex jones to nope out

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CRON
02/14/24 3:25:11 PM
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This is the kind of shit that happens thanks to the internet being too affordable and accessible. Idiots like this with dangerous viewpoints are given platforms thanks to the lowest common denominator suddenly gaining unrestricted access to the internet while having no media literacy.

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Smashingpmkns
02/14/24 3:26:41 PM
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I'd love that life
Guys who've never worked a manual labor job in their lives really think they can do anything

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MabusIncarnate
02/14/24 3:26:59 PM
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Wasn't Christina Ricci engaged to this guy? She broke it off, but still, it got that far with someone like this?

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Bandit_Keith
02/14/24 3:30:21 PM
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CRON posted...
This is the kind of shit that happens thanks to the internet being too affordable and accessible. Idiots like this with dangerous viewpoints are given platforms thanks to the lowest common denominator suddenly gaining unrestricted access to the internet while having no media literacy.
This has almost nothing to do with that. He is a standup comic and an actor. Without the Internet he still would have been a standup comic and an actor. He's not a random person that would have no exposure otherwise. He'd always have a platform somewhere, Internet or not.

This attempted assault on the accessibility of the Internet by some folks is so irrational to me.

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CRON
02/14/24 3:33:08 PM
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Bandit_Keith posted...
This has almost nothing to do with that. He is a standup comic and an actor. Without the Internet he still would have been a standup comic and an actor. He's not a random person that would have no exposure otherwise. He'd always have a platform somewhere, Internet or not.

This attempted assault on the accessibility of the Internet by some folks is so irrational to me.
His career in comedy and acting peaked in the early 2010s and when it started to fail he shifted to being an alt-right grifter. He was always an asshole but clearly he saw an opportunity due to the lowest common denominator giving so many of these grifters a platform, and went with it.


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Bandit_Keith
02/14/24 3:41:34 PM
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CRON posted...
His career in comedy and acting peaked in the early 2010s and when it started to fail he shifted to being an alt-right grifter. He was always an asshole but clearly he saw an opportunity due to the lowest common denominator giving so many of these grifters a platform, and went with it.
Again, having almost nothing to do with the Internets affordability being a mistake, as people like you imply. Idiots with dangerous views were given platforms long before this. People like him on his level suck majorly, but they aren't doing nearly as much damage COMBINED as folks like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, etc did.

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masterpug53
02/14/24 3:58:26 PM
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Bandit_Keith posted...
This attempted assault on the accessibility of the Internet by some folks is so irrational to me.

If you vaguely remember anyone on CE blaming the societal ill du jour on affordable internet access, it was almost assuredly CRON. It's been his tiresome gimmick for at least a couple years now.

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xlr_big-coop
02/14/24 5:08:42 PM
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Bandit_Keith posted...
This has almost nothing to do with that. He is a standup comic and an actor. Without the Internet he still would have been a standup comic and an actor. He's not a random person that would have no exposure otherwise. He'd always have a platform somewhere, Internet or not.

This attempted assault on the accessibility of the Internet by some folks is so irrational to me.
This

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thronedfire2
02/14/24 5:09:26 PM
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yikes

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Smackems
02/14/24 5:10:38 PM
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"the blacks"

Always a doozy when you see that

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bigblu89
02/14/24 5:24:53 PM
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CRON posted...
His career in comedy and acting peaked in the early 2010s and when it started to fail he shifted to being an alt-right grifter. He was always an asshole but clearly he saw an opportunity due to the lowest common denominator giving so many of these grifters a platform, and went with it.

I pseudo-followed his career around that time, because he was linked to a comedian I really like (Roy Wood, Jr.) becasue they were both on the TV show Sullivan & Son.

He was fairly left leaning at the time, and basically changed his online persona when he realized he'd get more reactions being an alt-right grifter. And that's when I cashed out on him and haven't really thought of him since.

It makes me wonder if it's all just an act, and just doing what he know would get a reaction.

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DrizztLink
02/14/24 5:26:07 PM
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bigblu89 posted...
It makes me wonder if it's all just an act, and just doing what he know would get a reaction.
Irrelevant when the end result is identical.

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cjsdowg
02/14/24 5:26:34 PM
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Dude is always on line being racist, and like I have literally never seen him say anything funny. That isn't like put down I mean that honestly .

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bigblu89
02/14/24 5:28:55 PM
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DrizztLink posted...
Irrelevant when the end result is identical.

Possibly, and this rhetoric is obviously a lot more damaging, but I equate it to people that purposely post sports "takes" that are 100% incorrect because they know it'll get 100k responses.

Kinda like how guys like Cowherd and Skip Bayless make their money.

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Carbon_Deoxxys
02/14/24 5:32:21 PM
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AceMos posted...
jesus how vile do you have to be for alex jones to nope out
I guess being an unapologetic racist
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mario2000
02/14/24 5:34:41 PM
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racism happens because the internet is too accessible

wow

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Smashingpmkns
02/14/24 5:34:45 PM
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Pretty much every young right wing grifter is a failed entertainer. Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk, Steven Crowder etc. Ian Miles Cheong used to be a left wing gamer gate person.

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DrizztLink
02/14/24 5:36:39 PM
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bigblu89 posted...
Possibly, and this rhetoric is obviously a lot more damaging, but I equate it to people that purposely post sports "takes" that are 100% incorrect because they know it'll get 100k responses.

Kinda like how guys like Cowherd and Skip Bayless make their money.
And they're functionally identical to the actual cultists, so distinguishing them is pointless.

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TMOG
02/14/24 6:21:17 PM
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Are we going to have the usual crowd in here saying "it's not racist, it's comedy"?

Or does that defense only apply to transphobic comedians and not racist ones?
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nativengine
02/14/24 6:24:06 PM
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Hayame_Zero posted...
Reminder that this is the "comedian" that Alex Jones and PragerU had to distance themselves from.
Damn

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mercurydude
02/14/24 6:43:27 PM
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AceMos posted...
jesus how vile do you have to be for alex jones to nope out

Kanye level bad, because he did that with Kanye too IIRC.

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Hayame_Zero
02/14/24 6:55:19 PM
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mercurydude posted...
Kanye level bad, because he did that with Kanye too IIRC.
If someone is actually making Jones go "whoa, hey, whoa now" to try and dial back what they're saying, it's another level of crazy.

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