Like, I remember hearing about these folks when I was in school in Texas.

You realize that none of have any context for that, right? You could have been in school in Texas 3 years ago. Or it could have been in 1965. We don’t have any clue.

That being said, I fully agree with your overall post. I’m just nitpicking.

People call him a comedian, and if you define comedy as “something you find funny”, then yeah. By that definition, he’s a comedian.

But really he’s just a philosopher who points out lifes absurdities, and it’s the contrast between the truth, and what people feel permitted by society to say outloud that’s the basis of his comedy.

He makes you get feelings such as “What? You can’t say that!” And then he does a routine, and you think “Actually, he has a point, it feels wrong to say that, but he has a point”

And here’s the biggest thing about him that people don’t understand. He died in 2008. So people always like to say “Oh, I wonder what he’d say about politics and society today! He’d probably have a whole thing on trump!”

To which I say he already did that. His material holds up because society doesn’t change. The same shit that was true in 1844 is the same shit we’re dealing with today. Race, power, money, status, war. It’s a tale older than recorded history. We don’t learn. We keep repeating the same paterns as our fathers generation, just as he did for his fathers generation, just as he did for his fathers generation. And so on and so on and so on. Small details change, but the landscape of human behavior is unaffected. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

Anyways, here’s a bit from him. I didn’t watch it but based on the title, I’m fairly sure it’s the clip you reminded me of

All rights are privileges, if we’re going to be pedantic. This is evidenced by the fact that they can be taken away.

I know you don’t intend for me to hear this, but I heard George Carlin as you typed that. He has a whole bit on rights vs privileges.

…because ew.

That’s fine. Nintendo was already planning to impose the Nintendo tax. So I imposed the “I ain’t buyin’ this shit tax”.

2033??? It’s only 2025!!!

THIS GAME IS FROM THE FUTURE???

/j

I intentionally don’t watch the news. I know whatever they have planned can’t be stopped by me. It won’t be stopped by anything short of a national violent uprising. The type of thing that will be impossible to not know is happening. But for now, I can’t stand his voice. I can’t stand his lies. And from 2017-2021 I felt my mental health take a nose dive.

So I’m not doing it. I feel helpless in my own country, and the only power I have is the power to ignore literally everything until it’s time for civil war. Which I fully believe is coming.

…what? I’m out of the loop here. What makes you say HHH had lots of nazi stuff?

That…took a turn at the end there. I was with you, up until the Canada part. Am I missing context here, or is that as random to everyone else as it is to me?

Man…I got annoyed at the Nicole stuff. But I always figured whoever it was, it wasn’t her. I figured she was just some adult webcam “actress” that doesn’t even know Lemmy exists. And someone was using her image to do this.

Now she’s dead? How do we confirm this? Do we call the Toronto police? What would we even tell them?

HHH has entered the chat

Which coincidently means motorhead music is now playing. It’s Lemmy on Lemmy!

I wish people would take your stance on GTA 6.

Instead, I’m sure it’ll be like “100 billion copys sold in first hour!”

ONLY FOR European Union citizens! No Brits!

signs anyways…is American

You’re right, Ubisoft. I CAN’T complain about not owning the game. I never bought it. You know…because it’s an Ubisoft game!

Really unclear if you’re misquoting Jurassic Park, or if Jurassic Park just universally applies to EVERYTHING.

Damn…I didn’t even think about the fact that the red one was the leader. It’s been 30 years since I saw that show, and I was always a green ranger fan. Dark, brooding, mysterious, but does the right thing in the end.

My mom HATED making the gold shield on the chest for my halloween costume. She made a soft one, that looking at pictures now looks AWESOME!

But I remember at the time thinking “BUT MOOOOOM!!! IT HAS TO BE HARD!!! HOW IS A SOFT SHEILD GOING TO PROTECT ME AGAINST KUNG FU ATTACKS, AND SWORDS??? Plus all the lazor beams and lightning strikes! This thing is soft and wimpy!”

And then my mom said “HEY! I spent a LOT of time making that costume! I think it looks really cool! Now you appologize for being ungrateful or next year I won’t even make you a costume! You’ll have to settle for store bought!”

“Yes mom, sorry mom.”

Looking at it as an adult, I still think an actual hard motorcycle helmet would have really pulled the whole thing together, but I can’t complain. We were a poor family, and she was making a custom sewn costume from scratch, that would only be used once…and then I actually ended up using it to lay claim to always getting to pick green ranger when I’d play power rangers with the neighborhood kids. Never got the dagger though. Always had to use a tree branch. Which my sister then widdled down with a knife, and painted to look like the dagger.

I hadn’t thought about this in years. It makes me realize how lucky I am, when I see TONS of families being toxic to each other. I don’t have the mental capacity to understand how family could hurt their family. Yeah shit sucked growing up. Shit ALWAYS sucks when you’re poor. But I remember my mom splitting 2 sandwiches between her 3 kids, and not eating herself, just so we wouldn’t go hungry.

I should call her and appologize for being a brat sometimes as a kid. I think back to some of the shit I said/did, and now wonder how she didn’t just haul off and smack me sometimes…

…stop being right! I got angry reading that, but when I clicked reply to yell at you, I realized it was all emotional backlash on my end. I couldn’t formulate a thought process to show why you’re wrong. Because you’re not wrong. I just hate that you’re right!

Oh good. That means it should already be 2X lower then, right?

It could be either. I was thinking red scare communists, since the show was just after the fall of the soviet union.

But your way works too.

Should have cast a russian as the red ranger. I mean if you’re ALREADY being racist…

You could cast a person with depression as the blue ranger. Oh…I see you have that covered. And a female sex symbol as the pink ranger. Oh, thats covered too.