terminal :centrist:
I love Ken Jennings, but that was such a bone-headed response. At least he owned up to it.
Yeah, I mean, he’s a bright guy, and I thought a political fellow traveler, and should have lifted some Keir starmer rhetoric lmao
i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob
can we please get /c/terminallyonline for this drama I don't care about with people I don't know?
A different community for terminally online shit? But then what would go in /c/main??? :stalin-stressed:
It's an international news story now.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55515243
#1 on most read for the day
You guys know there are actual outspoken fascists and stuff to deal with right? Like this was funny at first but the fact this so soaking up so much attention really says a lot about the western left’s priorities
Trust me, I didn't go looking for it. I check mainstream news sites to see what people are focusing on and noticed the bean guy was on the front page of a European public broadcaster.
You know you can do more than one thing at once, right?
You actually can’t. Every minute spent squabbling over this is a minute not spent doing something else.
He actually said this before the worst of the tweets surfaced. At this point he was just defending his friend from accusations of child abuse and the first couple tweets that seemed pretty satirical. He’s gone silent since then
Yeah funny that this is suddenly now a problem lol. Isn’t this the positions of Kier Starmer and the Tories and the Republicans and all the other anti-Semitic Zionists who want jews all in an ethnostate?
its like you actually sat down and planned out how to write the worst response to this possible
yeah fair enough
:che-laugh: :michael-laugh:
Felix also came to beandad’s defense and got absolutely wrecked by a garf account lmao.
Unfortunately I think we just hit the quota on good or funny things to happen in 2021.
Eh, Felix didnt really defend Beandad as much as he made fun of the people cancelling Beandad.
https://twitter.com/byyourlogic/status/1345866236782129154?s=21
Despite what the user above said, Felix did not get owned by Garfield pfp
The pod has had a consistent anti-cancelling line since forever, not sure why this would surprise you. They always come out of these squabbles looking a lot more sane too
I'd been following that garf for a while but honestly he just has some bad takes and I unfollowed him after he made fun of Lee Carter running for governor.
Yeah I think I follow that garf but they’re hard to tell apart lol. Also not convinced Lee Carter is ready for that not to backfire.
I honestly checked out of this whole thing when the Hoarse Whisperer started doing tweet threads about how bean dad is doing traumatic child abuse and all the other centrist idpol ghouls started to feast, and the news got on BBC.
I’m not going to be a part of this shit
On BBC :agony:
Don't tell me they're posting Hoarse Whisperer tweets on television in the UK too 🤣.
If you had told me 2021 would begin with the dude from the Long Winters going on an adderall rant about keeping his kid hungry for six hours "as a teaching moment", I would have gone "that seems fucking ridiculous"
Its not as if there would also be a global pandemic going on with tens of thousands and thousands dead. However I do also side with the kid, we are against all oppression, but also against oppression of limiting the field of discourse by bourgeoisie news media.
Critical support for bean kid against bean dad imperialism
I’m pretty sure the kid wants her dad not to be media crucified and become a public pariah. Do you think this spectacle has any actual consideration for the well-being of the kid? The way you phrased that was weird..
Sometimes you see clear cut child abuse. Sometimes people hype it, but honestly, from the second degree stuff one could gather about bean dad it is better for the kid to not have 9-12 years more of his abuse without knowing that there are people who would've supported them. Speaking as someone who has a few experiences with abusive parenting.
Yeah let’s separate the kid from their dad over an ill conceived bean lesson
This is why nobody takes you seriously
What kind of bullshit you write. Getting personal and claiming I want to separate those from the text alone.
This is extra hilarious considering this end of the year tweet trying to clean up so he could host Jeopardy: link to tweet
Imagine giving Alex trebek cancer to take over his show and this is your response that you took time to type out, but didn’t even do it in the form of a question
I wonder if Ken getting all caught up this lowers his stock in the search for Trebek's replacement....
Pretty sure this raises it. This is the kind of racism-and-apartheid-supporting sort of verbiage they want to see from their propagandists.
Ken is a socialist who got backed into a corner here. You need to chill
I follow him on Twitter. He's a fine person. Jeopardy did have an episode where they told a blatant lie that Bethlehem was in Israel, and they never corrected it on air even though they gave the person their points during commercial break.
I've listened to John's podcasts for something like 10 years now (my username is actually a reference to one of his bits) nd I honestly don't think he is racist, anti-semitic, etc. He is, however, guilty of "edgy" ironic and sarcastic tweets, which have not aged well and were probably not a good idea in the first place. In all of the "Bean Dad" drama, I don't think I've seen anyone point out that he's been incredibly open about his struggle with bipolar disorder and this pile-on is kind of gross in that light . Like I told a friend, I'd probably be more sympathetic about his tweets being mischaracterized if he hadn't spent the past year mischaracterizing Bernie and other leftists. (The man recently spent a few post-election podcasts talking about how he is a proud liberal.) Anyway, this is not a hill I'm willing to die on, so that's all I have to say except don't use your real name when posting ironic comments because they will be taken out of context.
It's okay to treat your kid like shit if you have bipolar?
I honestly don't think the whole "figure it out" thing was that awful, even if there weren't any exaggeration—which I suspect there was. But I am old (not as old as John, but old) and I am guessing there's a generational divide here.
Figure it out is fine making it an intensely frustrating experience and making it lastbbn 6 hours was not, there's a point where the kid gets the basic mechanism but it hasn't clicked just how to hold it that's when he should have taught her seemed early on and would have been fine
Are we cancelling people for associating with their friends now? He defended him before the worst of the tweets surfaced. Would any of you do differently if it was your friend?
Oh, no, don't worry i'm not trying to cancel anyone; i genuinely don't care about twitter drama between strangers on the other side of the world. I just think saying "On our show he's always the pro-Israel one!" and thinking that automatically prevents anti-semitism is funny and also peak :LIB:
Yeah definitely a knee jerk cringe take. He’s cornered and caught off guard about his friend, this defense was also before the worst tweets came up. He’s gone radio silent so I assume he’s working this out and will come back with a statement. Omnibus is done I think.
would you do differently?
uhhh, yes?
like, you dont need to publically drag your friend, but if your friend is being tied to weird racist shit maybe dont publically defend them either if you dont want to get slapped with the same brush.
maybe instead be like "hey @friendlyfriendo wtf is up with this?" and have a little chat about it next time you bring the spouse and kids over for a bbq
hes literally asked about the weird antisemetic shit in the op image, so.. no, it isnt
Yeah that was the first to come up and the first couple were over the top obvious satire.
Once the n-words and rape jokes came up Ken stopped tweeting. Probably doing damage control behind the scenes
yeah whatever. youre downbearing me for saying i would have done differently, if my friend was credibly accused of racism, by simply not being racist... so, fuck off :LIB:
Again, at the point of his tweets there were no accusations of racism or racist tweets yet unearthed.
Once those came up Ken never said anything.
Are you able to grasp the concept of linear time?
again at this point of his tweets he was asked about antisemetism and chose to be a dumbass that equates anti-israel with antisemitism.
are you able to grasp that?
