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    • LoMeinTenants [any]
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      I love Ken Jennings, but that was such a bone-headed response. At least he owned up to it.

  • PowerUser [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    can we please get /c/terminallyonline for this drama I don't care about with people I don't know?

    • Lerios [hy/hym]
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      A different community for terminally online shit? But then what would go in /c/main??? :stalin-stressed:

    • halfpipe [they/them]
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      It's an international news story now.

      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55515243

      #1 on most read for the day

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        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

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          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.

          • Rabid_Dog [they/them]
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            You actually can’t. Every minute spent squabbling over this is a minute not spent doing something else.

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      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

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    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:

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      And then next response literally uses the word axis. beautiful.

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    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.

    • FunnyBunny [he/him]
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      Eh, Felix didnt really defend Beandad as much as he made fun of the people cancelling Beandad.

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          https://twitter.com/byyourlogic/status/1345866236782129154?s=21

          Despite what the user above said, Felix did not get owned by Garfield pfp

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      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

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.

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        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

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          On BBC :agony:

          Don't tell me they're posting Hoarse Whisperer tweets on television in the UK too 🤣.

      • cilantrofellow [any]
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        4 years ago

        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.

  • AluminiumXmasTrees [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    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"

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      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.

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        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..

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          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.

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            Yeah let’s separate the kid from their dad over an ill conceived bean lesson

            This is why nobody takes you seriously

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              What kind of bullshit you write. Getting personal and claiming I want to separate those from the text alone.

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    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

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    I wonder if Ken getting all caught up this lowers his stock in the search for Trebek's replacement....

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      Pretty sure this raises it. This is the kind of racism-and-apartheid-supporting sort of verbiage they want to see from their propagandists.

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        Ken is a socialist who got backed into a corner here. You need to chill

        • blobjim [he/him]
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          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.

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    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.

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        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.

        • Rufashaw [he/him,they/them]
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          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

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    The axis in question would be the Rome-Tokyo-Berlin axis.

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    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?

    • Lerios [hy/hym]
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      4 years ago

      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:

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        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.

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      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

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            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

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              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:

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                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?

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                  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?

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                    Yeah and he realized what he said was dumb and he was starting to post cringe, apologized, and logged off

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                      yeah and good for him. you then asked what people would do differently and i answered.

                      let me rephrase the answer for you:

                      if my friend were making tweets about abusing his daughter, i would not jump to his public defense, like an absolute dumpster fire of a human

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                        Except Ken knows his friends relationship with his daughter, and he knows his friends propensity to tell exaggerated, stupid stories. There were people on Twitter contacting CPS and calling bean dad a child abuser, which is pretty over the top for his stupid story. I don’t think it’s out of line to mention something in their defense if that’s all it was, but John had to go and be an edgy teenage-brained bigot. Once this became apparent, Ken logged out.

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                          neat. and were i his friend i would not have jumped to his defense, because cps doesnt just break down doors and seize kids. theres nothing to come to the defense of or for if you know hes not a shitbag.

                          im not out to "cancel" either of these two, but holy fuck does the defense getting thrown up around them make me think maybe yall all should be

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                            Y’all y’all’s y’all y’all shitbag shitbag dumpster fire y’all y’all “cancel” y’all

                            Guilt keeps jumping to another step of association. First it’s bean dad who is heretical. Then it’s his friends. Then it’s anyone who defends his friends. Then it’s their friends.

                            Cancel the whole planet and keep that guilt by association comin baby

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                              slippery slope slippery slope you cant just say people shouldnt defend racists and child abusers thats a slippery slope

                              shut the fuck up

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                                It’s not a “slippery slope”. You are right in front of me Cancelling me for defending Ken who is canceled because he defended the bean dad.

                                You’re already down the slope. Can’t wait for you to cancel any user who comes to my defense, or to their defense. Or to that persons defense