• HarryLime [any]
    hexbear
    173
    8 months ago

    This is the first I'm hearing that Biden has the hostages. It is pretty fucked up that he won't let them go ngl

  • ReadFanon [any, any]
    hexbear
    117
    edit-2
    8 months ago

    Sacha Baron-Cohen of all people did this?

    You mean the celebrated comedian whose most famous schticks are the generic Muslim Middle Eastern dictator who is terrible in every way and the Central Asian anti-Semite who is sexually deranged and borderline uncivilized?

    Why, it's almost as if this was inverted and a Muslim man from the Middle East played a grossly stereotyped depiction of an Israeli Jew for cheap laughs that there would be an immense outcry against what clearly amounts to open bigotry and racist caricature...

    • SteamedHamberder [he/him]
      hexbear
      83
      8 months ago

      To his Credit, SBC also played a grossly stereotyped Israeli for laughs as Elan Morad

      • ReadFanon [any, any]
        hexbear
        37
        8 months ago

        I think there's a discussion to be had about satirising the in-group vs satirising the out-group, especially when it comes to how privilege intersects with this stuff.

        Obviously there's the whole both-sidesism thing and also how equal opportunity bigotry primarily serves the interests of the dominant groups.

        • SteamedHamberder [he/him]
          hexbear
          18
          8 months ago

          I think the main joke about Elan morrad isn’t how racist Israelis are though- but it’s certainly a part of the setup.

          the joke is that Americans can be conned into insane Islamophobia because they worship the Israeli “security” apparatus.

          • RyanGosling [none/use name]
            hexbear
            1
            edit-2
            8 months ago

            I think he was playing some 3D chess by “criticizing both sides,” the left for correctly believing that the IDF is a genocidal force, and the right for believing the same and praising it

      • AlpineSteakHouse [any]
        hexbear
        27
        8 months ago

        He also played a very funny gay Austrian in Bruno but everyone forgets that.

      • Ericthescruffy [he/him]
        hexbear
        25
        8 months ago

        Imagine if SBC had better politics and he used that character and his brand of irreverence to get some real mask off reactions about the current situation.

          • RyanGosling [none/use name]
            hexbear
            7
            edit-2
            8 months ago

            Borat and What Is America had many scenes that explored the American zeitgeist in their respective eras. WIA had some funny moments like when he got some Republican politician to say dumb shit and got Dick Cheney to sign a water board jug. It’s offensive enough for liberals to seem like they’re not voting, but not radical enough to really “expose” anything.*

            *Though one time he got some hotel manager to reveal that he can procure underage girls. They reported it to the FBI, but he likely reported one of their own agents.

    • Fishroot [none/use name]
      hexbear
      33
      8 months ago

      Remember the end of the Chicago Seven when he did a revisionism stating that the USA system is the best and working within it is the only way to go?

      • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
        hexbear
        5
        edit-2
        8 months ago

        when he did a revisionism

        Aaron Sorkin wrote and directed that movie, I don't think you can pin that all on SBC

    • Red_Scare [he/him]
      hexbear
      23
      8 months ago

      Reminder he exploited and ridiculed deeply impoverished people in rural Romania while making Borat.

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7686885.stm

  • AOCapitulator [they/them]
    hexbear
    50
    8 months ago

    if you take any kind of moral stand and find out the goop lady is a cosigner, maybe think about what you're doing

  • Stoatmilk [he/him]
    hexbear
    39
    8 months ago

    They are in the Illuminati and thus know Biden is secretly the leader of Hamas

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
    hexbear
    37
    8 months ago

    these liberals they have a week grasp of how hostage taking works. That or they think Biden runs Hamas

  • TupamarosShakur [he/him]
    hexbear
    33
    8 months ago

    Critical support to Joe Biden in his war against Israel. Real dark brandon hours

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
      hexbear
      20
      8 months ago

      i want to make a joke about like PFLP biden wearing a keffiyeh and hijacking a plane bound for tel aviv but it's actually insane that this fucking mummy is openly encouraging netanyahu to commit genocide and these stupid fucking Celebs are like "uhh sir mr president when are you going to tell Hamas to Stand Down sir" idk they gotta be cutting the adrenochrome with bleach or something

  • @BennyHill500
    hexbear
    32
    8 months ago

    Can't decide if this or the celebs singing imagine in the beginning of COVID was dumber

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      31
      8 months ago

      That was tone deaf, but at least it wasn't trying to contain political content. Writing an open letter on behalf of the status quo to the president, and phrasing it like that is just so dumb.

      • Vncredleader [he/him]
        hexbear
        12
        8 months ago

        True, though there is something so specially demonic and symbolically powerful about cars of celebrities singing amid mass death.