Zybourne Clock posted:

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

Why's that skeleton not talking into the microphone? Can people at the back of the room even hear him?

Dragonstoned posted:

More like "Why's that ventriloquist's mouth moving when the puppet is talking"

E the Shaggy posted:

"Use our product, it sucks!"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1681095483173883905?s=20

ben shapino posted:

Not Ghana pay those guys if he can get away with it

Tiny Timbs posted:

My “gently caress small businesses” bumper sticker makes a lot of people angry but I’m sticking with it

Anders posted:

1) This was "news" in 2021

2) it's a proposed ban on cross-platform cookies, not targeted ads per se

3) lol idiots for not fact checking anything they post

Incitatus posted:

Man, gently caress Oskar Schindler. Spielberg needs to make a movie about the guy who didn't laugh at Chapelle's Netflix special!

Time_pants posted:

I think the point is that only a handful ever have courage, opportunity, and resources at any given point in history who could ever become an Oskar Schindler. Pretty much everyone can make their voice heard in small ways multiple times a day with who you associate with, what media you choose to support, etc. Not saying anyone even has to apply that level of scrutiny to themselves, but if lots of people do that, our voices do add up.

Heath posted:

"What media you choose to support" is in no way material action, it is literally just cultural signifier. What movies you watch or what YouTube peoples' Patreons you donate to is utterly inconsequential in any meaningful sense.

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

ilmucche posted:

If we hate small businesses and also hate large businesses do we just hate any store or business at all

ymgve posted:

it's actually a new ban, and does directly target behavioral ads

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/norway-meta-ads-ban/

ilmucche posted:

If we hate small businesses and also hate large businesses do we just hate any store or business at all

Earwicker posted:

i dont know why you think this tendency is specific to something awful. humor changes dramatically over time, both in the sense that culture changes and what is considered funny or acceptable as comedy changes, and in the sense that as people age they tend to find different things funny than when they were young. its not just chapelle, there are a ton of old sitcoms and sketch comedy shows from the past that were once wildly popular, but come across as unfunny, or offensive, or dull, or just nonsensical in a modern context.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

https://nitter.net/ARTofCOOP/status/1681054644049682432

Boy that sure is some quality engineering on the Cybertruck

Bertha the Toaster posted:

Aren't all Teslas American Cars built this shitily? You'd think with its dumb squareness this'd be easier to get right though.

TulliusCicero posted:

Holy gently caress is he still doing rhis routine?

Like it was stale in 2008 good lord

...! posted:

A good example of this is Seinfeld. It was great back in its time but comedy has improved so much since then that by today's standards Seinfeld just seems painfully unfunny. I can't watch it.

Halisnacks posted:

Seinfeld is one that both me (a millennial) and my parents (boomers) enjoyed when it was on and the years after in syndication.

So many of the jokes and premises wouldn’t fly today; both me and my parents acknowledge that.

“They couldn’t make this today…”
Parents: “… because people have gotten too sensitive.”
Me: “… because we know better than to have casual (or overt) racism and homophobia in our comedy.”

Songbearer posted:

Apparently in 2014 there was an Achmed animated cartoon feature length film

Knowing that, imagine what it looks like in your head and be amazed when you're absolutely correct

Anders posted:

This is me and Tintin, though luckily Hergé regretted his early work and his association with a known fascist sympathizer

Popoto posted:

Lovecraft, too, I -think- came back later in life to comment on his overt racism in his early career (dont quote me on that.) maybe someone can confirm.

Lovecraft 1916 posted:

‘I regard the Celts as an inferior race, but little better than Mexicans, & but little more capable of self-government. They could never maintain an orderly existence save under the domination of some branch of the Teutonic master race—if they could leave England, they would have to take Germany as a master; in fact, I am not sure but that they need a few Prussian methods to curb their ebullient & seditious emotions.’

H.P. Lovecraft - Letter to Rheinhart Kleiner - June 14th 1916

Lovecraft 1934 posted:

‘With the high-grade alien races we can adopt a policy of flexible common-sense—discouraging mixture whenever we can, but not clamping down the bars so ruthlessly against every individual of slightly mixed ancestry. As a matter of fact, most of the psychological race-differences which strike us so prominently are cultural rather than biological. If one could take a Japanese infant, alter his features to the Anglo-Saxon type through plastic surgery, & place him with an American family in Boston for rearing—without stemming him that he is not an American—the chances are that in 20 years the result would be a typical American youth with very few instincts to distinguish him from his pure Nordic college-mates. The same is true of other superior alien races including the Jew—although the Nazis persist in acting on a false biological conception.’

H.P. Lovecraft - Letter to Natalie H. Wooley - November 22nd 1934

Lovecraft in 36 posted:

I do not believe that either the negro or australoid race will ever rise to power or found an autochthonous civilisation—both being of definite biological inferiority. Each forms a sort of sub-species (not a separate species, since interbreeding with undiminished fertility is possible of homo sapiens; exhibiting radical departures from the human norm established by the caucasian-mongoloid races, all of which departures are in the direction of the lower primates & of the extinct hominidae or sub-men whose skeletal remains have been so closely studied. As the ground-ape stock behind mankind evolved, it was constantly getting differentiated & throwing off lateral branches of sub-men, some of which seem to have quickly perished, whilst others survived & multiplied (like the neanderthaloids) down to a period on the verge of recorded history. Up to & including homo neandertalensis, these sub-men were undoubtedly of a separate species from ours—

H.P. Lovecraft - Letter to C.L. Moore - October 20th 1936

Jakabite posted:

I’d argue that it becomes material once you’re out there talking about it with others. I’d rather live in a society where Chapelle is shunned for spouting transphobic hate than one where everyone still likes him a great deal. As with so many things in politics/society, an individual doing something is next to inconsequential, but if everyone decides that this transphobia is quite acceptable and indeed funny, that’s very loving consequential.

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

That's not weird, most people with those views hated the Republicans in the first half ofbthe century.

Zybourne Clock posted:

Why's that skeleton not talking into the microphone? Can people at the back of the room even hear him?

Heath posted:

If doing this has any material effect at all, it's one that never works in your favor, ultimately, except to make you miserable by relentlessly scanning everything for whether it has the right kind of politics for you to laugh at or enjoy.

Heath posted:

People getting mad at Chappelle and talking about basically constantly made him more popular and basically only made everybody annoyed. The vast majority of people, if you're going to police their entertainment for its political messages, especially if they're not already open to even listening in the first place, tend to react negatively or become defensive. Hence why all of these fucks try to get cancelled nowadays. It's an attention goldmine. If doing this has any material effect at all, it's one that never works in your favor, ultimately, except to make you miserable by relentlessly scanning everything for whether it has the right kind of politics for you to laugh at or enjoy.

Heath posted:

People getting mad at Chappelle and talking about basically constantly made him more popular and basically only made everybody annoyed.

Incitatus posted:

Hogwart's Legacy benefitted massively from all the attention.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Not tolerating hate speach is just a path to your own misery, says genius on dead gay forum.