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New York, New York disruptionist.com Joined May 2008
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There’s no joke here or punchline. Chapelle hasn’t told a joke with a punchline in like 20 years. Now he just wanders around the stage trying to be some kind of midwit philosopher, delivering a bunch of safe “edgy” opinions in a self-congratulatory way like a late stage George Carlin. A totally insufferable unfunny hack. Wildly overrated for his whole career. Chapelle’s
Show does not hold up at all. He came up with like two funny sketches and that’s it. The media treated him like Jesus back in the day because he was a black comedian making jokes about white people. If you go back and watch some of that stuff now you’ll be shocked by how much it sucks.
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Tim Pool says it’s okay to publicly joke about the death of a private citizen because they are not a “thought leader”

joking about very public figures, however, is off limits!

we cannot joke about thought leaders!
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Don't care.

George Floyd was not a thought leader and he was actively doing drugs behind the wheel of a car and died because of the crimes he had committed and callousness of police thereafter

Charlie Kirk was a political leader at a scheduled and permitted college event who was intentionally shot in the neck to stop his ability to speak

There are lines.

The problem with cancel culture was not that people got offended, it was that the lines of offense were so insane that no one knew where to step.

Ten year old jokes resurfaced, fired
Your dad said a slur in the 80s, Fired
Tell your staff what words not to use, fired

"Canceling" is fine when the line is understood and reasonable

Mocking George Floyds death and saying that a drug abusing criminal was in hell? No one cares

Saying you feel good because a political leader was assassinated for speaking his opinions? People care

The lines here are easily understood.

Trump crossed the line with Mueller and I called him out for it.

I have always maintained its sad that George Floyd died

I dont care that people made AI memes of George and Charlie dancing

Dave Chappelle crossed the line when he said my friend being killed made him feel better.

Id rather live in a world where you can mock drug abusing criminals instead of political activists either way

Id argue beyond this we must mock Floyd and defend Charlie

A society that venerates a man who held a pregnant woman at knifepoint, does hard drugs while driving, uses counterfeit money, and resists arrest...

Or a society that venerates a family man who speaks to people to change their minds.

I know which I want to live in.
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