• railway692@piefed.zip
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    2 hours ago

    So what did he actually say?

    “Right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that you’ll get canceled,” Chappelle told an audience of 6,000, according to The New York Times. “I don’t know if that’s true, but I’m gonna find out.” He then added, “It’s easier to talk here than it is in America.”

    Well, that sounds… accurate. Doesn’t excuse the other things he’s said, but… yea.

    Edit: I stand by the first part of my comment. I was not paying enough attention to the second half (“it’s easier to talk here…”). That part, not so much.

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      19 hours ago

      Did you see the contract he signed? “Easier to talk here” is just factually incorrect.

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        If you’re looking for a factually correct comic, Carlin’s dead.

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          Sorry to tell you but Carlin was also part of “the club” He was way too rich to be one of us, even if he made money pretending to be.

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              Hes the one who created the concept, the hard right line was on him to define.

              But if you’re asking for my own opinion, when you’re a double digit millionaire (much richer with inflation) whose job it is to perform for sold out audiences, you’re no longer one of the little people

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        Say what you will about repression of free speech in Saudi Arabia (and there is a lot that can be said), at least with a contract you know where the line is. The royal family knows they’re not proponents of free speech.

        America is in that awkward teenage phase of not knowing who they are right now, leaving a lot of ambiguity around free speech.

        I appreciate Saudi Arabia’s clarity. Even if they are objectively wrong. America just seems self-righteously confused, if such a state even exists.

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      19 hours ago

      I wonder how that went over. It’s obviously criticizing America, but really at the expense of SA by saying their free speech is shit. (Which if you think about it violates the terms of the contract someone else posted in this thread.)

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        10 hours ago

        Depends on his intonation. It can come across as complimentary depending on which word he emphasized.