• ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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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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      14 hours ago

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

      • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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        13 hours ago

        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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            9 hours ago

            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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      10 hours ago

      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.