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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 134 points 3 days ago (7 children)

That's rich coming from John Cleese, he was on the side of fucking over the peaceful state of international relatioships when it came to brexit, supporting the pricks that he's now criticizing.

He should just fuck off to the cayman islands and shut up. He cashed in all his Monty Python/Fawlty Towers goodwill when he became Basil

[–] bonenode@piefed.social 54 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I feel thats two different things though. You can be an asshole about European union but still dislike Trumps antics.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 days ago

"Deep down, I want to be a Cambodian police woman. Is that allowed, or am I being unrealistic?"

John Cleese on trans people

(He's definitely an asshole about more than the EU)

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 49 points 3 days ago (18 children)

Still an asshole in the end. Assholes disliking another asshole doesn't make them less of an asshole.

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There's a big difference between supporting fascists and dictators, and supporting the UK shooting it's own dick off.

But yeah, people shouldn't support either.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

well, supporting one leads to strengthening the other. a fuckload of brexit propaganda money came from russia, which should make it suspect.

Man that's a pretty ridiculous comparison when you consider what the other two have done.

He spent most of his adult life dodging taxes -- no surprise that he would be pro-brexit.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Dammit. I thought he was funny, turns out he's a xenophobic fuckhead.

I actually already couldn't enjoy Fawlty Towers anymore, the racism is obvious to me now that I'm an adult. It's distasteful. I guess for John, it wasn't just "the times" the show was made in. Ah well, plenty of not-fuckheads whose work can be enjoyed.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He’s both: funny and a xenophobic fuckhead.

Although… I’m not so sure that he’s still funny these days. It would seem not.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I agree. I guess I should have said I used to think he was funny. It's been a long damn time since he said anything that made me laugh.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're allowed to enjoy something for what it is while recognizing it's problematic.

Or follow gay humour where you find a bunch of fag jokes but you're laughing at the bumbling fool/homophobic person.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

But that's what I'm saying - I don't think those kind of jokes are funny anymore. When I was younger I thought it was all in good fun, that nobody really meant it and that's why it was funny, but then I saw the world and realised it's very much not. The humour was drained away by the hatred.

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[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 102 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Don't get to serious about membership. Trump just wants you to pay the membership fee.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago

Literally how Mar-a-Lago works. He wants people to pay him to make a rich boys' club for heads of state because all the other ones aren't money to him based. They're just about how much money does the country have, like the G8.

[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago

I think it’s that AND I suspect they allow corporations to join and that will legitimize corporations being as powerful as countries which allows dark enlightenment folks to have their corpo nation states

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[–] Imhotep@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sure we needed John Cleese's acknowledgment, but yes it's a good joke

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

All I know is: when a Python compliments your joke, you may have just peaked. Whoever wrote that needs to print it, frame it, and perhaps have it signed.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry to be that guy, but John has gone down the "you can't tell jokes anymore because woke" path and is also transphobic.

FML. Thanks for the warning.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 66 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Blue checkmarks fund Nazis and pedophiles

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Being on Twitter funds Nazis and pedophiles.

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago

Board of Piss

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 43 points 2 days ago (6 children)

The world is going to end in nuclear hell fire, isn't it?

[–] JackBinimbul@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

More likely to be economic collapse at this point.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ecological collapse, triggering economic collapse, triggering open conflict, triggering nuclear fires.

I should place a bet on a prediction market. ;)

[–] axexrx@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why bother. The money on that bet wont be worth anything if it comes true.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

For the ego of genocidal pedofile patriarchal narcissists.

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It's literally a joke on all of us. "Bored of peace" is what 47 is saying.

[–] babyfarmer@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

It might be a joke, but this shit is not funny.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

it would be three if Europe had a spine.

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 16 points 3 days ago

This one follows SciFi themes in which the most militant, oppressive, and intractable force is often called the peacekeepers.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 days ago

Trump is doing the war crimes too, hopefully he's on that list soon.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Board of Murdering Shitbags!

[–] metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Something's uncanny about Putin here, is this a body double, AI, a much older photo, or has he had some work done recently?

[–] pipes@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago

Looks like the photo is about 12 years old, I put the link on TinEye and one of the earliest appearances is this April 2014 article:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140417072542/https://www.jpost.com/diplomacy-and-politics/netanyahu-putin-discuss-iran-ukraine-via-telephone-348601

[–] BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Axis of Evil 2.0

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

*Bored of Peace

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