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This is the writer of Borat 2 (hexbear.net)
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[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 93 points 9 months ago

reminds me of that thing Parenti usually throws out as an aside about how making common cause with the disenfranchised, disempowered, and materially insecure peoples is characterized by the hegemon as some kind of sneaky, duplicitous move to seize power... though how one actually receives power in this way is never explained.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 71 points 9 months ago

Liberals never explain it because they believe the world operates on magical thinking. If enough people combine their imaginations, the thing they want happens. That's how they conceive of reality

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 28 points 9 months ago

i d e a l i s m

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 21 points 9 months ago

For them that largely is how it works, they're able to will a lot of bourgeois policy into action because it didn't challenge power. When they see an actual challenge to power, they are incapable of approaching it from any other perspective because their brains have been rotted by their ideology.

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

they all know when they want unions to go away they have to hire pinkertons and employ cops to beat their skulls in. Suddenly they know their imagination isn't good enough and they have to take violent action to protect their interests.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, but they don't have to go out in the streets and protest for Pinkertons and cops to be called. They just think it and it happens and the status quo is maintained.

Calling the cops or hiring union busters is essentially magical thinking because it pretends to solve some problem with no real political action, it exists as a free side effect of the current system. You can literally dial 3 numbers and have just about anyone locked up if you're a rich white person.

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

Thumbing through Steve Jobs's dream journal so that I, too, can be a billionaire (and then self-medicate my pancreatic cancer with an all-fruit diet because I am a the world's largest gifted child)

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ironic, considering libs call other people orks: in warhammer 40k this is literally how orkish psionics operate. They can wish things into existence if enough of them believes something hard enough.

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 31 points 9 months ago

if i wanted power i would just be a psychopath ceo or a crony high level bureaucrat or lickspittle politician

[-] logflume@hexbear.net 77 points 9 months ago

Hamas has lobbyists and high ranking politicians spread throughout the world. There are right wing fanatical religious movements in different countries supporting Hamas. Hamas has broad support in the West and in Western media. Meanwhile, the Global South broadly condemns Hamas and supports…

wait sorry I got it flipped, that’s all Zionism

[-] Delphia@lemm.ee 20 points 9 months ago

I mean on the other hand, I know plenty of people who are either Egyptian, Jordanian, Lebanese, Persian (everyone I know who is from Iran magically becomes "Persian" once they immigrate for some reason... probably all that "Death to the west" that I see on the news) and for some reason I never have to ask where they stand on the issue. Muslims scare white people more than Jews, brown Muslims even more. Give them a beard and a kaftan and you watch Karen clutch her pearls. At least the Jewish people get Jon Stewart and Mel Brooks.

The vast majority of people dont see this as a vast complicated 70 year ongoing geopolitical hot potato, they just pick their side and defend it.

[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

Your first part of the comment reminded me of my coworker. She is proudly iranian (though i think that is more because she is from the Azeri part and is therefore not really persian) while also being a monarchist who want the Shah to come back and constantly defends the Shah as somehow more civilized than the current Islamic Republic.

[-] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 69 points 9 months ago

Finally, Zionist QAnon

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 58 points 9 months ago

going full "The Protocols of the Elders of Hamas" with this rhetoric doomer

[-] megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 9 months ago

I feel like the onion did a "you, yourself, at your home, are hamas" bit that i cant find, but i also cannot distinguish parody from reality, so...

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 48 points 9 months ago

I don't claim to know exactly what Hamas has and hasn't done to Israel. All I know is that Hamas definitely fucked this guy's mom.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 31 points 9 months ago

Digging subterranean tunnels all night long

[-] DickFuckarelli@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

o7 o7 o7 To the brave Hamas freedom fighting fuckers.

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

That is how you defeat the IOF cum extraction division.

[-] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 46 points 9 months ago

I cannot conceive of a comedy writer writing this and not realizing it sounds like they're doing a bit.

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 52 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

to be fair, he was one ninth of the writing team for Borat 2, a largely unscripted improv comedy

maybe his contribution was mostly in the "add more racism" scope

[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 31 points 9 months ago

"Needs more gypsie caricatures"

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

"Has anyone considered face paint for this character?"

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 29 points 9 months ago

It reads like an alex-aware rant

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

Maybe he's trying to carve out a niche for himself in the hopes he can become a Netflix comic.

"I'm very pro-Israel. Are ya triggered? I'm not saying we should kill everybody in Gaza and all the right people in the West Bank. But what if we did?..."

[-] regul@hexbear.net 38 points 9 months ago

*borat voice* NOT!

Thanks folks. If you want more hard-hitting and incisive comedy like that be sure to like and subscribe.

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 38 points 9 months ago

Literally doing the bit about Jews in Borat but switching in Palestinians and their supporters.

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 36 points 9 months ago

"And worst of all, he could be any one of us. He could be in this very room! He could be you! He could be me! He could even be..."

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 34 points 9 months ago

Maybe the real Hamas were the friends we made along the way

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 33 points 9 months ago

Fox news? Hamas. Dell computers? Hamas. Your mom's potato salad? Believe it or not, Hamas.

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Can't wait for Borat 3 making fun of how paranoid schizophrenic and insane the media is just taking Borat's wild bullshit stories at face value.

Itza true my nana told me when I was child! Whena I wasa teen shea said not to look at pretty girl or khummus appear in the pants. No one wants khummus in the pants.

[-] oregoncom@hexbear.net 23 points 9 months ago

sbc is a giga zionist.

[-] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 9 months ago

This must be a bit. Please be a bit.

[-] git@hexbear.net 26 points 9 months ago

Do a search for “oscar nominated” on this guy’s feed for a laugh.

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[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 25 points 9 months ago

he sounds like a guy that ends up being interviewed by borat

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 25 points 9 months ago

we are all hamas on this blessed day

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

*one of nine writers on Borat 2

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago

Borat 2: Electric Borataloo

[-] moonlake@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago

my wife!

(she is also an undercover Hamas agent)

[-] Lojcs@lemm.ee 18 points 9 months ago

I read this as satire

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Judging by some of his other posts it's not.

He got dunked on by Boots last week

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

It does sound like the kind of over the top parody of antisemitic conspiracy theories you would expect to find in a Borat movie.

[-] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

Ok, but you do get that if I just accept all of this as true it does make Hamas into the most impressive organization ever? If they can run and coordinate all of these organizations with the resources they currently have, don't you want to see what they could do with full control of the resources of a major Western state?

[-] PosadistInevitablity@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

All thirty third party witnesses are lying your honor.

The defendant is innocent. He even said so!

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

I assume he's been ironic to diss on Zionists, but I honestly can't tell anymore.

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