• MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    The moment someone starts going all “anti-woke” you know they’ve got something to hide and they are trying to get acquainted with the pardon-dealing industry.

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      Yeah. Forcing himself on women was entirely consistent with his public persona, but shifting hard right just to seek cover makes it so much scummier.

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      6 days ago

      I need to just stick off other social media, nice that this is the consensus here

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      I’m not entirely sure it wasn’t the other way around.

      He probably knew some charges were coming years ago, and started adapting his output accordingly.

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        Oh for sure. He’s been soft-pedaling his right-wing transformation ever since the initial allegations went public years ago. The hard turn recently is probably exactly as you say, he knew charges were coming.

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          the suddenly “baptism” was obvious, because he mustve knew charges were going to be brought against him eventually

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            It doesn’t take much calculating at all. It’s just easy to convince right-wing audiences that sexual misconduct allegations are all a conspiracy by the Deep StateTM to silence them. It’s a pretty basic grift.

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    Well, I’ve seen this coming for a while now, but I must admit, I actually liked him once upon a time. His comedy specials weren’t just funny, they made you think about the abstract ideas of religion and consciousness. He was like a handsome rockstar comedian, the sort of person I wish I could be. Smart, sexy, cool, interesting. Hell, when I got sober from alcohol, reading his book that re-imagined the twelve steps into something less religious actually helped.

    But then I heard the rumors, and it kind of fit with the image he gave himself. And then he made that abrupt turn into right-wing conspiracy and that all but confirmed it. To be honest I thought he’d already been charged with something and had just celebrity-ed his way out of it. Sucks, man.

    • Bosht@lemmy.world
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      Hey, help is help, don’t let his failings mean that your success is somehow tarnished. I get the sentiment as well. He was a little over the top for my taste but the reboot of Arthus he did still ranks pretty high on my list.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      I loved Dennis Miller back in the '80s, before he made his heel turn into a right-wing douche. In retrospect, I realize I actually just liked the SNL writers coupled with his snarky delivery.

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        Dennis Miller was a great writer himself, and wrote all of the Weekend Update stuff that he did, and a bunch of sketches. It’s ok to say he was once great at what he did, because he was. But I would recommend going back and watching Dennis Miller Live on HBO. I went back and re-watched it during the pandemic, and it’s pure Libertarian garbage wrapped up in snarky wit and big words. So he’s always been kind of a right-leaning douche, but 9/11 broke his brain and he dropped all the Libertarian pretense.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    So it goes something like this:

    • Man rapes
    • Man gets away with it for a while
    • Man gets charged for it
    • Man joins the far-right
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    This explains his sudden turn to Christianity last year. He’s going to try the “God forgave me” defense.

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      Actually it was his turn to the right wing grifting. Christianity was just icing on the cake to make evangelicals acceptable to him

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      it was pretty obvious when he started to trying to hide behind the pro-rape party of conservatives.

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    After watching Kathy Perry’s documentary and what he did to her, I fucking hate this asshole.

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    I am shocked!..it took this long. Dude has been a creep forever. He has been getting exponentially worse as time has went on.

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      britian is pretty slow on these types of crime, he pivoted to the right to avoid said charges.