It’s insane to me that these hyper-rich people care nothing for future generations. They’re dooming their own grandchildren and they don’t give a shit. All so they can have more numbers on their banking apps. It’s mind-boggling.

Why can’t Subway just give this woman the meat she paid for?

🤷🏻 Can’t say I’m surprised. Joe Rogan cancelling him seems kinda hypocritical though.

I inserted the Nazi part as a bit of hyperbole. I just meant the idea of him doing his bit intending to express actual racism for the yuks of actual racists.

I agree wholeheartedly that this was an idiot move on his part and that he deserves all the bad press he gets from it. I was just saying that—based on what his fans have said—I don’t get the impression he really hates Puerto Ricans. This was likely just a really dumb career move on his part.

Don’t blame America for this. Most of us want legal, safe abortion laws. It’s a disgruntled minority of hyper-religious whack jobs that have been handed outrageous power in our top court by a narcissistic sociopath that are to blame.

Evangelicals Christians = American Taliban.

I’m not personally familiar with Hinchcliff or his comedy, but what little I’ve seen from fans of his online seems to indicate that this is just his normal shtick. As such, I’m not sure I agree that he went out there to wave a Nazi flag at his fellow Nazis. It would make more sense to me that he took the gig because it paid well and offered him a ton of publicity. The irony is that he’s certainly gotten publicity, but probably not the type he wants.

I don’t know. There’s a type of joke that is funny simply because of how ridiculously offensive it is, provided you know the teller doesn’t mean it. People think Sam Kinison was funny and he just yelled and swore a lot. Lots of things can be funny for fairly stupid reasons.

I still think the main problem here is that he told a really offensive joke in the wrong context. If Hinchcliff really is racist then that’s obviously a problem, but I don’t think the joke itself is the issue. If you’re going to take issue with it on its own then you’re treading into the Offense Olympic waters.

Maybe one MAGA lunatic will try but a KKK lunatic will jump in front of the bullet to protect a fellow racist. One can dream.

If you bother to read the article, you’ll find one of the devices did say “free Palestine.”

I hope he gets an earful from his listeners then, and that they stop listening to him.

I’m a big supporter of comics being given leniency for offensive jokes, and if this guy had made that joke at a comedy club, I would not have had a problem with it, because the presumption is that it’s a joke—nothing is meant to be taken seriously.

But this was a political rally. Totally different situation. When you make jokes there, they’re understood to reflect the politician conducting the rally. And in this case, it did.

I hope Mr. Hinchcliffe never finds work as a comedian again. Not because he’s a bad comic, not because he might actually be racist against Puerto Ricans, but because he’s a catastrophically stupid human being.

No. Treason is betrayal of a country to a foreign power. Willfully attempting to sabotage the government of said country isn’t treason, it’s just sedition. Regardless, I’m for locking these MFers up for life.

That’s one advantage Biden has right now: since he’s no longer running, he can speak the truth without it impacting his campaign.

POW!!! Right in the double standards!

Vore mode activated.

Police consider a moving vehicle a deadly weapon. Thus, if you’re trying to flee from them by driving, especially in an erratic manner, you’re considered to be wielding a deadly weapon and they can thereby respond with lethal force.

Agree or disagree, this is the logic.

Good. That’s one less reason for Netanyahu to claim the war needs to continue and one less terrorist butcher in the world.

You’re a bad person then.

Yeah, that’s nice. You’re still appealing to something moral though, and what I’m trying to tell you is that that’s mostly irrelevant to politicians. They know they need to appeal to the masses to stay in power if they want to do anything, so appeal to the masses they will. And the masses don’t really care about international law.

I didn’t say I approved of it, I just said that’s the political calculus.