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The Clarence Thomas Scandal Is Somehow Looking Even Worse
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I am a Carlin disciple. Imho the greatest social commentator and philosopher of the 20th century.
I'd like to say he tried to warn us, but he knew how this was all going to go, and that there wasn't really hope for decades before he died. He just helped people like me to feel sane by acknowledging those that also recognized the way the wind was blowing.
"be happy with what you got, folks. The table is tilted, the game is rigged!"
I always thought that if Carlin wasn't already dead, the current state of affairs would've likely killed him.
Nah friend, don't sell him that short. By the end, he enjoyed the carnage. He separated himself from our shitty species, an aspirational goal in these times for me honestly. Here's an interview where he laid it out.
George would be laughing his ass off at the perverse, cartoonish morbidity how far the many are still eager to go in service to the owners that own and torture them, you, me, etc. He wasn't loaded, but he would be comfortable enough to get entertainment from this murder porn of a civilization at a distance.
In his own as always eloquent words, I promise I'm not exaggerating:
https://youtu.be/ls8RXqyZDsk?si=ANxYAXr4gcocgk0a
And that's the most cathartic outlook us powerless peasants can have.
Thanks; this footage should run in a loop at the Smithsonian.