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Not that I don't enjoy a good takedown video, but it's just so incredibly obvious

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[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 44 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

the one that made me disregard him on anything outside of USA was when he complained about how Venezuela was undemocratic for banning some people for running for president but the people who were banned were guilty of attempting coups or assassinations against Chavez

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

Which is funny because it's a totally mixed-bag from state to state in terms of which states let you run for any kind of office after becoming a felon.

I'm sure the worst of the two Zazu's from The Lion King would agree that this guy shouldn't be allowed to run for office:

Solomon Peña overwhelmingly lost a bid for the New Mexico statehouse as a Republican and is accused of paying four men to shoot at the homes of four Democratic officials. He had denied his loss and made baseless claims that the November election was “rigged” against him, even though he received just 26% of the vote against the longtime Democratic incumbent.

But, I have to imagine that this penguin, poorly disguised as a rough 3 human on the hotness scale (a British 5 if you will), would think that this guy really didn't need to go through all the trouble he did.

Sam Titus, 66, defeated the incumbent Democrat in his Burt County supervisor race in November. But to take office, he had to wait until his pardon was granted more than a month later by a panel that included the governor, secretary of state and attorney general.

Titus had two felony convictions from years ago, including for buying a stolen planter for his farm, which he described as a “poor decision.” He served probation and thought the convictions had been expunged. He discovered the pardon requirement after winning a race in 2020 for the local airport authority board and learning he could not be sworn in.

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“Our lawmakers truly need to realize how important it is to help those that have changed their lives, understand their wrongs, are good people, want to move forward, want to do the right thing and want to give back to those people that they have hurt,” he said.

You've got to find the line somewhere, John!

[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 49 points 3 days ago

The YT description:

"John Oliver addresses undecided voters about Kamala Harris’s platform in his last episode ahead of the 2024 election, discusses how Donald Trump’s businesses have changed since his presidential term, and explores what could happen if Trump is reelected."

[-] Gay_Tomato@hexbear.net 39 points 3 days ago

hero-of-socialist-labor You've saved many eyes this day.

[-] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago

He was always hesitant to attack Chavez on The Bugle iirc (for a lib)

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

He even got a Chavezogram that one time. I still search for it at times

God I miss The Bugle

[-] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

His outpouring of dismay when Cameron won in 2015 was a real salve. It was a good podcast.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

It almost equalled his standard reaction to any Saltzman pun run

[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 43 points 3 days ago

He's not exactly employed by the state, but by the establishment controlling the state. Subtle but important difference.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't see a meaningful difference between the two. Much like I don't see how "thinktanks" that provide policy to the state are not part of the state itself. It's effectively the privatisation of branches of state. They're still the state, just under absolute complete and total capital-control with absolutely zero potential for "democratic" machinations to affect them.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 31 points 3 days ago

Yeah I just didn't want to write something like "the deep state" because it would summon an infinite number of smuglord lemmitor

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

And not to attack you, but ya "the deep state" can be a dog-whistle for antisemitism.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

yeah that too was a reason, no attack perceived

[-] Venat@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago

Isn't that the state though? The state is the avatar, the apparatus, the tool and apparatus of the dominant political class of a given polity. It doesn't necessarily need to be a government position, agency, or NGO/NPO connected thereof.

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago

you're not allowed on HBO unless you tow the line

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago

Isn't he just a massive lib? Also, video not available in my country, which is weird because its about our elections.

[-] whatdoiputhere12@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

Countries where the video isn’t blocked

Albania Argentina Armenia Azerbaijan Bahamas Bangladesh Belarus Belize Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herz. Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Cambodia Chile Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Rep. Dem. Rep. Korea Denmark Dominican Rep. Ecuador El Salvador Estonia Falkland Is. Fiji Finland Fr. S. Antarctic Lands France Gambia Georgia Greece Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Hungary Indonesia Iran Israel Jamaica Japan Kazakhstan Korea Kosovo Kyrgyzstan Lao PDR Latvia Lithuania Macedonia Malaysia Mexico Moldova Mongolia Montenegro Myanmar N. Cyprus Nepal New Caledonia Nicaragua Pakistan Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Puerto Rico Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Is. Somaliland Sri Lanka Suriname Swaziland Sweden Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Thailand Timor-Leste Trinidad and Tobago Turkey Turkmenistan Ukraine Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam

absolute comedy that the video is blocked in America

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago

Oh I understand why now. What was linked is the full episode, which, in Burgerland you have to be an HBO subscriber to watch. Instead, we get the cut down version for YouTube.

[-] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

At 8:10 in the Burgerland version, he says: "I've been moved by some Muslim and Arab voices who've also wrestled hard with this question and arrived at the conclusion that, despite their pain, to vote for Harris" and then spends two minutes on those people before showing an unflattering Trump photo so you stop thinking anything more than that

[-] whatdoiputhere12@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

ah makes sense

not even worth pirate-jammin

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[-] CommCat@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

isn't he married to some State Department neocon ghoul?

I just learned that Nuland's husband is an editor of Bezo's Washington Post, there's too much connection between neocon ghouls and mainstream mass media

[-] coolusername@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Operation mockingbird media

They all have the same opinions as the state department and CIA

Jacobin, ONN, wired, the economist, bellingcat, every single "simplified " YouTuber, all the same shit.

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