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[–] JackDark@lemmy.world 22 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

Damn, this is the first time I'm hearing about this guy being a piece of shit. Would love to hear people chime in with the shit he's pulled for others like me to see.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Here's a scratch off the top:

He previously questioned the death toll of the Holocaust, said he had lost multiple jobs for being white and falsely claimed that people who didn't get vaccinated against COVID-19 "clearly are the winners" of the pandemic (he acknowledged getting vaccinated in Monday's video). Dozens of newspapers dropped the strip in 2022 after Adams introduced its first Black character and veered into anti-woke plotlines.

[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know if I'm more shocked that Adams didn't have a black character before 2022 or that newspapers were still carrying an overt racist's strip in 2022.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

wait, i thought the elbonians were black.

[–] CandleTiger@programming.dev 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I always saw them as some kind of Eastern European caricature

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

it's been so long i really don't remember. we're both right maybe

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 5 hours ago

They're white. Sort of Russian caricatures, I think.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 16 points 14 hours ago

Me: "Everyone's hating on him. Lemmy is so sensitive, it's probably over nothing"

Finds this comment

ohhh, ohhhhhhhh

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago

Here is the first episode of Behind the Bastards covering the guy: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ZlIuEIgLRNxfJWxiv4asn

[–] hallettj@leminal.space 26 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago

Wow I didn't realize how much I missed the hobbydrama subreddit, one of the goat communities.

Also yeah, that's very accurate but also it's worthwhile to understand he was also incredibly cringe in an old school atheism subreddit way. Fully convinced he was the smartest person in the world and everyone who disagreed with him was because they're stupid. He was basically 4chan the person

[–] JackDark@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

Thanks. That was... a lot.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 13 points 15 hours ago

A lot of Adams' conservative activities were summarized in the Variety article, which is why I chose to post a link to it, as opposed to other articles.

[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Damn, this is the first time I'm hearing about this guy being a piece of shit

Me too.

But it Expains the 20+ down votes I got. Reading more comments, they are well deserved

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 5 points 15 hours ago

There's an episode of the Behind the Bastards podcast devoted to him. Covers it pretty well.