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[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 291 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The 6 year old in me is very disappointed to learn that Hulk Hogan is a dumb piece of crap.

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 104 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

IIRC he got canceled way back during or shortly after his reality show when he went on a racist rant over a recorded phone-call to his son who was sitting in jail, the context of which sounded very similar to a lot of Trump conservative meltdowns.

[-] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

Almost. Hogan was a bull (I think), and was giving the old third leg drop on this dudes wife. The dude was secretly recording, and Hogan started ranting about how he didn't want his daughter to date black guys. He used much worse language.

~~The call you are referencing~~ was after his son crippled a man when he wrecked while allegedly racing, and all they were worried about was making the passenger look bad and a reality TV show when Nick got released.

I'll be damned. Looks like Hulk and Nick did discuss racially insensitive things, to put it nicely.

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[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 69 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Look BROTHA, it’s like this— The Hulkster is super rich and extremely racist, but mainly Hulkster just doesn’t wanna pay taxes

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

Peter Thiel funded Terry Bollea's lawsuit against Gawker. It's saddening (but not surprising) that he's a real shitbird too.

[-] WraithGear@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

So is Hercules, and the Walker Texas Ranger. It’s all disappointing.

[-] FattestMattest@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Oh Terry.... What have you become?

[-] waddle_dee@lemmy.world 186 points 2 months ago

This isn't surprising. Hulk Hogan is a huge racist.

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 78 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Remember when his drunken piece of shit kid killed someone and Hulk Hogan Said it was probably karma?

[-] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I thought he killed someone too, but now all I can find is that he left somebody brain damaged to the point of needing lifetime care. Fuck Mandela

Edit: According to SRS Hogan stated the guy and his family should live their second life as black people for karma

[-] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

... nah dude W~~W~~TF

[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 45 points 2 months ago

He also ratted out the union organizers in the WWF.

[-] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

~~union organizers~~ his best friend Jesse Ventura

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[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

He did say brotha a lot.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 104 points 2 months ago

I don't know if Brooke was fucking the black guy's son. I mean, I don't have double standards. I mean, I am a racist, to a point, fucking n****s. But then when it comes to nice people and shit, and whatever. I guess we're all a little racist. Fucking n*****.

-- Hulk Hogan, who was taken out of the Wrestling Hall of Fame for three whole years after he was recorded saying that.

And then Peter Thiel, pissed that Gawker outed him, bankrolled Hogan's lawsuit which took them down. I remember lots of people on Reddit regarded it as a victory because Gawker sucked, which it did. They didn't care that a billionaire found a way to destroy a media outlet that told people something about him that he didn't want them to know.

Peter Thiel is, of course, also a big Republican supporter.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 2 months ago

Hogan was already a piece of shit for being a racist. He didn't need to make me dislike him even more by getting into politics, even if his racism made clear which side he was on. Fuck him with a ten foot dick.

[-] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 months ago

I've hated Hogan since the 90s, when I found out what a cancer he was backstage at WCW. Didn't help when I found out he's the reason wrestlers don't have a union.

For a lot of us fans, Hogan has been the devil way before we knew he was a racist POS.

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[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 months ago

I believe Hogan has been known to be a massive piece of shit among wrestling fans for decades now. Some of the stories I've read about the dude... Not great.

Ric Flair might be the only bigger shithead

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[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 103 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hogan is famously a liar of epic proportions and shut down a potential wrestlers union in the 80s. I know many of us were hulkamaniacs at some point but he’s a piece of shit.

I haven’t kept up with ole Stone Cold but last I checked he was threatening people online for being racist and homophobic. So if you want a decent person that was once at the top of the business he’s a better choice

Edit: I should add that I know Austin beat his wife when he was king of WWE but seems to have changed his ways and bettered himself. Doesn’t excuse that he did it but like I said he’s about the best in the wrestling business

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[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 71 points 2 months ago

Your childhood heroes are losers

[-] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 58 points 2 months ago

Thank goodness there are still some good ones left of our childhood heroes.

I’m looking at you, Lucy Lawless Warrior Princess (who has the power of flight per The Simpsons), and especially looking at you LeVar Burton (who has the power of summoning rainbows with his mind)!

Fuck Kevin Sorbo.

[-] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 2 months ago

Lucy Lawless is an absolute treasure of a human being.

When your fan club has a week dedicated to being charitable, you're deserving of those fans.

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[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Danny DeVito is pretty fucking awesome

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 67 points 2 months ago

god, ever since I heard Hulk Hogan was a snitch I hated the guy. This just confirms he's a shit pile.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

Hulk Hogan is a character, terry is just terry.

Terry is a piece of shit, the hulk is just a charicature they're hired to speak and the hulk is not actually he's reading a script they hired him to read.

It's very stupid and Terry is also a massive shitstain but let's be specific about who we're shitting on and why.

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[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 months ago

Not just a snitch but iirc there's been allegations he's racist too for years now.

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[-] aleph@lemm.ee 60 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

MRW I've been comparing US politics to WWE for years

Well there it is Jeff Goldblum meme

[-] vividspecter@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago

Another connection is Vince McMahon and his wife, both of which are right wing pieces of trash. Linda herself served in the previous Trump administration.

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://popculture.com/sports/news/undertaker-chris-jericho-donations-donald-trump-campaign/

The Undertaker and Chris Jericho are endorsing Donald Trump to remain the President of the United States. According to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, The Undertaker, whose real name is Mark Calaway, and Jericho are the biggest donors to the Trump campaign in terms of pro wrestlers. 411 Mania noted that The Undertaker has donated a total of $7,000 to Trump and Republican causes this year while Jericho has donated $3,000 this month.

Republican fundraising platform WinRed has accepted donations from WWE's John Gaburick ($100), Drake Wuertz ($10) and Kevin Dunn ($42). Former WWE CEO Linda McMahon is one of the biggest Trump supporters as she and husband, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, donated $5 million to the Trump Foundation from 2004 to 2014. Trump has strong ties with WWE as he's a member of the company's Hall of Fame. In WrestleMania 23, Trump took on Vince McMahon in a Hair vs. Hair match and won.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TTwIkft7hA0

Donald Trump makes his Undertaker entrance at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 18, 2016.

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[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 52 points 2 months ago

I feel very, very different from these people. Literally nothing in common. Holy crap.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho! Camachomania!!!

[-] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

I would take Camachomania over Trumpomania any day. Any. Fucking. Day.

[-] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Camacho wasn't that bright, and was in over his head, but at least he was smart enough to realize that, and he had the best interests of his people at heart. And when he found somebody who was smarter than him and might actually have solutions to the problems his people faced, he actually listened. Though he did sentence him to "rehabilitation" when the plan initially appeared unsuccessful.

For that alone, Camacho would be a better president than Trump.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

You keep seeing peter thiels name here, right... Weird, huh.

j.d. vance is thiel's longtime lap puppy and trump's new VP pick after trying to have the old one publicly executed.

thiel is also at PayPal with elon. peter is like the "cool senior" at high school with the upturned collar when elon musk is a freshman. Thiel says to elon one day, "hey Elmo, carry my books to class." elon enthusiastically complies and while his hands are full, thiel takes all of the blood emeralds out of elon's pockets, pantses him in front of his crush, and then says, "now say thank you daddy, for letting my little weiner see the sunshine, Elmo" elon complies, pants around his ankles, and then thiel pushes elon over, and drives away with his crush, as they both laugh at elon. Elon then says to himself, "Man, that guy is so cool." Right as vance is confined as VP pick, Elmo (who said earlier this year that he wouldn't donate to either trump or biden) just started "donating" $45 million dollars a month to trump in perpetuity.

Are you starting to see who's in charge?

You should learn more about potential shadow president thiel.

[-] magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That fuckers names been in my head since I read about DARPAS Projects TIA and Lifelog, his ties to them, and how he helped fund Facebook, right after founding Palintir which makes predictive policing software.

I feel like a fucking madman even saying that shit, but this guy seems to always be up to something no-good.

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[-] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

Jesus fucking christ.

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

Welcome to Amazon, I love you.

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[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 26 points 2 months ago

Oh man, we're gonna get an Idiocracy world where porn is illegal, not one where you can get a handjob at the Costco Starbucks 😢

As someone else once said and I am paraphrasing uncredited because I don't remember who they are: "In the Idiocracy universe, when they discovered a man who was smarter than everyone else, they put him in charge of stuff. That makes it a wiser world than our own".

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[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 30 points 2 months ago

Wait, you mean that the union-busting, back-stabbing, "I got mine," racist piece of shit supports Trump???

Well, now I'm offended!

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago
[-] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 17 points 2 months ago

We all know where this is heading.

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[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

What a fucking loser

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

kif_sigh.exe

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

I thought they didn't like drag?

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[-] paf0@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Do we get to call them Trumpamaniacs now?

[-] TheCannonball@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

I've been calling them Trumpanzees for years now.

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[-] nmhforlife@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

We’re only 4 years from recreating Idiocracy. Hell we might already be there. Save us, Luke Wilson. You’re our only hope.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

President Camacho realized he needed to put the smartest man he knew in charge to save the world.

The current crop of Republicans, uh... don't.

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