Slop.

Baja Blastin their way through the Mountain Dunes!

i agree with you. Granted he still is taking money from people who put journalists into suitcases so he's really lost all credibility. I guess he would perform for Trump. The Saudis have slaves who don't look too dissimilar from Bills wife.

If I were to attempt justify this I'd point out the hypocrisy that all these comedians regularly preform in the US with no criticism despite it's also atrocious human rights record

One could be extremely generous and say that this is a joke designed to make sense to liberal Americans, not Hexbear communists

I'm not a Bill Burr fan or detractor, he's got a progressive radlib energy means sometimes he says the right thing but here that I think has led him to making a bad decision (going to Riyadh comedy festival, in a country which basically has slavery, untold misery etc ) for lib reasons (the people in Saudi Arabia are normal like us)

americans are not intellectual people, to put it mildly.jpg

i'll be honest, this isn't to go to bat for him, i refuse to do that for anybody, but i always feel like he acts like he's conscientious of the fact he has a platform, and ALSO has an extremely low opinion of that audience's intelligence, so he tries to perform "baby's first empathy" to a cohort who has had their natural empathic responses for outgroups methodically suppressed from birth.

which means if you're ahead of his curve he comes off as an oaf

but he can take accountability for his own cringe, that's how i've been reading him for years tho.

Bill's entire shtick is being oafish and appealing to contrarians. This is just melding together the goal of being edgy and contrarian while simultaneously trying to get people that find that edgy contrarianism humourous to see muslims as normal human beings.

The kinds of people that like that oafishness are exactly the kinds of people that need to be taught to see them as humans.

Just because someone has some good takes, doesn't mean they're all good

A lot of people have good domestic policy and dogshit international policy

SocDems

Bill Burr truly is the embodiment of an American.

some of them are getting $500,000 for a 1 night show or whatever and a free trip across the world to be wined and dined. they can't resist.

If I'm a comedian with any sense I'm taking the trip and the money and gathering my material for the Ripping Saudi Arabia a New One Tour that starts when I get back. Sure, I can't make fun of them there, but I'm making them regret inviting me in the first place.

i mean being in gated community doesn't make you ignorant, that comes by itself

give it another year or two and they will literally be driving around in lifted pick-up trucks with MBS flags saying "Make Saudi Great Again" and driving them into churches to do mass shootings

It's pretty shrewd of them, they probably recognise that the US is going to start quite a few messy wars as they collapse and they want to make sure they don't become a target of one of them. Or it could just be a bog standard maximising profit thing I guess.

I have suspicions it's some kind of restrictions since 70s, that they can't buy real shit (tm), only ip related things, which can be easily disentangled. e.g. nippon steel couldn't buy us steel mill and the likes, similarly. they can build their own stuff, they can't outright buy local american porky business outside of minority share, which gives them no rights and no power, outside of dividend stream.

I'm really not familiar with Bill Burr's work and on first read assumed this was a self deprecating joke from him guesting on like Jimmy Fallon or some shit.

The "israeli" genocide and the 12-day war with Iran are really resurfacing early 00's style Islamophobia and I don't know how to be normal about it.

a plane full of americans had to go 16+ hours without any highly processed slop...