I'm not sure we needed John Cleese's acknowledgment, but yes it's a good joke
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That's rich coming from John Cleese, he was on the side of fucking over the peaceful state of international relatioships when it came to brexit, supporting the pricks that he's now criticizing.
He should just fuck off to the cayman islands and shut up. He cashed in all his Monty Python/Fawlty Towers goodwill when he became Basil
I feel thats two different things though. You can be an asshole about European union but still dislike Trumps antics.
"Deep down, I want to be a Cambodian police woman. Is that allowed, or am I being unrealistic?"
John Cleese on trans people
(He's definitely an asshole about more than the EU)
Still an asshole in the end. Assholes disliking another asshole doesn't make them less of an asshole.
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He spent most of his adult life dodging taxes -- no surprise that he would be pro-brexit.
There's a big difference between supporting fascists and dictators, and supporting the UK shooting it's own dick off.
But yeah, people shouldn't support either.
well, supporting one leads to strengthening the other. a fuckload of brexit propaganda money came from russia, which should make it suspect.
Dammit. I thought he was funny, turns out he's a xenophobic fuckhead.
I actually already couldn't enjoy Fawlty Towers anymore, the racism is obvious to me now that I'm an adult. It's distasteful. I guess for John, it wasn't just "the times" the show was made in. Ah well, plenty of not-fuckheads whose work can be enjoyed.
He’s both: funny and a xenophobic fuckhead.
Although… I’m not so sure that he’s still funny these days. It would seem not.
Yeah, I agree. I guess I should have said I used to think he was funny. It's been a long damn time since he said anything that made me laugh.
You're allowed to enjoy something for what it is while recognizing it's problematic.
Or follow gay humour where you find a bunch of fag jokes but you're laughing at the bumbling fool/homophobic person.
But that's what I'm saying - I don't think those kind of jokes are funny anymore. When I was younger I thought it was all in good fun, that nobody really meant it and that's why it was funny, but then I saw the world and realised it's very much not. The humour was drained away by the hatred.
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Don't get to serious about membership. Trump just wants you to pay the membership fee.
Literally how Mar-a-Lago works. He wants people to pay him to make a rich boys' club for heads of state because all the other ones aren't money to him based. They're just about how much money does the country have, like the G8.
I think it’s that AND I suspect they allow corporations to join and that will legitimize corporations being as powerful as countries which allows dark enlightenment folks to have their corpo nation states
Bribe 2.0
It's always a grift.
"Bored of Peace"
Board of Piss
The world is going to end in nuclear hell fire, isn't it?
More likely to be economic collapse at this point.
Ecological collapse, triggering economic collapse, triggering open conflict, triggering nuclear fires.
I should place a bet on a prediction market. ;)
Why bother. The money on that bet wont be worth anything if it comes true.
That was a certainty from the minute they were proven viable.
For the ego of genocidal pedofile patriarchal narcissists.
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Blue checkmarks fund Nazis and pedophiles
It's literally a joke on all of us. "Bored of peace" is what 47 is saying.
Board of Murdering Shitbags!
It might be a joke, but this shit is not funny.
Axis of Evil 2.0
Trump is doing the war crimes too, hopefully he's on that list soon.
This one follows SciFi themes in which the most militant, oppressive, and intractable force is often called the peacekeepers.
Something's uncanny about Putin here, is this a body double, AI, a much older photo, or has he had some work done recently?
Looks like the photo is about 12 years old, I put the link on TinEye and one of the earliest appearances is this April 2014 article:
*Bored of Peace
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