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All this person did was post a basic criticism of Oliver and now everyone is undeservedly dunking on them for it.

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[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 97 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 60 points 2 weeks ago

trump-drenched We have the best memes folks

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 50 points 2 weeks ago

a specter is haunting twitter, the specter of hexbear

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 48 points 2 weeks ago

the hexbear hegemony over the western left continues programming-communism

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 41 points 2 weeks ago
[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Only sometimes.

Edit: OH. I see it's the thing they said lol

[-] MaxOS@hexbear.net 82 points 2 weeks ago

When you're a communist and people find out that you use money squidward-nervous

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 70 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

paying for twatter

They got a solid point there to dunk on them

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 47 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

In the replies they claim they got it for free years ago in some thing.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 57 points 2 weeks ago

I still remember the dril conflict of 2023

They kept giving him the blue check and he kept insulting them until they stopped

[-] HexBroke@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You can't use Twitter to dunk on someone paying for Twitter though, you're all revenue

[-] OpenDown@hexbear.net 63 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

blue check was given for free and with no choice to a lot of accounts including this one btw

[-] HexBroke@hexbear.net 37 points 2 weeks ago
[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

At least OP is alive

Should we be concerned? u/KissingerBrainInBox replies to a joke at Reddit. "@drkissingerphd is verified. This should be of no concern to anyone. It is most clearly a parody account run by a sub-standard intellect. It is not humorous. Furthermore - Dr. Henry Kissinger is not a 'dead celeb'. I am not a 'celeb'. I am not dead."

[-] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 50 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Ah, it's the issue with the Greens and Western leftists.

I order a nature conservation related magazine that just ran an editorial in the last issue listing all the problems of capitalism without mentioning capitalism even once. Wanted to burn the damn paper.

Not naming the problem is exactly the issue. And it's literally all leftism is now in countries like mine. Our leftest (lib) party proudly calls this "the modern left" and it's essentially just being a bourge with social justice related characteristics and imperalism.

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 50 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

that John Oliver image has been floating around for a few years at least, why get mad about it now?

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 37 points 2 weeks ago

Nobody ever said the libs are quick on the draw

[-] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 30 points 2 weeks ago

Libs are primed to viciously attack anyone with the hamsic glyph on a moment's notice.

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

It's actually a Hexbear original, so we've seen it a lot more than Twitter libs

[-] Walk_On@hexbear.net 45 points 2 weeks ago

So calling out Oliver for not talking about capitalism is being media illiterate? lol

[-] Stoatmilk@hexbear.net 50 points 2 weeks ago

"Media illiteracy" is quickly becoming one of the three or so rotating concepts twitter uses to explain every phenomenon until it loses all meaning

[-] The_Jewish_Cuban@hexbear.net 30 points 2 weeks ago

Don't agree with me? Didn't know you were media illiteratesmuglord

[-] AndJusticeForAll@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago

It's annoying how this keeps happening to ideas. It'd be cool if someone could trace the lineage of: new, accurate critique of the world -> critique's general proliferation and linguistic adoption because of its truth -> low-tier orbiters using critique incorrectly as an insta-win argument online, losing its original meaning.

[-] Sephitard9001@hexbear.net 42 points 2 weeks ago

This is so fucking stupid lmao. Criticizing America's politics without saying capitalism bad is exactly what the state wants. To the people living in America, neoliberalism is an invisible ideology. Not pointing it out is flailing in the dark, not pointing it out on purpose makes you their tool.

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Read theory!

"No, Imma just watch late night hosts"

Also John Oliver's jokes are mostly unfunny crass yelling at the audience/screen and just relies on the irony poisoning of living in a capitalist society. Every hexbear on this site is funnier than John Oliver, even our beanis comrades.

[-] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago
[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

beanis beanis it's me, i'm the beanis comrade.

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

John Oliver is the only late night host who criticizes the Democratic Party from a left wing viewpoint and does criticize capitalism, he just does it without saying 'capitalism bad' upfront all the time. you are just media illiterate

This is literally the point of the meme lol. How do you call someone else illiterate and then regurgitate their exact point except make it more annoying and long winded as if it’s a gotcha

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 42 points 2 weeks ago

Wrapping the juicy bacon of milquetoast criticism of niche domestic issues around the bitter pill of uncritical State Department foreign policy propaganda so that the canine masses will eat it up

With John Oliver.

[-] M68040@hexbear.net 34 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

He's got better politics than I'd expect of a host of a broadcast TV show on a major network, but he's not really anyone I care that much about either. I don't really watch TV, and (more importantly) these personalities have expiration dates. At one point I liked Colbert but he became quaint in the face of Chapo; eventually Chapo themselves became quaint as a broader swath of podcasts did the things they did better. Eventually they too will become quaint as my interests move elsewhere and i crave increasingly outwardly belligerent media.

[-] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago

Start learning Chinese, you'll find it useful when you get to the end of that pipeline.

[-] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 32 points 2 weeks ago

I would fully agree with them if they didn't have the blue check

[-] davel@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago

It’s like raiiiiain on your wedding day very-intelligent

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

God I love it when people are critical of a critic's criticism.

Also no Quinton, it's because John Oliver is pretty clearly a mouthpiece for 'left-wing criticism' without any actual leftwing theory, which leads him to, in general, not understand the root of the problem, and fall for really really obvious American foreign policy lies.

But also fuck blue checks.

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

I've never seen a both sides-er take my side

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

"You claim to be a communist and yet you buy things" is tired, but when the thing in question is Twitter, perhaps still has some gas.

[-] Walk_On@hexbear.net 22 points 2 weeks ago
[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

"Of his ilk"? What do you want us to hate on Gutfeld? Not even conservatives watch that.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

Dude makes 6 day long videos about That's So Raven and shit like that. Deeply into being unserious.

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago

Nobody hates leftists more then other leftists. More then even conservatives!

[-] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 2 weeks ago

Damn leftists ruined leftism!

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago
[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

You've just ~~made an enemy for life~~ split the party

[-] ssj2marx@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

Can't you buy blue checks for other people? I'm not saying that's what happened here, but it's a possibility.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

You oppose capitalism yet you are forced to participate in it? Curious.

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