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The whole Bill Burr perspective that corporations and such are legalized mafia that are still going to occasionally whack people for real instead of with lawyers is more than a joke.
How many people were hardcore assassinated by these people in 2024?
There were those 2 Boeing whistleblowers that suddenly became terminally suicidal, and a Tesla whistleblower suddenly found his brake lines cut. Idk if those happened in 2024 (I don't think so), but they definitely keep happening.
It wasn’t 2024?
Reading news lately is like trying to drink from a firehose like it’s a bubbler.
I really wish people would stop claiming suicides are secret murders. It minimizes suicide, and you shouldn't.
It also paints a vastly different picture of what John Barnet was going through. (I can't find any mentions of a second boing whistleblower dying)
and Christina Balan is alive, and if not well, at least she's currently winning.
The brakes thing wasn't someone cutting her brakes, it was her getting fired for reporting the issues with brakes on early Teslas.
https://www.europesays.com/2012653/
Edit Okay, found the other boeing whistleblower,
I doubt that boeing controls the flu virus.
Especially since this then happened.
Pneumonia from illness, especially when you molder flat on your back in bed (which makes it worse, by a lot) is a legit disease progression. Also common in elderly/fragile found down on the floor after a couple days.
Unhealthy lungs don’t like being horizontal.
Basically none.
See, killing someone makes them a martyr Sueing them into the ground or just buying the newspaper and firing the journalist generally does not.
Bill Burr is kind of a piece of shit, idk if leaning on him is a good look.
Not Bill "Blood money" Burr...
Doesn't really make him wrong there.
I said it was a bad look.
There's no accounting for taste.
Not my favorite over the years, no. I’m more into Josh Johnson or Trevor Noah for standup.
Even so, he’s right on this.
I try not to put myself in a silo.
Is he? That’s a shame. Why is he kind of a piece of shit?
He fell from grace along with a lot of other comedians who went to Riyadh Comedy Festival in 2025. Apparently it was really well-paid so a lot of famous comedians went. Reddit went apeshit and branded them fascist sellouts.
He did a comedy show in Saudi Arabia (I think?) or somewhere in the middle east. That's it. Ol' Billy Boob has always walked that line imo. He's got some good takes and some bad ones. Don't think he nazi saluted or said trans people should die or anything like that, that I know of.
If only there were a sort of "search algorithm" capable of searching a catalogue of interner sites...
He's fascist-lite. Claims to be anticapitalist but he claims liberals are idiots and he takes money from Saudi Arabia.
Hey man, you’re the one who made the claim, I was just asking for some support for that claim. /shrug
He’d fit right in over on Lemmy.ml! 😉 Honestly though, if he’s anti-capitalist that doesn’t seem like a contradiction, since liberalism is a capitalist ideology.
Oof. That one sucks. That said, there is an argument that I’ve seen about the role of comedy in helping to modernize a culture. Whether that’s possible when following strict censorship however, I’m not sure. The whole Riyad comedy thing certainly does feel gross.
Regardless, “fascist” has a specific definition and I don’t think I’d agree that Bill Barr falls into that category, even “lite.” But I only have a passing familiarity with his work, so I could very well be wrong.
The USA is a two party system. Bill Burr's political ideology results in Fascism within that system.
Saying you don’t like liberals doesn’t mean you won’t vote for them when the alternative is fascism though.