• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I think that’s the joke. Honestly I feel like this whole thread is a huge woosh… Did everyone miss the joke?

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    To this day, I will never not be convinced he went down the far-right bigotry rabbithole because Elon Musk and/or other oligarchs are paying him to take that stance.

    It seems no coincidence to me that after he started attacking the trans community, he invited Musk on stage and tried to defend him from the booing crowd.

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      He got too rich, had a crisis of conscience, then took some time in Africa to end up deciding that money > conscience.

      In short, no one’s “paying him” to be a bigot, he’s just the typical rich piece of shit. He defends other rich pieces of shit because that’s what rich pieces of shit do.

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      Dude had enough money and it probably stretched even further in Africa.

      He’s been out of the spotlight for a while and is out of touch. Super disappointing comeback.

    • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
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      I’m not sure the time line supports that. Dave was making tasteless and bigoted jokes about trans folk well before Elon/Netflix special. Who knows, maybe money was secretly changing hands. But even if so, Dave was the one to sell himself out. All the blame still falls directly to him.

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    Should’ve stayed “retired.” Should’ve listened to his dad and got out, but no… gotta suck on that green dick.

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    It’s a shame Dave Chappelle died immediately after Chappelle’s Show ended. He sure was a funny guy when he was still alive!

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      He was well before this. When he was in his local town hall complaining that they were making affordable housing near him and letting “the poors” get too close.

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    I started watching his latest Netfux special and he just wasn’t funny to me at all. Bragging about all his wealth, buying a white hippy town, defending his Saudi Arabia sellout because “haha I’m a rich n*gga”, and then a joke about a falcon killing a trans and “his dick popped out”, but it turns out killing a trans person only being a misdemeanour in SA. Har har. Just predicable, and felt like a real grift. Turned it off and watched some show with Fran Lebowitz instead - that one was at least pretty funny, if not also a grift.

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    And made a shit ton of money bringing laughter to slavers while we work ourselves to death and suffer from having a conscience. We really do need to get together and figure out how to actually start changing things without self imploding. Evil is very much winning.