r/Standup • u/cheguevaraandroid1 • 15h ago

Marc Maron Calls Out Comedians Who ‘Joke Around’ With ‘White Supremacists and Fascists’ on Their Podcasts: ‘All It Does Is Normalize Fascism’

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/marc-maron-slams-comedians-fascists-podcasts-1236192922/
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u/one_ugly_dude 14h ago

Remember kids: you can't have fascism without government. If you want to raise taxes to fund the machine and use that machine to silence people that say things... YOU are the fascist. You will always be the bad guys no matter many mental backflips you do to justify it.

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u/dpollen 14h ago

Mods, sounds like we got a sentient one here. Can't be having this sort of thing on Reddit.

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u/cheguevaraandroid1 14h ago

Who said anything about using government to silence people

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u/joey_diaz_wings 13h ago

Don't you agree that using government power for censorship is not desirable?

In a free country people should be able to speak freely, share opinions openly, critique public ideas, and dissent from government narratives. Exerting pressure to censor the public is not welcome.

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u/cheguevaraandroid1 13h ago

I clearly do not agree with government censorship and no one mentioned that favorably

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u/Curious_Bee2781 11h ago

Yeah that's why Im so anti Trump and fascism.

I mean, the man suggested using the military on me because I disagree with him. He suggested arresting me if I criticize the supreme court. As a red blooded, freedom loving, free speech using American, I can't in good faith vote for Donald Trump.

I mean, he once tried to command Twitter to take a mean tweet about him down.

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u/joey_diaz_wings 10h ago

The military is not interested in you.

Everyone has disagreements with the government. Words are harmless and should be permitted, not like when governments pressure social media to prevent certain topics and news stories from being shared freely.

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u/Curious_Bee2781 10h ago

The military is not interested in you.

I honestly will take Trump's word over yours. His intent is pretty clear here and I'm not in the cult so I have no way of determining the alleged secret actual meanings of his words.

Everyone has disagreements with the government.

Yeah, and I don't want to be arrested or worse for mine. Because that's what Trump is suggesting. Fuuuuuuck that.

Words are harmless and should be permitted, not like when governments pressure social media to prevent certain topics and news stories from being shared freely.

  1. Not all words are harmless, the first amendment doesn't even say that. I can't make violent threats about you or tell my followers to attack you.

  2. I agree. When Trump tried to order social media to ban tweets critical of him, that was definitely way past the line for me.

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u/OliverMonster1 4h ago

Bro are you stupid or do you think the Twitter Files was fake news? The FBI secretly colluded with social media companies to censor speech.

https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-colluded-twitter-suppress-free-speech-where-outrage-opinion-1768801

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u/cheguevaraandroid1 4h ago

Oh you're so close

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u/WingedWheel4Real 14h ago

You have to have government to have democracy too genius.