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[–] ASLWriteFan@lazysoci.al 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

thats exactly what he was doing. Now that there is tangible real world legislative harm happening in his own state even some of his starry eyed supporters, ticket buyers, even family are turning on him. So he wants to pretend he was doing something else. Not to mention the things he said about people over reacting to Louie CK's harassment and gross behavior with other female comedians, and that fact he kept bringing CK to perform at his events.

When you tell the world who you are, and in doing so you contribute to people getting hurt, everyone should believe you the first time, not the second where you try to back pedal. I hope that entire little town he's trying to turn into a playground for the rich spits him out, but they won't because people love being near celebrity.

And the celebrities around him, they know he's shit. I'll bet Michelle Obama said something to him about his image and impact when he brought her around his mama, and now he's trying to pretend like he's not culpable for hurting so many trans people in his state alone (you should see the law it just passed).

He's a dick and like JK Rowling no one should support him and no one should let him pretend he did anything but stab trans people and women in the face.

Fuck that guy.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

you see, hes also not apologizing for saying transphobic jokes, just that "other people made me do it"

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Does Dave Chappelle know he is a dick?

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I doubt it. Dickheads are never self aware.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

He lives in a bubble of people telling him he's great, like most dicks.

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The fuck you say, Chapelle?

You absolutely helped to weaponize the right’s agenda against trans people with your rhetoric. It’s one of the primary reasons I refuse to watch your content anymore. Fuck all the way off.

[–] JustTheWind@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like someone's having a little bit of buyer's remorse, huh? This is why you never drink the Kool-Aid

[–] minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

He sealed the deal when he invited Musk on his stage to suck him off. He showed the world who he really was at that point, make no mistake again.

He punches down at every opportunity, he's a perfect right wing comedian because that's all they do too.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"I did, however, thoroughly enjoy the taste of Elon Musk's Nazi billionaire weiner in my mouth just before I brought him on stage at my show."

  • Dave, probably
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

and then going to saudia arabia to have MSB oil billionaires wiener in his mouth.

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 96 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Remember when you prematurely ended your show because of some white guy laughing a little too hard at some of your racial humour in a way that you didn’t like? Well guess what Dave, that’s your fuckin audience now after you quadrupled down on your trans bullshit.

These are the people who you chose after you were politely asked to lay off the trans thing and you refused.

Too much of a disconnected rich guy now to give a shit what the poors think I guess.

Did the Saudi money already run out? You don’t get to cater to these jackals then claim innocence when they run with your jokes.

[–] aln@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Iirc that was Bill Burr laughing at him during the taping of a sketch he was in

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[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 164 points 3 days ago (5 children)

If he did one special about a trans joke and apologized I'd feel different. He did 4 specials bashing trans people. Now this rat fuck is trying to "redeem" himself. He can go fuck himself. Just another rat fleeing the sinking ship. Don't forget he bought out elon musk and everyone booed him.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 94 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And he called his audance poor when they booed Musk.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

He's poor, compared to Musk. If the Sociopathic Oligarchs had their way, he'd survive their purge, but not because he's rich, but because he'd be their dancing monkey. The moment he stopped being funny to them, they'd just send him off to the camps, and keep his paltry fortune.

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[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"Hey guys I just realized I allied with a bunch of fascist pedophiles and now the only people who want to associate with me are the same people who unironically called me the N word my entire life.

Can y'all just conveniently forget I did that and give me more money again?" - Dave Chappelle

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I feel like the first special was harmless.

All he really did was point out that trans people have a longer path toward acceptance than gay people.

But damn, did he quadruple down. Of course it's the Republicans' fault now that it's time to pay the piper.

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[–] tabris@lemmy.world 253 points 3 days ago (18 children)

“I guess apparently they had made a pledge to the public at large that they would make their club a safe space for all people, and that they would ban anything they deemed transphobic,” Chappelle reacted on his “The Midnight Miracle” podcast at the time. “This is a wild stance for an artistic venue to take, especially one that’s historically a punk rock venue.”

This guy doesn't understand any subculture, does he? The punks are, historically, very anti-fascist, and the ones I know are also some of the strongest queer allies I've ever met. And this guy is surprised that they didn't want his bigotry masquerading as humour.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 144 points 3 days ago (6 children)

And it’s not like you can’t make jokes involving trans people, just don’t make jokes at the expense of trans people.

[–] Naich@piefed.world 75 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Humour doesn't punch down. That's just bullying.

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[–] homes@piefed.world 74 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (14 children)

The punks ~~were~~ are extremely LGBTQ+ acceptant, even as far back as the 60s and 70s

Queercore

That’s part of what ~~made~~ makes them so fucking hot… all that leather? Are you kidding me?

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[–] paper_moon@lemmy.world 54 points 3 days ago (5 children)

After not having a great time towards the end of highschool, I ended up spending most of my free time.between classes, in classes, and lunch, etc with the punk kids and the potheads. And they were some of the nicest and coolest fucking kids I've ever met. Super glad I had that experience because it definitely broke that propaganda fueled view I had of those two groups, for when i entered adulthood.

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[–] ech@lemmy.ca 54 points 3 days ago

Right, he was "only" targeting transgender people for money. Way better. /s

Get bent, Dave. You became the thing you used to mock.

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Desperately rewriting history after not wanting to play conservative crowds anymore. Fuck off Dave. If he apologized and changed I MIGHT hear him out, but all he is doing now is shifting blame.

[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Yeah fuck that, if you lay down with pigs don’t get upset when you wake up covered in shit.

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[–] homes@piefed.world 115 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

That is absolutely what you were doing, you bigoted fuck bag. Don’t blame Republicans for laughing at your horribly bigoted jokes.

You engineered them specifically so that your bigoted fans would laugh at them, you piece of shit. Then you played the race card to try to get out of it, and it didn’t work because your bigoted piece of shit fans didn’t like Black people either.

And since those are your only fans left, you are left with nothing, and that’s all you deserved. Nothing.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Dave dint have a problem going to Friday festival in saudia arabia

[–] homes@piefed.world 7 points 2 days ago

He didn’t have trouble selling out for a huge paycheck

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 52 points 3 days ago (15 children)

I've installed "Highlight This!" Firefox extension and added all the comedians that went to Saudi Arabia there. Now whenever one of them pops out on any site I know to just ignore it.

spoilerDave Chappelle Kevin Hart Aziz Ansari Pete Davidson Andrew Schulz Jo Koy Bill Burr Jessica Kirson Jimmy Carr Louis C.K. Sebastian Maniscalco Maz Jobrani Tom Segura Whitney Cummings Jimeoin Russell Peters Andrew Santino Bobby Lee Chris Distefano Mark Normand Gabriel Iglesias Hannibal Buress Sam Morril Jeff Ross Omid Djalili Ali Siddiq Zarna Garg Chris Tucker Ben Hart Jim Jefferies

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[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 2 days ago

Fuck you Dave Chappelle.

FUCK YOU.

[–] commander@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Dave Chappelle the older he's gotten, the more he's punched down. It's not like he wasn't doing that when he was younger, he just got worse and worse over time. Then he tried to be one of the good ol' boys and just wasn't rich or influential enough to fit in and now he wants to pretend he isn't a crappy person deep down. It's a bit hard to make it far in entertainment if you aren't pretty self-centered and opportunistic. He just unmasked to the crowd that weren't his audience and now he wants back in with the younger crowd again

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[–] Ibuthyr@feddit.org 35 points 3 days ago (10 children)

I used to like him somewhat. But I put on one of those Netflix specials with him and tuned out around 10-15 minutes in because he was just unfunny and hateful. Same with the British bloke, who's name I forgot. He was pretty based when he called out the actors being friends with Epstein during the Oscars but the latest gig was just "haha, girl with a cock, hahahaha lol, man with tits". It's just not funny. If you make jokes about minorities, at least have them be funny and not hurtful. It can be done, just not like this.

[–] Senal@programming.dev 21 points 3 days ago

Condensing english prick comedian?

Probably Ricky Gervais

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[–] cenariodantesco@lemmy.world 59 points 3 days ago (4 children)

well as a black man I say Dave is weaponizing being black. he's trying hard to deflect the Saudi money and avoiding responsibility for the trans jokes. If he made one show, just one where he would express being sorry for the enablement of aggression he provided, sure i would look at him at a different light. claiming that people are being hard on him for being black, kneega please

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[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 days ago

You helped cause this, dummy

Learn and make up for it, then you get forgiveness

[–] Airfried@piefed.social 66 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Let me guess he doesn't like Republicans because of their racism against himself specifically but he's totally down to hating other minorities all the same.

Newsflash: Queer rights are human rights, smart ass! We're in this together. Well, not you. You can eat shit, Dave.

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[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 53 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This fucking quote

Everything seems absolute, and any opinion I respect is way more nuanced than these binary choices they keep putting in front of us. I don’t see the world in red or blue.”

He just doesn't get it

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[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago

Backpedal much, David?

Now that the powers are slipping, assholes like this are going to do a bunch of "it totally wasnt me" activity.

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