George Carlin spent nearly his entire life trying to warn us of what is happening

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• Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I only post this because I saw someone say that they’d never vote because Carlin had a comedy routine where he said he’d never vote.

  Carlin was an iconoclast; I think he’d hate the idea that people were trying to turn him into an icon. He was an entertainer and happily worked with Fox Television to make a sit com.

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• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  he used to say “Germany lost WW2 but fascism won” and he meant the US back then. if only he could see it now.

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• GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Heas a real whistle blower

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• adam_y@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Whilst hooning a ton of coke.

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  • adam_y@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Did you down vote that because:

    1. You think it isn’t true.
    2. You don’t like that it is true.

    You sort of moralising cowards are the sort of folk he took the piss out of.

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    • Screamium@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Or 3: it’s irrelevant mud slinging

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    • callipygin@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Downvoted due to this cringey reply

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    • circuit23@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Upvoted because A. It’s true B. “hooning” is a word that amuses me

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  • starshipHighwayman69@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Good ole ”lemme.world" hating and downvoting the truth.

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What is happening is happening because people don’t vote and regularly allow right-wing shitheads to erode the government and society in bad faith, and George Carlin also said “wHy BoThEr VoTiNg?”

  So George Carlin was no messiah and no prophet.
  There are no messiahs. There are no prophets.
  Yet people insist on “if it’s not perfect and requires my patience and consistency, I’d rather eat shit than lift a finger once a year”.

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  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s an odd reaction many seem to share

    Simply recognizing a man’s work doesn’t elevate him to messiah or prophet

    Also, that bit about not voting goes hand in hand with this bit as well

    It boils down to the question of why vote if neither option will bring about real and lasting positive change?

    Just as it does in this bit that voting is only there to give the population the illusion of choice

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  • madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Absolutely. People like George and Jon Steward are fantastic at shining a light at the bullshit, but their solution is either apathy or just laughing at the bullshit and moving on. Both are akin to giving up.

    All their bits should end up with the message don’t just vote, get involved in LOCAL government. Don’t just wait to vote for president and expect things to get better.

    The GOP controls everything because they started the local level, from city councils to librarians, these fuckers are everywhere

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• burgersc12@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Carlin was way ahead of his time, he is missed.

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• jaemo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So did Frank Zappa, so did Christopher Hitchens, so did many many others. Did we listen or did we compile the best of their material into top-10 moment videos on YouTube?

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  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I guess we need actionable top 10 videos

    We can tell people they only have the illusion of freefom and that they’re owned by the ultra wealthy, but they have no idea what do with that information

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• djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  because he was right back then, and nothing has changed for the better since. We’ve finally hit the end goal that Carlin knew was coming.

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• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Circling the drain.

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