he used to say “Germany lost WW2 but fascism won” and he meant the US back then. if only he could see it now.
George Carlin spent nearly his entire life trying to warn us of what is happening
Submitted 2 months ago by HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world to videos@lemmy.world
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pyre@lemmy.world 1 month ago
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
adam_y@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Whilst hooning a ton of coke.
adam_y@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Did you down vote that because:
- You think it isn’t true.
- You don’t like that it is true.
You sort of moralising cowards are the sort of folk he took the piss out of.
Screamium@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or 3: it’s irrelevant mud slinging
circuit23@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Upvoted because A. It’s true B. “hooning” is a word that amuses me
starshipHighwayman69@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Good ole ”lemme.world" hating and downvoting the truth.
burgersc12@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Carlin was way ahead of his time, he is missed.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month 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.
jaemo@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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?
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 1 month 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
foggy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 month 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”.HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 1 month 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
madcaesar@lemmy.world 1 month 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
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 months 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.