• @NocturnalMorning
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    The 6 year old in me is very disappointed to learn that Hulk Hogan is a dumb piece of crap.

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      IIRC he got canceled way back during or shortly after his reality show when he went on a racist rant over a recorded phone-call to his son who was sitting in jail, the context of which sounded very similar to a lot of Trump conservative meltdowns.

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        Almost. Hogan was a bull (I think), and was giving the old third leg drop on this dudes wife. The dude was secretly recording, and Hogan started ranting about how he didn’t want his daughter to date black guys. He used much worse language.

        The call you are referencing was after his son crippled a man when he wrecked while allegedly racing, and all they were worried about was making the passenger look bad and a reality TV show when Nick got released.

        I’ll be damned. Looks like Hulk and Nick did discuss racially insensitive things, to put it nicely.

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      Look BROTHA, it’s like this— The Hulkster is super rich and extremely racist, but mainly Hulkster just doesn’t wanna pay taxes

    • Billiam
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      Peter Thiel funded Terry Bollea’s lawsuit against Gawker. It’s saddening (but not surprising) that he’s a real shitbird too.

    • @WraithGear
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      So is Hercules, and the Walker Texas Ranger. It’s all disappointing.

  • @waddle_dee
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    This isn’t surprising. Hulk Hogan is a huge racist.

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      Remember when his drunken piece of shit kid killed someone and Hulk Hogan Said it was probably karma?

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        I thought he killed someone too, but now all I can find is that he left somebody brain damaged to the point of needing lifetime care. Fuck Mandela

        Edit: According to SRS Hogan stated the guy and his family should live their second life as black people for karma

      • Cadeillac
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        union organizers his best friend Jesse Ventura

        • @Fedizen
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          Jesse Ventura. Now there’s the only wrestler I would vote for.

          • Cadeillac
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            Dude knew what the fuck was up. He found out it was Hogan after Vince had to testify in court. Fuck Hulk Hogan, but like, not in the fun way

  • Flying Squid
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    I don’t know if Brooke was fucking the black guy’s son. I mean, I don’t have double standards. I mean, I am a racist, to a point, fucking n****s. But then when it comes to nice people and shit, and whatever. I guess we’re all a little racist. Fucking n*****.

    – Hulk Hogan, who was taken out of the Wrestling Hall of Fame for three whole years after he was recorded saying that.

    And then Peter Thiel, pissed that Gawker outed him, bankrolled Hogan’s lawsuit which took them down. I remember lots of people on Reddit regarded it as a victory because Gawker sucked, which it did. They didn’t care that a billionaire found a way to destroy a media outlet that told people something about him that he didn’t want them to know.

    Peter Thiel is, of course, also a big Republican supporter.

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      Hogan was already a piece of shit for being a racist. He didn’t need to make me dislike him even more by getting into politics, even if his racism made clear which side he was on. Fuck him with a ten foot dick.

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        I’ve hated Hogan since the 90s, when I found out what a cancer he was backstage at WCW. Didn’t help when I found out he’s the reason wrestlers don’t have a union.

        For a lot of us fans, Hogan has been the devil way before we knew he was a racist POS.

      • littleblue✨
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        Be nice to that dick. Nobody wants a 10ft dong around, so have some compassion. Let it get creative, at least. I mean, what else is it for, after all?

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      I believe Hogan has been known to be a massive piece of shit among wrestling fans for decades now. Some of the stories I’ve read about the dude… Not great.

      Ric Flair might be the only bigger shithead

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      They didn’t care that a billionaire found a way to destroy a media outlet that told people something about him that he didn’t want them to know.

      Kind of a serious thing, for some people, to want quiet. What was the Gawker lawsuit over?

      • Flying Squid
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        They released the secret recording of him saying the racist thing above without anyone’s permission. Which is an absolutely shitty thing to do. But Thiel saw it as an in and paid for the best lawyers he could find and took them down.

        Should they have been taken down for it anyway? Maybe. But not because of Peter Thiel.

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          I’ve never watched it, but I feel like outing a gay man and revenge porn fall into the “bad action” category, despite them being pieces of shit.

          • Flying Squid
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            Maybe, but Thiel didn’t sue them for outing him. He bankrolled someone else’s suit because he knew it would be much more damaging. And that is not how the system should work.

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                The lawsuit that killed gawker was the hulk sex tape that they refused to take down. They were 100% wrong on that one.

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    Hogan is famously a liar of epic proportions and shut down a potential wrestlers union in the 80s. I know many of us were hulkamaniacs at some point but he’s a piece of shit.

    I haven’t kept up with ole Stone Cold but last I checked he was threatening people online for being racist and homophobic. So if you want a decent person that was once at the top of the business he’s a better choice

    Edit: I should add that I know Austin beat his wife when he was king of WWE but seems to have changed his ways and bettered himself. Doesn’t excuse that he did it but like I said he’s about the best in the wrestling business

    • @aseriesoftubes
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      I know next to zero about professional wrestling, but isn’t CM Punk also a pretty good dude outside the ring?

      • @meco03211
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        John Cena too I think. At the very least he had the record for most wishes granted for the Make a Wish Foundation.

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          John Cena speaks pretty fluent Chinese when he needs to apologize to the CCP.

          • @meco03211
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            Didn’t like that but can’t say I’d do different.

            • Flying Squid
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              He’s a massive star. He could have said, “no, fuck the CCP, I won’t do it.” It’s not like he would have never gotten work in Hollywood again. He’s worth way too much even if he doesn’t kowtow to the CCP.

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                TBF celebrities bigger than him have been cancelled for lesser offenses than taking on the CCP.

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        He’s on the right side politically, definitely. Big believer in human rights, and has spoken up publicly in favor of abortion and trans rights.

        I hear that he’s a nightmare in his personal life due to being a big huge ball of trust issues, but he definitely ain’t no fascist.

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          Punk has some issues for sure but he’s not a bad person

    • Flying Squid
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      He didn’t lie when he said he was a racist though. Of course, he didn’t know there was a camera on him at the time.

  • @Pregnenolone
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    Your childhood heroes are losers

    • @CatZoomies
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      Thank goodness there are still some good ones left of our childhood heroes.

      I’m looking at you, Lucy Lawless Warrior Princess (who has the power of flight per The Simpsons), and especially looking at you LeVar Burton (who has the power of summoning rainbows with his mind)!

      Fuck Kevin Sorbo.

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        Lucy Lawless is an absolute treasure of a human being.

        When your fan club has a week dedicated to being charitable, you’re deserving of those fans.

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          He broke his kneecaps dropping down to blow Trump, is a rabid anti-vax/anti-anything-covid-protection, and generally has bad luck when he tries to think (and really likes to demonstrate that publicly).

    • @chuckleslord
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      Danny DeVito is pretty fucking awesome

    • Flying Squid
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      Excuse me, but my childhood heroes were Mel Blanc and Jim Henson.

  • @Fedizen
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    god, ever since I heard Hulk Hogan was a snitch I hated the guy. This just confirms he’s a shit pile.

    • @Madison420
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      Hulk Hogan is a character, terry is just terry.

      Terry is a piece of shit, the hulk is just a charicature they’re hired to speak and the hulk is not actually he’s reading a script they hired him to read.

      It’s very stupid and Terry is also a massive shitstain but let’s be specific about who we’re shitting on and why.

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        He became his mask a long time ago. I doubt there’s any differentiation in his head.

        • @Madison420
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          Doesn’t matter, they didn’t pay Terry to show up they paid hulk Hogan who would say whatever you pay him to say because that’s literally his job.

          It’s a very dumb difference but a legally viable one apparently.

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        Not just allegations he’s on tape saying he doesn’t want his daughter to be with a Nword.

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      Didn’t he kill gawker? That was pretty cool.

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          It’s not like he wasn’t involved. They put themselves at massive liability by publishing his leaked sex tape then refusing to take it down. I can certainly believe thiel had alternative motives, but the fact that he bankrolled the lawsuit isn’t relevant to the merits of the lawsuit.

          Also pretty fucked that they did that after taking such a hard stance against the fappening.

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      Another connection is Vince McMahon and his wife, both of which are right wing pieces of trash. Linda herself served in the previous Trump administration.

      • @son_named_bort
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        Both Vince McMahon and Trump are also known for failed football leagues.

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      https://popculture.com/sports/news/undertaker-chris-jericho-donations-donald-trump-campaign/

      The Undertaker and Chris Jericho are endorsing Donald Trump to remain the President of the United States. According to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, The Undertaker, whose real name is Mark Calaway, and Jericho are the biggest donors to the Trump campaign in terms of pro wrestlers. 411 Mania noted that The Undertaker has donated a total of $7,000 to Trump and Republican causes this year while Jericho has donated $3,000 this month.

      Republican fundraising platform WinRed has accepted donations from WWE’s John Gaburick ($100), Drake Wuertz ($10) and Kevin Dunn ($42). Former WWE CEO Linda McMahon is one of the biggest Trump supporters as she and husband, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, donated $5 million to the Trump Foundation from 2004 to 2014. Trump has strong ties with WWE as he’s a member of the company’s Hall of Fame. In WrestleMania 23, Trump took on Vince McMahon in a Hair vs. Hair match and won.

      https://youtube.com/watch?v=TTwIkft7hA0

      Donald Trump makes his Undertaker entrance at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 18, 2016.

      • Flying Squid
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        Good. Now I have no reason to feel bad about laughing at the Undertaker when the Sci-Fi channel, for some reason, had him host a movie night, called “The Undertaker’s Theater of Doom” and he pronounced it “thee-ayter.”

  • @theangryseal
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    Ladies and gentlemen, I give you President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho! Camachomania!!!

    • @I_Fart_Glitter
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      I would take Camachomania over Trumpomania any day. Any. Fucking. Day.

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        Camacho wasn’t that bright, and was in over his head, but at least he was smart enough to realize that, and he had the best interests of his people at heart. And when he found somebody who was smarter than him and might actually have solutions to the problems his people faced, he actually listened. Though he did sentence him to “rehabilitation” when the plan initially appeared unsuccessful.

        For that alone, Camacho would be a better president than Trump.

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    You keep seeing peter thiels name here, right… Weird, huh.

    j.d. vance is thiel’s longtime lap puppy and trump’s new VP pick after trying to have the old one publicly executed.

    thiel is also at PayPal with elon. peter is like the “cool senior” at high school with the upturned collar when elon musk is a freshman. Thiel says to elon one day, “hey Elmo, carry my books to class.” elon enthusiastically complies and while his hands are full, thiel takes all of the blood emeralds out of elon’s pockets, pantses him in front of his crush, and then says, “now say thank you daddy, for letting my little weiner see the sunshine, Elmo” elon complies, pants around his ankles, and then thiel pushes elon over, and drives away with his crush, as they both laugh at elon. Elon then says to himself, “Man, that guy is so cool.” Right as vance is confined as VP pick, Elmo (who said earlier this year that he wouldn’t donate to either trump or biden) just started “donating” $45 million dollars a month to trump in perpetuity.

    Are you starting to see who’s in charge?

    You should learn more about potential shadow president thiel.

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      That fuckers names been in my head since I read about DARPAS Projects TIA and Lifelog, his ties to them, and how he helped fund Facebook, right after founding Palintir which makes predictive policing software.

      I feel like a fucking madman even saying that shit, but this guy seems to always be up to something no-good.

      • @WhatYouNeed
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        Palintir is one scary company, with all the data it can access.

  • chingadera
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    Welcome to Amazon, I love you.

    Welcome to Amazon, I love you.

    Welcome to Amazon, I love you.

    • Todd Bonzalez
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      Oh man, we’re gonna get an Idiocracy world where porn is illegal, not one where you can get a handjob at the Costco Starbucks 😢

      As someone else once said and I am paraphrasing uncredited because I don’t remember who they are: “In the Idiocracy universe, when they discovered a man who was smarter than everyone else, they put him in charge of stuff. That makes it a wiser world than our own”.

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        Canada is going to implement the same once Poilievre takes over because Canadians are dumb and “bored” with Trudeau, so they will see what being “bored” gets them. Idiots.

        • Flying Squid
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          Unless you elect the followers of the “Queen of Canada” to parliament on the Trucker Convoy Party ticket, you will never get a Prime Minister anywhere near as bad as Trump.

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            I mean, I think the digital ID bullshit is pretty bad, but that’s just one thing he’s talked about so far. We’ll see how far he is actually willing to go over the duration of his tenure and what other absolutely insane bullshit he can come up with.

            • Flying Squid
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              Dude, he never tried to change the path of a hurricane with a sharpie or look at the sun during an eclipse.

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        Despite their struggles, politically and socially, Idiocracy is an utopia. As far as I can remember, people genuinely worked to try to make the world better, even if they were failing at it

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    Wait, you mean that the union-busting, back-stabbing, “I got mine,” racist piece of shit supports Trump???

    Well, now I’m offended!

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    What is this timeline

      • @Duamerthrax
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        The short coming of Idiocracy was that the characters had to be somewhat likable and the plot had to go somewhere. President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho took proactive, positive action when he put the Smart Man Alive in charge of the problem. I would absolutely vote for him.

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    What a fucking loser