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No sympathy for another dead scab.
Rip Ozzy Osbourne.
RIP Jeffrey Epstein
He’s the guy I will miss.
🥳
Oh no! Anyway…
Was he MAGA or a good guy?
What does MAGA have to do with it? He was an asshole. That’s what he was mainly known for. The world is better without him.
There’s your standard issue asshole, then there’s MAGAts. They’re thermonuclear assholes.
thermonuclear assholes
Name of my future grindcore band
he was on stage at the RNC?
He was maga.
Oh, OK. Nothing of value was lost except for sullied childhood memories.
Yep, back 35 plus years ago. When we still knew the wrestling was fake but you could pretend that Hogan may have been a decent human being.
And anti-union.
He was at the RNC last year and ripped off his shirt to reveal a MAGA or Trump shirt (I think it was one of those but it was definitely pro Trump even if it wasn’t directly MAGA or Trump text). So he was definitely an asshole. Even for more reasons than just being MAGA.
MAGA to the gills.
It’s a valid question, but you could be a bit more subtle
Subtlety is for fucking cowards.
Nah. Fuck the MAGAts. They should all fuck off and die.
Not just a magat, he was truly a piece of shit in his life, he also snitched to prevent a union from forming for professional wrestlers. Cared about no one but himself his entire life.
ventura tried to help, but half-assed it and ditched the wrestlers once they wernt going to unionize, because he had sag-aftra as a backup if dint fall through, the wrestlers dint have backup plan, so they were scared of vince
Hardcore MAGA
For the record, not everyone who isn’t MAGA is a “good guy”.
Such a shame we lost ozzy.
True, I have the feeling that he will leave a hole that’s hard to fill.
Unlike Bulk Mulligan of whatever his name was.
Abomination McGraw?
RIP Julian LeFay, 59 is too young.
And RIP Malcolm-Jamal Warner too. Been a rough week that we’ve lost three loved entertainers.
And also this asshole.
Chuck Mangione, such a shame.
Wait! What? That’s actually a big bummer. It Feels so Good Bad.
At least he was old. Malcolm should have had a couple more decades.
He has a young kid too
Apparently he was a Zionist so make of that what you will
Well, I don’t know if he had the mental capacity to keep up with the goings-on in the world. He is very much known to be off his rocker from all the drugs.
“Ozzy is so confused by it all and just keeps asking me to explain why there is so much hatred of Jews,” Sharon said in an interview with Jewish News in 2023. “What do I say?”
Dude fuck off. Ozzy loved everyone
Wasn’t Ozzy a royalist? I know Sharon was.
Who cares. Many brits are in a passive, cultural sense, the same way non-christians celebrate Christmas.
lol comparing Christmas to royalism. Christmas has completely detached from Christianity at this point. Being a royalist means you are okay with funneling money to people based on heredity rather than merit. Also, Christmas doesn’t affect society in such a way that it costs anyone money that doesn’t celebrate it.
Christmas doesn’t affect society in such a way that it costs anyone money
There are materials you can use to research Earth traditions, I recommend it if you plan on continuing to try to blend in with human society.
yeah but you missed the crucial part of the statement:
Christmas doesn’t affect society in such a way that it costs anyone money that doesn’t celebrate it
Tbf so are lots of Brits in the passive sense.
In England and Wales, the leading cause of death in 2022 was dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, according to the Office for National Statistics. Specifically, they accounted for 65,967 deaths, or 11.5% of all deaths registered that year. This is a change from the previous years when COVID-19 was the leading cause of death.
So fried brains?
Followed him my entire life and I think he always tried to do the right thing but brain was fried
Sharon sucks
meh…
Too bad you decided to be a shit bag in real life. Not gonna miss this dude one ounce.
I never understood wrestling. Even as a child I couldn’t wrap my head around it. I didn’t get what was so fucking amazing to my friends about watching people put on a stageplay and pretend to hit each other in a ring while wearing tights. It seemed cheesy, boring and unexciting.
My friends ate it up, they were screaming at the TV. I tried to tell them it was fake and they got mad. I was boggled how people couldn’t tell it was fake. There was a Hulk Hogan cartoon in the 80’s, I loved cartoons but I was still boggled what was going on with wrestlers being so popular. The cartoon was boring and substandard, even to a child.
Fast-forward a buncha decades and here we are, a whole world of people shouting at the TV and getting exciting over theatrical bullshit presented in overtly fake ways for people to mindlessly cheer or jeer at their favorite heroes and villains… except now it’s the goddamn federal government.
Born late 90s, and always knew WWE wasn’t “real”. Did people really belive it was real or was that just some silly joke people used to make fun of the fans?
Like, have they never watched a stage play? It’s basically just a televised version of that plus violence.
It’s just another form of theatre, and has been from the beginning. Suspension of disbelief is a part of the fun.
I used to say all the same until, likely related, the relatively recent growth of John Cena’s film career. We know wrestling is fake. We know Twoicide Squad is fake. That doesn’t stop me from talking about the cool things Peacemaker does, so why should I police other people talking about wrestling events? Plus, after seeing live wrestling, it’s genuinely entertaining to watch as a sports/dance event. Note: I have zero interest in mma/boxing/etc and really don’t watch sports anyway.
People watch plays. People watch concerts. People watch sports. People watch wrestling. It’s just entertainment
It’s just entertainment
Ah, the Fox News defense.
they had to legally do that actually, sports entertainment, so they wouldnt be subject to heavy regulation by a sports authority like with drug testing, its well known most of them are on peds, rock, cena(pretty obvious),etc
I’m not talking about what the individuals go on to say from their personal capacities. I’m talking about a reality TV show where men pretend to beat each other up. Or am I out of the loop and wrestlemania is now part of the campaign trail?
It’s just entertainment
Until the people who profit off making fake things seem real use the same tactics to shape policy and undermine democracy. For that matter, some of the very same people who produced the cognitive dissonance of wrestling went on to produce political campaigns, blurring that line in uneducated viewers’ minds further.
I’m not saying you can’t enjoy wrestling or whatever media you like, as long as you understand how entertainment works and that it’s not even a reflection of reality, much less an actual narrative. That’s the difference I’m talking about here, if you know that difference, you need not worry, go have fun.
It was a male-targeted soap opera.
Our species thrives on narratives, if you could fashion a narrative that pulls in enough people you can literally change the world.
I am pulling my face off here wondering where our better stories are, where the master storytellers for progress and equality are hiding.
Yep rest in piss Hulk
Good.
He was a notoriously evil racist, was alleged to have commit almost ric flair levels of sexual assault over the years, and has an argument for singlehandedly killing the unionization of pro wrestling and leading to the modern “independent contractor” mess.
Might have go go chug some gatorade and visit his grave.
Might have go go chug some gatorade and visit his grave.
The high levels of sodium will make you retain the water. I suggest drinking lots of water, then chugging some coconut water and/or coffee. Let your feelings flow.
Coffee shits.
He did get Gawker Media shut down, which should be a plus. But he used Peter Thiel’s money to do it, which muddies the waters a bit…
“Hard cases make bad laws”
Whatever one thinks of Gawker, its demise is a footnote next to the precedent it set in muzzling investigative journalism that discomfits the powerful.
Haha, “investigative journalism that discomfits the powerful” doesn’t include publishing a sex tape that was taken without a person’s knowledge. Gawker got what was coming to it.
Here’s a thought experiment: if it was Chyna who was secretly recorded having sex and had that published in 2012, would you be so dismissive of it?
Gawker got shutdown because they called Peter Theil gay. The rest is just window-dressing.
No, Gawker got shut down because they were awful people with no ethics, and eventually went too far. Peter Thiel funded the lawsuit to shut them down because they said he was gay. No side is the good side here.
One side is slightly better
^ This is the answer.
I don’t remember if they published the ACTUAL sex tape and I assume I would have intentionally refused to look then like I do now.
Posting non-consensual media of sexual activity is wrong, full stop.
Posting the AUDIO of that? yeah, if Joanie were dropping n-bombs and being hateful I would be all for a tabloid rag to ruin her (already pretty ruined by WWE and Paul “HH Helmsely” Levesque) life over that.
They didn’t publish all of it, Wikipedia said they only published 10 seconds. But that’s enough.
To quote the almighty dril:
issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, ‘gotta hand it to them.’
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy, brother.
Finally, good news.
“Funny how the actors who play villains are often the nicest people in real life—it’s the ones who play the heroes you have to watch out for.”
Cardiac Arrest
Turns out all those times he was ripping his shirt off, it was just because of chest pains.
too much roids too.
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small
Most people with heart problems have too big of a heart. Cardiac hypertrophy and dilated cardiomyopathy (too much overgrown muscle and stretched out floppy muscle, respectively) are common end points of poorly managed hypertension (high blood pressure).
All the gear definitely enlarged his heart to an unhealthy degree
This better not turn out to be a hoax.
Did they make sure his arm dropped 3 times? If they stopped checking at 2 he might still be alive.
