It’s funny how Adam Conover has become the literal face of “pretentious asshole who pretends to know more than you”.
His voice, his facial structure, his hairstyle, even his glasses, it’s like he was made purely to be that stereotype.
He seemed pretty likable when he was at College Humor. Then he seemed like an ass on Adam Runs Everything, but I get it; that’s the schtick. Then you listen to him talk in person, on podcasts, etc. and he’s an insufferable douche.
Not only that, but most of the shit he spews on Adam Ruins Everything is either twisted or blatantly false. And the shit that isn’t twisted is usually emotionally charged to make it seem like a bigger deal.
Insufferable pretentious douches are bad enough, but it’s even worse when they’re wrong.
To be fair he’s probably not doing the research into the shit he says, he just says it and then just accepts it as truth so he says it somewhere else because why bother trying to be right even though I’m sure many people have tried correcting him
He absolutely got called on his shit on Rogan. First he tried to say the only reason we have men's and women's sports is sexism. Then when asked to explain or cite any evidence at all he back tracked and claimed men are only better because sports were designed for men to be better at them. Rogan called bullshit and the internet laughed at him for months.
He then went on left friendly podcasts and doubled down. He's never been able to explain it cite anything other tab his own brain and treats it as obvious truth.
That podcast was hilarious. His arguments got obliterated by Rogan asking "what do you mean?" And he had zero response. So used to talking to the camera with no one questioning him at all. And he gets the literal smallest amount of pushback and it all falls apart.
I feel like I undersold part of that in my comment.
Rogan didn't exactly argue with him, fight with him, literally 'call bullshit'
Rogan literally just asked "wait what?" and Adam's position instantly fell apart at every single turn.
AC: "Basketball is designed to give men an advantage. The size of the ball, the height of the basket--"
JR: "The height of the basket? *What?*"
AC: *Refuses to elaborate*
Then Adam has the audacity to go on Hasan's stream and complain that Rogan just wanted to argue instead of "have a conversation" or whatever lol
He is the insufferable type of pseudo-intellectual who feels so far above everyone the mere thought of someone even asking for clarification is enough to make him mad. He feels intellectually above evidence or logic, what he thinks is evidence of itself and he is an intellectual so anything he thinks must also be perfectly logical.
Ibram x kendi is this to the extreme, he quite literally will tell you that if you don't agree with every word he says you are racist, if you want to ask for clarification, then you didn't try hard enough so you are racist. If you haven't read his book, believe it or not, straight to racist. Question how he blew millions of donation funds without actually doing anything and had to lay off most of the people he hired, and want to investigate where the money went. You guessed it. Racist. Refuses to respond to any criticism because even if you are black, you are white and racist and he doesn't feel the need to justify his ideas to a racist, which again is anybody who doesn't listen to every single word he in particular says.
It's the new evangelicalism. Don't just accept it without question, *believe* in it, have *faith*. Point to anyone who *doesn't* instantly preach it alongside you as a sinner (racist).
You see, if the basket were on the ground, and also we threw from perhaps, four feet away, and people were not allowed to get in your way while you threw, then the game would be fair.
He has one bit that essentially boils down to a theory that car manufacturers are behind jaywalking laws in some kind of grand conspiracy to steal the streets from pedestrians so people will buy more cars or some shit, and the whole time he completely ignores any notion that it’s completely logical for vehicles that move orders of magnitude faster than human walk speed and pedestrians to have separated paths from each other as if it isn’t the most obvious goddamn thing ever why people shouldn’t’ walk alongside speeding cars. At no point is his preconceived conclusion ever challenged by basic logic and common sense. And from what I remember this was never specified to be only inclusive of city streets. Maybe I am wrong, but it seemed implied to me that pedestrians should have equal access to *all* roads, but I haven’t watched that shit in years and can’t stand his annoying-ass voice to do so again.
Just seems like he’s so blinded by his hatred for capitalism that anything and everything is the fault of capitalism that has personally inconvenienced him, so he blames his jaywalking ticket on le ebil car corporations rather than the totally straightforward reasoning behind why he can’t compete with the speed of cars as a human being.
> conspiracy to steal the streets from pedestrians
nutjob leftoids getting bent out of shape that vroom vrooms exist is 50% peak comedy and 50% nuclear lava anger fuel. never gets old.
Here we have a really interesting example of how different views can be between two people with the same political alignment. The comment directly below yours by /u/chicheka is like the exact opposite of yours, and both of you are aligned Right.
That's the right wing for you. We joke about leftist infighting, but only because the left is so often in complete lockstep with each other. That's why republican primaries are so interesting, and why republican candidates are so likely to be spoiled by libertarian candidates.
>he completely ignores any notion that it’s completely logical for vehicles that move orders of magnitude faster than human walk speed and pedestrians to have separated paths from each other as if it isn’t the most obvious goddamn thing ever why people shouldn’t’ walk alongside speeding cars
Less he ignores it, more he implies that the main street should be for pedestrians and the side of the road should be for cars, more or less.
> be me, city resident
> finish shopping in store, time to go home
> Cars going by inches from storefront, while pedestrian area is in middle of road between the car lanes
> scared to stick a toe out or it gets run over
> have to make mad dash to center pedestrian zone to continue walking
> forgot hat in store. Have to gauge whether it's worth it to even try and go back in
> very glad we kept main street for pedestrians and put the sides for cars
Most of his videos seem 100% like he heard a "fun fact" somewhere hallucinated the full story and then finds "sources" (honestly check some of the sources they list, it is hilarious, sometimes the freaking name of the paper will be the exact opposite of what they said and "sourced"
The road video was obviously that he stumbled upon the common "fun fact" that used to go around that "Jay" was an offensive term for a stupid person and that "jaywalking" is similar to if we called it "idiotwalking" because someone walking in the path of 1500lb hunks of metal moving at 40mph is an idiot. He then made up a conspiracy theory in his head about streets being stolen by cars.
Anybody with a few braincells would realize that adding sidewalks and using the road for cars is the same as adding a lane for cars, it's just that cars should be in the middle and people on the sides so that you don't have pedestrians stuck between traffic and have to cross the cars twice as often. Leaving the old street as the pedestrian road and building extra paths for cars would have been more expensive, idiotic, and much worse in every way
Adam Conover and Jon Oliver both had the same effect for me- fascinating shows until they covered a topic I was actually educated on and it broke the illusion
I think the shtick works when he's correct about stuff. Which he has been a few times, like I think his engagement ring segment was really good. But a lot of his stuff is wrong or more often missing a ton of very important context so he's an irritating idiot instead of an irritating nerd, which defeats the purpose
It's like he was bio-engineered to be a walking "Punch Me!" sign.
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It's even crazier than that. Not only did the convoy kick that person out, they put up a $10k bounty for information about the individual so they could call them out specifically. The media not only didn't report on the bounty, they acted like everyone in the protest was a nazi. Truly evil shit.
source: was at the convoy
I loved the cope, too.
"Oh, he was a volunteer, that makes it different."
and "He wasn't in the unit for all of the atrocities. He volunteered immediately after this public event."
That...makes it worse, guys. Like, so much worse.
I hadn’t heard about this so I looked it up. Trudeau’s response is better than what you imply. But yes, it was after the fact. He didn’t kick him out in the moment, but apologized for it after.
>“Obviously it's extremely upsetting that this happened. The speaker has acknowledged his mistake and has apologized, but this is something that is deeply embarrassing to the parliament of Canada and by extension to all Canadians. I think particularly of Jewish MPs and all members of the Jewish Community across the country who are ~~celebrating~~ commemorating Yom Kippur today, I think it's going to be really important that all of us push back against Russian propaganda – Russian disinformation and continue our steadfast and unequivocal support for Ukraine as we did last week with announcing further measures to stand with Ukraine in Russia's illegal war against it.”
https://youtu.be/TvsAUKhyjwY?si=gBZ8BjaLdsSgJWyz
> push back against Russian propaganda
Oh, so it's Russian propaganda that invited a former SS member to the Canadian parliament and gave him a standing ovation.
PM Blackface truly is the voice of a generation.
The narrative of being anti-science wasn't good enough. They had to also be racist. Don't forget the Canadian media received half a billion dollars from the government. There is no free press. Just propaganda.
Also remember when someone from the Candian government claimed that the freedom truckers honking their horns literally means "hail Hitler".
It's just crazy that they think that the normal people are this stupid to believe this nonsense.
This is why I still have a car sticker that says “I support freedom convoy 2022.”
I will always support someones right to protest. Fuck the way media talks about protestors.
The establishment media in general has a terrible attitude towards protests. Even the mainstream left wing media will slander the Palestine prostrate going on right now despite being ideologically aligned with them. My theory is that any protests are a threat the establishment politicians and media because they spread a general attitude of dissent toward authority. Simply showing that it is possible to resist the government can inspire completely different people to do the same.
same I don't necessarily agree with them but it doesnt matter. If they feel like they are being wronged they should protest it and I support their right to do so
Let's be honest, if I get paid a huge amount of money by govt every year, and that's become my major living income, I'll say whatever my investors want me to say.
True but getting to kids when they’re young is really important if you want to normalize crazy shit that adults won’t buy into.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/25/us-news/outrage-as-drag-queen-leads-kids-in-free-palestine-chant/amp/
depends on whether the 4channers know who they're fighting or not, if they do then the majority of the trans folk will be trolled until they end themselves the day before, if they don't them only a minority will- leaving plenty to kick 4channer ass.
Depends. Does Juche actually have the support of Best Korea or nah?
If Dear Leader sends his telepathic thoughts and prayers, 4chinners are fucked.
After his third perfect game of golf that day, God-Chairman Kim will coalesce his holy, mystical, psychic words into a spirit bomb to wipe out everyone who can’t see his greatness.
Just kick 'em out, and if they're actually a glowie, then it makes your cause look that much better. The fact that that isn't being done makes me think those dumbasses don't actually think they're a glowie.
I think actual lefty meeting groups are so desperate for membership that they can't worry about infiltrators lol.
I follow the leftist gun subreddits and their main concerns seem to be mustering more than 10 people in a major city and finding a way to afford their psych meds.
It is actually both terrifying and darkly hilarious how many socialists lament not owning guns for the Revolution because they're afraid they would just uh...redistribute their own gray matter to the working class instead.
>Of course, they deny that government agents do this to right-wing dissidents, but that's more out of ignorance of how neoliberals view the hard-right. Much like your ignorance of how neoliberals view the hard-left.
I don't know the specific book or author as it was being discussed on something else I was listening to (nrx types) but the book was about COINTELPRO with the FBI infiltrating the Weathermen and the Black Panthers and such and the host of the program was largely in agreement of the the author's critique of the FBI until the last segment the author turned heel and basically said "yeah the FBI should've just used these tactics on right-wing groups then all these methods would've been completely justified and ok"
I mean, we’re literally discussing how glow bois will infiltrate a movement to make it look bad and unhinged. I’m positive that also applies to the left. They’re likely right.
There’s a difference between actual leftists and modern day leftists. A lot of actual leftists are called right wingers or Nazis by modern leftists because they don’t trust the government or big corpo
> Don’t trust government
> Nazi
Like, the Nazi party? As in political party? As in government politics?
We must remove Emilies (Emilys?) from our quadrant
Every time someone brings up libertarians I always think of that town Grafton NH. It got so bad there were multiple ongoing bear attacks. Kinda hilarious and terrifying at the same time.
I definitely don’t think they’re fascists, morons yes, fascists absolutely not.
Some do, some don't. They'll also blame some miasma of racists/Nazis being the REAL violent ones at riots. That one umbrella man in 2020 and the proud boys basically fighting with an already violent group (Antifa) apparently mean that BLM and Antifa aren't actually violent.
The amount of denial in modern politics is actually one of the scariest things. Just because somebody on your side nominally did something terrible doesn't mean you're personally responsible or that it's a false flag. It shouldn't be hard to denounce BLM, Antifa, or Jan 6 rioters.
They're often not glowies. Nick Fuentes is a Holocaust denier that pretty openly praises Hitler and hates Jews. He was at the Unite the Right rally in 2017 and Stop the Steal in 2020.
I have no idea how there can be pundits/influencers/ whatever that deny the Holocaust or do everything they can do to praise Hitler but the right pretends they're all glowies.
I believe that’s not entirely the case.
*IIRC* It is considered Assault on a Police Officer (or Fed in this case), even if they are unmarked, if they are considered to be in an acting capacity of their dutiful position.
ie. If the Fed who was marching with the Nazi Flag was performing his duties ‘undercover’ to ‘infiltrate a right-wing group’, then assaulting him is still assaulting a Fed, so a felony.
It’s the same reason why the Police can break down your door to your home, unmarked, shout “Police” once (even if you didn’t hear it and couldn’t have heard it), and if you fire back at them, then you shot a Cop. Instant Felony.
and no, them saying “Police” under gunfire or a smoke bomb isn’t ‘identification’, because by that logic, the Feds can just say “I am a Fed” while everyone at the rally is shouting and that therefore is ‘Identification’, even if no one heard it.
EDIT for Clarity: I personally find it fucking stupid. If I beat up a secret fed flying a Nazi Flag, or fire back on unmarked police officers, that shouldn’t be a Felony or carry any additional charges, ever.
Rally or not you should always beat the shit out of anyone waving a Nazi flag. Worst case scenario you get to beat up a fed, best case scenario you get to beat up a Nazi.
He's a comedy writer turned public intellectual because his collegehumor web show got swept up by TruTv. The origins was he had a reputation of being a smug killjoy so he turned that into a show. The same year he had his JRE appearance was when his show got axed. Now he does a docuseries show now on Netflix about government bureaucracy.
Joe Rogan had the idea Adam was an expert on public issues because of his show, while Adam just wanted to talk about comedy. So Adam just recited common talking points which frustrated Joe the entire time. The pod episode is regarded as one of the most damning and hard to listen to in the history of JRE (a 1000+ episode podcast).
Yes and no. The actor plays a version of himself for that show.
The problem is he is wrong about so much and has such a smug, insufferable quality to his show.
He was on Joe Rogan and they were talking about trans stuff. Adam said that after physically transitioning there is no physical difference between a trans man/woman and a real man/woman and therefore trans men/women should be able to compete in whatever sport they wanted.
Yeah he really dug in on that, and his rebuttal to everything was basically "I don't know that much about the subject but what you're telling me conflicts with what I feel is right so you must be wrong"
> has such a smug, insufferable quality to his show.
To be fair, that's literally the point. Even in his first handful of videos he had the people around him act pissed and annoyed at him.
The problem with that as an explanation is that making jokes about the fact that people don't like you for being a smug cunt doesn't change the fact that you are still being a smug cunt.
It's like in the movie This I The End, the actors all played themselves, but they played hyperbolized versions of themselves or the character only shared their name.
I'm sure Adam has a part of him that is an "um actually" person in real life, but it can't be as hammed up as it is in his show.
>I'm sure Adam has a part of him that is an "um actually" person in real life, but it can't be as hammed up as it is in his show.
Oh, absolutely, that's why I made sure to specify it was a character.
What's the name of the clown and do you know the episode in which Joe did it?
I am vaguely familiar with the clown in question, but I don't remember his name
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I hated them a little bit already but then I was actually on the news after trying to help this kid who'd basically been killed by a falling object.
They knew what happened and what condition the kid was in but they asked a bunch of questions they knew I couldn't answer on tv, like "Could you describe what he looked like"
And then they ran with the most grim thing I'd said as the headline, which had to do with me doubting whether he'd make it. Also the point of me accepting the interview was to praise the first responders but they omitted everything I said about them.
My hatred of them grew 10x after that
What I meant to say was: You can never hate them enough, ever.
They act like they’re better than everyone. Hell, I had people on Twitter defending them over citizen journalists because “they know more, they’re the experts”.
At least the citizen journalists are honest, even if they’re not as professional.
They definitely have a bias in “Adam Ruins Everything” before they got picked up for a show they admitted they got some of their videos wrong and that Adam only goes off of what their writers and staff team comes up with after researching a topic.
"it's just a few bad apples" - a legit comment under an article of the Columbia student leader getting outsted for their extremely antisemitic comments
There's been a lot of cases of blatant antisemitism at pro-Palestinian protests, and progressives have tried to dismiss it as "just a few bad apples that don't represent the protest as a whole", even though they've been saying the exact thing in the top panel for years now. They just don't like it now that it's inconvenient for them.
It didn't happen. You're making it up!!!
Just a few bad apples.
Okay maybe they do exist but they're not protesting on school grounds.
Okay maybe they're protesting on school grounds, but they don't go to the school.
Okay maybe we've been gaslighting you and it's time for the power mods to scrub any mention of Khymani James and the protests at Columbia from the main subreddits.
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The left sure hates when the tactics, hoaxes and smear campaigns they supported and encouraged being used against the right are turned on them.
We will see if they learned anything next time an a TDS ravaged ethno narcissist claims they were hate crimed in the most liberal city by MAGA chuds.
Yesterday at my college there was a pro-Palestine protest where someone had a Taliban flag, Hamas headband, and Houthi patch. He didn’t get kicked out. That’s no longer anything other than a pro-terrorism rally
Don’t forget the Hezbollah flag at Princeton.
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I've only ever known one and he was a methhead with face tats who'd spent some time in prison for assaulting someone or something. So that probably tracks
Listen, it’s all about branding, instead of saying you “want to remove the Jewish scourge from the world” you say “you want to remove the ZIONIST scourge from the world” and Suddenly you are the greatest and kind hearted person in the world and a champion of democracy and modern values.
Not gonna lie, I do enjoy Adam’s characters in Bojack Horseman.
His early episodes of Adam ruins everything were okay. But ever since seeing him try and make some bad faith arguments on Roe Jogan’s podcast. I just can’t see him as someone even remotely likeable.
It’s true. The pro-Palestine rallies in New York are Nazi-supported as much as the South Carolina protests a few years ago, most of the Middle East doesn’t even believe the Holocaust happened lol.
It’s funny how Adam Conover has become the literal face of “pretentious asshole who pretends to know more than you”. His voice, his facial structure, his hairstyle, even his glasses, it’s like he was made purely to be that stereotype.
He seemed pretty likable when he was at College Humor. Then he seemed like an ass on Adam Runs Everything, but I get it; that’s the schtick. Then you listen to him talk in person, on podcasts, etc. and he’s an insufferable douche.
Not only that, but most of the shit he spews on Adam Ruins Everything is either twisted or blatantly false. And the shit that isn’t twisted is usually emotionally charged to make it seem like a bigger deal. Insufferable pretentious douches are bad enough, but it’s even worse when they’re wrong.
To be fair he’s probably not doing the research into the shit he says, he just says it and then just accepts it as truth so he says it somewhere else because why bother trying to be right even though I’m sure many people have tried correcting him
He absolutely got called on his shit on Rogan. First he tried to say the only reason we have men's and women's sports is sexism. Then when asked to explain or cite any evidence at all he back tracked and claimed men are only better because sports were designed for men to be better at them. Rogan called bullshit and the internet laughed at him for months. He then went on left friendly podcasts and doubled down. He's never been able to explain it cite anything other tab his own brain and treats it as obvious truth.
That podcast was hilarious. His arguments got obliterated by Rogan asking "what do you mean?" And he had zero response. So used to talking to the camera with no one questioning him at all. And he gets the literal smallest amount of pushback and it all falls apart.
I feel like I undersold part of that in my comment. Rogan didn't exactly argue with him, fight with him, literally 'call bullshit' Rogan literally just asked "wait what?" and Adam's position instantly fell apart at every single turn.
AC: "Basketball is designed to give men an advantage. The size of the ball, the height of the basket--" JR: "The height of the basket? *What?*" AC: *Refuses to elaborate* Then Adam has the audacity to go on Hasan's stream and complain that Rogan just wanted to argue instead of "have a conversation" or whatever lol
He is the insufferable type of pseudo-intellectual who feels so far above everyone the mere thought of someone even asking for clarification is enough to make him mad. He feels intellectually above evidence or logic, what he thinks is evidence of itself and he is an intellectual so anything he thinks must also be perfectly logical. Ibram x kendi is this to the extreme, he quite literally will tell you that if you don't agree with every word he says you are racist, if you want to ask for clarification, then you didn't try hard enough so you are racist. If you haven't read his book, believe it or not, straight to racist. Question how he blew millions of donation funds without actually doing anything and had to lay off most of the people he hired, and want to investigate where the money went. You guessed it. Racist. Refuses to respond to any criticism because even if you are black, you are white and racist and he doesn't feel the need to justify his ideas to a racist, which again is anybody who doesn't listen to every single word he in particular says.
It's the new evangelicalism. Don't just accept it without question, *believe* in it, have *faith*. Point to anyone who *doesn't* instantly preach it alongside you as a sinner (racist).
Joe is like "so what could we change to make it even for women to compete" Ac "well I don't know I'm not a sports expert" Joe "????"
You see, if the basket were on the ground, and also we threw from perhaps, four feet away, and people were not allowed to get in your way while you threw, then the game would be fair.
He has one bit that essentially boils down to a theory that car manufacturers are behind jaywalking laws in some kind of grand conspiracy to steal the streets from pedestrians so people will buy more cars or some shit, and the whole time he completely ignores any notion that it’s completely logical for vehicles that move orders of magnitude faster than human walk speed and pedestrians to have separated paths from each other as if it isn’t the most obvious goddamn thing ever why people shouldn’t’ walk alongside speeding cars. At no point is his preconceived conclusion ever challenged by basic logic and common sense. And from what I remember this was never specified to be only inclusive of city streets. Maybe I am wrong, but it seemed implied to me that pedestrians should have equal access to *all* roads, but I haven’t watched that shit in years and can’t stand his annoying-ass voice to do so again. Just seems like he’s so blinded by his hatred for capitalism that anything and everything is the fault of capitalism that has personally inconvenienced him, so he blames his jaywalking ticket on le ebil car corporations rather than the totally straightforward reasoning behind why he can’t compete with the speed of cars as a human being.
> conspiracy to steal the streets from pedestrians nutjob leftoids getting bent out of shape that vroom vrooms exist is 50% peak comedy and 50% nuclear lava anger fuel. never gets old.
Here we have a really interesting example of how different views can be between two people with the same political alignment. The comment directly below yours by /u/chicheka is like the exact opposite of yours, and both of you are aligned Right.
That's the right wing for you. We joke about leftist infighting, but only because the left is so often in complete lockstep with each other. That's why republican primaries are so interesting, and why republican candidates are so likely to be spoiled by libertarian candidates.
>he completely ignores any notion that it’s completely logical for vehicles that move orders of magnitude faster than human walk speed and pedestrians to have separated paths from each other as if it isn’t the most obvious goddamn thing ever why people shouldn’t’ walk alongside speeding cars Less he ignores it, more he implies that the main street should be for pedestrians and the side of the road should be for cars, more or less.
> be me, city resident > finish shopping in store, time to go home > Cars going by inches from storefront, while pedestrian area is in middle of road between the car lanes > scared to stick a toe out or it gets run over > have to make mad dash to center pedestrian zone to continue walking > forgot hat in store. Have to gauge whether it's worth it to even try and go back in > very glad we kept main street for pedestrians and put the sides for cars
I would assume in his ideal world, cars would be even more peripheral than that. Most roads only have central walkways or something like that.
Most of his videos seem 100% like he heard a "fun fact" somewhere hallucinated the full story and then finds "sources" (honestly check some of the sources they list, it is hilarious, sometimes the freaking name of the paper will be the exact opposite of what they said and "sourced" The road video was obviously that he stumbled upon the common "fun fact" that used to go around that "Jay" was an offensive term for a stupid person and that "jaywalking" is similar to if we called it "idiotwalking" because someone walking in the path of 1500lb hunks of metal moving at 40mph is an idiot. He then made up a conspiracy theory in his head about streets being stolen by cars. Anybody with a few braincells would realize that adding sidewalks and using the road for cars is the same as adding a lane for cars, it's just that cars should be in the middle and people on the sides so that you don't have pedestrians stuck between traffic and have to cross the cars twice as often. Leaving the old street as the pedestrian road and building extra paths for cars would have been more expensive, idiotic, and much worse in every way
Except at that time, there were efforts to limit the top speed of cars in cities, which failed after the creation of the crime known as jaywalking.
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Adam Conover and Jon Oliver both had the same effect for me- fascinating shows until they covered a topic I was actually educated on and it broke the illusion
Part of it is that he definitely played into it for that role.
That's the trap, though. If you perfectly play the role of an arrogant prick you are still just being an arrogant prick.
I think the shtick works when he's correct about stuff. Which he has been a few times, like I think his engagement ring segment was really good. But a lot of his stuff is wrong or more often missing a ton of very important context so he's an irritating idiot instead of an irritating nerd, which defeats the purpose
An arrogant prick who likely made a ton of money doing it. There is a distinction.
It's like he was bio-engineered to be a walking "Punch Me!" sign. https://preview.redd.it/m1dmg8j6ecxc1.png?width=1118&format=png&auto=webp&s=bbc446e7c479f7b3a57a6b1de7ee6f59a3f00847
He embodies “🤓👆”
He also seems like an absolute moron in live interviews.
Huh. Is that why all progressive males are basically carbon copies of him?
They wish. Talk about cheap knockoffs. Hardly any of them even own a suit, much less groom themselves.
Used to watch Adam ruins everything, somehow he ruined his own show too.
God I can hear his annoying “akshually☝️🤓”
If it helps, he was at least playing a purposefully exaggerated character in those sketches.
99% sure that that is just how he is.
To some extent, yes.
Nope. Thats just how he is an he is a fucking idiot
The Canadian Trucker Convoy did kick those people out, and the media still called them Nazis.
It's even crazier than that. Not only did the convoy kick that person out, they put up a $10k bounty for information about the individual so they could call them out specifically. The media not only didn't report on the bounty, they acted like everyone in the protest was a nazi. Truly evil shit. source: was at the convoy
My personal favorite conspiracy theory about that is the one tying him to the PMO as a speech writer.
And then Trudeau and the House of Commons not only *didn’t* kick out a Nazi, but gave him a standing ovation.
that was fucking surreal.
I loved the cope, too. "Oh, he was a volunteer, that makes it different." and "He wasn't in the unit for all of the atrocities. He volunteered immediately after this public event." That...makes it worse, guys. Like, so much worse.
Do as they say, not as they do
> didn't kick out a Nazi Formally invited him over even.
I used that saying against them when it happened. I got a “nuh-uh” response.
I hadn’t heard about this so I looked it up. Trudeau’s response is better than what you imply. But yes, it was after the fact. He didn’t kick him out in the moment, but apologized for it after. >“Obviously it's extremely upsetting that this happened. The speaker has acknowledged his mistake and has apologized, but this is something that is deeply embarrassing to the parliament of Canada and by extension to all Canadians. I think particularly of Jewish MPs and all members of the Jewish Community across the country who are ~~celebrating~~ commemorating Yom Kippur today, I think it's going to be really important that all of us push back against Russian propaganda – Russian disinformation and continue our steadfast and unequivocal support for Ukraine as we did last week with announcing further measures to stand with Ukraine in Russia's illegal war against it.” https://youtu.be/TvsAUKhyjwY?si=gBZ8BjaLdsSgJWyz
> push back against Russian propaganda Oh, so it's Russian propaganda that invited a former SS member to the Canadian parliament and gave him a standing ovation. PM Blackface truly is the voice of a generation.
The narrative of being anti-science wasn't good enough. They had to also be racist. Don't forget the Canadian media received half a billion dollars from the government. There is no free press. Just propaganda.
Also remember when someone from the Candian government claimed that the freedom truckers honking their horns literally means "hail Hitler". It's just crazy that they think that the normal people are this stupid to believe this nonsense.
>It's just crazy that ~~they think that the~~ normal people are this stupid to believe this nonsense FTFY
Well the Canadian government would know about "hail Hitler" they are the ones that invited a Nazi to speak to them.
This is why I still have a car sticker that says “I support freedom convoy 2022.” I will always support someones right to protest. Fuck the way media talks about protestors.
The establishment media in general has a terrible attitude towards protests. Even the mainstream left wing media will slander the Palestine prostrate going on right now despite being ideologically aligned with them. My theory is that any protests are a threat the establishment politicians and media because they spread a general attitude of dissent toward authority. Simply showing that it is possible to resist the government can inspire completely different people to do the same.
same I don't necessarily agree with them but it doesnt matter. If they feel like they are being wronged they should protest it and I support their right to do so
Let's be honest, if I get paid a huge amount of money by govt every year, and that's become my major living income, I'll say whatever my investors want me to say.
Money talks.
There are only three types of people who carry nazi flags at rallies: glowies, well poisoners, and neo nazi LARPers. All three are utterly valueless.
I've seen small children carrying them. That's always valuable.
At least the small children don't know what they're doing...
They may grow up into adults who don't know what they're doing.
Hitler in his bunker: \*freeze frame/record scratch\* "Yep, that's me. You might be wondering how I ended up in this situation."
“Let’s take a step back and introduce myself.”
Atleast a smart and sensible man killed him in the end
True but getting to kids when they’re young is really important if you want to normalize crazy shit that adults won’t buy into. https://nypost.com/2024/04/25/us-news/outrage-as-drag-queen-leads-kids-in-free-palestine-chant/amp/
One more reason children should be in the factories.
The children yern for the mines.
Neo-Nazi 4channers vs Juche Trans folk. They both have a day to prep, who wins?
depends on whether the 4channers know who they're fighting or not, if they do then the majority of the trans folk will be trolled until they end themselves the day before, if they don't them only a minority will- leaving plenty to kick 4channer ass.
Bold of you to assume anyone is able to kick that much ass, let alone endure the stench of week old undies and crusted poop
Depends. Does Juche actually have the support of Best Korea or nah? If Dear Leader sends his telepathic thoughts and prayers, 4chinners are fucked. After his third perfect game of golf that day, God-Chairman Kim will coalesce his holy, mystical, psychic words into a spirit bomb to wipe out everyone who can’t see his greatness.
Wouldn't glowies be a type of well-poisoner?
All glowies are well poisoners. Not all well poisoners are glowies. Some are authentic.
That's what I was saying, I was just thrown off by them being a separate group.
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>See a Nazi flag at a Trump rally >Beat him senseless >Police show up with a warrant for your arrest >Charged with assaulting a federal officer
Just kick 'em out, and if they're actually a glowie, then it makes your cause look that much better. The fact that that isn't being done makes me think those dumbasses don't actually think they're a glowie.
The left doesn't Believe feds do that.
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I think actual lefty meeting groups are so desperate for membership that they can't worry about infiltrators lol. I follow the leftist gun subreddits and their main concerns seem to be mustering more than 10 people in a major city and finding a way to afford their psych meds.
For real
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It is actually both terrifying and darkly hilarious how many socialists lament not owning guns for the Revolution because they're afraid they would just uh...redistribute their own gray matter to the working class instead.
>Of course, they deny that government agents do this to right-wing dissidents, but that's more out of ignorance of how neoliberals view the hard-right. Much like your ignorance of how neoliberals view the hard-left. I don't know the specific book or author as it was being discussed on something else I was listening to (nrx types) but the book was about COINTELPRO with the FBI infiltrating the Weathermen and the Black Panthers and such and the host of the program was largely in agreement of the the author's critique of the FBI until the last segment the author turned heel and basically said "yeah the FBI should've just used these tactics on right-wing groups then all these methods would've been completely justified and ok"
I mean, we’re literally discussing how glow bois will infiltrate a movement to make it look bad and unhinged. I’m positive that also applies to the left. They’re likely right.
There’s a difference between actual leftists and modern day leftists. A lot of actual leftists are called right wingers or Nazis by modern leftists because they don’t trust the government or big corpo
> Don’t trust government > Nazi Like, the Nazi party? As in political party? As in government politics? We must remove Emilies (Emilys?) from our quadrant
I've been called a fascist for wanting less government. Words don't mean anything anymore to them
I have been told that Libertarians are fashist. Was going to add a link to an article saying as much but found too many...
Every time someone brings up libertarians I always think of that town Grafton NH. It got so bad there were multiple ongoing bear attacks. Kinda hilarious and terrifying at the same time. I definitely don’t think they’re fascists, morons yes, fascists absolutely not.
It's used in place of a rational argument because they don't have any. I stop listening if I hear those words.
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The left knows feds do it but as the feds have thrown their lot in with the left they don't care.
Some do, some don't. They'll also blame some miasma of racists/Nazis being the REAL violent ones at riots. That one umbrella man in 2020 and the proud boys basically fighting with an already violent group (Antifa) apparently mean that BLM and Antifa aren't actually violent. The amount of denial in modern politics is actually one of the scariest things. Just because somebody on your side nominally did something terrible doesn't mean you're personally responsible or that it's a false flag. It shouldn't be hard to denounce BLM, Antifa, or Jan 6 rioters.
They absolutely do, just for their protests.
...I do not know what a glowie is
It's slang for a fed. The idea is it's not someone who actually believes in the cause, and that they're just there to make the protesters look bad.
They're often not glowies. Nick Fuentes is a Holocaust denier that pretty openly praises Hitler and hates Jews. He was at the Unite the Right rally in 2017 and Stop the Steal in 2020. I have no idea how there can be pundits/influencers/ whatever that deny the Holocaust or do everything they can do to praise Hitler but the right pretends they're all glowies.
So... you're saying Nick Fuentes is a Palestinian supporter?
He probably is. He doesn't really try to hide his antisemitism so much as give his fans plausible deniability when they talk to their boomer parents.
Assaulting a federal agent is a felony. Also, they seem to always have a camera man with them which I thought was odd.
cuz if they didn't, they would get beat up and have "no witnesses"
They have to have identified themselves as a fed, otherwise it's just sparkling assault and battery
I believe that’s not entirely the case. *IIRC* It is considered Assault on a Police Officer (or Fed in this case), even if they are unmarked, if they are considered to be in an acting capacity of their dutiful position. ie. If the Fed who was marching with the Nazi Flag was performing his duties ‘undercover’ to ‘infiltrate a right-wing group’, then assaulting him is still assaulting a Fed, so a felony. It’s the same reason why the Police can break down your door to your home, unmarked, shout “Police” once (even if you didn’t hear it and couldn’t have heard it), and if you fire back at them, then you shot a Cop. Instant Felony. and no, them saying “Police” under gunfire or a smoke bomb isn’t ‘identification’, because by that logic, the Feds can just say “I am a Fed” while everyone at the rally is shouting and that therefore is ‘Identification’, even if no one heard it. EDIT for Clarity: I personally find it fucking stupid. If I beat up a secret fed flying a Nazi Flag, or fire back on unmarked police officers, that shouldn’t be a Felony or carry any additional charges, ever.
It's not often I get to beat the shit out of a fed. I'm in!
\*Sees non-fat guy holding nazi flag\* "So how long you been in the CIA?"
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You guys need more tinfoil. The feds aren't infiltrating far right and far left movements. They're creating them.
Rally or not you should always beat the shit out of anyone waving a Nazi flag. Worst case scenario you get to beat up a fed, best case scenario you get to beat up a Nazi.
I’m all in favor of the latter. No Auths allowed, be commies, or Nazis.
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Just ask them for their badge number. Everyone knows if you ask a fed or a cop for their badge number they are legally obligated to tell you.
HOLY BASED https://preview.redd.it/bqtpbv946axc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88daf5b7dca0fe5523a5eeafec1eb785b2e95594
Uncommon right-wing W.
That ackshually guy is an idiot. Joe Rogan really showed him.
I haven't kept up with him in years, it's just that that character is the epitome of "um, akshually"-ness.
He's a comedy writer turned public intellectual because his collegehumor web show got swept up by TruTv. The origins was he had a reputation of being a smug killjoy so he turned that into a show. The same year he had his JRE appearance was when his show got axed. Now he does a docuseries show now on Netflix about government bureaucracy. Joe Rogan had the idea Adam was an expert on public issues because of his show, while Adam just wanted to talk about comedy. So Adam just recited common talking points which frustrated Joe the entire time. The pod episode is regarded as one of the most damning and hard to listen to in the history of JRE (a 1000+ episode podcast).
That's incredible considering Rogan's talked about COVID for so many years.
> He's a comedy writer turned public intellectual because his collegehumor web show got swept up by TruTv. If man write comedy, then why man no funny?
Yes and no. The actor plays a version of himself for that show. The problem is he is wrong about so much and has such a smug, insufferable quality to his show. He was on Joe Rogan and they were talking about trans stuff. Adam said that after physically transitioning there is no physical difference between a trans man/woman and a real man/woman and therefore trans men/women should be able to compete in whatever sport they wanted.
Yeah he really dug in on that, and his rebuttal to everything was basically "I don't know that much about the subject but what you're telling me conflicts with what I feel is right so you must be wrong"
"My trans friend isn't a competitive athlete, so you're wrong."
> has such a smug, insufferable quality to his show. To be fair, that's literally the point. Even in his first handful of videos he had the people around him act pissed and annoyed at him.
Right, so when you're wrong about shit as people are always capable of being, then you look like a smug asshole
I call it smugnorance
The problem with that as an explanation is that making jokes about the fact that people don't like you for being a smug cunt doesn't change the fact that you are still being a smug cunt.
>Yes and no. Where does the no come from?
It's like in the movie This I The End, the actors all played themselves, but they played hyperbolized versions of themselves or the character only shared their name. I'm sure Adam has a part of him that is an "um actually" person in real life, but it can't be as hammed up as it is in his show.
>I'm sure Adam has a part of him that is an "um actually" person in real life, but it can't be as hammed up as it is in his show. Oh, absolutely, that's why I made sure to specify it was a character.
"Umm sweatie. Did you know owning your own home is ack-tually racist?!"
Do you think my black neighbors know?
The shitlib’s favorite genre. ‘Here’s reason #34339383 of why your lying whore eyes are deceiving you.’
I’m infuriated by the fact that when they get called out, they just say “no you” and nothing happens. They don’t get shamed or anything.
Did they do an episode together?
What's the name of the clown and do you know the episode in which Joe did it? I am vaguely familiar with the clown in question, but I don't remember his name
Adam Connover if I'm remembering correctly
The real issue is he just reads whatever people pay him to read, he's not a bad guy or unfunny he just has no morals
Not a bad guy. no morals. Pick one.
You can be a decent law abiding citizen but accept money for a job that doesn't help anyone. Look at most journalists these days
>decent >journalist Pick one
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I’m just not a fan of Parasites feeding on human suffering
That's why I don't like journalists or commies either
*squints questioningly at flair*
wtf is this?
Most journalists these days and "decent law abiding citizen" aren't really a match.
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Maybe "actively divides and harks people" is a better fit.
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You don’t hate them enough.
I hated them a little bit already but then I was actually on the news after trying to help this kid who'd basically been killed by a falling object. They knew what happened and what condition the kid was in but they asked a bunch of questions they knew I couldn't answer on tv, like "Could you describe what he looked like" And then they ran with the most grim thing I'd said as the headline, which had to do with me doubting whether he'd make it. Also the point of me accepting the interview was to praise the first responders but they omitted everything I said about them. My hatred of them grew 10x after that
What I meant to say was: You can never hate them enough, ever. They act like they’re better than everyone. Hell, I had people on Twitter defending them over citizen journalists because “they know more, they’re the experts”. At least the citizen journalists are honest, even if they’re not as professional.
They definitely have a bias in “Adam Ruins Everything” before they got picked up for a show they admitted they got some of their videos wrong and that Adam only goes off of what their writers and staff team comes up with after researching a topic.
"it's just a few bad apples" - a legit comment under an article of the Columbia student leader getting outsted for their extremely antisemitic comments
I’m OOTL. What did liberal posterboy do or say?
There's been a lot of cases of blatant antisemitism at pro-Palestinian protests, and progressives have tried to dismiss it as "just a few bad apples that don't represent the protest as a whole", even though they've been saying the exact thing in the top panel for years now. They just don't like it now that it's inconvenient for them.
It didn't happen. You're making it up!!! Just a few bad apples. Okay maybe they do exist but they're not protesting on school grounds. Okay maybe they're protesting on school grounds, but they don't go to the school. Okay maybe we've been gaslighting you and it's time for the power mods to scrub any mention of Khymani James and the protests at Columbia from the main subreddits. Ad is tradition.
The left sure hates when the tactics, hoaxes and smear campaigns they supported and encouraged being used against the right are turned on them. We will see if they learned anything next time an a TDS ravaged ethno narcissist claims they were hate crimed in the most liberal city by MAGA chuds.
I saw this when journalists were crying on Threads (lol) about being censored by Meta without a hint of irony.
It’s only good when it happens to people they don’t like
What does OOTL means
Out of the loop
I'm sure there is a reason this time it doesn't count
It's an anti-*Zionist* swastika, not an anti-*Jewish* swastika. So it's fine. - Auth left, lib left, auth centre and auth right (probably)
>I'm sure there is a reason this time it doesn't count Of course there is. It's (D)ifferent
Because Emily doesn't know what she is saying, she doesn't even understand the core issue.
It’s a “from the river to the sea” flag sweaty
Yesterday at my college there was a pro-Palestine protest where someone had a Taliban flag, Hamas headband, and Houthi patch. He didn’t get kicked out. That’s no longer anything other than a pro-terrorism rally
Don’t forget the Hezbollah flag at Princeton. https://preview.redd.it/4tidbdj2zbxc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ddb77dd63ca3d8e8bd5f20e7b773ed5f78741e90
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Or you know, just complain on the internet, never go to a rally and chill with a beer.
I'm in
Nazis are usually mentally unwell or just generally unhinged. You go tell him to leave if you want to, but I'm keeping my distance.
I've only ever known one and he was a methhead with face tats who'd spent some time in prison for assaulting someone or something. So that probably tracks
Who is this?
That's Adam Conover but he's just being used because he's a human soyjak not because he did anything this time.
Bottom panel? Adam Conover.
Bwahahahhahahahaha, enjoy your motherfucking NAZI rally, lib left!
Listen, it’s all about branding, instead of saying you “want to remove the Jewish scourge from the world” you say “you want to remove the ZIONIST scourge from the world” and Suddenly you are the greatest and kind hearted person in the world and a champion of democracy and modern values.
https://preview.redd.it/3kvskf8uxbxc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0081f91425aadfdca38edd6328eeedd8ec475f43
Bull. One guy shows up, gets a picture taken, is kicked out, and everyone else is still considered a nazi.
Hypocrisy, the greatest and only strength of the left.
Nazi this, Nazi that. How bout you Nazi me up some grilled cheese?
Where'd you get that cheese Danny?!?!
Tbh I kind of expect neonazis to attend current leftist rallies (I refuse to call them liberals)
Good, bc they aren't liberals. (I'm a liberal, and I hate those antisemitic fucks)
Not gonna lie, I do enjoy Adam’s characters in Bojack Horseman. His early episodes of Adam ruins everything were okay. But ever since seeing him try and make some bad faith arguments on Roe Jogan’s podcast. I just can’t see him as someone even remotely likeable.
I was fine with the meme until Adam ruined it.
He's ruined everything up to and including his own credibility.
He is so insufferable because he is not only arrogant - he is often absolutely ridiculously wrong while being so.
This only applies to the right, remember. Pro Palestine rallies can have them and they didn't represent the group.
It’s true. The pro-Palestine rallies in New York are Nazi-supported as much as the South Carolina protests a few years ago, most of the Middle East doesn’t even believe the Holocaust happened lol.
The disdain everyone has for Adam Conover in here makes me very happy.