Dying in a mental asylum in 2004 because I went back in time to tell people that The Apprentice would lead to the end of medical research, the Civil Rights Act, and birthright citizenship.
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“HANNIBAL, LEAVE A FEW REGIMENTS BEHIND IN CARTHAGE TO DEFEAT SCIPIO AFRICANUS’ COUNTEROFFENSIVE AND SACK ROME!! ITS THE ONLY WAY THAT THE DEMOCRATS CAN HOLD THE SENATE IN THE 2014 MIDTERMS AND MAINTAIN A LIBERAL SUPREME COURT MAJORITY THROUGHOUT TRUMP’S FIRST TERM!!”
During taping of The Apprentice, Donald Trump probably wouldn't have decided to run for president if it wasn't for Gwen Stefani, and that shit is bananas B-A-N-A-N-A-S
I'd get arrested kidnapping Seth Meyers so that he doesn't roast Trump at the Presidents Correspondents Dinner. "No, seriously. You and Obama roast him so good that he goes on to be President and then dictator for life!
go to the 70's and link up with Byrne,
famous for doing ∆ stuff ∆ about Nazi'a and Mobsters.
The only one brave enough and in a position to help prevent the loss of the all the future.
"So, we elected a black guy and he made a joke. And that made a guy mad. And then a friend of the First Lady had a skeevy husband and the FBI investigated. BUT... the First Lady had some e-mails there and that was bad. So we elected the mad guy..."
"NO WAIT! We sorta survived the mad guy - well, a lot of people died because of a Chinese bat and then we had an old guy who wasn't bad. Except he got old. And the mad guy came back and talked a lot about eggs and cannibals and Arnold Palmer's dick and WON again!!!!"
I dunno if 9/11 with a weak tree hugging communist President Gore would've had the positive downstream results you are imagining for the psyche of this country
Yes, if Clinton refrains from cheating on his wife for just 8 years, the biggest scandal is subtracted from the equation and Al Gore wins that close election.
Kids watching reality TV, while skipping class because of school shootings lowering education standards, all while surviving on junk food and drinking lead infused water.
Dying in a mental asylum now, because I'm still trying to convince people that South Park—and Family Guy—normalized bigotry in the name of spoofing it; and an endless doomer chorus of "bigotry was always this bad" are missing the fact that, no, a majority of 18-25 boys were not bigots in 2010.
unlike South Park, Family Guy has evolved to portray the bully's targets as deservingly weird/whiny and his own life as delightful, and couches everything in a spoof-sitcom that is mistaken for a Simpsons clone, enabling kids to gravitate toward it much more naturally. >
As an educated viewer, one can still tell that the goal is to embarrass bigotry, but it's nuts that Seth MacFarlane still considers himself a progressive. He may have done more to damage progressivism and equality than any deliberate misogynist.
There were people around me in my youth who weaponized Homer & Bart, calling me Lisa Simpson (WHO BETTER TO BE?!); who thought Homer was cool (my mean, middle-aged boss, a woman, endlessly watching reruns); & who weren't upset at how he treated Marge. Whatever the aims, it also normalized awfulness.
I can tell who watches Family Guy / Southpark the instant a Jewish holiday or food comes up in a conversation 🙄😓 I really wish Seth Macfarlane had caught his flight on 9/11 because I can attest to the fact that he alienated Jewish folk through caricature for at least a generation
Wait, what? I generally agree on the analysis of south park and family guy's impact on the world, but I find it quite difficult to see it in the Simpsons. It's not a perfect show by any means (most notably in its portrayal of Apu) but aive always thought it's done a decent job of punching up.
I guess by always I should specify I really mean the first eight seasons (largely considered the only particularly good ones)-- haven't watched enough outside that to comment much more
2017…this article didn’t age well.
“I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals,” Stone said…Parker and Stone are libertarians…But their only true allegiance is to whatever is funniest…They’ve taught their most devoted followers that taking anything too seriously is hella lame.”
Wait until Project 2025’s version of the Chinese General Administration of Press and Publication comes for them. Hope they’ll still be equating liberals and conservatives with all that fun-loving, smug libertarian philosophy. Haven’t they heard? Nazi’s don’t much care for degenerate art…
As a person who was a teenage girl in the early 2000s I highly disagree. There was a lot of trolling, massive amounts of bigotry - especially racism and misogyny. I think this media was a reflection of what existed instead of a cause. I don't doubt it furthered the brazen open nature though.
...were you alive and talking to 18-25 year olds in 2010? That claim doesn't seem like one made by someone who interacted with that group at that moment in time.
It absolutely was as bad in 2010, it just wasn't fashionable and not acceptable to put it on public display. People still made an effort to hide it until they knew you would not rat them out.
Ask all the women of that age group who dated men at the time.
I actually think it was just as much on display then too, it was just more disguised as jokey and ironic. But all you had to do was dare to not laugh at some meathead’s rape joke to find out how deadly serious it actually was. Now they don’t try to hide it.
I grew up with both - and The Simpsons - and did not become a bigot.
In my early twenties, it wasn't offensive cartoons that tried to radicalize me to right-wing bigotry; it was me feeling disposable and having those feelings redirected by right-wing grifters to left-wing causes and people.
So did Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry—and like them, Sesame Street generally committed no greater sin than valorizing slapstick havoc.
Huge difference...
(and yes, LT and TNJ have some clumsy racism in the early episodes, but it's very different from consciously joking about bigotry itself in a >
I used to warn people of some of the shit going down and they all thought I was pessimistic and over reacting. Now they admit I was actually very optimistic. When everyone was up Elon's ass I had an awful feeling about him and told people he was a problem but I certainly didn't realize the extent 🫠
Except for the fact that he can't end birth right citizenship. The EO he signed is first illegal, and second, it doesn't hold up anywhere in the country
The lengthy, expensive mistake and lack of accountability for the invasion of Iraq and 20 year occupation of Afghanistan...might have also played a part.
See, you gotta figure out how to leverage the timeline before you time travel.
What you should've done is go back farther to 1987 and convinced TFG's ghostwriter Tony Schwartz to write your time traveler story as a faux sci-fi page turner instead his misbegotten "The Art of the Deal" evil fan fic.
Tell him to write the truth. That Trump and his father are racist criminals that have stolen every penny they've ever had. Because we're from the future and we know he doesn't read. Ever. For any reason.
You'd have done more good if you went back to 1979 and bought target range time for Hinckley. (Yeah I know that's bad, but all this started with you know who).
I'd take one look at 1400s China and ask yourself whether that's an option were the roles reversed. The Ming Dynasty wasn't exactly a period of stability in relation to the borders of China.
Going back with vaccines or some sort of weakened transmissible strains of European diseases to inoculate the population would be even more effective; societies tend to put up a better fight against invasion when they haven’t already been devastated by epidemics.
I'm nowhere near as confident as some that when "birthright" reaches a 6-3 SCOTUS, Trump fails. Roberts is the only Con who MIGHT vote his conscience. The other 5 don't have one. The "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" excuse is already being widely circulated. https://americanmind.org/salvo/birthright-citizenship-game-on/
Imagine my surprise when Trump went from being parodied in Spy magazine for years for being exactly who he was, to see him on the apprentice being exactly who he was NOT. People knew, unfortunately they’re the same people who still know today. And, here we are.
My dad (military, Limbaugh conservative) started treatment for dementia around 2016. He always thought we were pulling his leg or making fun of his memory when it would come up that Trump was president.
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famous for doing ∆ stuff ∆ about Nazi'a and Mobsters.
The only one brave enough and in a position to help prevent the loss of the all the future.
1965 Doctor: "Increase the voltage..."
1965 Doctor: Lobotomy tools...
Or stop Hillary from trading cattle futures.
You DESERVE to ROT in an asylum.
I perceived the South Park problem about when the writer above did. But I think the effect of Family Guy has been exponentially greater: >
“I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals,” Stone said…Parker and Stone are libertarians…But their only true allegiance is to whatever is funniest…They’ve taught their most devoted followers that taking anything too seriously is hella lame.”
Ask all the women of that age group who dated men at the time.
That said, I'd still argue shock-humor TV cartoons amped everything up. Here was the immediate effect of South Park, as viewed at the time:
If the majority weren't bigots then, it wasn't South Park and Family Guy that did it.
In my early twenties, it wasn't offensive cartoons that tried to radicalize me to right-wing bigotry; it was me feeling disposable and having those feelings redirected by right-wing grifters to left-wing causes and people.
To anyone with a rational brain Cartman is horrible.
Huge difference...
(and yes, LT and TNJ have some clumsy racism in the early episodes, but it's very different from consciously joking about bigotry itself in a >
You're talking about The Traitors, right?
Child actors are why we can't have nice things. Like democracy.
So good.
It sounds so insane. 😭
Now let's cast it
TRANS RIGHTS
LGBTQ RIGHTS
What you should've done is go back farther to 1987 and convinced TFG's ghostwriter Tony Schwartz to write your time traveler story as a faux sci-fi page turner instead his misbegotten "The Art of the Deal" evil fan fic.
https://youtu.be/sHYl83OGWJY?si=TYsn60-ICuiiTvfu
“Friends, believe me, you must defeat the white guys arriving by sea from the east! Show no mercy!”
https://americanmind.org/salvo/birthright-citizenship-game-on/