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Great Satire Writing:
I used to be lukewarm about Dave Chappelle’s comedy,” says Travis Merks of Calgary, “but I’m really coming around to him now that he’s awful.”
LOL that was a solid one, Beaverton.
This is too good: I couldn't tell if it was satire until I looked at the comments.
Dave Chappelle isn't funny anymore
Chappelle’s quickly-released followup special, titled So Brave,
Lost it lol
Chappelle: I'd like to announce my new special, "Let's get TERFy". It's just me in front of a brick wall making transphobic jokes for an hour. It cost 80 million dollars.
Interviewer: How do you sleep at night?
Chappelle: On top of a pile of money, with many beautiful ladies.
Lol, nothing beats a cromulent Simpsons reference.
The Beaverton is like a Canadian Onion of sorts.
I was thinking damn that's rough for the Onion.
It's not the Onion.
It's Canada's version of The Onion.
So it's The Onion-adjacent.
How people see Canada: So polite! Chill, harmless.
Canada’s Onion: Would you like some maple syrup on that burn?
The Chive? I was going to say The Leek but Welsh people probably claim that one
I didn't think he's as transphobic as he's put out to be. However, he's not coming off great and I don't see why he needs those bits. He's a better comedian than that.
Like I think I saw a clip of one of his most recent ones and at the end it ... the point was that a trans man or women doesn't really look much like who they want to be or identify as to him. I mean, it seems dehumanizing doesn't it?
Well, maybe he is as transphobic, maybe I gotta see the whole special to get it and it's part of a larger gag. In any case, I'm not a fan of that type of stuff. Also, he brought Musk on stage so fuck him.
Chappelle does this because of something people are afraid to talk about because of the identity of the person doing this. An easier way to understand it is identity politics. Didn't he admit that trans people get more shit than black people now? They don't even dog whistle us. People can talk about outright killing trans people and incite violence without any consequences. And it's not like the police like us either.
So, random Chapelle Fact: For the past couple of years Dave Chapelle has had a 24/7 police presence on his property. I assume he's hired them off-duty, but they sit in a county sheriff's car near his front gate. I assume someone made a credible threat to him for some reason, but don't know full details.
Timing-wise, the police presence started close to the whole "Dave opposed affordable housing in his neighborhood" story - which was repeated enough times to make it into the popular consciousness, but also pretty much untrue.
"Dave opposed affordable housing in his neighborhood" story - which was repeated enough times to make it into the popular consciousness, but also pretty much untrue.
Sure, as long as you ignore the fact that he did it on video… Twice. But yeah, let’s ignore reality and go with the PR spin from his publicist.
Wow, what an entitled asshole. Holy shit.
Yeah well one time he made fun of people I find icky and they meekly said “don’t make fun of us please” so actually Dave is the best comedian to ever have existed and has never done anything wrong. You ever considered that?
(/s duh but just in case lol)
How much police protection do trans people get after he’s done lining his pockets with the money he makes by inciting hatred against them, I wonder?
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I'm reasonably local to the area and watched that fiasco play out over the course of several years. I'd wager I have a few more facts than you do.
I'm not a fan of Chappelle's work in the last 10-12 years, so just throwing that out there.
The housing might appear to have been affordable to anyone not familiar with the region, but it was a basic bitch suburban sprawl neighborhood that would have been sold at market prices. Oh, and those market prices are already 1.5 to 2 times the local average because it was located in Yellow Springs. As a concession to local sensibilities, the developer offered to donate 1-acre of out of that 30-acre corn field to a local charity connected to one of the town's councilors. That one acre would have been a mix of park land and affordable housing.
There were a mix of proposals at different times, but many of the "affordable" solutions were clearly untenable. The example I gave was the final form. All were shitty.
I also remember that this corn field was offered for sale at around 1.5 million shortly after Chapelle purchased his adjoining property, but years before serious talk of development. It was a grift/extortion from the moment he moved there.
For context, Chappelle's house on 5 acres cost $750,000. That same house would probably have been half of that if it were anywhere else in the region. Affordable housing in that town is the topic of intense discussion, but nothing has looked even remotely as dodgey as that particular proposal.
I'm reasonably local to the area and watched that fiasco play out over the course of several years. I'd wager I have a few more facts than you do.
And yet here you are, spinning a six paragraph yarn and not providing a single citation to support of your claims and ignoring anyone that did provide sources countering your nonsense. So, I’d wager that you do not have any facts whatsoever.
Damn, that’s a lot of words to write to derail a thread in order to paint him as a victim instead of focusing on the hate he spreads to make millions of dollars.
I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and take your claims at face value. Now I have a question for you: how does that change the fact that this person used their scads of cash to overrule a (mostly) democratic process?
If his complaints had been the same as yours, and he had said “this housing isn’t affordable and it should be,” I think a lot of people would have agreed with him. But his objections were not the same as yours, he just didn’t want to share space with anyone but he wasn’t willing to just buy the land himself.
I’d wager I have more facts than you do
Doubtful since you claimed he didn’t say something that you could’ve found with a 3s search on Google. Sources wouldn’t hurt either.
That sadly sounds feasible to me... It wouldn't have a few years ago, but here we are.
Chappelle seems like he's developed an ego and has starting speaking on topics he doesn't understand, but you can be unreliable or even incompetent and also right on a topic
no, the real reason Dave went after our hero was because they said something snide and laughed about Musk
Dave: Noooooooo why are the poors so mean to us Elon?! Don’t they know we’re better than them?! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻