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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 11:10:22 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

   I hate George carlin because of his spirit. Even though he has plenty of apparently agreeable opinions, I just hate him in a way I find hard to put into words.

   He carries the spirit of an inverted pastor, in a sense. It’s like he’s the worldly, satanic version of a glossy TV preacher, whose goal is to evangelize his own philosophy above all else. It’s like saltwater for the heart, it’s corrosive and impure, like his sole purpose in pursuing “comedy” was to seed as much rust as he could throughout every layer of a once-great society.

   I can’t even point to Carlin’s material to tell you why I have this conclusion, it’s just an instinctive loathing of him and everything he does, a spiritual klaxon telling me this apparently “funny” guy is on stage to convert me to a religion of his own manufacture.
   
   RT: https://poa.st/objects/de03f702-86f5-49df-a6df-9b5516f2eaf9

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 11:15:48 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     I know it’s probably a weird take to parse if you aren’t religious but over my life I’ve learned to trust my instincts when they tell me something is bad and untrustworthy. Kept me alive more than once.

     I see the same effect with more than a few comedians today, too. They get on stage to pretend they’re offering you laughs, when what they actually give you is a carefully constructed routine turning otherwise good, healthy things into an “other” to be scorned by their on-the-spot in-group

   • 🌲Hobo of The Dúnedain:confederateflag:🌼 (confederatehobo@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 11:16:38 JST 🌲Hobo of The Dúnedain:confederateflag:🌼

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot Same concept as the Monty Python crew. Being irreverent about something that's actually a good thing only makes you poisonous.
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   • EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@bae.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 11:16:51 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot carlin was a caustic liberalist at heart, having agreeable opinions was by design, tho saying he was mocking or spreading rust on a once great society may be a stretch, i can guarantee you that all through calin's life the USA was anything but great, it was already the freshly deceased corpse of a nation walking down the street, and while carlin was able to sense the stench he completely missed out on why it stank.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 11:19:56 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur

     @EdBoatConnoisseur In the cities, yeah, but if you were to venture into a small town in some place like Idaho, colorado, wyoming, kansas, etc you’d be amazed at how pure and good it still was even into the 70’s. There was a lot of insulation and cultural momentum there, before multiple TV-generations undid it all.

     I have a pretty good amount of family records for these times and places, even letters and journals, and it continually surprises me how “prudish” they seem even up through the 80’s. It takes a lot to kill a society, and before all these people started moving everywhere for ‘work’, there was a tremendous amount of cultural stability and health.

     To this day when I’m in granddad’s home town (born, raised, died) I introduce myself as “Roger’s grandson” and immediately have people who know the last 3 generations of my family on a first-name basis. Kinda hard to erode that in so many years.

   • Peter (1967gto@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 11:20:14 JST Peter

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot >I can’t even point to Carlin’s material to tell you why I have this conclusion
     Black (dark, not nigger) comedy and jewish comedy are weird. But the (((critics))) sang his praises, so he must've been a good goy
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   • EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@bae.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 11:40:21 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot the problem and sad part is that the way the USA and capitalism for that matter work is that the biggest cultural impact comes from the city dwellers, it is isolation and intended to sow resent, so while the rural and agrarial places keep golden the cities rot, the resent grows and the narrative is deployed so the city dwellers are to think of the rural and agrarial as less due to them staying on the older culture and the decadence of the cities is portrayed as good.
     
     When the part of a nation that carries the widest culture is rotten and only the agrarial settlements carry a good presentable culture is when you can tell a nation has died, the golden places are just holding to the last living flesh presenting the whole of thenation as healthy while the places where the masses of people concentrate are long dead.
     
     the 70s was some of the lasthold from the US, you can tell the economy died when the gold standar was abandoned and from the 60s the outcry about the injustice of external policy (vietnam, banana republics) was all but a husk of fashion to wear for morality points, the 80s was anything but good as society and popular culture ignoring reality and pretending everything was good gave rise to the bad looks on the few schizos who dared to see and tell the evils of the world, building the prejudice against the free thinker that dares to not think what corporations say is kosher to think.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 11:42:24 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur

     @EdBoatConnoisseur Yeah, it was dead, I just don’t like giving them the victory of telling ourselves today that the national (really, world) body was 90+ tumor for so long. I want to give credit to all those who kept it running even ‘til today. Sure, it’s largely rotten even now, but I still see pockets of decency, good people living like it’s still 1955, I don’t want to ignore their work.

     I think in the 70’s we were at maybe 45% tumor, where we’re now 85%, if I were to leave enough headroom for things to REALLY kick up a notch

   • EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@bae.st)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 02:53:13 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     • 🌲Hobo of The Dúnedain:confederateflag:🌼
     @ConfederateHobo @WashedOutGundamPilot the monty python crew was idealistic about irreverence, they mocked everyone altho you can tell they more often targeted the few good parts of the society they lived in, and when they mocked the left they purposelypicked on the stupidest most ridiculous lunatics from the left... lacking any foresight that the very stupid lunatics they were mocking was where society was headed to thus unnknowingly contributing more to the dessent.
   • Eoka Pistol (mutsu_a125@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 02:53:13 JST Eoka Pistol

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     • 🌲Hobo of The Dúnedain:confederateflag:🌼
     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     @EdBoatConnoisseur @ConfederateHobo @WashedOutGundamPilot need that green text on faulty towers guy who in his old age is suddenly wondering where all those old stuffy white people he mocked have gone and why london is nothing but immigrants and leftoids
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