Last Week Tonight s9: "What am I supposed to do with that?"

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Norwegian Rudo posted:

The only reason I knew Chester A. Arthur was a president was Die Hard 3.

Same

# ¿ Feb 19, 2019 10:52

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# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 22:35

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It's like they were about to go after religion bit got cold feet and instead picked an even easier target.

Too bad they didn't use the one clip of a medium telling a 9/11 victims family that the guy drowned in the ocean.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2019 17:36

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Ah true

# ¿ Feb 25, 2019 21:00

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Do you deserve death if you shoot up a school full or 3rd graders?

# ¿ May 9, 2019 09:12

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thats a very feel good answer that doesnt really solve anything

# ¿ May 9, 2019 09:32

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What is it about the Wuhan lab theory that people find so unbelievable

# ¿ Jun 15, 2021 16:22

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LividLiquid posted:

Call me crazy but maybe white people don't need another way to be racist.

Heh 4mil deaths world wide. Oh well the particulars aren't important..just take whatever story China feeds us because we can't look racist.

# ¿ Jun 16, 2021 03:33

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Snowglobe of Doom posted:

There's zero actual evidence to support the lab leak theory (which for certain people is in itself some slam dunk 'evidence' that there's been a coverup) so it's a plausible theory but at this point that's all it is. People who are interested in talking about the possibility it escaped from the Wuhan lab seem to fall into two distinct camps:
1) Hey we need to talk about biosafety protocols, this is an ongoing issue across the globe and we would see a similar pathogen escape in any number of countries at any time.
2) China needs to be held accountable, they must dearly pay for this

President Trump leapt straight to 2 and kept screaming about it for months, even after it became super super clear that the CCP wasn't going to give any ground so the argument was always a non starter. It was pretty much the same deflection maneuver as his classic "Mexico will pay for the wall" bullshit which was also always an obvious non starter but people really fuckin' loved it. People loved the "China must pay for releasing this virus" line for the exact same reasons.

Hate crimes against Asian-Americans increased by nearly 150% in 2020: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/anti-asian-hate-crimes-increased-nearly-150-2020-mostly-n-n1260264
That was directly caused by Trump screaming about the CHYNA VIRUS for months on end. That's the racism aspect of the discussion.

(For the record I don't discount the lab leak theory at all, I just haven't seen sufficient evidence to buy into it any further)

I dont give a poo poo about what Trump said. The virus was from China and the rest of the world has suffered immensely and deserve some sort of explanation regardless of what some racist Americans do.

# ¿ Jun 16, 2021 05:52

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banned from Starbucks fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Jun 16, 2021

# ¿ Jun 16, 2021 08:29

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Slamhound posted:

Even if we assume that China manufactured COVID in a lab and released it into the US with the explicit purpose of murdering every last American in an act of global war, the incontrovertible fact of the matter is that the US government completely and utterly abandoned the country and let half a million people die while the richest got even richer. That abandonment continues.

Trying to “investigate” where the flu came from is nothing more than a deflection. This shithole country pours trillions into the military and the police all in the name of “protection,” yet does nothing to even slightly mitigate a pandemic.

If China is guilty, then we’ve somehow managed to turn the actual perpetrators into scapegoats for our own failure.

It's almost like you can think both things are bad at the same time. Hard to imagine but it's true.

sexpig by night posted:

'may we see the credible information?'

'no. Also if we don't find anything China clearly destroyed the proof'

More like
Hmm odd that this happened near a lab and whistle-blowers were mysteriously silenced. May we investigate further?

No and if you question any of these coincidences you're the reason people are getting punched in the face in New York.

# ¿ Jun 16, 2021 23:51

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Lol if you expect this show to ever stop beating any of its many dead horses.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2021 05:59

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Its a travesty they left out Sneak King. Possibly the creepiest stalker sim of a game ever.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2021 04:07

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Yeah that felt like grasping at something that's barely there. Not seeing much eugenicy poo poo with those stones. Like improve reproductive fitness and diversity is supposed to be some code for make everyone white Aryan supermen or something?

# ¿ May 31, 2022 17:54

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I mean lots of rich people believe stupid poo poo. I guess it would be a thing if he put it on the stones itself but what he did put is pretty like meh whatever

# ¿ May 31, 2022 18:09

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Yeah I dunno what this bit is hoping to accomplish other than him getting even more poo poo from his "friends"

Hmm keep my ultra powerful position and get even more ridiculous bribes or admit I'm a complete immortal whore in front of everyone, lose my billionaire sugar daddies and hope this totally legit contract holds up. What a decision!

# ¿ Feb 19, 2024 20:24

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# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 22:35

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He also got 100k in private school tuition for his nephew or whoever.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2024 05:34

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