He fell from grace along with a lot of other comedians who went to Riyadh Comedy Festival in 2025. Apparently it was really well-paid so a lot of famous comedians went. Reddit went apeshit and branded them fascist sellouts.
He did a comedy show in Saudi Arabia (I think?) or somewhere in the middle east. That’s it. Ol’ Billy Boob has always walked that line imo. He’s got some good takes and some bad ones. Don’t think he nazi saluted or said trans people should die or anything like that, that I know of.
If only there were a sort of “search algorithm” capable of searching a catalogue of interner sites…
Hey man, you’re the one who made the claim, I was just asking for some support for that claim. /shrug
He’s fascist-lite. Claims to be anticapitalist but he claims liberals are idiots
He’d fit right in over on Lemmy.ml! 😉 Honestly though, if he’s anti-capitalist that doesn’t seem like a contradiction, since liberalism is a capitalist ideology.
and he takes money from Saudi Arabia
Oof. That one sucks. That said, there is an argument that I’ve seen about the role of comedy in helping to modernize a culture. Whether that’s possible when following strict censorship however, I’m not sure. The whole Riyad comedy thing certainly does feel gross.
Regardless, “fascist” has a specific definition and I don’t think I’d agree that Bill Barr falls into that category, even “lite.” But I only have a passing familiarity with his work, so I could very well be wrong.
Is he? That’s a shame. Why is he kind of a piece of shit?
He fell from grace along with a lot of other comedians who went to Riyadh Comedy Festival in 2025. Apparently it was really well-paid so a lot of famous comedians went. Reddit went apeshit and branded them fascist sellouts.
He did a comedy show in Saudi Arabia (I think?) or somewhere in the middle east. That’s it. Ol’ Billy Boob has always walked that line imo. He’s got some good takes and some bad ones. Don’t think he nazi saluted or said trans people should die or anything like that, that I know of.
If only there were a sort of “search algorithm” capable of searching a catalogue of interner sites…
He’s fascist-lite. Claims to be anticapitalist but he claims liberals are idiots and he takes money from Saudi Arabia.
Hey man, you’re the one who made the claim, I was just asking for some support for that claim. /shrug
He’d fit right in over on Lemmy.ml! 😉 Honestly though, if he’s anti-capitalist that doesn’t seem like a contradiction, since liberalism is a capitalist ideology.
Oof. That one sucks. That said, there is an argument that I’ve seen about the role of comedy in helping to modernize a culture. Whether that’s possible when following strict censorship however, I’m not sure. The whole Riyad comedy thing certainly does feel gross.
Regardless, “fascist” has a specific definition and I don’t think I’d agree that Bill Barr falls into that category, even “lite.” But I only have a passing familiarity with his work, so I could very well be wrong.
The USA is a two party system. Bill Burr’s political ideology results in Fascism within that system.
Saying you don’t like liberals doesn’t mean you won’t vote for them when the alternative is fascism though.