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Nick Offerman Calls Out Ben Shapiro for 'Rampant Homophobia' in His 'Last of Us' Criticisms
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Varesti lemmy.zip Varesti@lemmy.zip
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No, I think it's because he doesn't find anyone but his sister attractive.

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Damage feddit.it Damage@feddit.it
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Insecure little loser

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TrackinDaKraken lemmy.world DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
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Ben is proof that MAGA is fine with cucks as long as they spew hate.

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ToastedRavioli midwest.social ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
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No, I think it's because he doesn't find anyone but his sister attractive.

Im not a fan of the whole “homophobia is always repressed homosexuality” trope, but Ben Shapiro is like the defining example poster-child for that being true. A man who heard WAP and thought it was a medical disease

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TheJesusaurus piefed.ca TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
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His character and that episode specifically was a tour de force of writing and cinematography. Absolutely crushed every second he was on screen.

You and I both know for a fact if he wasn't gay not only would there be essentially no overt hate if that episode or character, but actually more than that these right wing losers just never would have heard of it AT ALL.

They don't consume art for arts sake or enjoy things because it's what they enjoy. It isn't honest criticism coloured with different opinions and life views as my own.

Art only exists for them as a sounding board to either reinforce their own ideals or stamp out others.

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lIlIlIlIlIlIl lemmy.world lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world
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I always confuse ben shapiro and charlie kirk

I wish someone else would too

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That was such a good episode too. Gay characters written like human beings instead of some caricature of gay people, with the "gayness" not being the whole point. No pandering or anything, just a great love story that happens to be between 2 men. Made for a much more interresting character than in the game, something that doesn't happen very often.

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Im not a fan of the whole “homophobia is always repressed homosexuality” trope, but Ben Shapiro is like the defining example poster-child for that being true. A man who heard WAP and thought it was a medical disease

Fan or not, the problem is, it keeps happening over and over and over.

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Elting piefed.social Elting@piefed.social
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I always confuse ben shapiro and charlie kirk I wish someone else would too

Be the world in see that you change to want.

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#11 · (edited) Quote Reply

I always confuse ben shapiro and charlie kirk I wish someone else would too

That's because they both share the exact same personality, and haircut

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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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#12 · (edited) Quote Reply

That was such a good episode too. Gay characters written like human beings instead of some caricature of gay people, with the "gayness" not being the whole point. No pandering or anything, just a great love story that happens to be between 2 men. Made for a much more interresting character than in the game, something that doesn't happen very often.

Which is exactly why people like Ben hate it.

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FishFace piefed.social FishFace@piefed.social
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Lol imagine thinking that episode was anything but great

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MML sh.itjust.works MML@sh.itjust.works
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I always confuse ben shapiro and charlie kirk I wish someone else would too

It's easier to tell them apart from the back 🎱

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Be the world in see that you change to want.

Strok?

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That was such a good episode too. Gay characters written like human beings instead of some caricature of gay people, with the "gayness" not being the whole point. No pandering or anything, just a great love story that happens to be between 2 men. Made for a much more interresting character than in the game, something that doesn't happen very often.

What I like about it is it took what was in the game, expanded on it, and approached it from a different angle. It only changed just one small detail and that turned a tragedy into a love story.

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Elting piefed.social Elting@piefed.social
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Strok?

🥴

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SkaveRat discuss.tchncs.de SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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I always confuse ben shapiro and charlie kirk I wish someone else would too

Shapiro has one piercing less

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“I’m embarrassed for his reading comprehension”

I let out a very Nick Offerman-like giggle when I read that

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Captain_Buddha lemmy.world Captain_Buddha@lemmy.world
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#20 · (edited) Quote Reply

His character and that episode specifically was a tour de force of writing and cinematography. Absolutely crushed every second he was on screen. You and I both know for a fact if he wasn't gay not only would there be essentially no overt hate if that episode or character, but actually more than that these right wing losers just never would have heard of it AT ALL. They don't consume art for art...

My own view:
Those right wing nuts would have LOVED his character, were he not gay.
Nearly everything else about that character fits perfectly into the archetype of masculinity and rugged individualism these same chuds jerk off about.

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Captain_Buddha lemmy.world Captain_Buddha@lemmy.world
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What I like about it is it took what was in the game, expanded on it, and approached it from a different angle. It only changed just one small detail and that turned a tragedy into a love story.

Didn't play the game... what detail did they change?

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Karjalan lemmy.world Karjalan@lemmy.world
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#22 · (edited) Quote Reply

Didn't play the game... what detail did they change?

In the game you don't find a lot out about Frank.

I can't recall the exact details, it's been a long ass time, but I think at some point you end up finding his hanging corpse. There's a note and basically implies he committed suicide because he got bit trying to get away from bill, who was being a dick.

It's real dark and sad.

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Ben Shapiro is most likely a repressed gay dude with how open he is about hating dick. He is so fascinated with it that he seems unaware he's talking about it all the time. He should literally just go ahead and suck a few. It would shut him up (dick in his mouth) and still his lust at the same time.

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#24 · (edited) Quote Reply

Didn't play the game... what detail did they change?

In the game Bill never overcame his paranoia and was unwilling to accept Frank's attempts to let others into their lives, causing Frank to leave. Frank committed suicide after getting bit and Joel discovers his body and a letter he wrote for Bill, and later gives it to Bill as he leaves. I think it's implied that Bill also commits suicide after Joel leaves.

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It’d be a lot more effective to just ignore Ben Shapiro. The guy made his wealth on getting attention for outrageous views. Ignoring him is more effective than calling him out and in turn directing more attention at him.

It’s not like he’s gonna stop being homophobic when that’s what pays his bills

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My own view: Those right wing nuts would have LOVED his character, were he not gay. Nearly everything else about that character fits perfectly into the archetype of masculinity and rugged individualism these same chuds jerk off about.

Yep he was a full on libertarian prepper lone wolf (who happened to like dick). And the show even went out of its way to show us that this gay guy needed the world to literally end for him to be able to embrace his own sexuality. The guy never had a gay relationship in this whole life, probably because of fear of "his people" turning their backs on him

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Ben Shapiro is most likely a repressed gay dude with how open he is about hating dick. He is so fascinated with it that he seems unaware he's talking about it all the time. He should literally just go ahead and suck a few. It would shut him up (dick in his mouth) and still his lust at the same time.

Look at him. Just look at him. The dude is gay. It would be so much easier for him to just come out of the closet already.

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kryptonianCodeMonkey lemmy.world kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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Ben Shapiro is most likely a repressed gay dude with how open he is about hating dick. He is so fascinated with it that he seems unaware he's talking about it all the time. He should literally just go ahead and suck a few. It would shut him up (dick in his mouth) and still his lust at the same time.

And his absolute revulsion at the song Wet Ass Pussy... plus his doctor wife's assurances that wet pussy is an abnormal medical condition, not a natural feature of female arousal. She knows too, and cannot stand the closeted hatemonger either.

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Larry piefed.social Larry@piefed.social
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Fan or not, the problem is, it keeps happening over and over and over.

No one that is straight could think being gay is a choice. If you're simply choosing to not engage in gay sex you're just gay.

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TranscendentalEmpire lemmy.today TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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It’d be a lot more effective to just ignore Ben Shapiro. The guy made his wealth on getting attention for outrageous views. Ignoring him is more effective than calling him out and in turn directing more attention at him. It’s not like he’s gonna stop being homophobic when that’s what pays his bills

The guy made his wealth on getting attention for outrageous views.

Doesn't even have the clout for that. Shapiro made his money by shilling for the Wilks brothers. The same oil tycoons who funded Prager U and the daily wire.

No one in the right winged media circuit is famous for their own merit, they're all just funded by billionaire oil and gas owners.

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In the game Bill never overcame his paranoia and was unwilling to accept Frank's attempts to let others into their lives, causing Frank to leave. Frank committed suicide after getting bit and Joel discovers his body and a letter he wrote for Bill, and later gives it to Bill as he leaves. I think it's implied that Bill also commits suicide after Joel leaves.

The last part about him committing suicide after you leave I didn't pick up on. That makes it way more sad.

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Ben Shapiro is most likely a repressed gay dude with how open he is about hating dick. He is so fascinated with it that he seems unaware he's talking about it all the time. He should literally just go ahead and suck a few. It would shut him up (dick in his mouth) and still his lust at the same time.

Still not convinced Brett Cooper isn’t just Ben’s drag persona.

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altkey (he\him) lemmy.dbzer0.com altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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And his absolute revulsion at the song Wet Ass Pussy... plus his doctor wife's assurances that wet pussy is an abnormal medical condition, not a natural feature of female arousal. She knows too, and cannot stand the closeted hatemonger either.

The latter is a joke tho. It's realistic, but still.

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kryptonianCodeMonkey lemmy.world kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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The latter is a joke tho. It's realistic, but still.

A joke in what way?

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Ben Shapiro is most likely a repressed gay dude with how open he is about hating dick. He is so fascinated with it that he seems unaware he's talking about it all the time. He should literally just go ahead and suck a few. It would shut him up (dick in his mouth) and still his lust at the same time.

Yeah, I didn't even know about that, but I do know he was real weird about the WAP song and how he thinks women are supposed to be dry...

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Failed screenwriter & demagogue Ben Shapiro is jealous of a successful TV show and uses hateful, bigoted rhetoric to grift people indoctrinated with similar hateful bigotry.

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Yeah, I didn't even know about that, but I do know he was real weird about the WAP song and how he thinks women are supposed to be dry...

Wait, what? You got any link for me? This is hilarious.

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#39 · Quote Reply

The guy made his wealth on getting attention for outrageous views. Doesn't even have the clout for that. Shapiro made his money by shilling for the Wilks brothers. The same oil tycoons who funded Prager U and the daily wire. No one in the right winged media circuit is famous for their own merit, they're all just funded by billionaire oil and gas owners.

To spread propaganda, which is reliant on how many views they get. So we should ignore them

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#40 · Quote Reply

In the game Bill never overcame his paranoia and was unwilling to accept Frank's attempts to let others into their lives, causing Frank to leave. Frank committed suicide after getting bit and Joel discovers his body and a letter he wrote for Bill, and later gives it to Bill as he leaves. I think it's implied that Bill also commits suicide after Joel leaves.

Fucking dark

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Captain_Buddha lemmy.world Captain_Buddha@lemmy.world
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In the game you don't find a lot out about Frank. I can't recall the exact details, it's been a long ass time, but I think at some point you end up finding his hanging corpse. There's a note and basically implies he committed suicide because he got bit trying to get away from bill, who was being a dick. It's real dark and sad.

Seems on-brand for that game.

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#42 · Quote Reply

Im not a fan of the whole “homophobia is always repressed homosexuality” trope, but Ben Shapiro is like the defining example poster-child for that being true. A man who heard WAP and thought it was a medical disease

A waste of a twink.

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Shindo66 lemmy.world Shindo66@lemmy.world
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#43 · Quote Reply

Look at him. Just look at him. The dude is gay. It would be so much easier for him to just come out of the closet already.

Grinder shuts down when they have a convention...

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#44 · (edited) Quote Reply

Ben Shapiro is most likely a repressed gay dude with how open he is about hating dick. He is so fascinated with it that he seems unaware he's talking about it all the time. He should literally just go ahead and suck a few. It would shut him up (dick in his mouth) and still his lust at the same time.

Could be 1-5 on the Kinsey scale too, as many people are but don't know about that, or try to learn the truth. Raised in controlling and demanding environments can cause repression of this and other normal things, which damages them and humanity with their acting out.

Q: Why do some people in controlling/demanding environments repress their Kinsey scale 1-6 sexuality, and even speak and vote against other bi/gay rights, get caught sometimes with same gender too, act out later? More here or search on your own: share.google/aimode/PCcVM9R2E1bvXi7QJ If you feel angry or anxious when you read that, there is an explanation for that too.

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#45 · Quote Reply

Wait, what? You got any link for me? This is hilarious.

It is pretty damned funny. Not sure how much time you wanna spend on it, but this whole video is pretty funny imo

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U9FM49Tzhn4

Skip to around 5:30 if you just want the funniest part. He was mocked so much for this take and iirc he kept doubling down on it. There also was a pretty hilarious parody video someone did of the situation which I'm too lazy to go find right now

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#46 · (edited) Quote Reply

A joke in what way?

I was under an impression that the tweet about the doctor wife and the health of women having WAP was a satirical edit by someone else.

But it's still availiable on Twitter: https://x.com/benshapiro/status/1292927011724304384

Weird how I missed that every time it came up.

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#47 · Quote Reply

Wait, what? You got any link for me? This is hilarious.

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=U9FM49Tzhn4&t=240
Or real YT link, although that counts toward his viewer counter, I wouldn't give Shapiro that satisfaction heh

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#48 · Quote Reply

I was under an impression that the tweet about the doctor wife and the health of women having WAP was a satirical edit by someone else. But it's still availiable on Twitter: https://x.com/benshapiro/status/1292927011724304384 Weird how I missed that every time it came up.

No, it’s real.

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#49 · Quote Reply

Listen, when it comes to art, anyone with a modicum of integrity, will just ignore any and all opinions spouting from the rapid firing maw, that is Ben Shapiro.

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#50 · Quote Reply

No one that is straight could think being gay is a choice. If you're simply choosing to not engage in gay sex you're just gay.

I'm pretty sure bisexuals can also choose to not have gay sex. But you are correct in Shapiro world because there bisexuals are mythical beings who don't exist.

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#51 · Quote Reply

Grinder shuts down when they have a convention...

Is that overload or them saying fuck you tho

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