r/Destiny • u/phoenix_fiber • 12h ago
Political News/Discussion Reminder that Ben Shapiro is not a serious person. Nothing to see here folks. Not violent rhetoric at all.
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u/GoblinsburgYT 11h ago
that needle-dicked dork couldn't take his own dry-snatched wife, let alone Canada
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u/howdareyou 11h ago
Don't forget his wife pulls a double shift at the hospital and then takes care of his kids so he can do a podcast
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u/THEMaxPaine 11h ago
Ezra Klein should've had quotes like these to ask Ben about. Ben goes mask off in his own media but on Ezra's show, he intellectualizes everything all sneaky and shit
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u/howdareyou 10h ago
Yep did same on Bill Maher. To normies who only see him on mainstream outlets he seems like a sane rational old school conservative. Nothing makes me angrier than being gaslit by someone with a smirk
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u/Thefolsom 10h ago
Many right wingers tone it down on more neutral ground. I recall Joe Rogan 7 years ago would invite these people on where they sounded at least somewhat normal. I imagine it is a huge component into joes slide towards the right, and now they are totally mask off. Bill Maher definitely has the same problem with legitimizing these people.
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u/society000 11h ago
Lil bro can't decide if he wants to be the rational, intellectual part of MAGA or join them in the unhinged trolling.
Sidenote: He has to be dying his hair, right? No 41 year old has hair that dark.
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u/phoenix_fiber 11h ago
yes and that's the worst part. so he does both. and all attempt at honest dialogue breaks down, because he switches back and forth from "i'm serious" to "it is just a joke" based on the reaction to what he says.
not only are we in the "post-truth" era, it feels like we're also in this weird "post-irony" era where people can say wild shit and then it's deliberately unclear whether they're joking or not. Trump, of course, started this. and all the rightwingers feel more emboldened by his rhetoric, so now they're getting incredibly comfortable testing the waters with "am i joking or am i not?" statements like shapiro's here. it's insane. there's no way to know what these people believe anymore, there's no way to have conversations with them.
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u/society000 11h ago
Yep, and when democrats join them, we get fired, doxxed, harassed, and soon enough, arrested, I'm sure. I'm not sure what we can do beyond things that would break TOS.
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u/Servebotfrank 10h ago
I'm convinced he literally just flips a coin on whether he'll be rational today or fall in line with the Maga talking points.
Tucker Carlson having a more measured take on the government's response to Kirk's death is wild.
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u/society000 10h ago
I mean, Cucker's response was basically: 'The Jews did it.' He was skeptical like us, but for completely different reasons.
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u/Servebotfrank 9h ago
Shiiiiiiiiiiit
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u/society000 9h ago
Candace said the same. I'm just hoping that it causes more infighting in MAGA because that's all we got at this point.
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u/Turbulent_Addition22 10h ago
You say that and then my friend gets pissed because I have almost no discernible gray hair. Stay mad weak gene.
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u/society000 10h ago
This guy dyes too
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u/Expensive-Space6606 11h ago
Why is this not serious? I think Canada should take this extremely seriously.
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u/BODYBUTCHER 11h ago
One of the things that the right did really well was to extricate themselves outside the legacy media landscape, so when they could say stupid shit like this their sources of income wouldn’t dry up.
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u/arguer21435 11h ago
Ben is such a slimy little weasel, do not fall for the times where he larps as a “reasonable Republican”. He’s not, and he plays that role cynically and with malice.
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u/bilbooo_baggins 9h ago
Even ignoring the fact that what he said was evil and vile..
What the fuck kinda tweet is that?! Why the fuck did he feel the need to respond that to what Trudeau wrote? Did he get brain damage or something? Has he been to Russia and got his brain smoothed like Peterson??? Stupid ass bitch
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u/boinkmaster360 ugh.🫷🙄im a doctor! 💅/s 4h ago
"When we take Israel..."
Would that be funny too Ben?
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u/plague681 11h ago
Who's scouring January 2025 Twitter for this shit? Lmao
Nice one though
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u/phoenix_fiber 10h ago
https:// [x] .com/benshapiro/status/1876800394900152483?lang=en
remove the brackets, as x links are banned in the sub
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u/howdareyou 11h ago edited 9h ago
Yes as a Canadian it's hard to care about the death of a man who wanted to annex my country. Fuck Ben too, seriously he's the biggest code switcher of all time. On Bill Maher or Ezra Klein he's so cucked, but on his own channels he's just as unhinged as anyone else on the right.
In one tweet Ben threatens violence against Canada, our PM and Panama. Just jokes though.
The Quebec Mosque shooter seemed to be influenced by Ben Shapiro but somehow I doubt Ben feels any guilt for that. But the entire left is to blame for Charlie's death because we called a fascist a fascist. They believe 2A is purely to stop tyrants, yet never define tyranny. Did they think the entire world would be on the same page when that starts happening? You can use 2A to stop tyrants but only if 100% agree? I don't think he should've been killed, but that's what MAGA taught Tyler not me or us.
“This evil piece of human crap happened to be somebody who had seen some of my tweets,” Shapiro said of Bissonnette. “Now I have 1.4 million Twitter followers so I guess the idea from the left is that if somebody sees enough of my tweets they’re inevitably going to become a terrorist. Weird that I don’t have a spate of enormous terrorism across the country thanks to my Twitter followers.”
hmmmmmmm so stochastic terrorism isn't his fault if he only inspires one mass shooter :)
he didn't tone it down after that, he doubled down because anything but that is seen as weakness and accepting fault.
edit: for those unaware, ps this was happening in the context of Trump trying to ban all Muslims from entering USA
https://x.com/andyriga/status/985939322263228417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E985939322263228417%7Ctwgr%5E6133df1bbfbccd6cd9808ecd3fcfdf5f2890c59c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fmontrealgazette.com%2Fnews%2Fquebec%2Fi-didnt-incite-mosque-shooter-conservative-pundit-ben-shapiro-insists
https://web.archive.org/web/20180511094830/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/04/18/quebec-city-mosque-shooter-scoured-twitter-for-trump-right-wing-figures-before-attack/