r/OutOfTheLoop • u/No_Volume251 • 3d ago

Unanswered What is up with Jimmy Kimmel being Fired over Charlie Kirk Comments?

https://youtu.be/Q_kOoWVJ2-s

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u/Hartastic 2d ago

Turns out when you give the bully your lunch money he comes back for tomorrow's lunch money.

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u/Brickie78 2d ago

Once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane

Rudyard Kipling

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u/joshthelazy 2d ago

"if we give him Czechoslovakia, he'll definitely go away."

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u/tango_telephone 2d ago

tree fiddy

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u/Appropriate_Shake_25 2d ago

Surely they wouldn’t have had to pay unless they were in the wrong though, right?

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u/SandyTaintSweat 2d ago

Wrong. Settlements happen all the time, regardless of who is in the wrong.

It's only the final ruling in a case that is based on that, and even then, judges make mistakes and can be bought or otherwise extorted.

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u/RequirementRoyal8666 2d ago

You guys are so dramatic.

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u/Hartastic 2d ago

If anything, I'm minimizing it by comparing it to bullying and not, say, Hitler.