He’s some bucko that lad. Claims he posts stuff to stir shit, but he swallows everything his personalised feed gives him.
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It has been mentioned on numerous occasions on this thread, but here you go buddy.
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Ah lad ffs
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The Hispanics and blacks in the crowd he was looking at whilst delivering lapped it up and knew it was humour intended.
Anyone else who is offended by it isn’t gonna change someone’s vote over it tbh
Billy fucking Baldwin 
Get off twitter lads. Its not for yis.
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Sure look it, @Kyle in the same boat as JD Vance, didn’t hear the joke over the past couple of days. Now he’s heard it and he can make up his own mind (for what it’s worth).
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Can’t play that currently in the working environment … context is everything.
Was it along the lines of ‘Scotland is a dump’ ‘Italy is a shithole’ ‘Galway is a sewer’ ?
Which is incredibly stupid in the context of trying to appeal to people for votes…
Or was it a racial slur against Puerto Rican people?
We need to be careful on such topics as bad jokes vs inciting hate are very different things.
Fuck Tipp
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I feel for you pal, I really do.
“I hear there is an actual island of trash floating in the ocean. I believe it’s called Puerto Rico”. He also went on to say that Puerto Ricans make a lot of babies, that they don’t pull out, that they come inside.
Fingers crossed you get back up and running in the tech department and can make you’re own judgement.
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Thanks Locke. It’s important we can discuss these things as adults. Unfortunately - modern discourse is regulated by the most offended person in the room and these conversations turn nasty quickly. I’m undecided if this waa just an incredibly dumb joke or hateful. I dont know the context of what went before or after it as i was watching nfl redzone when this was taking place.
The people who hate Trump were glued to it - but these are usually the most offended people in the room so I’m not sure they are impartial observers.
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“May not get out of New York alive”
Is his brother around or something?
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The democrats campaign seems very negative- its all outrage, offence, fear and hysteria. I think they should start focusing on kamala’s merits
Another racist insult by a Trumpbot on CNN last night. CNN are nearly as bad for having this ghoul on in the first place.
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Oct 29, 2024
On Monday evening, CNN took the rare step of removing a panelist during a commercial break as far-right activist Ryan Girdusky was banned from the network after he made a violently bigoted joke directed at progressive Arab-American commentator Mehdi Hasan, implying that he was a member of the terrorist group Hamas.
“There is a line that was crossed there, and it’s not acceptable to me; it’s not acceptable to us at this network,” NewsNight host Abby Phillip said after the program returned from the break. It was the right decision, but unfortunately, Girdusky’s disgraceful conduct is part of a much larger problem within mainstream journalism of platforming extremist Republicans.
Before I started Flux, I was a writer and producer for The Hill, where I worked on multiple shows, one of which was “Rising,” a bipartisan news opinion show. Like most mainstream media shows, we were constantly trying to have balanced panel discussions. But we always had a problem: It was very difficult to find Republicans who weren’t crazy.
The sheer difficulty in identifying qualified, respectful conservative voices without ties to extremism was astonishing. Many potential guests exhibited troubling behavior such as making antisemitic, racist, or sexist statements. Occasionally, we’d even encounter individuals connected with white nationalist “alt-right” ideologies who would be booked until I, as a former member of conservative media, flagged them as unsuitable.
On multiple occasions, panelists were proposed who espoused Christian supremacist views, rendering them incapable of engaging objectively on topics like Israel or Islam.
The dilemma I frequently faced is one that producers everywhere in mainstream journalism face daily in the age of Trump. Ironically, the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action in media are Republican commentators. Mainstream television news is desperate to find Republicans who can engage in civil dialogue without filibustering or collapsing into bigoted rants. This is why you often see the same Republicans everywhere.
No one really wants to see CNN commentator Scott Jennings repeat his talking points 20 times a day, but *it’s incredibly difficult to find Republicans who can engage in discussion and don’t have racist skeletons in their closet—or on their front patio.
Republican elites are fully aware that the crazies have been let out of the basement, but they have done little to foster a more inclusive or reasonable discourse, preferring instead to double down on extremism rather than centrism. Meanwhile, Democrats, who objectively are a moderate party compared to others around the globe, are frequently unfairly labeled as “radical left” by far-right figures and the mainstream media alike.
False accusations of extremism against Democrats, often perpetuated by figures like Donald Trump, distort public perception. Trump’s campaign has branded Democratic nominee Kamala Harris with labels such as “communist” and “fascist,” even as he and other Republicans, like the party’s North Carolina gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson, openly praise figures associated with fascism. When mainstream media voices accurately call out this rhetoric, they’re met with loud denials from right-wing politicians who aim to sideline the discussion—a tactic that Steve Bannon famously described as “flooding the zone with shit.”
Republicans have chosen extremism over centrism. And never get called on it. Instead, Democrats, who are an objectively moderate party, are frequently questioned about whether the party is too far to the left. It’s an absurd situation considering that Democratic leaders don’t even want to have nationalized health care, the bare minimum for any party to be considered “leftist.”
These lies against Democrats are usually spread by far-right Republicans like Donald Trump, who has called Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris a “communist” and “fascist” scores of times during his campaign. But while he and his allies use false accusations of extremism against Democrats, the mainstream media too often chides the center-left for accurately pointing out that Trump and fellow Republicans like North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson actively praise Nazis and use fascist rhetoric.
Given how empowered that reactionaries and authoritarians have become within one of America’s two major political parties, the ideas of Trump and other extremists must be presented to the public. But we do not need to directly hear from the bad-faith actors who promote these deceptive and hateful ideologies. The solution is not to ignore far-right ideas but to let professional reporters cover these viewpoints in context rather than giving bigoted commentators a direct audience.
The alternative is not only bad for American democracy, it’s bad for the networks who hire these far-right commentators. Remember the imploding of Jeffrey Lord, Ed Martin, and Rick Santorum? Right-wing extremists always self-destruct, bringing shame to the news organizations who hired them in the first place.
Gidursky, a known racist who [previously wrote articles for the white nationalist activist Richard Spencer](x.com) and gave friendly interviews with the Proud Boys hate group, has been actively working to ban Black and LGBT authors from school curricula. He should’ve never been on CNN.
Since CNN was purchased by the Republican-dominated Warner Brothers Discovery media conglomerate, putting more Republicans on the air has been a requirement by the top management. But this strategy is backfiring: for every viewer attracted by a right-wing guest, CNN risks alienating twice as many center-left viewers who are tired of watching what has become little more than a televised food fight.
This irrational “both sides” compulsion has led to a situation where accurately identifying fascism is more controversial than actual fascistic actions and rhetoric among Republican politicians. Calling out hate, bigotry, and extremism should never be more contentious than tolerating it in our public discourse. Donald Trump obviously has played a huge role in polluting the American conversation, but the mainstream media shares much of the blame as well.
I was listening to here earlier. Echoed what I was saying. Trump is basically trying to turn the people at the bottom off the ladder against each other to protect the super rich.
The world will continue to spiral until the people at the bottom work together and defund the super rich.
They are literally bleeding the world dry.
We have the same phenomenon in Ireland on referendums.
Yes.
We’ll have it in the Presidential election as well.
It’s grimly hilarious how this Tony Hinchcliffe fella is taking it in the neck from all and sundry. Sure he’s a vile racist cunt and a shit “comedian” who should be banished from all forms of public life, but his real problem is he’s not Trump, and is therefore targettable.
Trump has (obviously) continually said far, far worse shit over the years. Firehoses of Nazism.
But 90% of something that is said is about who is saying it, not what they say, as somebody once said.
It’s hilarious how Republican racists who have gone along with every racist, hateful piece of shit Trump has ever said are now suddenly pretending to recoil from what yer man Hinchcliffe said. They’re only recoiling because Hinchcliffe said it and people perceive it differently coming out of a different mouth, the mouth of a shit excuse of a “comedian” making a fool of himself, rather than the deity of the FUHRER.
The way CNN et al have gone after Hinchcliffe only demonstrates their consistent cowardice, their total deference to the Nazi fuhrer Trump.
The Nazi fuhrer must not be damaged, at all costs.
Hinchcliffe is Canary M. Trump.
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A communist?
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