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Cake day: December 21st, 2023

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  • And whenever it gets down to it, the people accusing him of it haven’t understood his show

    How do you interpret this joke from his new show?

    Let’s begin with the joke that got us going in “The Dreamer.” The late Norm MacDonald, we are told, had invited Chappelle to the filming of the movie “Man in the Moon,” in which Jim Carrey played cryptic comedy icon Andy Kaufman. To Chappelle’s dismay, Carrey remained steadfastly in character while on set.

    Chappelle sighs, “I was very disappointed because I wanted to meet Jim Carrey and I had to pretend he was Andy Kaufman all afternoon. It was clearly Jim Carrey. I could look at him and clearly see it was Jim Carrey.” Which brings us to the punchline: “That’s how trans people make me feel.”

    Because the only way I can read it is that he’s saying trans people are inauthentic and fake, that they are pretending to be something they aren’t. But maybe we just aren’t as clever as you are and don’t understand it. Right? Or maybe you just don’t want to admit your favorite comic is a piece of shit.


  • I mean twitters most valuable assets were it’s brand recognition and it’s huge user base, including celebrities and politicians. So one of the things Musk does is throw away the branding, including the bird symbol which was featured on almost all corpo websites as a widget and replaces it with a generic X. He also opens the gates to previously banned racist sewer humans who trash the public image of the site. Advertising plummets. The user base is still pretty huge, but it’s shrinking. At this point even if he sold it, for a fraction of what he paid, I’m not sure anyone could restore its previous reputation.