If you call that revisionist history, then what do you call the fact that immediately after his first stroke, his PR team (heavily associated with Scientology) tried to claim that he merely suffered from an episode of "high blood pressure and exhaustion" only for the truth to be revealed 6 months later that it was indeed a stroke?

He gave up his control and that is on him and only him.

Like I said in my initial comment, he did choose to join them on his own free will, so we're in agreement there. But I also said that his last few years (i.e. everything post-'06 stroke) was controlled by the Scientologists when he was not in a position to tell them to fuck off, even if he wanted to (which admittedly, would be debatable). They saw an opening and ran with it, that was my point; you're claiming that he willingly gave up all his autonomy and I simply don't agree with that. Or at least he was not mentally sound enough to be able to do so, just like how putting rohypnol in someone's drink doesn't equal "yes means yes"

Blaming a MLM scheme hiding as a religion for a death is pointless since there was nothing that prevented him from breaking away as others have done.

Simply because some have broken ties with the cult doesn't mean that all members have the same options to break away as the fortunate few. ESPECIALLY if the majority of the people around him, those controlling his perception of the outside world, were actively trying to keep him in. A core fundamental philosophy from Hubbard himself was to draw in as many celebrities as possible for the express purpose of using them to prostelytize his works. Plus, and let's be frank here, Hayes was not in the prime of his life anymore; he wasn't so far gone as to be labeled "decrepit" or "on death's door" at the time of his death, but even if he was living completely alone and didn't have Church members constantly surrounding/influencing him, it's hard to say whether or not he would've had the opportunity to leave.

I mean, come on man, the Church literally encourages members to "disconnect" with all aspects and people of their former lives who are not themselves members. It's also pretty common knowledge that anyone who leaves is not only shunned by the organization (which, if the disconnection was effective) had been the basis for their entire lives for a long time by that point; they're also contantly harassed, stalked, and occasionally threatened directly from still-current members. Even if those actions aren't technically ordered to be done by the leaders, they still happen regularly without any condemnation or comment from the top brass. And this isn't even getting into the multiple deaths they are DIRECTLY responsible for, or the fact that Shelly Miscavige (the wife of the current head of rhe Church) has not publicly been seen ANYWHERE by ANYONE since 2007. Or Operation Snow White in the 1970s where up to 5,000 individual members worked to get jobs in various branches of the US (and Canadian) government for the explicit and stated purpose of covering up Hubbard's and the Church's more controversial practices. If they can manage to pull all that shit off and still somehow get away without the most minor of consequences, I'm sure they can manage to draft the equivalent of a Termination of Emploment, convince a perpetually confused Isaac into signing it, and then sending it off to the South Park offices.

tl;dr You're forgetting the most important single line from that episode of South Park:

We shouldn't be mad at Chef. We should be mad at that fruity little club for scrambling his brains

Did you read the same page as I did? Because if you actually read the entire section about his departure, it not only mentions the fact that he had his first stroke right before the episode aired (after which he didn't really do too much of ANY work at all until his death 2 years later from a second stroke) but also that the decision largely stemmed from his entourage, all ardent Scientologists; a group famous for coercing members into disconnecting from everyone outside of the Church upon joining as well as harassing the shit out of them if they ever get find the strength to leave. One of Hayes' sons even came forth and said that in all the confusion, nobody really knows who made the decision for him to leave, but it was almost definitely someone from that group.

I mean this is a cult with a long and varied history of doing whatever it takes for good PR, even going so far as to have up to 5,000 individual members get jobs in various branches of the US (and Canadian) government throughout the whole of the 70s for the explicit purpose of covering up/erasing controversial material against Hubbard himself and the Church as a whole (just google Operation Snow White). If they can pull that off and somehow walk away with minimal consequences, I'm sure they could find someone to draft up a "Termination of Emploment" or something and convince/trick/coerce Hayes into signing it.

no Apu isn’t really a show killing problem

Can’t say the same about the writing tho 😅

Writing the show while various groups without any sense of humor move goalposts around is what killed the show. Make no mistake, it may still airing, but it's been garbage for a long time.

Let Brockmire take over the Quicky Mart...

These videos are examples of his alt-right membership?

Also, what do you think the Eat The Rich video means exactly?

Imagine being a little girl growing up watching that. The message is that someone sexually harassing you and refusing to take a “no” is common and normal. Just an annoyance.

The truth is, he just wasn't that popular of a character. He had literally one gimmick and it got old, fast. I don't think I ever heard anyone say he was their favorite. People skipped his episodes so they needed a reason to get rid of him and the whole "me too" thing was a good way to score political points with the public while also getting rid of a one-dimensional character most people didn't care about.

It's easier to erase than to fix

Pepe wasn't meant to be a kids' cartoon. When he was created cartoons ran in theaters before the main movie came on. The jokes were written on an adult level. The Tiny Toons were supposed to be for children. Kind of hard to put a nymphomaniac into a G-rated show.

One of the moms in my wife's mom-clique...the one everyone talks about behind her back...is super religious (Catholic). Their kids all go to private school.

They went to go see a movie, I think it was Lightyear, and her daughter (who at 8 is already giving me "this girl will grow up to be a butch lesbian" vibes) asks about the part where a girl married another girl.

Which, if you ever saw the movie, was a huge deal to the religious right, even though it was literally the tiniest part of the whole movie (and ultimately unnecessary to the plot, which is probably why they made such an uproar over DEI).

Anyways the mom immediately shot it down saying that girls can't fall in love with other girls and they absolutely cannot marry each other.

I feel really bad for that girl. And their older son, who is very likely mildly autistic, an absolutely brilliant kid, but getting a true Catholic school education and will talk my ear off about the great flood. He's getting pretty suspicious of creationism so maybe there's hope for him yet.

But alas, I also don't want to overstep as a parent.

Skunk profile picture? Weird