The problem with suing a leopard after it has eaten your face is even if you win you still had your face eaten.

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[–] 41 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

I love it when the Streisand Effect lets me know a movie I want to see is coming out.

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  • [–] 57 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

    Beautiful. He gets them every single time.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    If only we could figure out why it’s so easy to trick conservatives into saying stupid/racist/child-rapey things…¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • [–] 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    He had to end the bit when Rudy Giuliani started taking his pants off to rape the underage character in the 2nd Borat movie

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  • [–] 33 points 2 weeks ago

    All Rudy had to do was lay low, and occasionally show up at 9/11 events, and he could’ve been remembered more or less by everyone as America’s mayor who led New York through the worst terrorist attack America’s ever seen. Instead he’ll be remembered as the guy who did a press conference in the parking lot of a lawn care company with black goo dripping down his face.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

    My favorite was his Kinderguardians program skit, arming children with friendly Gunnimals. Some how Matt Gaetz was the smart one, avoided going straight on camera supporting it.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I absolutely thought the first guy was an actor aware that this is a parody, but no, he is an actual gun activist.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    The person in the headline was “embarrassed” because he tried to extrajudicially deport what he thought was a live mexican baby. By drone. And to avoid touching foreign soil he dropped the “baby” from height. And he knew he was being filmed doing this, he just thought it was a documentary.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    Neither Sacha Baron Cohen nor the Republican guy are good people. Let them fight, I guess.

    Sacha is a zionist and a racist. The Republican guy is about what you'd expect from MAGA.

    Whatever damage they do to each other is good, but I'm not cheering for either one.

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Isn't that how we, as principled third party Leopard Observers, usually end up feeling about the Leopards?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

    Sometimes I find myself having a small amount of sympathy for the person who got their face eaten. Not a lot mind you, but often it's a relatively normal person who made a really stupid choice and are reaping what they have sown.

    In this case? None at all.

    (Edited to add: I also posted my comment because someone else said they wanted to watch the movie, and I think more people should know what kind of person Sacha is)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    I'm fully with ya there, though this is also the first that I'm hearing of Cohen's ethnocentrism. Could you share some non-prop sources to help out?

    Not that I particularly want to go down that rabbit hole, frankly, but I'd much rather do so w/o having to filter 99.99% of the internet to get to the crux. 😅

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I'm not going to pretend to be unbiased in this, just so you know. I'm Palestinian myself.

    Sacha Baron Cohen has not recently explicitly called himself a Zionist, however the pattern of behaviour (in my opinion) is clear.

    Described as very Zionist in this article. https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-nerd-factor-in-sacha-baron-cohens-past/

    In general, he uses pretty racist stereotypes about Arabs in general. i.e. The Dictator, Ali G, Borat, etc. (it's a known tactic that when calling something anti-semitic isn't enough to stave off reputational damage to Israel, stoking Islamophobia or anti-Arab racism is another tactic Zionists reach for https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-israel-reputation-survey-research-mark-penn-stagwell )

    He conflates criticism of Israel with anti-semitism, and lobbied for tiktok to be taken over by Larry Ellison for being too pro-Palestine. (The NYT reporting on Palestine is atrocious, and so is this article's slant, but I'm linking it anyway) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/technology/tiktok-jewish-open-letter-antisemitism.html

    Works/worked with the ADL, who also conflate criticism of Israel with anti-semitism and are pro-Israel https://www.adl.org/resources/article/following-sacha-baron-cohens-speech-here-adls-short-list-social-media-accounts

    Co-writers of his include Lee Kern, openly a Zionist.

    He twists and misleads people about Palestinians: https://v2.courthousenews.com/palestinian-grocer-sues-sacha-baron-cohen/

    Hopefully that justifies my point of view enough for you.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Put his name in the dang title.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Considering SBC's lawyers have a quarter-century long winning streak against malding conservatives, I think he'll be OK. Free advertising!

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago*

    In the film, Michael Aboud is shown taking part in a training programme with another Cohen character, ex-Mossad terrorist expert Col Erran Morad, who instructs Aboud and fellow Maga sympathisers in self-defence techniques including the wearing, over clothes, of protective plastic buttocks. He also schools them in how to fire bullets from the middle of these buttocks by the repeated up and down manipulation of a rubber penis.

    If this wasn't enough to make you walk out right then & there, you are the biggest fucking dumbass who deserves every bit of infamy coming your way.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Huh, well that means whatever it was that Sasha said is definitely true.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    No creature on this planet is more pathetic than a Republican.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago

    Evidently he's a Zionist, so fuck him and his movies.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    TIL there is a new cohen movie

    neat

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    "A liar and a pervert" makes him a perfect candidate for President, Vice President, and several cabinet positions

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Hahaha please do. I love discovery.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago