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[–] 102 points 9 hours ago (5 children)
  • [–] 8 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    Seems the UK is going through their own Cosby moment right now with the David Walliams allegations

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago

    Walliams has been openly a creep for a long time, whether it was confirmed criminal or not. I don't think it's the same. There's just a line of behaviour somewhere where buying books for your kid from a creep crosses from acceptable to unacceptable.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago

    I was mildly uncomfortable with black people as a young child, but my love for comedy made me accept Bill Cosby and many others.

    I will not let his shitty actions keep those lessons from me. It has been a good example for me of burning the speaker for transgressions, not the completely unrelated message.

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  • [–] 85 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    JK Rowling comes to mind immediately

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  • [–] 74 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

    I'd nominate Elon Musk. All that motherfucker had to do was nothing but make mediocre electric cars and he'd have had a celebrated place in history. Sure, he was always a ridiculous asshole, but relatively few people looked that closely. Now he's throwing out Nazi salutes and making a public shame of himself. The political right despises electric cars and hence Musk, but Nazis gonna Nazi.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 hours ago

    Yeah, he was quite popular right up until a diver rescued some Thai kids (while Musk tried the same in a submarine that didn't fit in the cave), and Elon's mature, grown up response was to call him a paedophile.

    The mask fell off that day and he was unable or unwilling to put it back on.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago

    Yea, he somehow even got on good terms with the younger generation right about that time when he was guest on pewdiepies channel. Something Mark Zuckerberg so desperately tries to achieve.

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  • [–] 35 points 5 hours ago

    JK Rowling. Everyone used to have a very favourable opinion of her. I remember when the media would worship every tweet she made, as though she brought about world peace. Then she became obsessively transphobic and now that's all people think of when they think of her as a person. At first, I gave her the benefit of the doubt and thought it might be a misunderstanding. But then she went out of her way to make sure everybody knows how transphobic she is. It's become her whole personality. Even Elon Musk, whose own child stopped talking to him because of his transphobia, told Rowling to knock it off because she was harping on transgender issues too much.

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  • [–] 28 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    Rudy Giuliani was known for taking down the mob before being dubbed "America's Mayor." Now he works for the mob.

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    He only took down the mob by working with the Russian underworld, so it was all a ruse that didn't really make NYC safer.

    If it wasn't for his media handling of 9/11, he would have been completely irrelevant in the years that followed.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 child)

    Jimmy Savile. I don’t want to hear any other suggestions where they havent fucked hundreds of children and corpses. That is now the barrier for entry in this contest.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    Elon musk. I used to think he was smart. Damn, how wrong I was.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    I do think he had at least some empathy in the early days. The money destroyed that part of his brain though and he's carttonishly evil now.

    That's putting it lightly

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    Surprised no one has mentioned Neil Gaiman yet.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    Adolf Hitler. Could have just lived a quiet life as a successful veteran and modest painter. But he just had to go on Hittling.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    Ethan Klein, he was really well liked by the internet at large when he was just a silly little guy posting videos. Now hes a beligerant doofus, sex pest, and genocide advocate

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

    only to his fans, outside of his audience people dotn know him, and shouldnt. alot of youtubers when shit heel over the years. i feel like he got high off people supporting his defense against another person who sued him for criticizing his shitty pickup video.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    John Lasseter. He’s the reason why Pixar/disney had such strong story telling the years he was active. And then it turned out he was a perv. Sooooo disappointing.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago (1 child)

    And yet, people haven't turned against Toy Story the way they have Harry Potter

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  • [–] 3 points 31 minutes ago

    Toy Story is a collaborative effort made by many people. If Tom Lassiter had his name written in a death note, Pixar would still have made movies.

    Harry Potter was entirely written by JK Rowling; the movies, games, and merch are adapted from the novels. Write "Joanne K Rowling" in a death note, no more Harry Potter.

    Also Rowling uses her money to aggressively bankroll right-wing political causes. (She's best known for the transphobia, but also materially opposed Scottish independence). As such, she has affected more people than Lassiter, though Lassiter's crimes definitely were worse for the people he did them to.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Dave Chappell. Should've just shut the fuck up about his transphobia. He also seems like an out of touch rich asshole.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 hours ago (2 children)
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    taylor swift, she has been seen hanging out with maga more and more, as she comfortable being a billionaire, and her recent music releases has been very bland as of late, who knows when the fans will turn on her.

    Sorbo, couldve stuck with his shows, if he handt gone to a chiro to get a stroke from and then holding a grudge on Xena for like 20+years, plus he had his own show which he controlled, but still screws it up.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

    Chomsky, Gates, Steve Jobs, Tim Apple, the Democratic party

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  • [–] 7 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

    Huang. Putin. Woody Allen. Rowling. Gerhard Schröder. Jackson Pollock.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

    Person: Trump People: Israel

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    Lots of people outside the region had sympathy, and wanted to help. Now, much less so.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    I think if Trump had never run for president, he'd have been remembered as a rich guy that hosted a tv show. Most people wouldn't have bothered to learn about all the shitty things he's done. I don't think he had many super fans before politics, but certainly less people hated him.

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