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Derka

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  1. yeah, you really don’t know anything about him, and you’ve proven that you aren’t interested in changing your mind, which is truly ironic. you are actively doing one of the main things that you hate about right wingers: being close minded, judgmental, and dug in, with zero interest in having your mind changed. ive posted way more than enough anecdotal evidence to prove that your post is nowhere near the truth, but you simply have zero interest in having your mind changed. you’ve decided that he’s a right wing, anti-woke comic, and you are not interested in hearing anything that might change your mind about that. all you want to hear is support of what you already believe. that sound familiar to you? you leftists and right wingers are so much more similar than you realize when it comes to this shit.
  2. completely agree. i don’t see it is as white knighting, i see is as informative. there are so, so many people online whose opinions on shane couldn’t be more wrong and ill informed, and his performance at the espy’s has brought this discussion front and center. i’m simply giving a pretty decent list of factual information which shows that shane is not this hateful, “mean”, “likes to make other people feel bad” comic that people think he is. in fact he actively makes fun of those people and is a seriously sweet and caring guy. with all of the people out there who are actually problematic, shane isn’t one of them. andrew schultz, joe rogan, theo von, etc- they all helped get trump elected. shane didn’t. shane did the opposite. if informing the misinformed of this fact = white knighting then so be it. i really like shane, and beyond that i really appreciate him being the one comic out there who is loved by maga, yet who disavows all of the stupid hateful suit that they stand for. maybe add bill burr to that very short list. and so it does bug me when people accuse him of being maga, or hateful, or anything like that, when in reality he’s the one comic from the Bro Rogan universe who is the total opposite of that.
  3. wow, not a great penalty. unreal.
  4. oh wow, penalty for germany.
  5. it came down to west point and some other school, maybe temple? anyway, shane was down to his final two schools (he was on a football scholarship), and his uncle was like, “yeah you’re not going to west point. you ain’t bout that life” (in so many words). so shane got a chip on his shoulder about it, went to west point, and then found himself crying while marching lmao. his uncle was 100% right lol.
  6. “that is not a good throw.” -helibious
  7. yeah he was at west point for like three weeks, it’s one of the first things i mentioned in my OP. @PGFrog seems to think that shane gillis is a modern andrew dice clay, that he doesn’t have anything thoughtful to say, and i cited the fact that shane gillis went to west point as a history major as some pretty strong proof that PGFrog is wildly off base. Shane’s self aware comments on his time at west point only further prove this. people like @PGFrog see one clip of gillis and immediately write him off as this hateful maga guy who only wants to be mean to people and who goes after low hanging fruit. they get all upset about and proclaim they don’t like him when they don’t actually know anything about him. this is the same shane gillis who volunteers at the special olympics; the same shane gillis who went on andrew schulz podcast and straight up stopped the show and chastised the entire crew when they started making fun of people with down’s syndrome. the same shane gillis who is wildly outspoken against donald trump and his cabinet. he’s the only modern comic i can even name who is totally tuned into and informed on american and global politics, and he has countless hours of thoughtful conversations about all of this. yeah, that guy is shallow, hateful, thoughtless, and maga. give me a break.
  8. this x/post is obviously needed: shane gillis is the funniest, most self aware, relatable comedian today and it’s not even close. and it is hilarious how many people with only surface level knowledge of him hate him, and think he’s maga, because they haven’t ever actually watched one of his specials or seen any of the thousands and thousands of podcast episodes he’s done. he’s so opposite of what they think he is it’s hilarious. he’s self deprecating, self aware, and he likes to rile people up with a wink and a smile. the people who fall for it and get all upset over him or claim he’s not funny are only further proving how funny he is. i mean, on his very first special he straight up came out and said that he did not vote for trump, and then made fun of trump voters by going, “i know, it’s surprising, look at me, i’m his target demographic. they’re just like, “hey, are you fat and stupid?”, i’m like, “yeah! hell yeah! what are we doing? we building a wall?”, and yet here we are years later and half the population still thinks he’s a maga guy and are all upset about it. remember when maga cancelled bud light? what did shane do? he kept drinking it so publicly that they made him their spokesperson. he did that, despite everyone around disavowing bud light for being “woke”. hell. earlier this year he actually got seriously upset on his podcast (which is super rare for him when he’s sober lol) at how ridiculous trump’s cabinet were all acting at some ufc event. he was legit pissed and kind of disgusted at how unprofessional and unbecoming it was for all of these trump appointees to be acting like idiot frat bros while front row at a ufc fight. and still, half the country thinks he’s maga because they’re too dense to understand that he’s making fun of maga and doing a bit. the bottom line is this: every person i’ve ever known or seen who has actively disliked shane gillis is someone who i would derisively refer to as a SJW. everyone on this site knows my politics and what a i stand for, but really do hate the “perpetual uber victim” faction of left wing people who are triggered by everything, and straight up, if you actively dislike shane gillis then there’s a 95% chance that that’s you. if he’s not your cup of tea, that’s one thing. not every comedian is for everybody. but if you actively dislike him, you’ve probably never given him an actual look, and you’re probably the type of person who is just triggered by everything. lighten up.
  9. maybe try actually watching more than a couple of short clips of his before jumping to such strong conclusions? your whiny, hypersensitive, uber offended opinion of him is so off base it’s stupid. he’s literally the opposite of what you think he is, you’re simply too easily offended to go behind surface levels opinionss and find out what type of comedian he actually is.
  10. he’s easily one of the most intelligent and thoughtful comics out there. he was a history major at west point, and lots of his stand up bits and things that he talks about on various podcasts are about history. you, like so many others, have fallen for his shtick, and the ease with which he offends you is funny to the rest of us who are in on the joke.
  11. look i don’t using this word in the pejorative, because it makes me sound like a right wing turd, but shane knew just how “woke” that crowd was going to be, and that a lot of his jokes weren’t going to be embraced by that particular crowd. it’s something he talked about leading up to the event. he talked about how difficult it was and how many jokes he had to reject because he knew they wouldn’t go over well. so he’s in a tough spot- he’s not going to turn down the gig, but he also knows that a lot of the audience already doesn’t like him (because like so many other people they think that he’s maga), and that his style of jokes is just not well received by people who easily get offended. the awkward, stiff, out-loud self awareness bit is part of his act, even on his specials. it simply goes over a lot better when the audience is actually excited to see him. when they aren’t, yeah, it can get awkward. he’s a lot like norm in that sense.
  12. shane talking about setting girl picks (it’s around 2:30 or so) is killing me.
  13. guess you guys aren’t cool enough for the penthouse penthouse.
  14. it’s hilarious that helo thinks he’s legitimately better at baseball than actual major leaguers, yet he’s totally unimpressed with the best throw that any of us have seen in years. off the wall, flat footed, no crow hop, no one-hop or bounces, just a fucking homing missile, john elway style, from the track in right directly into the third baseman’s glove. it’s legitimately one of the ~5 best throws i’ve ever seen. helo: “that is not a good throw.”
  15. stowers is awesome.
  16. i’m still on my “eat the rich” shit, i can’t get enough of this:
  17. legitimately one of the best throws i’ve ever seen. maybe the best since laureano in oakland.
  18. y’all sound like the people who watch a stand up comic and try really really hard not laugh, just to prove that he’s not funny. yes, he knew that everyone was going to clap regardless, that’s how we knew the joke was going to land, which it did. it has been by far the most popular/talked about/retweeted joke of the entire show. everyone else seems to like it, but then again they aren’t trying to poke holes in what’s just a silly joke.
  19. this thread is a great example of the tribalism that’s pervasive in this country now. people walk around believing that everyone else is either an ally or an enemy, and that they can tell which category everyone else fits into based on one interaction. my posting history on this site, particularly in the CR and DT shows me to irrefutably be a champion of pretty much any all groups who’ve been persecuted or marginalized. i am all for the rights and empowerment of all people, of all colors, all religions, all races, trans, queer, black, female, muslim, chritsian i don’t care- you deserve love, and compassion, and equal rights to the richest, most powerful WASPs on the planet. there is zero doubting or debating where i stand and have always stood on these issues. thats simple fact. doesn't matter. as soon as i do one thing that you associate with “your enemies”- in this case expressing how tired i am of the constant “woe is me, my marginalized group is so oppressed” talk in the middle of my sporting events- you suddenly think you know everything about me. i must hate women, im a misogynist, im hateful, i have no female friends, etc. you really don’t hear how radical you sound? you don’t think you’ve taken this from 0-100 in 3.2 seconds? if you really can’t see that then there is no room for changing your mind. if your mind is made up about me, and no amount of earnest discussion or empirical evidence to the contrary of your asinine beliefs about me can move you from your position, then you might want to think about what that says about you.
  20. honestly- you say i’m “constantly playing the victim”. can you cite some references for me, since it’s so constant? you people love to say this, but it’s baseless, and it’s a juvenile cop out. same as the idea that i hate women, simply because i’m…checks notes…annoyed at the pervasive misandry on my tv? really? that’s all it takes? i dont appreciate the female version of misogyny and therefore i hate women? lol ok.
  21. episode 3 was a total dud for me, it was all over the place. parts of it were satirizing the bear, parts of it seemed to be satirizing that 911 show that rob lowe is on, and i just straight up didn’t get the whole peppers deal. not an episode i’m dying to watch again.
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