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What's great about this, and Stephen Fry is brilliant, is not that he's absolving Musk, or that he's criticizing Tesla, but that it is an argument likely leading to Elon Musk protesting,

'No, my cars are good enough that I can be a Nazi!'

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

He said sexual abuse victims should grow up and stop feeling sorry for themselves.

He jumped on the "I'm a Jew " bandwagon, in order to deflect criticism of Israel's actions in Gaza. This is after presenting as atheist for all of his public life.

Anti trans JK Rowling supporter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Goddammit. Why is no celebrity available to like anymore? I guess it's true, we should not idolize anyone. Everyone is a piece of shit in some way or another, and to some level.

Except Keanu Reeves. He's literally Jesus Christ. ❤️🔥😭

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't have full context, but he seems to be transphobic, or possibly trans exclusionary may be more accurate.

https://old.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/1hi3opi/another_celeb_dissapointment_stephen_fry/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To put the video in short: Essentially gets asked if he still supports Stonewall even though they support trans kids and speak out against TERFs (worded much differently) and he says no I don't support them any more, calling it nonsensical, shameful, and sad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the added context. That's what I guessed based on comments, but wasn't certain.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

See what I enjoy about this comment is all things considered there's a high likelihood you will live past the age of 60 at which point I hope younger people then call you a piece of shit on the daily simply because of your age. LOL

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The probability is that, as you age, your ability to change you attitudes in order to keep up will slow down to the point where you will seem regressive and problematic to 20yo children when you are 60.

The era that my parents grew up in would seem awful to most people now, but my parents were unaware that there were problems, and they have a hard time seeing a lot of them now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know about you, but that sounds miserable. And what makes you think that you will be excluded?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shhh that's not important now. My goal is to outlive all of you, that's my solace.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But. Then you would be the 60 year old asshole? Are you thick or did you not think this through?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I revel in being the 60 year old asshole. 13 more years!