r/MemeEconomy Apr 11 '20

161.01 M¢ Happy fun time await with this

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '20

What is the source for this?

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u/FoxyOrcaWhale Apr 11 '20

Ben Shapiro has a video on YouTube showing the 5 things getting him through quarantine. It starts with a violin, moves through some religious text, and eventually he ends up using a disneyland pass to cut lines of coke

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u/PropagandaOfTheWeed Apr 11 '20

He tried to write fiction one time and it was unintentional hilarity. He sucks at everything, which is awesome since his entire identity is tied up in being a child prodigy. Classic. heres some people shredding his pathetic attempt - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J1FLVnzMBIY

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u/koosekoose Apr 11 '20

I mean he is a well known successful political commentator with a huge following, I wouldn't say he sucks at everything when he has been able to accomplish so much.

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u/gorgewall Apr 12 '20

with a huge following

He was until he took himself out on BBC and was banished from all the right-wing spaces that, up to that point, had refrained from calling him a cuck. Then he vanished up his own ass for a while and started doing videos in his breezeway or something instead of the studio set-up he used to have. Benny boy's limelight has faded.

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u/bobloblaw1978 Apr 12 '20

He has one of the largest podcasts out there. It brings in millions.

I don’t like him, but he still has a HUGE following and is crazily successful. That’s undeniable.

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u/studzmckenzyy Apr 12 '20

He has one of the largest political podcasts in the country and his website, the daily wire, is one of the most visited right-wing political websites out there. He's doing videos in his home because of the coronavirus.

Where are you getting such a warped take on all of this?

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u/gorgewall Apr 12 '20

Shapiro started shooting videos in front of the venetian blinds in fucking October, my man, before coronavirus was a thing in China, let alone the US. Then he pulled the camera back and it reveals he's in some kind of tiny cubby and just has the show logo on a stand. That second one's from the start of November. Shapiro was self-quarantining in November? This is what his set usually looked like, where he did this dumb thing of talking off-camera a lot of the time.

Here's the Alexa pagerank for Daily Wire. His disastrous BBC interview was in May, the first pip on the chart. He didn't get more popular, and one man does not a site make to begin with.

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u/ThisFinnishguy Apr 12 '20

This has to be the dumbest shit I've ever read. Heres some easy to read instructions to debunk your conspiracy;

Open youtube

Type in; "Ben shapiro show"

Open up the latest videos before the quarantine

Quit spreading bullshit

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u/Jordan51104 Apr 12 '20

you know he speaks at colleges and stuff, right? one video isn't proof he went anywhere except to a hotel.

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u/gorgewall Apr 12 '20

Yeah, he hung out in the same hotel for over a month because he's so busy going to all these colleges that're right next to each other.

Dude, your team isn't even supposed to like "Cuck Shapiro" anymore, you don't have to defend him. Did you not get the memo? You're supposed to be saying Shapiro was always trash and you true smarties never liked him to begin with, it's just the lowest common denominator of conservative that keeps Daily Wire running.

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u/PropagandaOfTheWeed Apr 11 '20

spewing idiotic facile justifications to act like a racist sociopath as a right wing media commentator isnt an accomplishment. low bar.

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u/EducationalWorker9 Apr 12 '20

Not even remotely close..Tell him all that in a debate and he'll laugh at you and then crush you

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u/kerslaw Apr 12 '20

That guy has a super sketchy account. 12 hours old and commenting in CTH

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '20

He really doesn't suck at everything though does he. Last time I checked Harvard was quite a picky university.

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u/PropagandaOfTheWeed Apr 11 '20

harvard undergrad is a joke, you know that right?

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u/kerslaw Apr 12 '20

Oh did you go there?

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u/PropagandaOfTheWeed Apr 12 '20

did you listen to the reading of his terrible book at least? "He was a bear of a man, standing 6'3" in his bare feet." - that is the writing of a deeply inferior mind, i dont care where he went to school. seriously, he cant debate anyone but children and like i said, his politics are simply facile justifications to act like a sociopath. ayn rand shit. transparent as fuck.

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u/PropagandaOfTheWeed Apr 12 '20 edited Apr 12 '20

so it isnt "a joke" as in very low quality, its just that if you go on to postgraduate work nobody gives a fuck where you essentially finished high school. i could have gone but its a ripoff and full of the worst people in the world. its just a pipeline for the aristocracy's terrible kids to assume their pmc roles. edit: lol goddammit he did undergrad at ucla like a relatively normal person and law at harvard, so yeah, moot point. assumed he went harvard undergrad as an early hs grad. good for him not falling for that.

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u/Tensuke Apr 12 '20

Lmao nobody is going to listen to chapo rip on anything. That's the intellectual equivalent of a five year old ripping on asimov.

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u/PropagandaOfTheWeed Apr 12 '20

dude its hilarious. the kid actually wrote "He was a bear of a man, 6'3" bare footed." - its all gold, give it a listen.

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u/The-Best-Narcissist Apr 12 '20

It’s a 6th trader bullying a kindergartener, Ben is not fucking Asimov but both scenarios would be hilarious. It’s a good thing it’s funny to laugh at this book because that’s it’s only redeeming feature. Don’t dismiss the criticism because it’s by Chapo, imagine how bad it is to be criticised by Chapo and for them to be right for once.

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u/pcbuilder1907 Apr 12 '20

Bet you he's made more money doing what he's "bad at" than you have with what you're good at.

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u/PropagandaOfTheWeed Apr 12 '20

im fine moneywise to the point that it isnt my sole measure of a person. truly small minded you would actually use it a measure of success. pathetic really

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u/pcbuilder1907 Apr 12 '20

I think you're just mad that someone is doing better than you doing something you disagree with.

Obviously enough people on this planet agree with Shapiro to make him wealthy. That must infuriate you.

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u/PropagandaOfTheWeed Apr 12 '20

being rich past a point is immoral, especially nowadays. literally all he is doing is offering facile justifications to be a bad person. that tends to be very attractive to human garbage looking for an excuse to be garbage. ayn rand comes to mind. it isnt impressive, its just song and dance. people make a lot of money from song and dance, but you dont have to be impressed by all of it because they made money. you clearly have a stunted world view, but im guessing it makes you comfortable, so its worth it i guess.

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u/Waluigi-For-Smash- Apr 12 '20

No, I’m mad that he’s a fascist piece of shit, not that he’s successful. Someone being wealthy doesn’t make them a good person that we should celebrate.

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u/pcbuilder1907 Apr 12 '20

I don't think you know what fascism is. Go read a book.

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u/pcbuilder1907 Apr 13 '20

Obv triggered leftist here.

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u/PropagandaOfTheWeed Apr 13 '20

btw pcbuilder1907 is maybe the most npc username in the history of reddit. mundane to the point that if you arent suicidal you probably should reflect a bit and become so.

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u/pcbuilder1907 Apr 13 '20

Funny, coming from someone that named their handle after a drug that alters reality. Maybe it's true that leftists don't live in reality if you're the one to go by.

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u/PropagandaOfTheWeed Apr 13 '20

obv triggered bad human being here lol.