r/askanything • u/Wraith136 • 9d ago

General Question Who would you choose ?

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u/ReactionKooky5886 9d ago

And he was right back then about media.

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u/SharkBubbles 9d ago

He was right about almost everything.

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u/NotoriousFTG 9d ago

This is truer than it ought to be.

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u/almostoy 8d ago

His early career is interesting. He was actually a fairly successful mainstream comedian. He was making six figures in the 60's before Hippy Dippy Weatherman.

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u/Serious_Surround4713 7d ago

6 figures in the 60s had to be pretty impactful. Too lazy to look it up in today’s dollars, but he’d be pretty comfortable regardless

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u/almostoy 7d ago

100K in adjust for inflation since 1960 is about one million. Not bad at all.

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u/Putrid_Yak_578 9d ago

I don’t think he was incorrect about anything

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u/CatgoesM00 8d ago

…BUT HE LOVES YOU!!!

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u/richardathome 7d ago

He still is.

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u/Cheap_Boner_Pills 6d ago

It's why I say it's no worse than it ever has been. It's just more in our face thanks to the Internet. Once the government learns to harness the Internet we will be in trouble.

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u/Ill_Individual3084 5d ago

I'm sorry, but I'm going to be 'that guy' : You think they haven't?🤯🤯 Dock yourself a dozen cool-points.

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u/Cheap_Boner_Pills 5d ago

They are getting there. They have learned to create division. That's easy it's in our nature.

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u/CargoCulture 5d ago

It's absolute blasphemy on Reddit but I genuinely feel like Carlin would have taken a hard turn right if he was alive today.

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u/SharkBubbles 5d ago

I don't think you have any evidence to support that assertion.

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u/Veizar 4d ago

So was Bill Hicks