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"Today’s generation of comedians prefer to use their hard-won liberties not as a weapon against the powerful, but as a license to operate free of any ethical obligations whatsoever." www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’
Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government’s human rights abuses
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"Today’s generation of comedians prefer to use their hard-won liberties not as a weapon against the powerful, but as a license to operate free of any ethical obligations whatsoever." www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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I'm a massive fan of stand-up. I'm watching specials or listening to comedy albums almost every day. The Riyadh comedy festival lineup is unreal and frankly, dystopian.
This is the best piece I've seen so far on the boldfaced hypocrisy of the "Free speech" crowd.
This is the best piece I've seen so far on the boldfaced hypocrisy of the "Free speech" crowd.
US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’
Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government’s human rights abuses
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I'm a massive fan of stand-up. I'm watching specials or listening to comedy albums almost every day. The Riyadh comedy festival lineup is unreal and frankly, dystopian.
This is the best piece I've seen so far on the boldfaced hypocrisy of the "Free speech" crowd.
This is the best piece I've seen so far on the boldfaced hypocrisy of the "Free speech" crowd.
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Some comments from the comedians playing Riyadh.
September 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Some comments from the comedians playing Riyadh.
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Not an exaggeration. If anything, this understates how unhinged the video is. It is, quite literally, five white guys talking about how to free the states from the burdens of the 14th Amendment so churches can effectively be given ownership over "gangbangers in Baltimore."
At around the 22-25 minute marks, Yarvin, JD Vance’s court philosopher, proposes a system where black people would be made wards of religious ministers, who could force them to work as indentured servants and require them to submit to 24/7 “air-tag” monitoring.
It's amusing to observe Curtis Yarvin in this setting. He seems quite in love with the sound of his own voice. And most of his utterances are the sort of banalities you'd expect of a recent autodidact—wowed by the most superficial connections, and lacking deeper contextual knowledge.
August 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Not an exaggeration. If anything, this understates how unhinged the video is. It is, quite literally, five white guys talking about how to free the states from the burdens of the 14th Amendment so churches can effectively be given ownership over "gangbangers in Baltimore."