accusing burr of hypocrisy is a bit of a step down from saying he's legitimising murder
I don't know, maybe he is a hypocrite, I don't follow him that closely. I thought he was just a comedian but he obviously doesn't meet your high standard of ethical purity.
But he probably said he had a nice time and was treated well because he was, as they're not these manichean baddies you think they are. I know you have this laundary list of outrage. The US renditioned 1000s of people for torture, which also seemed quite a bad thing to me at the time, but at least they let women drive so we won't cancel anyone who has the temerity to visit.
But the human rights aside, it sound like Burrs thinks billionaire are an issue in our society, which while not funny is something I agree with. So you're saying he shouldn't attend saudi's first international comedy festival, which is what it is rarther than some private gig on the Salmon's superyacht, because as the saudi ruling family are super rich and it has royal backing which is exactly what you would expect in an autocratic kingdom, this makes him a hypocrite . is that the reasoning? Fine, I guess. though it's a little Louise Mensch www.youtube.com/watch?v=3252FSW7OC4
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 3 Oct 2025, 6:47,
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What is the issue regarding Billionaires?
Wealth inequality has been a thing since the dawn of man and arguably necessary for a functioning economy since we're all too selfish to make true communism or socialism work. Most of the arguments against Billionaires seem to boil down to 'It's not fair, though', which isn't exactly compelling.
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no you're right, it's because it's not fair. fairly simple, ay?
this vid probably sum it up www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
but basically the huge shift in our society since the mid 20th century has been for the wealth of the super rich to fly of into the sunset to unimaginable levels, while wealth and living standards of the bulk of people, the middle clas,s has been going down. I. as you might have gathered, am not a billionaire. I wish people voted for policies that favoured themselves and a society where having a normal job still afforded having a decent life, but instead many seem to cheerlead billionaires like some sort of stockholm syndrome and save their energy for the important things like cancelling comedians if they're on the left or trans if they're on the right
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 5 Oct 2025, 1:41,
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I do apologise.
But the basic premise of that video still appeared to be 'It's not fair'. I'm clearly just not getting it, sorry.
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i think your issue might be comprehension
I just said that unfairness is the issue. perhaps you mistook it for sarcasm
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 7 Oct 2025, 6:20,
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