Yeah, Hitler gained popularity having the ever loving shit beat out of him by communists he picked fights with, and then going “look at what these violent communists have done! Something must be done about them!”

There’s a lifetime subscription? Maybe I should be considering that too

To quote a Minnesotan I know, talking about chili: “I’m going to add some mayo, to give it some zing”

Luckily the twin cities are sanctuary cities and you can get people who aren’t whiter than rice to make food here

Sex slaves human trafficked from Russia, land of a dictator he openly praises. I did a longer writeup elsewhere in this thread, but most of the details come from the Behind the Bastards podcast episode on him

Alright let’s see what I can remember! Most of this is pulled from the Behind the Bastards podcast episode on him (great podcast about terrible people) and the rest is supplemented from wikipedia to refresh my memory.

It’s worth noting that, possibly due to Seagal’s mob ties, a lot of folks who have come to court with credible accusations have subsequently mysteriously withdrawn their accusations or otherwise failed to finalize their court cases.

First off, bro wants to fuck any woman he thinks he can lay hands on and has had consistent credible sexual assault accusations against him his entire career. Particularly noteworthy is that he worked REALLY HARD to try and get Ray Charles’ granddaughter alone in a room with him during an impromptu casting event at his home after meeting her at Ray’s funeral. Her dad, Ray jr, tagged along and prevented this initially, but she was hired as his assistant, and walked on day one after he explained what kind of “massages” he expected. This habit of sexual assault also applies to minors, to whom he has bragged, in adult life, to that it’s fine, because he has girlfriends their age (bro lies about anything and everything he thinks will make him sound good and cool though, so make of this what you will, on multiple levels)

His time as a cop was actually aired as a tv show: Steven Seagal: Lawman. As stated, he drove an army surplus tank through a home. He actually SHOT the 11 month old puppy afterwards, separately from the tank thing, in the same event.

As stated, he got his start through mob ties and, around the turn of the millenium, when he walked out of a mob funded film deal, was sued and threatened by a crime family over it. He subsequently narc’d on them and some arrests were made following his testimony on RICO act charges. Seagal would subsequently settle out of court. Everything I’ve heard about the man makes him sound like a cowardly bitch, so I’m assuming they bled him for millions.

He has a long record of deliberately hitting stunt performers during fight scenes, because of course he does. There is one story of him claiming, baselessly, that thanks to his aikido training he was immune to being choked out (???), so a stuntman indulged him in a bet and subsequently choked him out. I’ve heard a number of similarly amusing anecdotes about the man one might call instant karma on a variety of obviously bullshit lies, many of them involving stolen valor. The dude LOVES to pretend he was black ops, navy seal, whatever sounds good at the time (imagine why he started a film company to keep making movies about him actually being these things into his late age. Dude is a massive LARPer)

Dude owned two human trafficked Russian women for some time, keeping them as sex slaves. Iirc, this occurred during the time he was filming being a cop (it may have been before, one way or another, the accusations didn’t keep him off the force)

Speaking of Russia, dude is a huge fan of Putin (wild how the best people somehow consistently become friends with dictators) and has described him as “one of the great living world leaders” and endorsed invasions of Ukraine. He’s also cozied up to Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela

That’s all I can think of at the moment, but it’s been a good use of waking up in the middle of the night wide awake. There’s probably more I’m forgetting, though

I mean, he did have a stint as a cop, during which time he killed some dogs with a tank

We’re gonna point out that Seagal is fat, lazy, and pathetic, but not his history of owning human slaves, killing dogs with a tank during his time as a cop, or mafia ties?

Listen if your flight is delayed 5 hours you’re gonna take anything you can get

Okay but, and hear me out: what if we threaten Republicans with letting Obama run against him if he does? They’ll be SO SPOOKED

Which is why Hillary’s team gave him active support in winning the Republican primary before stealing the Democratic one

Because with the contest itself he’s already got Johnny caught on pride and greed, and now Johnny will go around telling other people they can beat the devil, making his job easier down the line. The only winning move was not to play.

Can get that from the right wife

Because they actually protest and have a history of killing fascists in the ruling class when faced with government overreach.

I actually really hate that every hobby should be incorporated into hustle culture these days. You crafty? Sell what you make. You like fixing things? Charge people for it. You play video games? Stream.

We’ve built a world that only cares about cash and it’s exhausting

Ahhhh forgive my confusion, thank you for explaining.

This is a GOOD TAKE by YOU. The big danger on puts is that you can AT MOST make 100% of the investment if the company collapses completely to $0. If, for whatever reason (the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent), the stock explodes upwards, you can be on the hook for WAY more than 100% if the stock increases dramatically.

Knowing Pliny’s disdain for chariot races, I actually looked for this one, going “no way, no way.” I wanted it to be real so bad.

Not to mention, at the end of the video he says he’s in need of specialists of basically every kind needed for the project. I have the same level of capability to complete this project, though the video’s popularity speaks to the demand for it

I mean, there’d also be no Israel. The creation of Mandatory Palestine, which would go on to be Israel, was just the British answer to the “Jewish question” after WW1, if you can just convince the Brits to be chill you can prevent a lot of atrocities

Ehhh, this reeks of “benevolent dictator,” sure it sounds legit, but it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny and doesn’t have any historical precedent for a reason. Fascism, by definition, is reliant upon internalized violence against its own population to maintain in groups and out groups and to keep the in groups in control. Sure you can have out groups that aren’t defined by race, but you’re still, very deliberately, going to have large groups who are made to suffer needlessly in order to be a boogeyman and scapegoat whenever anything bad happens.