• @[email protected]
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    42 years ago

    He is such a great man, glad he made it somewhere where he can do the right thing and be an example that the rest of them will ignore.

  • @[email protected]
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    1552 years ago

    ”Without these people, it would be painfully obvious how unfunny I really am.” - John Oliver, probably

    • @[email protected]
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      392 years ago

      Can’t movie studios theoretically hold forever, because they still receive money from sources like streaming subscriptions.

      Maybe we should start canceling these until the strike is over.

        • @[email protected]
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          182 years ago

          Bought a parrot, a boat, and raided my first family in the middle of the Pacific. Unclear on the rest

        • Cosmic Cleric
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          32 years ago

          Sounds like a good time to 🦜🏴‍☠️

          Now is a good time to get a tropical bird and stay away from waste dumps?

          (I know, I know. Just throwing a little bit of humor out there to try to improve someone’s day.)

      • @[email protected]
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        162 years ago

        Cancel as many as you can. An actor I know said cancelling Netflix would have the biggest impact, so I’ve done that for now.

  • PatFusty
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    142 years ago

    Thats just a fundraiser with extra steps. Just checked and John Olivers annual salary is $8M a year for his current HBO show. Thats about 80-150 peoples worth of funding he could do but he would prefer you guys do it.

    Get on your hands and knees guys

    • Franzia
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      82 years ago

      Yea he is fundraising and giving his weight to an issue rather than donating his own wages. John does deserve to keep the money he earns after working as a writer for like twenty years.

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      692 years ago

      Yes, money he would not make without a team of people behind him; however, him making money does not exclude him from supporting others. If anything, his actions could help support more than his money could. Fixing a broken system is also better than just slapping a quick fix in the form of a check.

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        He is supporting others, but he is supporting the others who support him, with himself being the disproportionate beneficiary of the shared effort.

        Oliver’s actions may not be wrong, but the admiration he is afforded through the post exceeds the degree that it is genuinely warranted.

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          12 years ago

          So would paying a little piece back by showing support for those people perhaps help to tip the scale a little less? Sure, they aren’t balanced, but one shouldn’t ignore progress just because the job isn’t over yet.

          And I would suggest the admiration should be earned, but I also have a hard time thinking of another entertainment platform that brings up issues and spot lights real problems that may go under reported. Using popularity to try and increase public awareness seems pretty admirable.

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            I am not objecting to your views as much as to any support for the specific views presented in the post, which I find exaggerated and misguided.