Comment on Brainrot Tiktoker at the Kirk shooting

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• semisimian@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  E.B. Farnum from Deadwood (the HBO show, anyway. Who knows what he was like in real life?)

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I read up on all the real life characters when I finished the show. Apparently the show did him kinda dirty, he was a bit of an intellectual in real life.

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• TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just 110% opportunist

  Yeah, America has basically become (and, to an extent, has ALWAYS been) a factory for making endless opportunists, swindlers, and snake oil salesmen

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• TimeNaan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a community that rewards and even glorifies grifters. Of course there’s going to be people like that.

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