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Post by YourMomSaysHi on Aug 11, 2021 14:20:58 GMT
If the answer is "no," then that must mean that nobody cared in the first place. And if nobody cared in the first place, why all the faux outrage? Was it simply MCU hate?
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Post by thisguy4000 on Aug 11, 2021 18:59:41 GMT
Most of the “outrage” came from bad faith trolls who wanted to take James Gunn down as retaliation for what recently happened with Roseanne Barr.
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Post by Skaathar on Aug 11, 2021 19:19:14 GMT
The answer is no, people should really not have cared in the first place. James Gunn tweeted some pretty dark jokes but they were still jokes nonetheless. Plus he had sent them years and years ago. People really need to stop complaining about every little thing under the sun. There are far better things to complain about.
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Post by Phoenix101 on Aug 12, 2021 4:55:01 GMT
No, because if we had to penalize people for jokes, Seth Macfarlane would be in GitMo by now.
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Post by onethreetwo on Aug 12, 2021 5:10:06 GMT
It was just the outrage of the day. Another day another outrage. People have moved on.
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Post by Winter_King on Aug 12, 2021 10:00:52 GMT
Nobody cared. This whole controversy about his tweets was started by Mike Cernovich because James Gunn criticized Donald Trump.
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Post by YourMomSaysHi on Aug 12, 2021 10:16:29 GMT
Nobody cared. This whole controversy about his tweets was started by Mike Cernovich because James Gunn criticized Donald Trump. I remember reading these message boards and there were definitely people who seemed to "care." It would appear that was all fake outrage.
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Post by merh on Aug 12, 2021 17:18:39 GMT
Nobody cared. This whole controversy about his tweets was started by Mike Cernovich because James Gunn criticized Donald Trump. I remember reading these message boards and there were definitely people who seemed to "care." It would appear that was all fake outrage. Trump fans cared. Over on politics, the Trumpers were the ones trashing Gunn.
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Post by Skaathar on Aug 12, 2021 18:28:02 GMT
Nobody cared. This whole controversy about his tweets was started by Mike Cernovich because James Gunn criticized Donald Trump. I remember reading these message boards and there were definitely people who seemed to "care." It would appear that was all fake outrage. Oh there were definitely people around here who cared. Quite a lot of them in fact. I should know, I was one of the few defending Gunn. And I remember that majority of this board was against Gunn during that period.
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Post by Lux on Aug 12, 2021 18:37:55 GMT
The answer is no, people should really not have cared in the first place. James Gunn tweeted some pretty dark jokes but they were still jokes nonetheless. Plus he had sent them years and years ago. People really need to stop complaining about every little thing under the sun. There are far better things to complain about. His jokes were pretty dark and I would have said this was Trumper revenge too until I saw his jokes and I can tell you they were absolutely disgusting. Would I bet my pension that James Gunn doesn't have pedophilic fantasies or is slightly sexually aroused by children? No I wouldn't. Even jokes have their truths.
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Post by Skaathar on Aug 12, 2021 18:51:05 GMT
The answer is no, people should really not have cared in the first place. James Gunn tweeted some pretty dark jokes but they were still jokes nonetheless. Plus he had sent them years and years ago. People really need to stop complaining about every little thing under the sun. There are far better things to complain about. His jokes were pretty dark and I would have said this was Trumper revenge too until I saw his jokes and I can tell you they were absolutely disgusting. Would I bet my pension that James Gunn doesn't have pedophilic fantasies or is slightly sexually aroused by children? No I wouldn't. Even jokes have their truths. I am definitely not a fan of his jokes nor would I ever consider them in good taste. But a joke is a joke unless proven otherwise. Yes, sometimes there's a bit of truth to it, and sometimes there isn't. Sometimes what "truth" there seems to be in the joke is more a projection of the listener than the actual intent of the speaker.
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Post by Lux on Aug 12, 2021 18:56:50 GMT
His jokes were pretty dark and I would have said this was Trumper revenge too until I saw his jokes and I can tell you they were absolutely disgusting. Would I bet my pension that James Gunn doesn't have pedophilic fantasies or is slightly sexually aroused by children? No I wouldn't. Even jokes have their truths. I am definitely not a fan of his jokes nor would I ever consider them in good taste. But a joke is a joke unless proven otherwise. Yes, sometimes there's a bit of truth to it, and sometimes there isn't. A joke needs to be funny or at least not have me feeling like calling a mental asylum and exorcism priests on the person saying it, that's the very minimal I ask from any joke.
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Post by YourMomSaysHi on Aug 13, 2021 8:39:50 GMT
I am definitely not a fan of his jokes nor would I ever consider them in good taste. But a joke is a joke unless proven otherwise. Yes, sometimes there's a bit of truth to it, and sometimes there isn't. A joke needs to be funny or at least not have me feeling like calling a mental asylum and exorcism priests on the person saying it, that's the very minimal I ask from any joke. So, do you think that Gunn shouldn't have been allowed to direct TSS?
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Post by Lux on Aug 13, 2021 8:45:19 GMT
A joke needs to be funny or at least not have me feeling like calling a mental asylum and exorcism priests on the person saying it, that's the very minimal I ask from any joke. So, do you think that Gunn shouldn't have been allowed to direct TSS? Yes.
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Post by YourMomSaysHi on Aug 13, 2021 11:07:20 GMT
So, do you think that Gunn shouldn't have been allowed to direct TSS? Yes. Have you seen the movie?
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Post by Lux on Aug 13, 2021 11:36:27 GMT
Yes I have I was only joking. Whether I have seen the movie or not has no effect on the standards of jokes people should say. Me enjoying or not enjoying Suicide Squad 2 doesn't take away from the fact James fantasized about little boys.
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Post by thisguy4000 on Aug 13, 2021 11:48:58 GMT
Yes I have I was only joking. Whether I have seen the movie or not has no effect on the standards of jokes people should say. Me enjoying or not enjoying Suicide Squad 2 doesn't take away from the fact James fantasized about little boys. No, he didn’t. He was just being an edgelord.
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Post by Lux on Aug 13, 2021 11:55:02 GMT
Yes I have I was only joking. Whether I have seen the movie or not has no effect on the standards of jokes people should say. Me enjoying or not enjoying Suicide Squad 2 doesn't take away from the fact James fantasized about little boys. No, he didn’t. He was just being an edgelord. Edgelords try to be edgy not gross. Granted some may confuse the two but that would be impressively stupid. Talking about how a young toddler boy turns you on isn't edgy to me or even close to it.
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Post by thisguy4000 on Aug 13, 2021 12:02:24 GMT
No, he didn’t. He was just being an edgelord. Edgelords try to be edgy not gross. Granted some may confuse the two but that would be impressively stupid. Talking about how a young toddler boy turns you on isn't edgy to me or even close to it. Edgelords have been known to say all kinds of stupid crap for shock value, especially back in the 2000s.
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Post by Lux on Aug 13, 2021 12:09:43 GMT
Edgelords try to be edgy not gross. Granted some may confuse the two but that would be impressively stupid. Talking about how a young toddler boy turns you on isn't edgy to me or even close to it. Edgelords have been known to say all kinds of stupid crap for shock value, especially back in the 2000s. That may be true and that's the problem here added to the fact that James Gunn also looks like a child snatcher doesn't help. As I've said before I'm not going bet my pension on whether he's a pedophile or just an edgelord. You seem convinced he's just an edgelord because you like his movies and his political opinions, but that doesn't convince me either.
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