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Mel Gibson Blasted After Backing Trump With Offensive Insult About Harris In Bonkers Rant
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Who the fuck is "Mel Gibson?"
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time to take another long hiatus from work, mel.
Nonsense, he will get steady work alongside Kevin Sorbo!
Pretty sure even Mel Gibson has more pride than that. You only go full Sorbo when you done fucked up real fucken bad.
You mean a guy that hasn't had a real job since he was 19 has a bonkers view of the world?
What's a real job?
Acting is work. Acting is not easy. Especially if you want to be believable on screen.
Don't dismiss an entire field of workers just because of one stupid asshole.
Yes Mel Gibson is still bonkers.
We don't have the celebrity thing you have in the US here, so I only see bits and pieces of this, but his (and several others, really) spiralling into insanity has been quite bizarre to witness. First into extreme bizarro religion and then (predictably) into far right politics.
As is often the case, the rejection just entrenches his beliefs.
I wish I knew how people started falling into that kind of mental trap. I'm not sure he was always like that (or maybe he was, I don't know the guy).
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Until producers stop giving him money and actors refuse to work with him he'll continue spreading hate, the guy has been an obvious bigot and moron his entire life
“I separate people and their art” people are the fuckin’ worst and huge part of the problem, too, since they don’t do a damn thing to incentivise those losers to stop what they’re doing, either.
When I learned that “Sweet Home Alabama” was in bitter response to Neil Young’s “Southern Man” I just stopped listening to it. There is so much music in the world, I’ve been fine without Lynyrd Skynyrd. I also don’t think I’ve ever seen a Mel Gibson movie and I seem to be ok.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I would say that "Sweet Home Alabama" is very different. It was not written bitterly and it was written by a bunch of Neil Young fans (and Neil himself loved the song). The point of "Sweet Home Alabama" was to show that there were people who grew up in the South who weren't racist, who acknowledged and decried the racist history of the South, but who also felt resentment at being lumped in with the racists, past and present. Being both proud of being from the South and ashamed of being from the South at the same time even has its own term, coined AFAIK by the band The Drive-By Truckers: "the duality of the Southern Thing."
There are plenty of artists and musicians that should just be written off, but I don't think Skynyrd is among them. They were actually relatively progressive for their background and were trying to paint a fairly sophisticated and balanced story; it's not their fault that their fanbase evolved into a bunch of racist assholes who preempted the song for their own causes, especially since the heart and soul of the band died in a plane crash in 1977. But that's just my two cents as a huge music fan who grew up listening to Skynyrd in the 90's.
This is such a horseshit take.
The entire song is a screed to southern ignorance including the gem "Watergate does not bother me"
These assholes are part of the reason we ended up with trump.
Get fucked.
"Watergate does not bother me, does your conscience bother you?"
Bother in this case means he's not losing sleep at night over it due to any regrets. This was all Northern people being corrupt. An answer to southerners being bad and evil.
It was not meant to be interpreted as they don't care
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Eh, Mad Max, Road Warrior, and Beyond Thunderdome are classics. Lethal Weapon was good.
He was even decent in the John Wick flashback "The Continental".
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You mean the same guy who said he hopes his (then) partner gets “raped by a pack of n****rs” isn’t voting for Kamala? I’m shocked I tell you.
He’s been unhinged for years, we should have cancelled him decades ago and let Mel succumb to his own alcoholism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paV0yADFXBY
Sorry for all I could find was horrible quality
U did good
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So many out of work actors raging their boy is getting destroyed by a woman.
So many immigrants complaining about immigration too.
TBF, Australia has a really big problem with racism. Against immigrants in particular.
As an American that traveled there 2 years ago on vacation, it was typical for them to ice break with "so how about them immigrants" after they found out we were American (and assumed all Americans are Texans I guess, by the stereotype they were expecting)
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Old racist votes for old racist.
More at 9.
Mel should do the right maga thing. As a immigrant he should self deport himself.
We don't want him back now. You've ruined him.
Don't blame us for your road warrior.
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This guy is a racist piece of shit. Always has been.
Mel Gibson? An insane rant? No, couldn’t be. I’m sure it must have not been bigoted in any way.
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The Passion of the Anti-Christ
Did he blame the Jews again?
No, but I'm shocked he didn't, he'd probably get a standing ovation from the right and be among the elite right aside the my pillow guy and Elon.
I think that’s just implicit now
(plays William Wallace)
(endorses authoritarian candidate)
At the very least the man is skilled at pretending to be someone he’s not. That’s about all he’s got going for him.
Braveheart strokes the same freedom boner that The Patriot does.
I don't care, man, braveheart was fucking dope. plus that's very reductive, it's a very personal story as well in many ways. there's friendship and love and ~~:.|:;~~ and betrayal and revenge. it really hits hard on an emotional level in so many scenes. two or three that made me cry, a number of fuck you moments and a bunch of fuck yeah moments. it has so many perfect setup and payoff arcs that more recent insanely popular media severely lacks, like breaking bad or Harry Potter.
Gibson is an absolute piece of shit but it's a shame that he's actually talented, unlike a crushing majority of these hogs.
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The funny bit is that everyone already knew he was a far right extremist politically and religiously, it's just HOW he expresses himself that's blowing up in his face.
I tried finding a gif of Mel in a straight jacket from Lethal Weapon, but I'll settle for this one:
Why is anyone still listening to this man enough for this to make it to a headline?
A high enough percentage of people without ad-block were likely enough to click.
Well now I definitely don't feel bad about torrenting Braveheart
Dude is just another relative nobody can invite over for Easter.
why is anyone still giving airtime to this washed up has-been?
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