r/entertainment • u/playboy • 1d ago
George Carlin Saw a Future With Televised Executions, Daughter Says | “Let’s use capital punishment the same way we use sports and television in this country, to distract people and take their minds off how bad they’re being fucked by the upper 1 percent." (Unpaywalled)
https://www.playboy.com/read/entertainment-culture/george-carlin-televised-execution-hasan-trump29
u/lizperry1 1d ago
He also suggested walling off the state of Kansas as a huge penal colony, and just throwing all convicts into the mix regardless of what they're convicted of, and just let nature take its course.
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u/Possible_Field328 1d ago
Lets do this but with politicians instead
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u/Liesmyteachertoldme 1d ago
Bro just Mawfuckin politician battle royale. That would be fucking crazy fun to watch
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u/JohnArtemus 1d ago
Americans should be protesting in the same way they are in France, Spain, etc. Sans destroying their historic landmarks and small businesses.
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u/idontwanttofthisup 1d ago
raise your fists and march around, just don’t take what you need
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u/piratebuckles 16h ago
I'll jail and bury those committed
And smother the rest in greedCrawl with me into tomorrow
Or I'll drag you to your grave
I'm deep inside your children
They'll betray you in my name8
u/Taeves81 21h ago
Americans should be doing a lot of things but they're too busy doing nothing while Trump sets their country on fire.
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u/PlatinumMirage 21h ago
Agreed but the 1% has fcked us over by pumping us full of sugar, got us all addicted to doom scrolling, restricting access to education, not adjusting inflation, and putting everyone else against each other by race, gender, and religion that we can’t unite to protest.
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u/Practical_Yoghurt802 11h ago
The 1% is not forcing you to eat a bunch of sugar and spend all day on your phone
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u/PlatinumMirage 3h ago
They’re not but they’re making it hard to access healthy food and approving shit that’s allowed into our food that’s banned in other countries. Plus they’re screwing our farmers. Who’s going to grow healthy food? And I ain’t got time to scroll my phone all day but they do make it easy for the next generation to get addicted.
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u/Practical_Yoghurt802 11h ago
" Americans should be protesting in the same way they are in France, Spain, etc. except without all the defining qualities of the protests in France, Spain, etc."
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u/FFAbutnotFA 1d ago
America got to where it is today since 1890s when industrial Barrons were unchecked.
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u/Lost-Pineapple9791 1d ago
I'm very surprised we arent ther yet, where the loser of reality shows gets killed. its popular sci f theme but im honestly shocked we arent there
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u/XennialQueen 21h ago
We were close to it when they said they were going to live stream that execution
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u/Movies_and_Stuff 1d ago
People’s very simplistic views of the world weirdly overcomplicates very simple things. There isn’t a grand plan to distract you from things. MAGA is simply a cruel and spiteful movement. There isn’t some secret agenda behind this. They simply have a very perverted view of what justice means.
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u/dynamic_anisotropy 1d ago
Heard of Project 2025?
We should be able to recognize the idiots at the helm are not the ones drawing up the plans for autocracy, rather they are the vehicles with a cult of personality to drive the plan home.
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u/Movies_and_Stuff 22h ago
Does project 25 mention the importance of distracting voters from becoming class conscious by doing public executions? It’s an extraordinarily silly notion to pretend the only thing in the way of our country turning on the capitalists is these distractions like going to war with Iran and taking away peoples rights.
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u/JohnArtemus 1d ago
Thanks you. I've always said people, and specifically this administration, are not that smart. They're just cruel.
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u/Justbabe_saves 1d ago
Ok Mr Bot 123456 go back to your digital Spaun server.
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u/Practical_Yoghurt802 11h ago edited 11h ago
No real human could ever disagree with you, you are a perfect genius.
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u/juzamjim 1d ago
Well yeah but that’s not George Carlin predicting the future that’s MAGA scanning the past for norms they can destroy
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u/playboy 1d ago
“Let’s use capital punishment the same way we use sports and television in this country, to distract people and take their minds off how bad they’re being fucked by the upper 1 percent,” Carlin said during his 1996 HBO special, “George Carlin: Back in Town.” “Now, unfortunately, ‘Monday Night Football’ doesn’t last long enough. What we really need is year-round capital punishment on TV every night with sponsors! Gotta have sponsors. I’m sure as long as we’re killing people, Marlboro cigarettes and Dow Chemical will be proud to participate.”
If this sounds familiar, then you’ve probably seen a Carlin clip on social media amid the headlines about whether the firing-squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan should be live-streamed. After Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he wanted Hasan’s scheduled Dec. 3 execution in Texas to be live-streamed so that people could “understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” President Donald Trump announced that the execution would not be available for public viewing.
“He takes a premise and takes it to the absolute most absurd version of it, to the point where it’s so absurd that it’s unbelievable or not even possible,” his daughter Kelly Carlin-McCall, a writer and radio personality, says of her father, who died in 2008 at the age of 71. “His level of absurdity in 1996 is what we are living through in reality right now.”
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u/Agitated_Ad7576 21h ago
I once heard: "If they could, all the networks would televise executions and Fox would air nude executions."
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u/Stolkmen 8h ago
When i saw they were going to do that I first thought of george carlins comedy about the subject. A prophet.
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u/bikedork5000 1d ago
Daughter says? He had a whole bit about it in his set in the early 90s. Talked about catapaulting people into brick walls. It wasn't some private musing.
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u/reddtoomuch 1d ago
George Carlin was a pretty good stand up comic. Not a philosopher. We can stop citing him, now.
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u/movezig123 22h ago
Public executions were actually a huge part of society maybe most of the world, up until quite recently.
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u/Practical_Yoghurt802 11h ago edited 11h ago
Carlin is very much the stupid person's idea of a smart person
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u/Justbabe_saves 1d ago
George was the most prophetic comedian.