shish_mish@lemmy.world to Malicious Compliance@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoHow John Oliver became a weapon in Reddit’s civil warwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up142arrow-down1external-linkHow John Oliver became a weapon in Reddit’s civil warwww.theguardian.comshish_mish@lemmy.world to Malicious Compliance@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareUlu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 years agoThat doesn’t explain why John Oliver was chosen tho.
minus-squareMountaineer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoMain stream reporting. Get John’s attention, hope he does a segment on it. I hope he not only does, but that he drives attention here, it will bring new users.
minus-squarekiwifoxtrot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoJohn has acknowledged it on Twitter, but there won’t be any segments on it until the writer’s strike is over.
minus-squaretdgoodman@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoJust be glad it was John Oliver instead of Nicholas Cage.
minus-squaresensibilidades@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoin fairness, the title said “how”, not why
minus-squareBrikoX@vlemmy.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 years agoIt was partly his tweet and his overall skits on making fun of stupid moves companies makes on his show.
minus-squareTrebach@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoThe tweet was in response to having already been chosen. He was fanning the flames.
minus-squareSmuuthbrane@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoWho else, if chosen, would lean into it quite as hard and enthusiastically as John Oliver would? This is is raison d’etre here! It’s fine to question why, but if not him, who else?
That doesn’t explain why John Oliver was chosen tho.
Main stream reporting.
Get John’s attention, hope he does a segment on it.
I hope he not only does, but that he drives attention here, it will bring new users.
John has acknowledged it on Twitter, but there won’t be any segments on it until the writer’s strike is over.
Just be glad it was John Oliver instead of Nicholas Cage.
in fairness, the title said “how”, not why
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It was partly his tweet and his overall skits on making fun of stupid moves companies makes on his show.
The tweet was in response to having already been chosen. He was fanning the flames.
Who else, if chosen, would lean into it quite as hard and enthusiastically as John Oliver would? This is is raison d’etre here! It’s fine to question why, but if not him, who else?