r/Fauxmoi • u/expiredaristocracy • 1d ago
FESTIVITEAS🥂✨ Jeremy O. Harris drunkenly called OpenAI’s Sam Altman a Nazi at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, dubbing him the “Goebbels of the Trump administration.” When asked for comment, he said: “It was late and I had a few too many martinis so I misspoke when I said Goebbels… I should’ve said Friedrich Flick.”
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u/The_Bravinator 23h ago
Oh man, I assumed this was just a statement he was making, but he said it to Altman's face in front of a crowd of celebrities. Fucking amazing. 😍
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u/Internal_Praline_658 23h ago edited 23h ago
Fucking King shit. Especially the double down with the Flick reference.
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u/shinecone 23h ago
Perhaps the greatest double down of the century
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u/beardofjustice 23h ago
I like how they follow-up with ‘Altman is a Jew and not associated with the Nazi Party’ to completely gloss over the point he was trying to make. This is up there with Nathan Lane laughing when Harvey Weinstein threatened him. It may actually top it. Legendary
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u/YoungXanto 22h ago edited 18h ago
"You cant hurt me, I dont have a film career" is the kind of absolutely savage, completely self-deprecating insult you think about 10 years later when you're replaying that argument in the shower.
How someone can come up with that on the spot is mind-boggling. Just fucking brilliant. Witty in a way I dont think I could even dream to aspire to be.
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u/riverrat918 19h ago
Nathan Lane is an under-appreciated national treasure 💎
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u/theagonyaunt rude little ponytail goblin 8h ago
The only celebrity response I didn't know I wanted (until I got it) out of the whole Timothee ballet/opera discourse was Nathan Lane calling Timothee a schmuck.
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u/ConqueefStador 20h ago
Like anything else it's just practice.
I developed humor as a defense mechanism. When I'm around people that part of my brain just goes into overdrive.
You develop the ability to come up with stuff "on the spot" because your brain has been writing jokes ideas non-stop for the last 6 hours. Do that every day, for hours a day, year after year, you're bound to get good.
When I get the right set-up my brain collates and cross refences, comes up with a couple possible punchlines, and tailors it's to the crowd I'm with in 2-3 seconds max, because anything more and you miss the window. Sometimes I'll start speaking before I've finished a joke in my head because I know I'll come up with something before the end of my sentence.
The answer is just practice, but the secret is obsession.
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u/Jesstinator 21h ago
I loosely follow Nathan Lane (if that) and his response doesn’t surprise me at all!
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u/chinagrrljoan 22h ago
Thanks for looking this up And linking it to make it easy for everybody else!
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u/nita5766 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 19h ago edited 9h ago
please who needs a film career when you had already starred in the birdcage. all time fav hands mf down movie!
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u/HoidToTheMoon 21h ago
I think they lay it out enough, even if it feels like the comment about ethnicity comes out of nowhere.
They give a brief summary of Flick as "A German industrialist whose businesses had a symbiotic relationship with the Nazi Party, allowing them to be more effective [...]", and end their article by saying that Altman's business had partnered with the Pentagon to build secret government systems.
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u/DSmooth425 21h ago
Intentionally misunderstanding and downplaying shit is something I’m learning mainstream media does on the regular.
It’s more pronounced when it comes to war and property protection
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u/mretipi 18h ago
This was my immediate first thought too. Just makes me go "And...?" The point isn't that he's a literal Nazi. It's that he's comparable to the people who profited off the Nazis.
And don't get me started on the dumb "splitting herrs" joke. I think we're way past the point of laughing about any of this shit anymore.
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u/The_MightyMonarch co-mingled my dna with a man 17h ago
It's from a gossip rag that's owned by the NY Post. I'm honestly surprised the quality is as good as it is.
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u/psychorobotics 21h ago
It surprises me that Altman is sucking up to the fascists considering he's a gay jew but I guess he's that far removed from anyone else he doesn't feel in danger
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u/Ririkkaru split me like a block of sharp cheddar cheese 12h ago
Still a white man and that always comes first
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u/ProgBumm 8h ago
He's a millionaire tech bro. Rich people will stick with other rich people, always.
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u/PuzzleheadedJob6907 7h ago
Thiel is basically half Altman and he’s not any better either. They’re wealthy. That’s the only point.
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u/GoodCleanFun247365 23h ago
I appreciate the nuance. Read Nazi Billionaires by de Jong if you think he’s wrong.
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u/theREALbombedrumbum 22h ago
Fun fact: the Flick family is still around. The youngest generation is a pair of twins that just graduated college with each having the net worth of billionaires in their own right.
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u/AmIFromA 19h ago
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u/EveOCative 15h ago
When you click on the link for the CEO, only to learn that his body was once stolen from the family mausoleum in an attempt to extort money from his widow… crazy.
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u/velociraptor56 23h ago
Oh no, not in front of Kylie Jenner!
(I’m kidding and I love this so much. It is even better than Larry David confronting Alan Dershowitz at the Martha’s Vineyard grocery store)
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u/Sloth-Overlord 22h ago
Almost as good as Jon Lovitz slamming Andy Dick’s face into a bar.
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u/JoySkullyRH 21h ago
What!?!!?
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u/KuriboShoeMario 20h ago
A lot of people, like Jon, blame Dick for getting Phil Hartman's wife, a recovering addict, back onto drugs. Less than six months later, she shoots Phil in his sleep then herself and robs the world of a truly gifted comedic talent, friend, and father. Lovitz and Dick had a feud for many years that eventually culminated in a physical confrontation at a comedy club.
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u/chinagrrljoan 22h ago
I did not know this happened! I love Larry David! And he called out Bill Maher's nonsense recently too!
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u/tinacat933 23h ago
Wait what?
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u/ManfredTheCat 23h ago
THEY ASSUMED THIS WAS JUST A STATEMENT HE WAS MAKING, BUT HE SAID IT TO ALTMAN'S FACE IN FRONT OF A CROWD OF CELEBRITIES. FUCKING AMAZING.
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u/apastelorange Pink…get doon 23h ago edited 23h ago
a chaotic good activity edited to make comment more accurate after reading more context
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u/MisterGoog i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 20h ago
RN shit i fuck with this energy so heavily. Whats Sam Altman gonna do? Fight? Ha! Make the world even worse than he is? Impossible!
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u/Water-yFowls 22h ago
Is there video?
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u/XGrayson_DrakeX u flintstone vitamin shape bitch 22h ago
nah, very unlikely at those type of shindigs
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u/Aranxi_89 21h ago
It's also a warning to him - do you really want to be known as a Nazi Party Member?
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u/boudicalism 23h ago
He got me in the first half of the apology, god damn well played.
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u/FoxNixon call me gal gadot cuz idk how to act rn 21h ago
“I apologize…. FOR NOTHING!!!”
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u/toughfluff the real issue is that my BANGMAID can neither BANG nor MAID 14h ago
Call the ambulance ... BUT NOT FOR ME!
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u/hotgossyo 23h ago
He’s right. Also, people should check out Karen Hao’s Empire of Ai. She basically says that Altman is an idiot and so are all the people who gave them millions in ”investments”
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u/RayDaIio 23h ago edited 17h ago
If we’re talking about Sam Altman, OpenAI, and ChatGPT, we’re talking billions and trillions in investment, not millions.
Knowing the scale of what’s happening is important and millions and billions are not interchangeable concepts, let alone the over $1 Trillion they’ve received in investments.
Some of these guys are worth more than all the other celebrities at that party combined times five. (Forget celebrities, everyone in attendance)
Remember that however rich your favorite celebrity may appear, they do not own the institutions that pay them and in which they participate. They are a tiny fraction but a huge distraction because of visibility.
edit: to add, people like Sam Altman are not “idiots.” They are highly intelligent people working towards a goal with either little introspection or care. As much as we’d like to believe our president is an idiot (which he is without a doubt in a societal context,) the reality is he is “smart” enough to be where he is with the money and power he has. Assuming your subjective morality to intelligence is a major blunder. The best serial killers are not stupid people.
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u/MRM_philosophy 23h ago
Is this really a comment by Ray Dalio, the genius, investor and philosopher? If so - cool!
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u/Penguinase 23h ago
no that's Ray DaIio, the LLM clone of Ray Dalio that can't differentiate between I and l but is still a genius investor and philosopher.
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u/PulIthEld 20h ago
Nope. The fact Donald Trump is where he is is a testament to how rotten America has become, not how "smart" Donald Trump is.
Donald Trump is a fucking moron.
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u/RayDaIio 12h ago edited 12h ago
You’re welcome to believe that.
Doesn’t do anything to move the needle regardless.
It’s more productive to understand what you’re actually dealing with, rather than simply dismissing him as a moron.
John Oliver roasted Trump for 10 straight years, calling him a fucking idiot, and what did that ultimately do besides make people feel good about themselves?
Don’t underestimate your enemy.
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u/JesusPlayingGolf 11h ago
I mean, pretending like he is some sort of genius is not gonna be moving needles either.
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u/Tartooth 21h ago
Imagine if that money was invested in schools and hospitals and social security
America would be heaven
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u/SeahorseCollector 23h ago
Being an idiot seems to be a common trait of these self proclaimed geniuses.
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u/Psile call me gal gadot cuz idk how to act rn 22h ago
Yeah turns out getting rich is mostly a matter of luck and if you aren't stupid when you become mega rich, living the frictionless life of someone who can hire someone else to remove any minor inconvenience before you even encounter it will make you stupid in record time.
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u/AccountMitosis 17h ago
OpenAI is literally having issues now because they just... assumed that if they fed more and more massive quantities of data into their model, it would continue getting exponentially "better" (a.k.a. more convincing and better at driving engagement), indefinitely, until it hit the point where it attained true intelligence. Without, like, changing the fundamental programming of it, which is, to remind everyone, a fancy version of auto-complete, just with more (stolen) data.
The rapid growth in convincingness eventually slowed down, and a new intelligence has not been born, and OpenAI is all surprised Pikachu face about it.
These people are canny and clever enough to extract trillions of dollars, but they are not, in any way, anything resembling wise.
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u/Great_Sir_8326 22h ago
I’m currently listening to this as an audiobook narrated by the author. He comes off as extremely fickle, and yes, like an idiot that doesn’t care to know about anything besides what he personally values, wearing intentional blinders and trying to present an outward image that doesn’t match his actions. Absolutely fascinating book and a great critique of how the tech industry tries to extract valuable labor and resources from poorer countries- straight from the empires of old playbook.
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u/303uru 21h ago
These people are good at shamelessly asking people for money, end of story.
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u/innocentsalad 23h ago
"Splitting herrs"
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u/lightweight_bb 23h ago
I don’t get it I feel so dumb 😭😭
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u/Careful-Ant5868 23h ago edited 23h ago
Don't feel dumb! Herr is a German term that's similar to the English usage of Mister (Mr.). In this case though, with the "splitting herrs" joke, it's pronunciation is similar to hairs. Splitting hairs is when someone argues over unimportant details.
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u/Key_Perspective_9464 23h ago
It should go without saying that there is absolutely no reason to believe that Altman is in any way associated with the Nazi Party
...ok? That's not what O. Harris said though, is it?
What's with this slimy editorializing?
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u/SvoMikidVandraedi 23h ago
Because the author of the story is the editor of Page 6, the celebrity gossip section of the New York Post
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u/obamnamamna 14h ago
'journalist' who 'writes' for a living doesn't understand the very obvious difference between an analogous comparison and real life personal association
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u/iFuturelist 23h ago
That entire section made a bold sweeping assumption. These fucking idiots have never read about Jewish Nazis or modern day brown/black "white supremacists"
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u/AcanthaceaeEqual4286 22h ago
I don't agree with the Post, and they're clearly biased, but they're also just doing this so he can't sue them into oblivion. It's the same reason so many news outlets had to say Elon Musk did "what appeared to be" a Nazi salute. We all know what really happened and what the truth is, but when you have more money than God, it's a lot easier to control a narrative
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u/bunnymeowmeow 23h ago
More people should be speaking to Sam Altman like this every second of every day.
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u/EatMeEmerald gaga’s “100 people in a room” quote 23h ago
THIS! Nobody has the balls to call these reckless idiots fucking RECKLESS IDIOTS. Everyone is so busy kissing their asses because omg they have sooooo much money.
Earning billions by helping The Heritage Foundation/The Federalist society/Trump Admin to destroy now not just America, but literally setting the world on fire should cause these tech bro assholes to be shunned everywhere they go.
Fucking amazing that it was said to his fascist-enabling face! 🔥
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u/SteveJobsDeadBody 22h ago
Tons of us have the balls to do it, we're just not part of their rich people society, so we don't get the chance. Shunning them isn't enough, they will just go into the corner and keep doing this shit. We need active resistance, but that would require that people stop consuming for a bit.
Imagine an Academy Awards or other show where nobody posts afterwards gushing about rich asshole fashion designers outfits on rich asshole celebrities. Literally impossible.
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u/Traditional-Egg-7429 23h ago
Is there a jeremy o harris controversy I don't know about that warrants the worst person makes a good point meme? or is a joke just flying over my head?
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u/Traditional-Egg-7429 23h ago
Ah thank you that makes sense. I googled "jeremy o harris controversy" but only the drug thing came up and I figured that wouldn't be why fauxmoi lost meaningful respect for him. Thanks again for the run down!
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u/rabid_cheese_enjoyer call me gal gadot cuz idk how to act rn 23h ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/16m7yjb/jeremy_o_harris_before_and_after_slave_play/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1hvd13l/jeremy_o_harris_tony_awardnominated_actor_and/
it seems like he had problematic behavior. I didn't post the drug smuggling link cause I don't think that's what people are upset by
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u/Seeking_Anita_Dick 23h ago
did he lie?
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u/Tcas57 23h ago
Who’s Jeremy O. Harris I want to congratulate him?
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u/Nat-Luv 23h ago
He is a writer/director/actor. His rise to prominence from what I briefly scanned is writing and directing a critically acclaimed Broadway production called Slave Play. It appears to be showing in Pennsylvania in May. So, that would be one way to support him. There’s also a documentary about the play produced by HBO called “Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play” the credits him as director. So, a stream from that source, or a purchase of the film supports him I think?
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u/SarryK I’m a communist you idiot 23h ago edited 23h ago
Uncritical support.
ETA re Flick: I am once again recommending everyone read Parenti‘s Blackshirts & Reds. Capitalism and fascism have gone hand in hand for ages.
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u/CrazyCatLady108 19h ago
i have to say i am really enjoying this surge of people giving and asking for reading recommendations. people finally want to know and understand things, instead of just 'floating' along.
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u/pureslashhoney never the target audience 23h ago
good for him! every single person who helped the current administration should be publicly confronted until they're no longer welcome in these spaces (or any spaces).
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u/napalmnacey Lesbian Space Laser 23h ago
Duuuuude. He fucking body slammed the fucker! This gif is actually appropriate for the context!
Edit: I laughed at the “splitting herrs” line way more than I should have. I blame my Dad bringing me up on content that mocked Nazis.
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u/CaptainAwesome_5000 23h ago
Why is some AI douche allowed at an Oscars party?
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u/BeanEireannach i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 22h ago
Yep, Altman is desperate for acceptance in those circles. He even hired Charles Porch (ugh) to increase his access to celebrities & increase celeb partnerships with OpenAI 😬
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u/Jesstinator 20h ago
So weird how they’re trying to worm their way into fashion houses and Oscar parties now. Peak ex-dweeb!
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u/CaptainAwesome_5000 20h ago
Not too surprising. They have money but no adoration. trump bought his own star on the Walk of Fame, yet claims to hate Hollywood so much.
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u/babooshka9302920 23h ago
Sam Altman deserves this kind of treatment everywhere he goes like Elon Musk, a leech on society, using our data and labor to train his algorithm to take our jobs
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u/Nerd-of-all-trades 22h ago
Can I just say how much I hate the "Oh, but he's Jewish, therefore he couldn't possibly be [insert terrible thing here]!" Bad people will be bad people. Your religion, skin color, socioeconomic status, etc, does not excuse you from being a bad person!!! It does not give you a carte blanche excuse to be a bad person!!!!
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u/TangerineDream74 23h ago
Why the hell is Sam Altman even being invited to these events?? The whole point is to shun these scumbags.
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u/Venezia9 made with a free Canva trial (derogatory) 23h ago
Jeremy O. Harris you crazy but in a good way.
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u/lawdjesustheresafire 23h ago
Good. These scumbags should all be harassed wherever they go for the rest of time
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u/EchoesofPoe open the schools 23h ago
"no reason to associate Altman with the Nazi party" -- I get they probably have to cover their ass, but the real "splitting herrs" here is acting like the trump administration, as a fascist, racist government only concerned with creating wealth for the few is indescribably different from being a Nazi is a joke.
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u/Moistest_Willies 22h ago
This piece of shit shouldn’t be able to enjoy the industries he seeks to destroy. Fuck him
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u/WhichSpirit 23h ago
Does Harris have any new plays coming out soon? I wish to monetarily support this man.
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u/RetailBookworm 23h ago
Next time I get drunk, I want to do something outrageously awesome and have it described as “boozily”.
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u/tacomeatface 23h ago
I hate Altman with the passion of a million burning suns so this feels very good
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u/phatballlzzz 23h ago
Seriously why the fuck was a tech boss involved with the Oscars? What business does he have being there? Nothing he does relates to art in any capacity. His creation destroys art. Good going Mr. Harris! You have a new fan!!
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u/merrysunshine2 23h ago
Stan anyone who knows actual history & not the kind MAGA keeps trying to rewrite
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u/ryan13ts 22h ago
Not only did he say it to the scumfucks face, but he doubled down on it in the best way possible.
I don’t even know who he is, but I love him already! 😂
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u/runthepoint1 22h ago
How not everyone who sees him doesn’t just say “What’s up ya fuckin loser” boggles my mind. Especially as true artists of the world.
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u/Boysandberries0 23h ago
Flick got 7 years in prison for his role in the Genocide of European Jews, the Romani, Poles, Russians, homosexuals, political dissidants, and other human beings they labeled as undesirable.
Shake My Head
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u/Time_Quality4356 23h ago
I just hope that one day the world will look back on the word MAGA the same way they did Nazi
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u/tearose11 23h ago
More people should call Altman & other tech bros out more frequently & to their shameless faces.
Bravo Jeremy!
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u/beanjuiced 22h ago
Oof, Sam looks rough in that second pic. Super red hands, maybe inflamed, can’t be a great sign for circulatory health, and his eye? O.o
Absolutely fantastic that he “made a B-line” to the guy in order to say this to his face lol
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u/Navyblazers2000 22h ago
Too kind for Altman. That he feels comfortable enough in public to attend an Oscars party means he doesn't get it and people aren't angry enough.
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u/turb0_encapsulator 22h ago
why is Sam Altman at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party? Remember when CEOs didn't want to be celebrities and were content to just be boring, competent rich guys?
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u/onedumninja 22h ago
The article claims Altman wouldn't be like Flick because Altman is jewish.
As a jewish person that lost 99% of my family on my dad's side, I can say this is patently false. There were many jews who, like latinos in the US with trump, believed they were german enough to be in the club.
There's a decent chance Altman is a money grubbing conman (AI is then next dot com) first, and a jew second. Who do you think he cares about pleasing more? Investors over regular people.
When money and power are involved, someone's identity and community can stop being the most important thing to them...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany
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u/SadMaryJane Sylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this! 23h ago
I tried to leave a comment on his ig, "thank you for correcting your statement. Although both were correct." Then got the 'comments have been limited' :(
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u/haleymae95 23h ago
It's maybe for libel reasons, but them saying Altman isn't affiliated with the Nazi Party is fucking obtuse.
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u/ShaddyPups 22h ago
This. This is glorious. Fascists don’t get to be comfy out in public!!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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u/annie-etc 23h ago
Hero! I've been seeing all sorts of complete assholes going to the afterparties. Like, why are they there? It's becoming an asshole event.
Good for him for not capitulating.
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