• theangryseal@lemmy.world
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    I bought one of the Maddox tshirts back in the day. When I moved, someone broke into my house and stole my clothes.

    I was at work a few weeks later when an old junkie came in wearing my Maddox tshirt. I said, “Cool shirt man.” He replied, “Well, I ain’t a communist, I just wear whatever I can get at the thrift store.” I replied, “You mean whatever you stole from my house, right? That isn’t a communist shirt, it’s a dude who writes comedy on the internet.”

    He swore he didn’t steal it. Mine was the only one I ever seen.

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      Maddox is a chud who should be shut down. I used to watch him then found The Dick show with Dickmasterson. But he became such a MAGA fuck that I had to stop. But Maddox is a asshole who sued Dick for a billion dollars including a guy who made fun of him.

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        Went further than “made fun of him”. They legit called on people to harass him and threaten his girlfriend with rape.

        I guess it depends on where you get your info. We’ll see what happens eventually.

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        His wasn’t the Astro glide story, but he did link to that site on his page. I can’t remember that dude’s name though.

        It was a great story.

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          Your memory is certainly better than mine. I’m happy enough to have drawn a link between the two. My visits to Maddox’s site coincided with the beginnings of my experimentation phase, so I appreciate anything that made it out the other side.

          Despite how we might perceive Maddox in the modern day, the site was such a good representation of what the Internet looked like then. That was what content looked like.

          I always end up feeling nostalgic when I talk about it.

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        Judging kids artworks will forever be the funniest internet thing, at least in 2004 anyway.

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        TUCKER MAX! Holy shit this has been driving me crazy. It just came to me out of nowhere. That’s who wrote it. I could be wrong but I don’t think so. The level of relief I feel makes me confident enough to make this comment before I go digging.

        Edit:

        I can’t find the story, but we both have a good memory because it’s clear he built his career from that one.

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          Excellent fucking work, wow. This was like 2002-2003, around there, and so we’re twp-plus decades back here. Keep doing whatever you’re doing, it’s working.

          I’ll edit too: I may have attributed some negativity to Maddox (although I think he was a self-proclaimed asshole), but Tucker Max is the one who for sure went a bit off the deep end, I recall he ended up writing a book. Pretty much just frat guy personified.

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            He wrote 3 The sushi pants story is still my favorite but tucker max is a pile of shit

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            I swear, I was standing outside having a smoke and bitching to my wife about how your comment was driving me insane. “Babe, I’m thinking it was Tucker, but all I can come up with is Tucker Carlson and, well, we both know that isn’t…MAX. It’s fucking TUCKER MAX!!! That’s it! I know that’s it!”

            Haha, I swear I was going insane. It was on the tip of my tongue.

            The relief I felt, oh my god!

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    I have a feeling he actually meant he would find a baby from somewhere to give her. Not that that’s any better though.

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      Why? This kind of humor isn’t new and it’s never about “finding a baby to hand off to somebody”. The implication is always suggestively sexual. Don’t delude yourself into giving him the benefit of the doubt here. This was clearly meant to be a dog whistle to his manosphere followers.

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    Holy crap some memories just came flooding back lol. That’s awesome he’s still around.

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    Whole new meaning to, “Please clap.”

    From Jeb to Vance’s donut shop stunt to Leon Musk… Those words are just so versatile in describing the desperation of the Right.