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https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5383504/2024/04/02/vince-mcmahon-lawsuit-wrestlemania-wwe-absence-explainer/
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https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5383504/2024/04/02/vince-mcmahon-lawsuit-wrestlemania-wwe-absence-explainer/
TheAccursedHamster
Last time I tried to point out what a piece of shit he was when people used him in memes, I got downvoted into oblivion. Remember, fuck Vince McMahon Jr and may he rot.
QuartzPoker
He also slapped a reporter in the face during an interview after they asked him when the wrestlers who worked for him were going to get healthcare
HisBubbliness
Vince has always been a scumbag. He all but helped to ensure Jimmy Snuka didn't get put away for murder.
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
He's like bffs with Trump, it's not surprising but he absolutely shouldn't be a "good" meme. Neither should Drake, neither should Crowder, neither should any noted piece of shit.
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Greymalum
happyrabbitzz
Need more "thoughts" as the comment got removed because it was mean (albeit accurate) to MMA fans.
purgruv
I have no idea who this meme is of, but I’ve always though he looked like a pure twunt anyway.
MelodyLightfoot
Vince McMahon owner of the WWE
IAmLeegion
Former owner. He was forced out and WWE merged with the UFC to become TKO Group Holdings.
thatwoodguy
Also the deaths of other performers who needed steroids to compete and ended up killing themselves
FellaWithUmbrella
It’s funny how all Trump’s friends either are scumbags or turn out to be later.
Xenarion
So it's like the Drake meme?
thebonesofmyancestors
The WWE is just the KPOP of wrestling. Exploitation of the talent is a universal truth.
QueefMalone
Didn't he poop on someone as well?
giveittomestraightlikeapearcidermadefrom100percentpears
Me and my family went to an indie wrestling promo in the UK. Funnily enough, Saraya Bevis' mother was on the bill. There was one of, if not THE best live wrestling matches i've ever seen. It just so happened to be two women. Great match, good storytelling, they played the crowd like a violin. So me and my bro were like "oh booyyy let's try and watch more women wrestling". Anyway.. This was when the WWE entered into the dark ages. With pillow fight matches, bathing suit competitions and so on. >
giveittomestraightlikeapearcidermadefrom100percentpears
I'm glad the WWE has gotten out of it's rut. And it's reputation for being the match you go the concessions stand, or go to the toilet.
adol795
didn't he also encourage them to do the playboy shoots, which led to one of them taking her own life because of the responses to it?
ChazzK
No one was ever "forced", but some ladies described "being offered" repeatedly. It didn't help that they were literally finding underwear models and bikini pinups and making them "wrestlers" by that point.
sesnut
honestly they should have just made it part of the contract at that point if they were hellbent on getting extra sales from it
dennydorko
Not exactly. Ashley Massaro was sexually harrassed by Vince after she posed for Playboy in 2007, and left the company in 2008. She also alleged she was raped by someone claiming to be an army doctor during an overseas troops visit. It is now known that Vince McMahon covered it up in order for the WWE to keep its good relations with the military. It isn't known if her suicide is linked to the terrible things that happened to her, but they certainly contributed.
adol795
looking into it, it wasn't exactly noted as the cause, but I do remember that there was some backlash about it at the time
Fadetoblack021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FV112gTPGc
StephenDaniels
You can't judge him by his in-ring personna. Its like hating Al Pacino for having his brother killed. Not to mention that back before the evil Vince McMahon emerged there was the boy scout who shared a booth with Jesse Ventura for a million Saturday mornings.
resworn
I just want SCSA to cement everything he owns
executivedisfunction
American 'Pro Wrestling', is a linear descendant of the rural carny tradition in small town America. A cynical culture exploiting 'Rubes' it had only contempt for, selling the sleaziest possible material and experiences. Who knew better than P.T. Barnum? "Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public."
RadioactiveNerfDart
McMahon is Trump Junior’s actual biological father.
The timing is right, Trumps wife had an affair with McMahon, and just look at Junior and tell me who he looks more like - Donald, or Vince? It would also explain why Trump hates Trump Jr.
boevis
Well, this is now headcannon
leroy666
Pro wrestling promoter. Was anyone surprised. Just the latest in a long line of sleaze.
Holinyx05
Can't really claim nothing is happening. He lost his company over it. Vince has been OUT for awhile now
Youhavinagiraffe
And ironically John Cena claims we should pretend we didn't see it and move on
AGrammeIsBetterThanADamn
What is WWE, exactly, if not "selling bodies"
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
Just about everything I have heard from wrestling is extremely exploitative and damaging
metalrulercid
Union busting, drug providing, refusing to pay contracts just an all around asshole
ChristopherHallett
John Laryngitis was also especially bad for this.
todayok
He's a big Trump buddy and Trump appointed his wife to a juicy government job for which she was, of course, entirely unqualified. Doesn't matter though as most imgurians and redditors don't vote.
Monkeynutsjoe
That might be because most of us aren't americans. Statistically, anyways.
todayok
Well, aside from that being a stupid comment, reread my comment (I didn't say anything about limited to the US) and then ask yourself if there is voting in other countries.
Monkeynutsjoe
Yeah but your previous sentence was about Trump, which implies the conversation is about the US
todayok
Just take the L.
Monkeynutsjoe
Where's the fun in that?
WoodyGoodman
Family of scumbags:
michaelscarn427
What? Rich people stick together and always help the ruling class? Who would have thunk it?
TheDrunkNinja
Yeah no, she has her cronies, but overall we hate her in CT.
zeacorzeppelin10
The expose on him by behind the Bastards was shocking. Tom Cole's blood is on his hands.
fartharder
Shoutout for Behind the Bastards
spookyu
For anyone wanting to listen, and you absolutely should because it's a GREAT podcast, it literally took them 5 episodes (each an hour or longer) to cover all this: https://youtu.be/JLdaMY9n_Oc?si=TY5zAECS99BkWZ0N 10/10 I do recommend. Also their recent one on conservative politics is great: https://youtu.be/KuIFF-LCI4k?si=0fvtPIcA1pb8lw3n
AngurProne
Every WWF/WWE wrestlers blood, CTE, fungal infections are on his hands. He was the usual max-corp owner.
BannedGeek
Dont forget Owen Hart
Unclescam
Was that found to be a result of negligence? I remember that night and I've never heard that described as anything but a tragic accident.
zeacorzeppelin10
Exactly
boevis
It's not like *nothing* happened, and being popular as a meme isn't "social approval"
SithElephant
Quite a lot of people know the Brock Turner meme.
boevis
Obligatory: You mean Brock "The Rapist" Turner?
bikergeek6249
It's one of the reasons I don't like the Drake "yes"/"no" meme, or the Steven Crowder "Change My Mind" meme. Just personal opinion.
boevis
I literally have no idea who crowder is. Noted that he's a POS.
bikergeek6249
You were better off not knowing. I apologize for bringing him to your attention.
Junktrunkjunkie
Crowder always kinda bugged me. Even before I was “radicalized”. One of my friends showed me his channel and I pointed out the “leftist tears” mug. I was like “I don’t think I can support someone whose whole objective is to hurt someone else.” Like that alone was enough for me to see his whole character. Nothing about his show ever changed that first impression.
Youhavinagiraffe
Memes generally feel so out of context to me that I'm not usually that bothered by who is in them. The Crowder one is an exception to that mainly because the way the meme is used feels far too similar to what he was doing in the original context i.e. "debate me bro on whether X minorities have a right to exist". I think using the meme feels too much like endorsing his "I have an opinion and that's everyone else's problem" attitude
filiuspelei
Yep. This kind of ruined this meme for me when I found that shit out
Shewy92
That's like being mad that the "Change my mind" meme is ruined after learning about who Steven Crowder is.
It's a meme, get over it.
jayman0123
https://youtu.be/m8UQ4O7UiDs?t=283 welp, here's more for ya
ScottPerri
Just wait until you find out how buddy buddy he is with Trump.
TapiocaMartini
Honestly not a shocker
LeroyShabazAli
Same with the change my mind one
WoodyGoodman
koops
She did Charlie dirty each time with that football. Just hold it still ffs!
Bobbobbobobbananafanafobob
They're children and he's got weird hair and doesn't have cancer. This is nature over nuture. Eat dirt, Chuck.
CaptainHyperbole
Same
somethingdark
I mean the entire picture set is literally from the second thing in the list
filiuspelei
That I did not know
blamiesnotfree
Hate the artist not the art, pogchamp will never die either.
Trumpisanonce
Get a life
Muffyns
Pogchamp is dead twitch doesnt have that emote anymore
blamiesnotfree
Oh right, I forgot that twitches list of allowed and disallowed emotes decides Internet culture at large, my mistake.
Muffyns
thats not even the pog champ twitch used to use it used to be some guy but they removed the emote because he showed up at the January 6th thing and got arrested
blamiesnotfree
Yeah but he is the progenitor and core of pogchamp and it's used literally every (his face) on (twitch.tv) and it, and it's distillate are everywhere otherwise, so pogchamp is in no way shape or form, dead.
filiuspelei
I mean its hard to seperate the two sometimes. Especially when the artist is alive
blamiesnotfree
Sounds like a skill issue on your part tbh, why make it everyone else's problem?
filiuspelei
Am I making it everyone else's problem? If I dont enjoy something that is my prerogative, regardless of the reason
Trumpisanonce
Talking like a semi-retarded 4chan user doesn't make you cool shit dick.