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Ben came up a little short when he was compared to Ken. That's the nice way of saying if Ben' s class blew up Ken's class wouldn't hear the sound for hours.

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I'm not jumping the line to catch "Barbie," but it's mainly on accounta I'm almost 70 yrs old. Which is in line with my theory that it's not a bad idea to stay in yr own lane, as the kids say. IMO, Ben F**ing Shapiro shouldn't even have opinion on f**ing "Barbie." Unless you're a teenage girl, feel free to zip it, little guy. I'm not expecting to have my sox knocked off by "Barbie," FFS. Jesus, dude...

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I'm 76, my wife 72. We saw the film recently with daughter, grandkids (teen and pre-teen), and a few of their friends. Everyone enjoyed it. There are some very amusing cultural reference "easter eggs" to watch for, particularly the opening sequence. Sorry, no spoilers. It's fun. It's about a toy doll. "Lighten up Francis" - Sgt. Hulka.

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he didn't learn his lesson after he attacked Cardi B and "WAP."

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The "lesson" he learned was that people paid attention to him, even if only to ridicule him.

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I like to say to whiny right-wing men: "What does it say to you about your views that Barbie has grossed $1.1 billion?"

Silence ....

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Not my kind of movie, too corny and i hate musicals but glad to see it do well and piss off MAGAts.

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"...one of the most woke movies I have ever seen”

Only Ben, the nauseating weasel scold, would view movies through a "woke" lens.

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You know why it's a great big hit? It works, that's why, you pathetic dickwielder. I was a little nervous about seeing something that pink--that's why I don't moisturize, for fear it will turn me into a sweet smelling, supple GURL. But fk me blindfolded if it wasn't our old friend Lysistrata, in the first successful screen version ever. (Am I going pseudointellectual? Observe the way the War of the Kens was made to look like the Parthenon friezes.) This movie could have been 6000 kinds of grotesque, but Greta Gerwig's serene yet smart direction rode herd on it, and it was funny throughout. Poignant to see it on the week of the demise of our never to be forgotten Pee Wee Herman, who understood the beauty of a dense yet artificial movie. And that last line, just when I thought it was going to (ugh) go in for leaning in!

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OOH, are we making fun of beloved furniture wizard, Bench Appearo?

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Ben wasn’t wrong about Barbie being a bomb, he just knows all the millions of people who enjoyed it are wrong. That’s why he need not apologize. He was dead right. If everyone were as miserable as him and shared his regressive views, that movie would barely have made back its budget! Lol! Sorry, Greta! Ben knows the real hits are Sound of Freedom, The Taste of Patriotism and the Smell of Maga. Oh, and the film adaptation of Try That in a Small Podunk Town and the sequel to 2000 Mules, 1000 January 6 Arrests.

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"he just knows all the millions of people who enjoyed it are wrong."

*Principal Skinner "Am I so out of touch?" meme goes here*

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Oh, my word.

That prediction of Shapiro's certainly was a fine ringing statement with no room in it for compromise or ambiguity. Without doubt it's malicious of me to be glad he was so completely wrong. I am very glad he was so completely wrong. Not that it's astonishing. And hooray for Gerwig and Baumbach.

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Feelings don't care about your facts!

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just wait

until it wins

the Oscar

for

Best Picture

:-)

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Maybe they can give Barbenheimer a joint win.

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And Ben Shapiro's Worst Ever Week has not yet concluded.

Wait till he reads THIS!

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/science/anthropology-women-hunting.html

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Oh Ben, you're just lashing out because deep in the shriveled walnut you call a heart you know you could never be Kenough.

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Aug 8, 2023Liked by Stephen Robinson

I regularly congratulate Ben Shapiro on owning The Most Punchable Face in America. Indeed, I still don't understand why Punching Ben Shapiro has not yet been made into an Olympic sporting event. Would beat the hell out of the luge, IMO

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We need an inflatable Ben Shapiro with a rounded weighted bottom so you could punch him over and over, and he'd keep coming back for more.

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Weebles wobble but they don't spew right-wing talking points.

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Wait I thought that was Charlie Kirk.

You mean there are TWO of them?

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Ben has a whinier voice but a more appropriate face-to-head size proportion.

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I think this EVERY time I see one of them but I see Ben is growing a Shaving Magic Ken quasi beard to distinguish himself.

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Ben just wants to prove that his balls have too dropped even if his voice hasn't.

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Never forget that people who shoot cases of beer and melt dolls call us snowflakes.

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I see the snowflake thing as a compliment when it comes from someone like him. We are all unique and beautiful. Certainly when it comes to being emotionally distraught over culture issues, they win by a wide margin. Mainlining rage and grievance thru Fox News and the like is their thing. They are emotional, vulnerable, fearful critters who need to lash out.

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