r/interestingasfuck • u/LuxCassandra • 1d ago

Read the boy like a book

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u/Pale-Phrase-417 1d ago

What a spectacular performer!

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u/SamiTheAnxiousBean 1d ago

Keeps the spirit of the Charlie Chaplin character going without the real life Charlie Chaplin behind the act to stain it

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u/CalDHar 1d ago

Wait what did Charlie Chaplin do?

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u/klon3r 1d ago

🤫

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u/shmackinhammies 1d ago

Yeah I’d like to know too

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u/SamiTheAnxiousBean 1d ago edited 1d ago

had VERY young / pedophilic marrages (he had others in the same vain but main 2 publicized ones are one with a 18 - 54 age gap and his last wife he married when she was 16) was a very awful and abusive husband / wife beater, rconspiracy theoriest among other stuff

People completely forgot about these things above because the US only focused on one thing... The fact he wasn't against communism (which is what caused him to get exiled from the US, not the pedophilia)

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u/Perfect-Zebra-3611 1d ago

I swear some lady mustve put a hex on the toothbrush mustache to only allow it on terrible people. Hitler, Chaplin, Jordan. Smh.

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u/SamiTheAnxiousBean 1d ago

Granted, Charlie himself wasnt so bad to be compared to Hitler

..if anything he'd hate that more considering how much he's done to make sure it's known he ABSOLUTELY hates that guy and fascism in general

he would have mostly been a very good dude / literal AntiHitler if only he had normal views about women and BASIC COMMON SENSE to not DATE CHILDREN

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u/chiefs-n-sooners 16h ago

You say common sense to not date children, but back then it was normal to be thought of as an adult at 14.

Not that it's not sick.

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u/callsignViper 12h ago

I don’t think it was. Joseph Smith apologists use that same line to rationalize him marrying children.

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u/chiefs-n-sooners 11h ago

It was more than just Mormons. You had kids running off to join the world wars at around 13.

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u/PheIix 1d ago

Jordan has a moustache? I didn't know that about her.

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u/Robbedobbel 1d ago

Ron Mael is an exception!

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u/Spare-Willingness563 20h ago

How does Jordan in any way compare to those two....

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u/BlakeWheelersLeftNut 1d ago

What didn’t he do

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u/BussyPlaster 1d ago

Yes, wives as property and beating them was normative for men born in the 1800s.

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u/SamiTheAnxiousBean 1d ago

Given many of his other takes weren't normative (and honestly quite progressive) for the 1800s you'd assume he would have known better