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I’d rather not speak Ill of the dead… So I’ll be quiet.
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even the most distasteful goes back into the earth and is worm food. maybe he can come back as something not hateful?
If anyone is wondering why this community is more than happy to see Hulk in the ground, you might find this article insightful.
Hulk Hogan, Trump idol and enemy of the free press, dead at 71
I don’t necessarily mourn the person, I do mourn the character, I mourn what that character meant for professional wrestling, Hulkamania catapulted wrestling into what we know today, helped bring about Mania, the nWo leads and the Monday Night Wars, that gets us the Attitude Era, which leads to wrestling being a cultural phenomenon we’ll likely never see again. I mourn that, I truly do.
Yet… Hogan made a career out of telling people to be moral All-American people, behind the scenes he was a union buster, complicit in a steroid scandal, held up others for his own gain, helped destroy a company he knew nothing about, turned out to be a racist and when he was finally allowed to return it’s reported he was telling people not he was sorry just don’t get caught on camera, his daughter quit talking to him because he only wanted a relationship on his terms, he went full Trump, all around he was not upholding the principles of Hulkamania. As a human I mostly find him distasteful, but not to go full on like some did today, Holy Beelzebub I dislike a some of you today even if I understand the sentiment.
Look at it this way:
Terry Bollea, the racist, fascist, union-busting, habitual liar, is dead.
Hulkamania, being a real American, fighting for what’s right for every man, saying your prayers and taking your vitamins, never dies.
Nah, fuck him. In truth, he helped to create the hellscape we all live in now, first through his wrestling career, then through the Gawker lawsuit, and then from helping Donald Trump get elected (by speaking at the RNC, among other things). He deserves every ounce of vile and venom this community can give to him.
It’s fair to mourn your childhood hero and all, but that Hogan was dead for a long time already, in the graveyard of the myths we outgrow next to Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
The trash takin itself out these days. More of that plz
I’m just happy that Jesse Ventura got to see Terry’s body float downriver.
Oh no, what does that mean for that RAF thing? I was looking forward to laughing at the biggest flop the world has ever seen, I hope it goes ahead.
At worst: Bischoff cans the project before the first show, using this as an excuse to avoid the whole thing.
At best: Bishoff see’s it through and it flops immediately after the first show and shuts down.
the other option is they get kurt angle to slide into hogan’s role and it flops half way through and shuts down
Yeah, so fuck union busters.
We bury scabs here.
His contributions to wrestling can still be felt today. Hulkamania was a phenomenon like no other. If the dipshit had just kept quiet about his opinions, he would be mourned as a wrestling hero. But he had to open his racist mouth and become a parody of himself. One less wrestling legend, but also, one less piece of shit.
I say we turn Hulk Hogan into a left wing icon. Use his likeness to promote, immigration, equality, universal healthcare, bodily autonomy, and federally legalized marijuana. Similar to how WWE tried to turn extreme homophobe, Ultimate Warrior, into a Pride symbol.
Correction: Terry Bollea, who portrayed Hulk Hogan, has died. The Hulkster was way cooler than Terry. Terry said racist things, took Peter Thiel’s money to bankrupt Gawker, and was a MAGA.
took Peter Thiel’s money to bankrupt Gawker
OK but… FUCK Gawker.
FUCK Gawker.
Yes. But also, fuck billionaires throwing around money to destroy things that they don’t like (Thiel was pissed at Gawker for publicizing that he was gay, which, while kinda fucked up, also shouldn’t allow someone to destroy a media outlet with their money).
he had a vendetta for journalists in general.
They weren’t destroyed by the money. I’m sure the expensive lawyers helped, but Gawker’s actions killed Gawker. Literally all they had to do was pull down the sex tape. Instead they refused and wrote a fucking article about how they were refusing.
Money was a big factor. The lawsuit would not have happened or had as much chance of success without being bankrolled by Thiel. Gawker’s actions were disgusting and likely criminal, but US courts overwhelmingly favor businesses over individuals, unless said individuals have deep pockets.
This is a failure of the system, and I’m glad it was (momentarily) corrected, even if by someone as odious as Thiel. We can celebrate a good outcome regardless. Would that this shit wasn’t necessary, obviously, but I’ll take the wins where I can.
Nah, publishing revenge porn of someone in direct defiance of court orders, multiple times, should be enough to get that done, it’s a shame that Thiel’s money was needed when it should have come free with the justice system.
Thiel is a piece of shit and an actual lunatic super villain but he was in the right on that one.
Honestly, I feel like this is one of the few places “both sides are bad” works. Gawker was a bunch of fucking creeps and also incredibly fucking stupid, but that doesn’t make Thiel or Hogan any less of fucking monsters.
In a vacuum, Thiel was on the right side. But yeah, fuck em all, “let them fight.”
Agreed but with the caveat that Thiel’s money should not have been able to influence it one way or another. It should have been a criminal case resulting in end of business license.
Yeah exactly, Thiel’s opinion and power should not have been factors but Gawker should not have existed by that point in the first place so karma and all that.
2 abuses of power cancelled eachother out.
thiel was the sole reason he even won the lawsuit, which means terry dint have much of a case agains thim in the first place.
Publishing pornography of someone without their consent is a crime.
The justice system sided with Hogan in the end and unless you’re alleging bribery that’s not a matter of who paid, but that the trial was brought to its conclusion instead of settling out of court because the multinational publishing corporation won the money fight, something enabled by Thiel’s money, but also something that shouldn’t have been necessary in the first place.
Right, I forgot.
He also has a smaller penis than Hulk Hogan, apparently.
Legally proven!
I don’t know this guy, don’t live in the US or am familiar with any wrestling stuff, why is he being shat on?
Well, he was the biggest star in wrestling for over two decades by a wide margin. And he’s the reason wrestlers don’t have a union, he abused his backstage clout to destroy careers and drive two different wrestling promotions into the ground, he was caught on tape admitting he was a racist and using the N-Word while bemoaning the fact that his daughter was dating a black man, and he campaigned for Donald Trump last year. Just an all around piece of shit
well he made sure that happened, because he was union busting left and right, thats why vince gave him all the airtime he wanted.
he also worked with peter thiel to destroy gawker for reporting factual information
gawker posted revenge porn and refused to take it down. thats incredibly shitty
while bemoaning the fact that his daughter was dating a black man
iirc, bemoaning the fact that his daughter was dating a black man without at least making sure he was rich.
Ya know, so it’s worth the ‘hassle’. I guess? Fuck the Hulk Hogan.
Right. Also forgot to mention he was caught on tape saying this to his (at the time) best friend’s wife after fucking her, which is just the world’s worst pillow talk.
Bunch of instances of him being a generally shitty person, a racist, and being a hardcore Trumper mostly to my knowledge.
He is (well, was) for decades the most well known professional wrestler on the world. Influenced pro wrestling in countless ways. It cannot be overstated that modern pro wrestling may not exist if not due to the contributions of Hulk Hogan.
10 years ago today (ironically) he was outed as a horrid racist (and in the last fewish years a notorious right wing nut and supporter of Trump) and he never recovered his image, to the point where even a few months ago when making an appearance on WWE programming he was damned well boo’d out of the building.
Sooo now he’s dead and can rot.
he was also temporarily scrubbed by WWE for like 5 ish years too for his racism. and then theres the gawker-thiel lawsuit too.
Fuck I love Skeevone
