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Ben Bankas

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Dark Humour for Dark Times: Ben Bankas

I'm sorry, in my eyes, maybe, I don't know what, you know, British Columbia and Canada has some really crazy laws, so I'm sure, you know, they were suggesting, the guy, some guy was trying to get people to call the police during the show to have me arrested for hate speech.

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Dark Humour for Dark Times: Ben Bankas

I guess it's the payback we get for bullying the crap out of them in high school, right?

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Dark Humour for Dark Times: Ben Bankas

We bullied them, and then we bullied them in university when they took liberal arts degrees.

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Dark Humour for Dark Times: Ben Bankas

And we said, you're not going to have a job.

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Dark Humour for Dark Times: Ben Bankas

You're not going to be anybody.

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Dark Humour for Dark Times: Ben Bankas

You're going to be nobody.

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Dark Humour for Dark Times: Ben Bankas

You're going to be working at McDonald's.

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Dark Humour for Dark Times: Ben Bankas

We used to do that at my alma mater in Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

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Dark Humour for Dark Times: Ben Bankas

the frosh week the first week like freshman week and they would you know the uh the engineers would say to the the arts majors that their thing was mcdonald's mcdonald's that you're gonna work at mcdonald's because your career your degree means nothing so those people got upset

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Dark Humour for Dark Times: Ben Bankas

And those people were like, maybe I'll get into politics.

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Dark Humour for Dark Times: Ben Bankas

And then they got into politics.

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Dark Humour for Dark Times: Ben Bankas

And then all the other people who were bullied and felt, you know, done wrong by voted for them and wanted, yes, we're going to change things.

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Dark Humour for Dark Times: Ben Bankas

We're going to get rid of the jocks and the meanies and, you know, the toxic men.

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Dark Humour for Dark Times: Ben Bankas

And we're going to replace it with feminized men and woke women and LGBTQ plus, the 2IA and, you know, BIPOC and all this stuff.

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Dark Humour for Dark Times: Ben Bankas

And they don't want to lead for everybody.

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Dark Humour for Dark Times: Ben Bankas

That's the big difference is that people who were in power before who weren't like ultra left did primarily they would make speeches and say, we're we're trying to make we're here for everybody, even though we won.

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Dark Humour for Dark Times: Ben Bankas

You know, you're a guy lost, but we want to make sure that you know that we care about you and your problems.

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Dark Humour for Dark Times: Ben Bankas

And for the most part, they did.

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Conservatives were in power in Canada.

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Dark Humour for Dark Times: Ben Bankas

Homosexuality was not illegal.