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The Guy Who Killed Bin Laden Calling Young Men His 'Concubines,' And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'

Darcy Jimenez
Darcy Jimenez
The Guy Who Killed Bin Laden Calling Young Men His 'Concubines,' And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'
Billionaire Bezos is on our list for the second consecutive week.
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Every day, somebody says or does something that earns them the scorn of the internet. Here at Digg, as part of our mission to curate what the internet is talking about right now, we rounded up the main characters on X from this past week and held them accountable for their actions.



This week, we've got Jeff Bezos's belated endorsement, a backhanded compliment, someone who needs to brush up on their international politics and an unhinged tweet from a former US Navy Seal.


Wednesday

Jeff Bezos

The character: Jeff Bezos, ultra-rich guy, smuggest person on the planet

The plot: Not long ago, Bezos stopped the Washington Post from endorsing Kamala Harris, and then tried to gaslight everyone into believing that it was for the good of the paper. It didn't work.

Immediately after Trump officially won the election, the boot-licking began. What a loathsome creep Bezos is.


The repercussion: While the dunking has been non-stop, so has the unsubscribing. Washington Post was hit hard with people canceling their memberships, and many folks continue to push for people to cancel their Prime memberships as well.


Grant Brunner


The character: @a_shishh, poster, lover, relationship misunderstander

The plot: X user @a_shishh, who appears to be a chronically online poster, posted a photo of a couple where the woman is obscuring the face of her partner with her hands. "A caring women is better then beautiful women (sic)," he added as the caption. The photo was stolen, but the caption wasn't.


The repercussion: It couldn't be clearer from the framing that this post was bait, but a lot of people still had a tough time not reacting to it.


Adwait Patil



Wednesday

@ronreup

The character: @ronreup, X user, uninformed person

The plot: On November 6, it was announced that Donald Trump had won the US presidential election. Those who did not want a criminal, liar and rapist to become leader of the world's most powerful country were understandably devastated โ€” but one X user couldn't grasp why that group would include people living outside of America.


The repercussion: Some people offered @ronreup a quick politics lesson, while others were more to the point with their responses.


Darcy Jimenez


Monday

Robert J O'Neill

The character: Robert J O'Neill, former US Navy SEAL, truly unhinged poster

The plot: On the weekend, young Democrat Harry Sisson posted a photo of himself and his friends to X, with the caption: "We're Gen Z voters and we all PROUDLY voted for Kamala Harris! Real men support Harris!"

Unsurprisingly, Sisson received plenty of less than friendly replies to his tweet โ€” but one response was so bizarre that it instantly went viral. Robert J O'Neill โ€” you know, the guy who says he killed Osama Bin Laden โ€” quote-tweeted Sisson's post, writing: "You're not men. You're boys. If there was no social media, you would be my concubines."


The repercussion: People from every corner of X tried to get their head around O'Neill's comment. The guy who killed Bin Laden apparently wants a group of young men to be his sex slaves โ€” and thinks, for some reason, that social media is the only thing stopping that from happening.

As if that's not bad enough, O'Neill later doubled down on the tweet by sharing a video of himself reiterating his point while walking through an airport. You can't make this stuff up โ€” but I really, really wish it wasn't real.


Darcy Jimenez


Read the previous edition of our One Main Character column, which featured a controversial Halloween costume, a bad take on NYC trains and a billionaire making a very bad decision.


[Image credit: @mchooyah]

Comments

  1. Lee Harrington 4 days ago

    It's super easy to find a picture of the blood-nut blowhard at about the same age as his online adversaries. Apart from the fact it ain't a pretty sight, comparatively, the guy hasn't got a leg to stand on. It would be fun to prank the guy (who, I gather, wasn't liked by his brothers in arms) in real life, with a full troop of fully kitted out male ballet dancers.

    1. Lee Harrington 4 days ago

      Also he's making a big assumption. For example, Terence Trent Darby was about as twink as one can be in his prime, but it came out later that he was formidable in the boxing ring.

      1. Lee Harrington 4 days ago

        Check out Wishing Well if y'all haven't heard it. How you say ... bangeur.

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