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Ben Shapiro Saying Retirement Is Stupid, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'

Darcy Jimenez
Darcy Jimenez
Ben Shapiro Saying Retirement Is Stupid, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'
Shapiro, who rants at a camera for a living, thinks all Americans should keep working past 65.
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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 Twitter from this past week and held them accountable for their actions.



This week, we've got a lazy attempt at provoking Muslims, someone trashing dog moms and yet another moronic take from Ben Shapiro.


Monday

Dave Atherton

The character: @DaveAtherton20, right-wing journalist, edgelord

The plot: Ramadan, the month where many Muslims fast, started earlier this week, and David here took the opportunity to be rude for absolutely no good reason. He posted a bacon sandwich, and explained that this is what he's eating for Ramadan. Of course, many Muslims do not eat pork for religious reasons, so it's crystal clear that this is nothing more than a low-quality attempt to be provocative.


The repercussion: It's perfectly fine for people to decide personally that they want to eat bacon, but the internet quickly saw this post for what it was: half-assed trolling that you'd expect from 19-year-olds on 4chan, not from anyone claiming to be a journalist.


Grant Brunner



Monday

Eric Conn

The character: Eric Conn, Christian podcaster, pet parent hater

The plot: On Monday, X user Eric Conn took to the app with a take that he must've known would rub people the wrong way (and given the current state of the website once called Twitter, that was likely the point). Conn β€” who hosts a Christian podcast aimed at recovering "biblical masculinity in a world of softness" β€” told users on the platform: "Your pets are not your children... Just. Stop."

In a second post, Conn added that he himself "enjoys dogs," but that it's possible to do so "without using language that elevates them beyond their God-appointed station." Uh, okay, guy.


The repercussion: Dog moms and other "fur baby" parents took Conn's post as an opportunity to share cute pictures of their companions, while other people wondered why he cared so much about how other people speak about their pets.


Darcy Jimenez


Tuesday

Ben Shapiro

The character: Ben Shapiro, conservative commentator, multiple time One Main Character, social security skeptic

The plot: Digg OMC Hall of Famer Ben Shapiro, who has made a career of coming up with the most contrarian, bone-headed and aggressively offensive hot takes a human troll can manage, has a new opinion to make fun of. This time, it's about Americans working themselves to death.

In a clip taken from the March 12 episode of Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire show, he said: "No one in the United States should be retiring at 65-years-old. Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem."


The repercussion: That's right. According to Shapiro, people shouldn't be able to look forward to the day they can kick back and reap the rewards of a lifetime of hard work. Instead, they should keep working until they are physically unable to. And, of course, social security should be cut because that policy is too woke for us wrinkly brained free-thinkers.

What a bozo and a clown.


Jared Russo


Read the previous edition of our One Main Character column, featuring a bad take on phones in movie theaters, a questionable theory about falling birth rates and someone claiming that big-breasted blonde women are going extinct.

Comments

  1. Ezio 1 month ago

    Oh Ben, you insufferable man-child. Easy to defend the abolition of something you'll never have to rely on, is it, you hare-brained ass clown?

  2. Digg 1 month ago

    Thanks for the note. Have fixed it.

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