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(The Daily Beast)   Confederate superhero Rebel defeated by supervillain TechBroMan, using the power of Cryptogrift   (thedailybeast.com) divider line
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    More: Ironic, Film, Theodore Beale, Conservatism, French Revolution, Indictment, Comic book, Superhero Movie, Beale's followers  
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koder [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-10-20 11:54:35 AM  
An attempt to make a right-wing superhero movie has ended in disaster, with $1 million missing in China and a participant facing a federal indictment.

Zero surprise. And honestly, they deserve it.
 
Private_Citizen [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-10-20 12:00:34 PM  
Conservatives got suckered for a million while trying to make a racist superhero movie?
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odinsposse
2022-10-20 12:07:27 PM  
That's exactly how I would expect a crowd funded anti-woke movie project to go.
 
Prank Call of Cthulhu
2022-10-20 12:08:10 PM  
LOL, bad things happening to Teddy Beale is all I need to make this a great day.
 
OhioUGrad
2022-10-20 12:08:28 PM  
"...and then they said Confederate superhero"
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Marcos P
2022-10-20 12:09:17 PM  
"The Adventures of Bigot Man and Sisterwife"
 
moresugar
2022-10-20 12:09:31 PM  
FTFA: Beale claims, without evidence, that the alleged con was carried out to disrupt his right-wing fanbase.
"I strongly suspect that this whole thing was a targeted operation intended to break our community," Beale said in the video he published last week.

Can't.  Stop.  Laughing.
 
did a bad thing and got a free orange jumpsuit
2022-10-20 12:10:22 PM  
Wait. You sent $1 million to China? Conservatives have lowered the bar on 'the stupid'.
 
UltimaCS
2022-10-20 12:11:11 PM  
His devoted followers call him the "Supreme Dark Lord of the Evil Legion of Evil," and describe themselves as his "minions."

Saturday morning cartoons weren't close enough to reality, including the bumbling villains foiling their own plans.
 
labman [TotalFark]
2022-10-20 12:11:54 PM  
If this movie doesn't get made, how will Kevin Sorbo make a living?
 
Glitchwerks
2022-10-20 12:12:15 PM  
FTA:  A trailer promoting the proposed movie, Rebel's Run, featured the character Rebel fighting a global police force hunting down freethinking conservatives.

Conservatives don't engage in freethinking.  That is why there have been so many conservative "leaders" like Rush Limbaugh and all that have come after him.

Conservatives want someone to tell them what to do and want reassurance that all their hateful thoughts and beliefs are correct.

Just stating the obvious here, of course.
 
fsbilly
2022-10-20 12:12:30 PM  
freethinking conservatives

Yeah. That's a thing.
 
pueblonative
2022-10-20 12:14:08 PM  

labman: If this movie doesn't get made, how will Kevin Sorbo make a living?


 Behind the truck stop glory hole is my guess.
 
Bslim
2022-10-20 12:14:58 PM  
Beale transferred the $1 million to Ohana to be held in escrow in advance of future film funding.
Ohana was the creation of James Wolfgramm, a self-described cryptocurrency billionaire who posted pictures of sports cars that supposedly belonged to him on social media. But in fact, according to a federal indictment filed last month, Wolfgramm's wealth was a sham. The sports car pictures, for example, were pulled from other websites. Wolfgramm's business also sold what were billed as high-tech cryptocurrency mining rigs - but those too were a hoax, according to prosecutors, with their screens just running on a loop to create the illusion of mine.

AWWWW, the "free" "thinkers" should have done more of their own "research"
 
frieque
2022-10-20 12:15:09 PM  
I believe the proper response to this is... WOMP WOMP.
 
Lumbar Puncture
2022-10-20 12:15:26 PM  
Couldn't have happened to a worse person.

Lucky enough for his followers there's another movie proposed that they can fund that will totally be a thing and not end up like every time he's begged for money for an idea that never really panned out.
 
severedtoe
2022-10-20 12:15:33 PM  

fsbilly: freethinking conservatives

Yeah. That's a thing.


it's another rightwing buzz word like prolife, or death tax.  It means bigots, or more specifically: religiously controlled bigots.
 
Shaggy_C
2022-10-20 12:15:46 PM  
Wolfgramm's wealth was a sham. The sports car pictures, for example, were pulled from other websites. Wolfgramm's business also sold what were billed as high-tech cryptocurrency mining rigs - but those too were a hoax, according to prosecutors, with their screens just running on a loop to create the illusion of mine.

So, basically accomplishes the same as every "mining rig" in existence.

/Does it mine Doge tho?
 
hissatsu [TotalFark]
2022-10-20 12:18:16 PM  
A trailer promoting the proposed movie, Rebel's Run, featured the character Rebel fighting a global police force hunting down freethinking conservatives.

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Fart_Machine
2022-10-20 12:19:09 PM  
Vox Day

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I figured after being trolled twice by Chuck Tingle his band of Rabid Puppies would have drifted into obscurity.
 
BeerArtist
2022-10-20 12:19:42 PM  
Wow, I hadn't heard the name Vox Day in a looooooong time.  Never realized he was such a shiatbird.
 
Icarus_Rising
2022-10-20 12:19:55 PM  
Beale claims, without evidence, that the alleged con was carried out to disrupt his right-wing fanbase.
"I strongly suspect that this whole thing was a targeted operation intended to break our community," Beale said in the video he published last week.

Yeah, because "I'm a idiot, and you guys are even dumber for sending me money." is a hard sell.
 
Harry Freakstorm [BareFark]
2022-10-20 12:20:39 PM  
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Matt would have helped finance his
 
Tarl3k
2022-10-20 12:21:06 PM  
Oh no

Anyway...
 
AtlanticCoast63
2022-10-20 12:21:34 PM  
....(Reads TFA)

Hmm.  I don't usually use the word 'dolt'...but I think it really applies here.
 
Icarus_Rising
2022-10-20 12:21:38 PM  

did a bad thing and got a free orange jumpsuit: Wait. You sent $1 million to China? Conservatives have lowered the bar on 'the stupid'.


No, he gave $1 million in crowd-fund money to a "crypto billionaire". That guy sent the money to China, but only because he first embezzled $4 million from another "client" and needed to produce some tangible items to keep the con going.
 
Crocoduck
2022-10-20 12:22:03 PM  
Cancel culture first comes for the Confederacy, and then to Confederate superheroes...what, are we living in a society where every single portrayal of owning other human beings as property is going to be seen as wrong?
 
Fart_Machine
2022-10-20 12:22:25 PM  
Look out DC and MCU, Rebel Man is here!

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Oysterman
2022-10-20 12:23:30 PM  
WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE PRO-SLAVERY SUPERHERO?!
 
Ragin' Asian [recently expired TotalFark]
2022-10-20 12:25:03 PM  
They were doing a remake of the original Birth of a Nation?

Bertha O'Nation is the worst drag name.
 
Fart_Machine
2022-10-20 12:25:53 PM  

moresugar: FTFA: Beale claims, without evidence, that the alleged con was carried out to disrupt his right-wing fanbase.
"I strongly suspect that this whole thing was a targeted operation intended to break our community," Beale said in the video he published last week.

Can't.  Stop.  Laughing.


He's half-right.  It was targeted at his community because they're gullible rubes.
 
VictoryCabal
2022-10-20 12:26:04 PM  
You would think that conservatives would get tired of being grifted by pretty much everything, and stop falling for these things eventually. It appears that's not the case, and that they'll continue to open their wallets in perpetuity to anyone who nurses their grievances and promises to really stiggit to the libs and trigger the snowflakes.

One might suggest pitying them, but I've stopped feeling bad for people who get exactly what they've been demanding. I hope that if they have any money left after this, they immediately plow it into the very next conservative scam that comes along, and that they die penniless and alone.
 
UltimaCS
2022-10-20 12:26:21 PM  

Shaggy_C: Wolfgramm's wealth was a sham. The sports car pictures, for example, were pulled from other websites. Wolfgramm's business also sold what were billed as high-tech cryptocurrency mining rigs - but those too were a hoax, according to prosecutors, with their screens just running on a loop to create the illusion of mine.

So, basically accomplishes the same as every "mining rig" in existence.

/Does it mine Doge tho?


It's honestly more effort than I thought it would take to grift these morons. Usually all you need is a sob story about how the Deep State is coming for you because you have evidence of election fraud, and they'll empty their pockets.
 
Prank Call of Cthulhu
2022-10-20 12:26:30 PM  

Fart_Machine: Vox Day

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I figured after being trolled twice by Chuck Tingle his band of Rabid Puppies would have drifted into obscurity.


They kind of have. His blog got deplatformed. His YouTube account got deplatformed. I think he's got some kind of website, but it's behind a paywall, so there's little chance of ever accidentally encountering it.
 
You'd turn it off when I was halfway across [BareFark] [OhFark]
2022-10-20 12:27:38 PM  
You're telling me that this guy...
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...is an easily conned schmuck? But how, when he looks so manly and assured?
 
Mikey1969 [OhFark]
2022-10-20 12:28:07 PM  
Beale claims, without evidence, that the alleged con was carried out to disrupt his right-wing fanbase.
"I strongly suspect that this whole thing was a targeted operation intended to break our community," Beale said in the video he published last week.

Of course he does... Problem is, this Ohana place is based out of Provo. Provo is as mo-mo as it gets. I can guarantee you that Ohana Capital's financial hanky panky was NOT due to the dirty libs.
 
foo monkey
2022-10-20 12:30:48 PM  
I tried coming up with a headline for this, but there's just too much going on.  It makes a Stefan skit seem concise.
 
Glorious Golden Ass [OhFark]
2022-10-20 12:31:41 PM  
I'd love to hear an opinion for why "Anti-woke" != "Intentional Bigot".
 
lysdexic [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-10-20 12:31:54 PM  

UltimaCS: His devoted followers call him the "Supreme Dark Lord of the Evil Legion of Evil," and describe themselves as his "minions."

Saturday morning cartoons weren't close enough to reality, including the bumbling villains foiling their own plans.


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Prank Call of Cthulhu
2022-10-20 12:33:06 PM  

You'd turn it off when I was halfway across: You're telling me that this guy...
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...is an easily conned schmuck? But how, when he looks so manly and assured?


"With the Sword of Eternal Virginity, I shall defend my purity at any cost!"
 
Wine Sipping Elitist [TotalFark]
2022-10-20 12:34:37 PM  
There was reason to think Beale and his fans could realize their dream of going from comic books to cinema, if only through sheer fanaticism. His devoted followers call him the "Supreme Dark Lord of the Evil Legion of Evil," and describe themselves as his "minions."


Fantastic headline, Subby. One thing, why would a Supreme Dark Lord of the Evil Legion of Evil want to make a Superhero movie? To have someone to defeat? Why do his followers call themselves the same name as the idiotic one eyed movie cretins?

This is so stupid.

I think they stole the money from themselves, in some bumbling, stooge-like caper where they eventually set fire to it, lightening strikes it, a bulldozer drives over it, followed by a marching band and when the big boss came back to the Evil Legion of Evil HQ, they lied and said China stole it.
 
Halfabee64
2022-10-20 12:35:06 PM  
Commentator Ben Shapiro's company has a streaming website that offers movies with a conservative tinge,
 
HighOnCraic
2022-10-20 12:37:22 PM  
FATS DOMINO - AIN'T THAT A SHAME 1955
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Prank Call of Cthulhu
2022-10-20 12:39:40 PM  

You'd turn it off when I was halfway across: You're telling me that this guy...
[th.bing.com image 480x549]

...is an easily conned schmuck? But how, when he looks so manly and assured?


There's a 90% chance he has a framed version of that photo in his home with the caption "Thot Slayer."

THOT SLAYER
Youtube FdTms5r3M1w
 
blondambition [OhFark]
2022-10-20 12:40:09 PM  

did a bad thing and got a free orange jumpsuit: Wait. You sent $1 million to China? Conservatives have lowered the bar on 'the stupid'.


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Taketombo
2022-10-20 12:41:37 PM  

did a bad thing and got a free orange jumpsuit: Wait. You sent $1 million to China? Conservatives have lowered the bar on 'the stupid'.


No he put $1M in a (implied right wing) bank for the "unbankable" and since the bank has silent someone else's money held in escrow - intended for medical equipment - they then stole his money to buy the equipment.

Moral of the story kids: $1M is not so high it couldn't have been held in 4 FDIC insured accounts (hell, if it had ben in 1 FDIC insured account why would have gotten at least some of it back.
 
Rucker10
2022-10-20 12:43:57 PM  
Conservative super hero. So.... a villain then? Just to be clear.
 
Smelly Pirate Hooker
2022-10-20 12:44:03 PM  
Rightwing assholes are such stupid, easy marks they should just give all their money to the first person who asks for it instead of a little at a time like they're doing now.

It's hilarious that they biatch about taxes while giving money away to assholes like this, Alex Jones, Ex-President Useless farkwad, etc. Every rightwing "cause" is a con, hoovering up money from America's stupidest to give to America's most dishonest.
 
Gr3asy
2022-10-20 12:45:08 PM  

moresugar: FTFA: Beale claims, without evidence, that the alleged con was carried out to disrupt his right-wing fanbase.
"I strongly suspect that this whole thing was a targeted operation intended to break our community," Beale said in the video he published last week.

Can't.  Stop.  Laughing.


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"F*ck your community!"
 
JustSayYo
2022-10-20 12:49:23 PM  
Why am I getting a real "The Producers" vibe off of this story?
 
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