What do you think of hunter s Thompson?

what do you think of hunter s Thompson?

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An alcoholic pedophile

High ranking degenerate.

Pick both

softies

>pedophile
proofs?

interesting person

eccentric journalist

I think he was right about America in general but wrong about Nixon.

rumor is he made a child porn snuff film

Overrated. Adored by the worst kind of trash. His writing style ruined a generation of wannabe imitators.

Started to stain the legacy of one of the most honest and free thinking writers of all time.

Considering most establishment types utterly despised him, I can't see him hanging out at Bohemian Grove.

Can you moosefuckers even read more than a few paragraphs at a time?

What about my comment suggests I cant read?

Someone post the pasta where some guy is in a snuff film at bohemian grove and Hunter is filming

Didn't that degenerate nigger take Adrenochrome and rape a little white boy at the bohemian grove?

literally who

heard he was suicided cause he was gona break something big about nine eleven...
I grew up on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and recently read his book Kingdom of Fear.

He was about Freedom, and that makes him alright in my book!

The man who basically defined Gonzo Journalism ( Journalistic pov where they partake in history, rather then cover it) And therefore much more biased and and less objective but alot more interesting, Vice does Gonzo style journalism all the time.

underage

Typical avant garde degenerate. I thought he was kind of cool when I was 18 and Fear & Loathing was my favorite movie, I guess. But at the end of the day he was nothing more than an enfant terrible who was elevated by stardom by other degenerates who wanted to be like him. He was a member of a generation that could shit on a canvas and be praised for it.

The father of gonzo journalism and knew how to have a really good time.

He tried to get McGovern in for president. If he were here for the Trump Train it would blow his fucking mind. We'd all be reading him chasing around Trump rallies and it would be awesome.

BARGER –I don’t like Hunter S. Thompson as a person. He’s probably the greatest writer in the world. When he was with us on a run, we was going to fight the cops one day and he locked himself in the trunk of his car. That guy ain’t my friend. He’s not going to help me; he’s going to run and leave me there when he’s supposed to help us. He also didn’t take care of what he was supposed to do. All we told him was buy us a keg of beer and he didn’t do it. He’s offered to do it later but we don’t want it now. He didn’t do it when he was supposed to.

Pretty funny desu
youtube.com/watch?v=NHeSC_Ws5Ic
Wasnt there some pedo rumours though?

>rumor is he made a child porn snuff film

Rumour is he started the rumour

Legend

>In 1970, Thompson ran for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado, as part of a group of citizens running for local offices on the "Freak Power" ticket. The platform included promoting the decriminalization of drugs (for personal use only, not trafficking, as he disapproved of profiteering), tearing up the streets and turning them into grassy pedestrian malls, banning any building so tall as to obscure the view of the mountains, and renaming Aspen "Fat City" to deter investors. Thompson, having shaved his head, referred to the crew cut-wearing Republican candidate as "my long-haired opponent."

He was a national treasure.

I thought he was really good in Fear and Loathing. I don't know any of his other films though.

I'd like to say I'm more of a Tom Wolfe man and I really tried to be, but I'd be lying to you and myself.

the more I think about it, the more I think this note was written for him

how crazy would it be if it turned out Hunter was another one of Clinton's victims?

the reason I'm stuck on this is because Hunter S. Thompson had been talking about suicide his entire life, and given that the guy had his ashes shot out of a gigantic cannon over the mountains in Aspen, it just seems to me like his suicide was kind of lazy, not very Hunter like at all

over hyped drug addict degenerate hollywood sellout

on one hand
>promotes degeneracy

on the other
>pro gun rights
>anti commie
>clever af
>promoter of white virility

We can agree the guy lived big, and you can't fault a man for that.

bumping for interest
I've heard this rumour before but never read the pasta

it's his association to Bohemian Grove which makes me think that maybe the Clinton's "dealt" with him

franklin cover up

youtube.com/watch?v=NHeSC_Ws5Ic

a b s o l u t e m a d m a n

I love his writing. Crazy drug fuelled stories intertwined with on-point social analysis written by a man with incredible wit who didn't give a fuck what anybody thought about him.

For a solid read check his obituary for Richard Nixon: theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-was-a-crook/308699/

speaking of happy Hunter S. Thompson memories, ever hear about the time he managed to join Nixon for a ride back to the hotel on the campaign trail?
it was featured in the documentary, Gonzo, and goes a little like him being told that he could join Nixon for a ride back to the compound under the one condition that they just talk about sports
apparently Nixon was a total sports fan but hadn't got anybody to talk football with in his staff, so he had HST join him for a brief little car journey and they talked about football

I think Nixon was making some kind of powerplay tbf but even still, kind of a cool story

>I thought he was really good in Fear and Loathing. I don't know any of his other films though.

jeez. he was not in that film and he didn't make any films. he wrote for rolling stone and that stuff was later released in book form.

and I think he would have hated Trump if he were still alive. He would be a bernout; look at george mcgovern, who HST adored.

Someone who I am alluded to constantly in my articles that makes me want want to rip my hair out. Brash and raw does not a gonzo journalist make; however in a society full of teat suckling diaper adults, covering anything beyond the soft side of the blanket is considered "brash" and "raw".

Has inspired some of the most despicable egocentric excuses for human beings to pick up a quill and voice their toxicity unto publicly read forums.

Essentially, he was a goddamn son of a bitch that sired a generation of inbred mutated freak spawn that has oversaturated the well of public information, that has lead to this decadent modern age of yellow, opinionated and lazy journalism.

as a former Hunter S. Thompson impersonator I would just like to say that I am sorry

>heard he was suicided cause he was gona break something big about nine eleven...
The rumor was it was either that or a huge story about a child sex ring in the White House. Both spooky af.

Alcoholic, well no shit.

Pedophile? Hard time believing that, specially if this is your "proof"

Allot of literary, artists, philosopher whatnot had a problem with drinking. Their brains work on a different level.

>he was not in that film
pro tip: he was

>Their brains work on a different level.
it's called cocaine

In his later years, he all but admitted it.

Definitely not overrated, but I agree that he brought out so many imitators that all you see is a mountain of trash trying to imitate him.

All lies you fucking faggots.

Vice does not do fucking Gonzo, God fucking damn it. They're just biased and not objective. That's not fucking Gonzo.

He, too, actually hated the character he created. He thought it was funny at first, then it got out of hand.

>talking about suicide his entire life
>surprised when he suicides

He killed himself, dude. Get over it.

Fedora tip you giant fucking faggot.

This is all just people who refuse to believe he killed himself. He killed himself.

That was Johnny Depp.

Retard.

it was about his book: The novel first appeared as a two-part series in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, was published as a book in 1972, and was later adapted into a film of the same name in 1998 by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro who portrayed Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo, respectively.

Yeah I remember reading that story from his anthology. It's amazing the access he was given to some of those political events, considering how unhinged he was.

Based

>In his later years, he all but admitted it.

read the obit he wrote for the atlantic, linked above. he still hated nixon's guts at that point.

>considering how unhinged he was.

much of what he wrote was pure fiction. he did some drugs and shot some guns, and actually hung out with the hell's angels to do the book on them, but he was not the character he wrote about.

>This is all just people who refuse to believe he killed himself. He killed himself.
I agree.
He has a cameo. Of course he didn't have a starring role.

Good man. If I ever see him I'll buy him a drink

When the truth is found to be lies

the reason why those people can incorporate drinking into their schedule is because their work can be combined. as soon as they see any form of success, one becomes ones own boss, even if you have to deal with editors and agents, they still are your employees in a sense (less so the editor). And if you could drink beer at work and still perform up to snuff, wouldn't you?

>He has a cameo. Of course he didn't have a starring role.

you are correct, sir. I was not aware of that.

thompson was in the movie...he had a cameo

very nice ausbro
no problem my man

Iv'e read quite a lot of his work and autobiography. Interesting man. Imo he was pretty redpilled for his time. Realized that his country was degenerating but knew that those hippie radicals were just naive useful idiots.

Traveling the world taught him the inferiority of shitskins (see a piece called "anti gringo winds often blow south of the border" for reference)

Loved guns, freedom and America was overall pretty based but he did use way too much drugs and booze as a crutch to deal with life. But then again so does half of Sup Forums

No, it's called too intelegent and consequently get depressed at what the world really is, so they drink to forget.

Our greatest poet and arguably one of history's greatest poet ( extra Sup Forums points for being a fervent nationalist) was also an alcoholic. He had this to say:

"If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as. "

Saw fear and loathing and thought it was pretty good. What's some essential reading for Thompson?

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>how crazy would it be if it turned out Hunter was another one of Clinton's victims?

He did get the vibe that Bill was a sleazy fucker the moment he first sat down with the man.

Don't take the b8 user.

>is afraid of discussing The Truth
what on earth does a guy like you get out of reading Hunter S. Thompson?

He was there

>Thompson wrote that he agreed with Karl Marx, and compared him to Thomas Jefferson.[69] In a letter to William Kennedy, Thompson confided that he was "coming to view the free enterprise system as the single greatest evil in the history of human savagery."[70] In the documentary Breakfast with Hunter, Hunter S. Thompson is seen in several scenes wearing different Che Guevara T-shirts. Additionally, actor and friend Benicio del Toro has stated that Thompson kept a "big" picture of Che in his kitchen.[71] Thompson wrote on behalf of African American rights and the African American Civil Rights Movement.[72] He strongly criticized the dominance in American society of, what he called, "white power structures".[73]

The Great Shark Hunt is a collection of some of his best work.

that's some shitty writing

He was good friends with Pat Buchanan. They were drinking buddies.

To be fair, he also bashed queers and he hated his gay brother.

Who's that? he seems to be the typical Allgarve colonist.

The Gonzo Papers Anthology
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You're guaranteed to find a bunch of articles you enjoy in there

I know it's you Don Arturito.

>tfw no medronho

btw I like your columns

He was a prophet of Kek, not understood in his life.

In time, and with the benefits of hindsight, we will look back upon his words and understand their true meaning.

I sometimes imagine him posting on Sup Forums.

he was in the flashback scene you mouthbreathing retard

this is why I keep bringing it up
with all the mysterious deaths surrounding the Clinton campaign this year I can't help but feel like this was distinctly a possibilty
I haven't done much reading into that time period but I do know Hunter had surprising amounts of access to pretty much all of the big time players in politics thanks to his connections as a journalist
It just feels to me like it would have been so easy to sneak into his compound and pop his favourite gun into his mouth, sit him down, pull the trigger and sneak off back into the snowy night before anybody suspected a thing
I know, feelings are pretty much just paranoia and I shouldn't put it forward as evidence, but the idea of a political assassination has suddenly become a very realistic thing, especially after that weirdo was caught climbing the Ecuadorian Embassy where that Assange is
he was mixed up with incredibly dangerous people and founded his career on "The Truth" no matter how altered his perceptions might've been at the time, if he knew something, if he knew anything that he wasn't supposed to find out, he would have been a loose end and something in need of tying up

it even sounds like his suicide note is actually written TO him, and not the other way around, like pretty much every other suicide note ever

even Kurt Cobain's suicide note was written to his loved ones, and his childhood imaginary friend, it was personal, the very opposite of this cryptic little jingle

I don't like bringing up this possibility but I think it has indeed become a possibilty

Reading his stuff made me want to be a journalist
Then I remembered what journalism was actually like nowadays

Then I actually came to know some journalists and concluded that I made the right decision

rum diary

I know by that time in his life he was pretty much wiped out and that it's a combination of memoir, compilation of older pieces and has iffy bits of new writing in between those parts but I really fucking like Kingdom of Fear

it's like Hunter looking back on his own life, and I really love shit like that

Nah mate, i'm just some Alberto Barbosa posting on the nazi frog image board.

>I don't like bringing up this possibility but I think it has indeed become a possibilty

I use this all the time in regards to monkeys flying out of my butt

checkmate, Atheists

why do I get the strangest feeling that somehow, somewhere out there, $0.55 just got deposited into a bank account?

>Vice does not do fucking Gonzo, God fucking damn it. They're just biased and not objective. That's not fucking Gonzo.
Thats exactly what Gonzo journalism IS

nah, Vice magazine use "GONZO" to hide the fact that they're just shit writers

Its still Gonzo, shit or not.

No. Gonzo drug fueled is satire and general craziness.

Vice is none of that. They are conventional in every conceivable way, the only difference being that they pick subjects that generally speaking are considered taboo.

But now, they are not even edgy, they are simply SJW pandering pieces of shit.

*Gonzo is drug fueled

this basically. When Gavin left Vice, they lost basically any element of gonzo-ness they may have had (it wasn't a whole lot to begin with).

Gonzo Journalism is not drug fueled satire and general craziness

Its basically reporters and journalists being in part of the story and personally sharing their biased opinions, therefore less objective and and less unbiased.

Stop looking at Hunter S. Thompson and then Vice News for comparison, its retarded and the meaning of Gonzo is nothing special to argue about, if you wanna argue it go and edit pretty much every article on the matter of "Gonzo"

I used to really like their travel pieces, like that video where they go to Chernobyl and get drunk while hunting down mutant wolves

that was like 2006 tho

what you're describing is "New Journalism" you goon

Gonzo was Hunters own warped take on it

Then according to you all of journalism is essentially gonzo nowadays.

Go back to fishing cod for us, you clearly can't tell apart subjectivity (or lack of objectivity) from Gonzo in journalism.

What does Sup Forums think about Joan Didion?

I think she was qt

never heard of her but man does she look worried

is most of her writing neurotic worrying about herself and the world around her?

>what you're describing is "New Journalism" you goon
Yes and No.
Story, reporter and his delivery is what differentiates them

>Then according to you all of journalism is essentially gonzo nowadays.
No

Examples;
New Journalism is what you see when reporters partake in firefights in the middle east,or go undercover and expose corruption reporting on the facts they can lay out.

Gonzo is when you and your cameracrew go out in the Amazon to talk to illegal weed farmers talking about how their life is, reporting from the reporters perspective of his journey throughout the journey they venture.

Vice News has both, and my main point if you look further up to claims ;
>Vice does not do fucking Gonzo, God fucking damn it. They're just biased and not objective. That's not fucking Gonzo.

And to that i reply, they infact do.

quite the opposite actually

I got one Tom Wolfe and an Electric Kool Aid Acid Test that says you're talking out of your arse

in face, HST's first success, Hell's Angels, was almost completely New Journalism, in that he reports from right within the Hell's Angels battalion about "how it really is" and eventually even got his ass beat for stopping a dude from beating his wife
that's New Journalism, dude

you're thinking about "investigative" journalism

I might look her up
what is she like?

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Gonzo is when you and your cameracrew go out in the Amazon to talk to illegal weed farmers talking about how their life is, reporting from the reporters perspective of his journey throughout the journey they venture.

That is not gonzo at all. That is still new journalism.

You really don't get it do you? You can make Gonzo about the most mundane of subjects, the whole point of gonzo is to take a piss on reality and the subject at hand and just focus on the journey itself, this is why Hunter took drugs, they made the mundane interesting, they made the whole boring ass journey a fucking drug crazed crusade.

Sitting down and talking to joe shmoe is not Gonzo, it's subjective.

you're terrible at writing, so i think you should know your aunt calling you hunter s. thompson isn't anything special.

she did a lot of New Journalism and wrote about the period between the 60's and 70's
I thought people would know about her in a thread about Hunter S. Thompson

>“the least factual, most accurate account”
>Frank Mankiewicz on Hunter S. Thompson's reporting during the Campaign Trail in '72

I think it's a bit like how more people know about Jim Morrison than Grace Slick
women seem to get slightly lost in history after a couple of decades, you really have to shake the earth to get remembered for the same things that guys get remembered for

I'll check her out