Marc Maron laid into Netflix, saying the company will “co-opt anybody” who can stoke the flames of “fascism.”

“Fascism is good for business,” Maron said on a new episode of Pod Save America. “Netflix will just, you know, co-opt anybody that can take that algorithm. I used to do a joke about it—Netflix can become ‘Reichflix’ very quickly.“

Maron said that the "pivotal moment“ came when the streaming service got ”pushback from the trans community” over anti-trans jokes in Dave Chappelle’s specials. “They realized after several days that that community was not going to affect their bottom line at all,” he said of LGBTQ+ Americans. “And they cut ‘em loose. That is how fascism works in business.”

Before Chappelle enraged much of the trans community and some of Netflix’s own employees with h

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