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[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Did the mr beast thing happen during the writers strike? The writers strike he called “kooky”

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago

boomers tend to get internet news on a couple month delay

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Just found out a family member is gonna drag me to see this guy live in January.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You have the opportunity to do one of the funniest things ever

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I would simply not go, but let us know what the average age of a Maher audience is.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

has to be about 60 at this point. the only people ive seen still talk about him are old as fuck libs.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

He's a real boomer's boomer

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i was visiting my gfs dad and his wife once cause they live pretty far away. we'd spend a bunch of the day together(his wife never shuts the fuck up) and then apparently she was mad i just wanted to be in my bedroom and not sit in the living room and watch MSNBC and musicals. hand me the gun plz.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My mom used to guilt me into going over to her house and then would spend the entire time on the couch playing with her iPad with the tv on, but would not tolerate me changing the channel even though it was clear she wasn't actually watching it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

i now feel lucky that my mom likes baseball so that is always on when the season is happening.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

laughing at inappropriate times would be fun

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

IN THE GAME CALL OF DUTY bring a Palestinian flag secretly and then run on stage in front of the cameras hollering "FREE PALESTINE! STOP THE GENOCIDE! 17,000 MURDERED BY ISRAEL, OVER 4,000 CHILDREN MURDERED BY ISRAEL! STOP THE GENOCIDE!"

or something like that in the game CALL OF DUTY.

In case something like anything I have said or have ever said does happen, I do not condone it nor did I expressly order for it to occur. Anything and everything I say, have said, or will ever say is satire and not to be taken seriously.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Just disrupt his show by loudly calling him a brainless idiot until you’re “forced” to leave (free speech)

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (2 children)

As much as I dislike Mr. Beast and his voyeuristic style of "charity", helping cure blind people is universally seen as a good thing, fucking bozo.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I refuse to watch bill maher but if I had to bet money on what the video is, I suspect the text beneath bill maher in the screen shot is sarcastic, and he's making the smuglord left-punching point that we should be thankful for the voyeuristic capitalist philanthrope and his exploitative shenanigans, and that criticism of said shenanigans is fun-hating hysteria.

EDIT: I watched 3 seconds of the video, and yes, that is exactly what bill maher is doing.

"when i give money to the poor they call me a saint. when I ask why they are poor they call me a communist" - i forget who

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hélder Pessoa Câmara[a] OFS (7 February 1909 – 27 August 1999) was a Brazilian Catholic archbishop. A self-identified socialist, he was the Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, serving from 1964 to 1985, during the military dictatorship in Brazil. He was declared a Servant of God in 2015

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

Yeah, people don't seem to grasp that we aren't mad that he's helping people, it's that he's doing a crap job of helping people and getting rich off of it the whole time

Also his snacks are terrible, despite being easy to shoplift

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Bill Maher is like the ur boomer lib. He was an above average, but no where near exceptional, comedian who was in the right place at the right time and was white and male and middle class.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

above average, but no where near exceptional

woah woah woah no need to butter him up like this

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

By above average I mean he showed up on time mostly sober and could perform his set regularly for a few years before breaking through.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

he showed up on time mostly sober

lt-dbyf-dubois not doing his job right

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

above average

:bugs-no:

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

this guy is like if you took Jon Stewart and mixed him Dershowitz

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

Yall that happened in January

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Because he is wildly out of touch and relies on some zoomer writing assistant interns (or something) to pretend he knows what is current.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

His smug expression is as iconic to him as Tucker Carlson's confused expression

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

I HATE BILL MAHER I HATE BILL MAHER

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

I thought this was going to be an October 7th joke.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Whose idea was that? The republicunnnnnzzzzzzzz?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Does Mr beast do his charity through a non-profit or through his youtube buisness?

If it's the latter than my hot take is that this would make him morally superior to 99% of philanthropy that has existed in the contemporary era since write offs for business' expenses aren't nearly as generous as the write offs for NGO based charity.