• Reborn_Mormon@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I’ll take some of his fans if he needs to lessen what he’s gotta deal with. I will turn them into superweapons capable of destroying all the resounding forces of good united as one to oppose us, specifically, but I’m doing this out of the goodness of my heart, honest.

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    4 days ago

    MrBeast filmed himself rigging sweepstakes and contests, endangering people with reckless negligence, but is still makes ng videos.

    Other people have had their careers ended over mere uncorroborated allegations of misconduct, so why tf is that loser still making shit?

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    5 days ago

    I’m all for calling the US/CA “football” as “gridiron football”. I think it makes it seem more “alpha” anyway. (And, “football” alone matched the game play of “association football” better.)

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      4 days ago

      Nah, he’s aware of what he’s doing.

      He was just “engagementmaxxing at all costs” before it was en vogue.

  • Ismay@programming.dev
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    5 days ago

    One if the very few YouTubers I forbid my kids to watch. He’s pretty much a summary of what’s rotten in our civilization. Such a piece of shit.

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      4 days ago

      There are worse individuals, apparently the wells he dug in Africa were a real philanthropic venture.

      That said, I would be fine with his career ending, I am sure many more people would be doing far better jobs than him.

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        Not the problem. Most of his videos are exploiting human misery to makes a few bucks.

        The dude made people torture each other, jump in burning houses to make views. That’s simply pure evil and not something I intend my child to think it’s normal.

        Any barely good society would simply shame him out of business .

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          Both things can be true, I just wouldn’t declare him any sort of criminal mastermind the likes of Trump, Putin, Musk, Xi, or Hitler. A lot of people in this thread are wishing death or suffering upon the dude but I think that’s a little extreme.

          The summary of everything rotten with our civilization lies elsewhere.

          • Ismay@programming.dev
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            Of course not. He’s a pos of a YouTubers, he’s not a genocidal maniac.

            Yet, he’s a proud representation of the absolute mess we’re in. Some genius 200 years ago had the great idea of saying it was ok to remove any ethic/humanity from the economy. And now, we’re living in a dystopian hell where it’s ok to profit from misery and where empathy is a sin.

            He could organise squid games to sell cereal without blinking. Empty husks profiting.

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                Bernard de Mandeville, 1670 - 1733. First “neo liberal” author and the man that coined the ethicless economy. I was off by 100 years tho 😁

                Not to say everything was perfect and nice before, but he’s one of the father of modern capitalism and the first to theorise businesses didn’t have to be ethic.

                For him, the virtue of the society would be a guard against the sin of the economy. Like that, businesses could focus on making as much money as possible.

                Of course, it was stupid. Greed and cupidity were not magically contained…

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Mr. Beast is an American ambassador for sure! He’s probably yachting in the Gulf of America as we speak!

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      It must be a generational thing but that guy creeps me the fuck out, and if horrific allegations about him came to light, I would not be surprised.

  • nexguy@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Americans pretty much stop playing footy at 12 years of age. If you are a talented athlete you probably end up playing basketball or football. American men will likely never be good since all the talent always goes elsewhere.

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    Wasn’t there a chance of winning the World cup at around 1%? They had such a crap team that they had to import players from other countries who were technically American but didn’t actually live there. Irony of irony is that Trump relies on immigrants to fill out the team.

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      To be fair I think that happens in every country. England used to have the best players in the world (Until SA started throwing money at the sport i guess, I dont follow much these days), but at world cup time suddenly we’re playing against those players because theyre all foreigners.

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      They had the easiest path in the entire tournament to the round of 16, finally met a country halfway decent and got the doors blown off them.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    I am not ome to watch football.
    But the crocodile tears I am hearing from US and some BS as well made me pirate the BE vs US game :D

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    5 days ago

    I’m with the Americans on this one. If I say “soccer” everyone instantly knows which sport is meant. If I say “football”, it’s ambiguous.

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      5 days ago

      Football is only ambiguous in the US. Everyone else thinks of the sport where you kick the BALL with your FEET instead of the sport where you carry an OVAL in your HANDS. 🙄

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        5 days ago

        This is a bit reductionist. There are plenty of countries around the world where “football” doesn’t refer to soccer (i.e. any country with a large national football code, gridiron, or rugby)… Australia, new Zealand, South Africa, Pacific islands, Ireland, etc…

        Football simply means Aussie Rules in Australia. Don’t lump us in with the yanks lol.

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        5 days ago

        Football is only ambiguous in the US

        Or on the internet, where the nationality of the people you are talking to is usually not immediately clear.

        If you say “soccer” or “American football” online, everyone knows what you mean without needing to know your nationality.

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          Cannot believe this is controversial tbh, I hate creeping Americanisms as much as the next guy, but the very fact people are arguing about it here is proof that “football” is ambiguous in online spaces

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          5 days ago

          You can tell when someone is american because usually they are as dense as a black hole.