Citizens: please give us healthcare or infrastructure or education or help the homeless…
Gov’t: m i s t o r b e e s t
Do you want health care? All you need to do is make it through this obstacle course.
That is kind of the gist of basic training though… And the military has free healthcare…
Until Republicans decide that not all healthcare is equal.
Yeah, I fully expect them to enshittify the military so they can hire whatever Black Water is calling themselves these days instead.
The Pentagon also approved funding for content involving YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson, a.k.a. MrBeast, who was slated to lead a humanitarian effort in Puerto Rico.
What a headline, what an article.
ah yes, mr beast, the world renowned humanitarian
He has genuinely given a ton of money to charity, to be fair.
He puts himself first with his charitable exploitation porn. I’m sure he deserves to be a billionaire.
Still better than Kim Kardashian or Elon Musk.
There is no “better” here.
They all suck.
That’s a silly argument. You can objectively compare virtually any two things.
You’d really not care if someone said they’d clone Kim Kardashian or Elon Musk but you had to choose one?
Well my diarrhea yesterday was chunky and today it’s straight liquid. Both are shit. Kinda like Mr.Beast and any of the other fame whores.
Not really. He treats the people who work for him like complete garbage, denying them basic human rights during some production situations. Not just workers rights, basic human rights like water and access to their own medications.
You have no reason to defend him.
Only less than the profit he made. He’s also a fraudster and abuser and deserves to be in jail.
The sweepstakes fraud is just… Rampant. I’m surprised he’s gotten away with it for so long.
That’s why they target children.
Children can’t tell when they’re being scammed
Has he really or has he just directed sponsors money to organizations he likes?
What’s the difference?
This is a legitimate question.
He takes credit for the sponsor’s donation. So I would argue it is worse.
One is his money, the other isn’t.
Flavortown does not need foreign aid.
And yet of those listed this is a close to not a bad idea they got.
Flavortown being the least bad is still funny though.
MrBeast doesn’t need it.
I suspect the other two don’t either
Can anyone explain Mr. beast to me, and what his appeal is?
He’s a bucky little fuck with dead eyes and a forced smile who practices philanthropy for clout, but up until recently you couldn’t criticize him because of the philanthropy – even when pointing out that said philanthropy is weird and immoral when it’s only being done for fame and self-promotion. Due to this paradox, he had everyone in a sort of stalemate. Fortunately, a lot has since come out about him being a sociopathic piece of human shit, so now we can kick him while he’s down.
Things like surviving in a nuclear bunker, surviving stranded on an island appeals to the imagination of kids. The only difference is that he actually* does it.
*As real as a realityshow, but it’s a big difference with the usual clickbait.
Beats me. I keep seeing his stupid ass face in search results that are completely unrelated to my search, and the sheer amount of views. I can’t even comprehend as to why people watch this ass. At least now it is somewhat known that he’s a scumbag. Unsurprisingly & unfortunately it did not seem to have any effect on his popularity.
That’s an interesting thing I’ve observed–we seem to be past “cancel culture” or it only gets credit when a known scoundrel gets de-platformed. We’re in the age of too-big-to-fail celebrities. If they have a large enough base, there’s unlikely anything they can do to completely lose them or fall that far into obscurity.
Cancel culture only really is a thing when the person on the receiving end is capable of feeling the tiniest shred of embarrassment/remorse for what they’ve done (not being caught). People fade into obscurity when they get “cancelled” because the massive outcry from the public convinces them they can’t ignore that what they’re doing is wrong anymore. In the case of most fascist hucksters (as well as Mr Beast), they are incapable of seeing that what they’ve done is wrong, so they can never be convinced of the need to stop
