Ugh, I wish this guy wasn't so problematic. I really did enjoy his off hand type of humor.
I am not sure who this guy is, or why we aren't more open to separating the work from the artist; seems to be a kind of ad hominem. If you don't want to give them money for the work you can still buy second hand or just pirate.
why we aren’t more open to separating the work from the artist
Because we shouldn't?
We shouldn't support pieces of shit. Not with our eyes. Not with our ears. Not with our dollars or our attention. Its not like there aren't hundreds of thousands of other hilarious people who aren't pieces of shit. Its not like we don't have literally PLENTY of other options.
His name is/was JonTron IIRC.
I stop being able to separate the art from the artist when they start using their platform to push their views. Which is what he did. If you are famous and you never mention your ideology then more power to you but when you go on a tirade during an interview about something else you lose that separation.
See also: Michael Richards
Ages ago, politics was a matter of “Well, we both want to improve the country, but it seems we disagree on the approach.”
Now, politics is “I would like to improve the country” vs “I would like OVER HALF THE COUNTRY TO GET FUCKED IN THE ASS because they’re all LEECHES AND FILTHY RATS. Just look at these studies that are all blatantly hallucinated lies I made up.”
I long for the old conversation.
Isn't this johntron? He came up with some white suprematist arguments a while ago. But seeing how we have mechahitler AI I actually think it was a decent time to be online.
Other than the Destiny debate which he has sense apologized for saying he was stupid and out of his depth, was there something else he did?
(other than beat Suzy and leave game grumps or whatever the people over at conspiracy grumps used to say /j lmao)
He never actually apologized. He released a video saying he expressed himself poorly or whatever, then took it down anyway. He never said all the racist points he made were wrong.
There is a lot of overt racism.
I feel like if every billionaire in the world donated even 1% of their wealth, the world would be a much better place
update: my bored insomniac arse decided to do a little maths
assuming the bare minimum that each billionate has £1,000,000,000 each, 1% of 1 billion is 10 million. there's 3,028 billionares worldwide so if each of them donated 1% (10,000,000 x 3,028) that'd be a WHOPPING £30,280,000,000 and that's a very conservative estimate
99% of my problems can be resolved by money. So there's that
My boss once said, in front of all staff that it's proven that more money doesn't make people happy, and I suggested that we swap out paychecks. She laughed, nobody else did.
I love this quote from Mr. Robot (paraphrase):
I don't care about money, as long as it's enough to live.
I'd rather cry in a Rolls Royce than at the bus stop
Really says more about the disdain for western public transportation.
I'll take coach seats on the Shinkansen over the driver's seat of a Ferrari.
It may not buy happiness, but it sure as hell removes a lot of obstacles to happiness!
Reminder! If your utopia relies on everyone giving up their power peacefully, it is bound to fail. :)
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a rise
It's no surprise
that they're giving none away
It really doesn't. But it does buy a bunch of prerequesites.
No, but having enough money buys financial security to do what you want.
The more money they have, the less happy they are. They’re addicted to making money, to watching the line go up and to the right. They’re addicted to trying to destroy the competition and buy them out, to consolidate more and more and more.
They are right when they say that wealth isn’t the key to happiness. They’re riding the bull and they don’t know how to get off.
They’re addicted to trying to destroy the competition and buy them out
And that's how they get evil.
