r/dankmemes I had to ask for a flair☣️ May 30 '25

OC Maymay ♨ Looking for it is so hard

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u/ChillinChilean94 May 30 '25

Pedro Pascal is kinda trash... (I actually love the guy, but that would be a shit opinion)

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u/Ginno_the_Seer May 30 '25

He's been awfully political lately...

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u/GameZedd01 Cheese Lover May 30 '25

All entertainers are awful politically. We pay them to entertain us, not be politicians.

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u/QdWp May 30 '25

How much are you paying him?

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u/GameZedd01 Cheese Lover May 31 '25

If nobody watched movies or shows, they would be jobless.

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u/Undernown May 30 '25

Practically speaking almost anything political these days so it's hard not to. Especially cause much of that entertainment in centered in the USA. And when POTUS starts randomly Tweeting about some celebs it's kinda hard for them not to be political.

I think the main issue people have with it is when entertainers are out of touch and still think they can relate to average folk.

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u/Zinedine_Tzigane May 30 '25

Entertainment and politics are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they often are quite entangled, and always have been.

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u/GameZedd01 Cheese Lover May 31 '25

I don't need a comedian or a musician telling me their political views. They should tell me about their new movies/shows and music. I don't give a fuck what their view on the current socio-economic political state is or whatever the fuck else. That's not what they're paid for. Unless it's specifically a product about politics, at that point, people know what to expect.

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u/Zinedine_Tzigane May 31 '25

Again, art can, and often is, political.

Moreover, they should do whatever the fuck they want, they do not exist only to please GameZedd01. Unless you watch their movies, you don't pay them either, no one cares how you think they should behave. Being famous is a form of power and if they feel like using this power given to them, well so be it, who's gonna stop them ?

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u/kerouacrimbaud May 31 '25

Art is political. Just a fact of life.

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u/Shplogan May 30 '25

Yeah but they are also their own people with opinions about different subjects. If you pay them for entertainment then watch the entertainment and ignore the politics. Not that hard.

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u/angelis0236 Vegemite Victim 🦘🦖 May 30 '25

Yeah but I like his politics so I'm okay with supporting him still.

If you're going to get political you have to be okay with alienating fans and he seems to be.

Plenty of conservative actors that I don't support anymore though. 🫠

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u/big_guyforyou May 30 '25

elon musk is a piece of shit, and he's dumb in a lot of ways, but in some ways he's really fuckin smart

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u/randomname_99223 May 30 '25

Someone who’s dumb doesn’t just become the richest man in the world

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u/big_guyforyou May 30 '25

i got banned from r\worldnews for saying that

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u/randomname_99223 May 30 '25

Musk may not know how to actually build a functioning car, manage a social media platform or build a rocket. However he sure as hell knows how to exploit people to his own advantage and steal ideas by claiming them as his own.

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u/calgeorge May 30 '25

Unless they started with rich parents

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u/randomname_99223 May 30 '25

If Elon had been dumb he would’ve simply stayed rich. He might not be intelligent, but he’s smart. He knows he doesn’t understand rocket science, programming, car manufacturing… so he steals ideas from other people and takes the credit for them (see PayPal and Tesla) while simultaneously sounding like he’s very knowledgable about all these things to the average Joe. This is what allowed him to become the richest man on Earth: playing really dirty.

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u/kerouacrimbaud May 31 '25

He’s lucky and clever.

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u/DrunkInABar May 30 '25

It's not about beeing smart, a true smart person wouldn't try to be the richest. It's useless to yourself and to any other people. It's about beeing allready rich and having good connections. He just happend to have made the right gamble, but the richest guy was allways going to be one of those extremely few allready wealthiest people. There is naturally no other way than luck and the decision of those in power because, of course, it would makes no sense to let anyone else even get at the same level, especially smarter people.

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u/kerouacrimbaud May 31 '25

“It’s no trick to make a lot of money if all you want is to make a lot of money.”