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[–] BioDriver@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I would not be surprised if MrBeast was outted as a nonce

[–] Reborn_Mormon@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours 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.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

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

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

[–] Ismay@programming.dev 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Ismay@programming.dev 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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 .

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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 1 points 11 minutes ago

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.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago

The only reason he hasn't fully embraced MAGA is because it'll kill his ratings.

[–] FrankFrankson@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mr. Beast has always been and will continue to be a huge piece of shit.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] arararagi@ani.social 1 points 7 hours ago

It's because he doesn't smile with his eyes.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

MrBeast IS a 13 year old brain piloting a grown man's body.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Nah, he’s aware of what he’s doing.

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

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Since they won, we should rename that bit of water the Gulf of Belgium.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

Checkmate: we now only order Freedom Waffles.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 38 points 1 day ago (4 children)

We should instead go back to calling American football "gridiron." It sounds cooler.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I prefer handegg.

A toxic masculinity-fueled sport like that could do with a whimsical but accurate name to balance things out.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (5 children)

waitball, where you spend most of the game waiting for them to do something with the ball

[–] Hybris@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Unfortunately that would not differentiate the two

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Or AdvertiseBalls. It’s just commercials with a bit of gameplay in between.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Stop reminding me Erling Haaland exists please

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 140 points 2 days ago (14 children)

It’s called football because it’s primarily played with the feet (unlike that other ”football” game).

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 144 points 2 days ago

You mean handegg

[–] One_Honest_Dude@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (6 children)

American football has been referred to as just football (in America) longer than football (soccer) was called just football in Britain. It was called association football as a distinct game separate from rugby football and other football games. Football distinguishing it from games played on horseback. Soccer was British slang from association (similarly at the time rugby football has slang term rugger.) Eventually the association part fell out of use but other countries that had developed their own football games tended to still call it soccer. I don't really care either way, I'll call it football when talking to people who call it football and soccer with people who call out soccer, I just think the origin of the terms is pretty interesting.

[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago

longer than football (soccer) was called just football in Britain

This may blow your mind but there are other countries and they have always called it football (or the localized equivalent).

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Football distinguishing it from games played on horseback

The problem with this line of argument is that basketball would also be football, as would baseball, cricket, hockey, and even cycling.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You mean football, football, football, knifeball, and wheelball?

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago (8 children)

You had me until cycling. Which would clearly be "ball-less tech polo" or something like that 🤷🏻

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[–] pimpampoom@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

People with kids, please don’t let them get brainwashed by those cancer influencers

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 77 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is how I learned the US lost at the World Cup.

[–] dudeface@lemmy.world 80 points 2 days ago (3 children)

They didn’t just lose, their king pissed of the Europeans so much they felt it necessary to stomp them in to the ground

[–] droans@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

On one hand, as an American, I would have loved to see us win.

On the other, nothing made me happier than seeing our asses get handed to us after Trump played interference.

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Can they also adopt the metric system like everyone else while they're at it too?

And also dump Phillips screw heads. They're godawful.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Most US students learn both but there is no centralized education so literally nothing is or can be adopted. The only standards you will follow are the discipline specific standards set by a collaborative council of large industry corporations who simultaneously approve or deny a course of accredited status of college credits.

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