It is a good thing this happened because now you have an easy tool to identify the bigots in your family, circle of friends and co-workers, so you can talk to them and in the end if necessary cut them out of your life.
I did use something similar back in 2017 i think when Germany was swamped with immigrants and people i liked and spent my free time with started to post insanely hateful speech online. Cut some of them out of my life and told why to their face when asked.
After watching it, I figured Republicans would love all the tall grass they had on the field. After all, their mantra nowadays is “if there’s grass on the field, play ball!
I didn't understand a word and it didn't matter - I thought it was one of the most beautiful, stunning, and elaborate productions I've seen in a long time. The SB halftime show seems to just get better and better every year, and this one absolutely stood up to that standard. The cutaway scenes, Bad Bunny's charismatic stage presence, the audience/camera engagement, the size and scope of the set, the sheer talent displayed in dance and costume: locked the fuck in.
I mean, performing a show in Spanish in the city of SANTA CLARA - in one of the richest areas in the world - in Levi stadium (founded by a German-Jew immigrant) made famous for workwear for miners - many of whom where Hispanic or even Chinese. Yea, fuck all the way off racists. For what it’s worth I say that as a man with no genetics that come from South of Berlin (seriously).
I'm a firefighter, was working during the Superbowl and all my coworkers were losing their minds about how "disrespectful" it was that the performance wasn't in english. "He could be singing anything, like Death to America!" Earlier in the day they had been discussing the possibility that the Earth COULD be flat. I work with racist redneck republican morons.
Just for the record, America (both north and south) was named after Amerigo Vespucci, who recognized it as a new continent. A new world. Christopher Columbus thought he found a new way to Asia, but was still working for Spain. It was primarily between Spain and Portugal to start colonization in the 1500’s. It wasn’t until the 1600’s that the British and Northern Europeans started showing up in the Americas and starting Jamestown and Plymouth. It was Spanish from day one.
Uh, it was Native American from day one, friend. It wasn't taken over by foreign influences until much after the natives established themselves, had cities, trade, culture .....
Sure, but not the argument I was making for Hispanic culture against white supremacy. Yes , if you’re going to make that point call them indigenous people not Native Americans, or their real names; The Wampanoag in Plymouth, the Paspahegh in Jamestown , the Taino in Puerto Rico, the Seminole in Florida, etc. I guess day one would be when Native Asians migrated through the Bering Strait land bridge and started populating the continent thousands of years ago.
How can those idiots not understand that the NFL wants to be international and is thus making the entertainment more globally appealing?
Plus come on. You didn’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand the visuals in the halftime show and the music was fire even if you don’t speak a Spanish.
Yeah this. The NFL has wanted that FIFA audience for decades. While it's depressing that this the real reason they went forward with Bad Bunny's performance, it's also good that the market is speaking, and multiculturalism is still more profitable than racism.
What worked for me last night: I asked my family who the president of Puerto Rico was? They didn’t know, and when they looked it up, the conversation of “go back to your country” stopped pretty quick. A rare W with that side of the family.
Imagine willfully cutting yourself off from all the good things everyone has to offer, and instead being angry about 95% of the planet... they just have such miserable lives
Imagine being mad about people from around the world bringing the best bits of their culture to share with everyone else. Oh no, I have too many options! My tiny racist brain is confused!
It makes their profound inadequacy hard to ignore when they see so many other people who are better at everything than they are. They want to shrink their world down and eliminate all those better people so that they can be the best by default.
How about imagine being such an epic piece of shit to a group of people and essentially all language, because hundreds of years ago colonizing conquerors from a different country invaded their lands and murdered their people. That's all this is about. Spanish conquering of South America resulting in those areas being over run by the Spanish language instead of the English language you think everyone should speak cause you are a closed minded racist piece of shit not even from England.
These racists just hate Spanish. That's all it really is. Immigrants who speak a language other than Spanish are obviously ok because apparently Spanish is only spoken in poor "Mexican" countries. It's ridiculous that so much of their hatred is based on the fact that someone else colonized another part of the world connected to the USA. If they were English speaking immigrants these fuckheads wouldn't care or notice.
The Authoritarian mind "ranks" all things around it according to quality. If a minority groups' status is elevated, by definition, their status is diminished. In their minds, there is a pecking order for *every damn thing* and any advancement of anything only comes as a cost to the other things.
It's also why there's such an insistence on a status-based hierarchy notion in toxic masculinity and incel groups. All based on how "manly" you are by some unwritten and mercurial standard, and it's just as hypocritical. Lots of crossover in that Venn Diagram.
"Real men do whatever they want and don't care what others think! What, you do X, Y, or Z? That makes you a beta cuck! Your Man Card is revoked! I'm so alpha, and once I do manly-man bootcamp, I'll be sigma!" sort of nonsense.
FPAlpha
It is a good thing this happened because now you have an easy tool to identify the bigots in your family, circle of friends and co-workers, so you can talk to them and in the end if necessary cut them out of your life.
I did use something similar back in 2017 i think when Germany was swamped with immigrants and people i liked and spent my free time with started to post insanely hateful speech online. Cut some of them out of my life and told why to their face when asked.
ThatGuyFromJustSouthOfTheMiddleOfNowhere
SuperfluousMeh
I'm all about calling these assholes out, every time. That's why every maga member of my former family hates me. Fuck 'em.
stoots24
After watching it, I figured Republicans would love all the tall grass they had on the field. After all, their mantra nowadays is “if there’s grass on the field, play ball!
IAmNotNSAsodonotbeparanoid
Filipino MAGATs who worship Charli Kirk are a thing and it is funny to watch them repeat the same talking points as the nazis.
Grendels2dCousinOnceRemoved
I'd like to know who forced all those bigots to watch the Bad Bunny Halftime Show? And how can I acquire that kind of power?
boozits
AR Moxon is a national hero and everyone who isn't dead broke should support his Patreon.
ThadisJones
When people complain that they didn't understand the show because it was in Spanish, tell them that sounds like a Skill Issue.
fartharder
Dunno how you can't enjoy music tho
Billis75
They lose it when they are TOLD to lose it. If Tangerine FuckFace never said anything, no one would have said anything.
Fyrebaugh
The only song I know by Bad Bunny is Gasoline
powwerbottom
I didn't understand a word and it didn't matter - I thought it was one of the most beautiful, stunning, and elaborate productions I've seen in a long time. The SB halftime show seems to just get better and better every year, and this one absolutely stood up to that standard. The cutaway scenes, Bad Bunny's charismatic stage presence, the audience/camera engagement, the size and scope of the set, the sheer talent displayed in dance and costume: locked the fuck in.
Imjurbro
I mean, performing a show in Spanish in the city of SANTA CLARA - in one of the richest areas in the world - in Levi stadium (founded by a German-Jew immigrant) made famous for workwear for miners - many of whom where Hispanic or even Chinese. Yea, fuck all the way off racists. For what it’s worth I say that as a man with no genetics that come from South of Berlin (seriously).
SpikesGuns
I'm a firefighter, was working during the Superbowl and all my coworkers were losing their minds about how "disrespectful" it was that the performance wasn't in english.
"He could be singing anything, like Death to America!"
Earlier in the day they had been discussing the possibility that the Earth COULD be flat. I work with racist redneck republican morons.
SavageDrums
A.R. Moxon is the finest political essayist of our time. I adore his work, and his way with words.
Pphunk77
Just for the record, America (both north and south) was named after Amerigo Vespucci, who recognized it as a new continent. A new world. Christopher Columbus thought he found a new way to Asia, but was still working for Spain. It was primarily between Spain and Portugal to start colonization in the 1500’s. It wasn’t until the 1600’s that the British and Northern Europeans started showing up in the Americas and starting Jamestown and Plymouth. It was Spanish from day one.
fubizdaddie
Uh, it was Native American from day one, friend. It wasn't taken over by foreign influences until much after the natives established themselves, had cities, trade, culture .....
Pphunk77
Sure, but not the argument I was making for Hispanic culture against white supremacy. Yes , if you’re going to make that point call them indigenous people not Native Americans, or their real names; The Wampanoag in Plymouth, the Paspahegh in Jamestown , the Taino in Puerto Rico, the Seminole in Florida, etc. I guess day one would be when Native Asians migrated through the Bering Strait land bridge and started populating the continent thousands of years ago.
ThatGuyFromJustSouthOfTheMiddleOfNowhere
He even did better that the other Patriots...
ThankYouForYourTime
Never forget that there are organizations who pay people to amplify hate and division online so we don’t become powerful enough to stop them
clonedeeznuts
Such as The White power House
doctorId
It's not a coincidence that Toilet Paper USA sponsored the pedophile half time show.
Pikkupanda
How can those idiots not understand that the NFL wants to be international and is thus making the entertainment more globally appealing?
Plus come on. You didn’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand the visuals in the halftime show and the music was fire even if you don’t speak a Spanish.
rumandbass
Yeah this. The NFL has wanted that FIFA audience for decades. While it's depressing that this the real reason they went forward with Bad Bunny's performance, it's also good that the market is speaking, and multiculturalism is still more profitable than racism.
Pikkupanda
Exactly.
Benito absolutely knew why he was there but made sure he got the messages across.
Torsten88
What worked for me last night: I asked my family who the president of Puerto Rico was? They didn’t know, and when they looked it up, the conversation of “go back to your country” stopped pretty quick. A rare W with that side of the family.
Lampmonster
Hell yeah, so tired of the racist, cowardly, blind to reality worldview.
Wrenfield
Now post it on X where the people who need to see it might actually be exposed to it instead of posting to the bsky echo chamber.
newsguycraigevans
You think the bots on x care?
armandraynal
elon's algorythm will bury it while boosting some profoundly racist tweet.
taez555
Imagine being so racist you'd actually willingly listen to Kid Rock.
doctorId
wisher1977
The dude literally got out of breath lip-syncing to his own music. Kid rock? More like Old man soft.
MechaNinja
Imagine hating music so much you'd listen to Kid Rock...
NeverEnoughFoxes
The guy that looks like Dr. Phil grew his hair out and moved to Alabama?
earthtokelly127001
Saw this yesterday….Kid Rock is just another name for Epstein Island.
georgejimmydoodle
TO be fair, not all of them are into him for the white supremacy. Some of them like him for the raping minor children.
Khanamana324
That venn diagram is a circle.
Johnsky
I only knew him for one song decades ago, and that got old quick.
manwithsevenlivers
He did have one song on an album with Slash (Slash - 2010) that was quite decent, can't listen to it now.
michiyl
Imagine willfully cutting yourself off from all the good things everyone has to offer, and instead being angry about 95% of the planet... they just have such miserable lives
thedtp
So you’ve met my father? Asshole picked his cult buddies over his own kids and moved across the country to be with them. Fuck ‘em.
OneMoreLime
If it wasn't for their homophobia he probably would.
CrisprCAS
Imagine being mad about people from around the world bringing the best bits of their culture to share with everyone else. Oh no, I have too many options! My tiny racist brain is confused!
xmaneds
"around the world" being "American territory"
doctorId
It makes their profound inadequacy hard to ignore when they see so many other people who are better at everything than they are. They want to shrink their world down and eliminate all those better people so that they can be the best by default.
graehall
imagine thinking that basic ass racist white supremacy is not just good culture, but the best. These bigoted ass clowns have no taste
CrisprCAS
White culture is imperialism and putting raisins in things that should not have raisins. No thanks.
Jewdakris
How about imagine being such an epic piece of shit to a group of people and essentially all language, because hundreds of years ago colonizing conquerors from a different country invaded their lands and murdered their people. That's all this is about. Spanish conquering of South America resulting in those areas being over run by the Spanish language instead of the English language you think everyone should speak cause you are a closed minded racist piece of shit not even from England.
CrisprCAS
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1d3V1cGdpbDBmOG1nZTEwNmRtN3A4emJyemgwNDNhb3hzaDlyY3JhcSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/pPhyAv5t9V8djyRFJH/200w.webp
Jewdakris
These racists just hate Spanish. That's all it really is. Immigrants who speak a language other than Spanish are obviously ok because apparently Spanish is only spoken in poor "Mexican" countries. It's ridiculous that so much of their hatred is based on the fact that someone else colonized another part of the world connected to the USA. If they were English speaking immigrants these fuckheads wouldn't care or notice.
FussyZeus
The Authoritarian mind "ranks" all things around it according to quality. If a minority groups' status is elevated, by definition, their status is diminished. In their minds, there is a pecking order for *every damn thing* and any advancement of anything only comes as a cost to the other things.
Omicron416
Everything is zero-sum and/or transactional to them.
Khanamana324
Yep. Reactionaries think in terms of zero sum.
MerriMod
It's also why there's such an insistence on a status-based hierarchy notion in toxic masculinity and incel groups. All based on how "manly" you are by some unwritten and mercurial standard, and it's just as hypocritical. Lots of crossover in that Venn Diagram.
"Real men do whatever they want and don't care what others think! What, you do X, Y, or Z? That makes you a beta cuck! Your Man Card is revoked! I'm so alpha, and once I do manly-man bootcamp, I'll be sigma!" sort of nonsense.