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What’s with the media’s obsession with the opinions of known trolls like Matt Walsh?! Fuck, stop highlighting his drivel and that of people like him. You’re giving them free advertising!
Maga melting down over a black performer isn’t news. It’s olds!
Right-wing commentators Eric Daugherty and Benny Johnson took their criticism to the extreme, describing the performance as “Black nationalist" and calling Lamar a “mumbling pagan Satanic cultist”.
This would only make me want to see it if I hadn’t already lol
Somewhere along the way, complaining about something you don't like, while that thing is occurring, became a meltdown. Personally, if you aren't screaming, jumping up and down, flailing your arms like a maniac, or in the least doing that thing where you force blood into your head and your face gets all blood flushed and if you keep doing it you pass out and crumble like a building made of peanut brittle, unless you did atleast one of those then you aren't melting down... But based off constant headlines, Complaining about something is a meltdown, then I have constant melt downs, and I really don't know what it is when I've had what I called a meltdown, but apparently is now much worse than what is defined as a meltdown. I have a meltdown when I hit every red light(I complain annoyingly about it), I have a meltdown when I buy diet instead of sugar soda, but I honestly don't know what it's called now when my face gets flushed, I start flailingy arms in the air, hollering up and down for whichever deity will bring down holy fire upon the video game that I just died for the 100th time for the same boss... Is that now a psychotic episode? Cuz I always thought psychotic episodes you were psychotic, and melt down you lost your composure, but complaining is a meltdown, so is losing your composure now going psychotic which used to be having a meltdown?
"Melts down", like when a nuclear reactor goes critical, isn't the apt descriptor for this response.
It was more like, "Maga generally disliked or was otherwise uninterested in the super bowl halftime performance".
Also, it's wild just how unpopular NFL is on Lemmy - there's just not a whole of discussions at all, even about the halftime show.
As an Eagles fan, I fucking loved that shit. But I can understand why Chiefs fans would have not enjoyed it, and everyone else would have been bored.
Kendrick fucking killed it, though. That was a great halftime show.
I always preferred CFL rules tbh
me too. it is a much more entertaining game.
Well considering a lot of the discussion on here is around tech and specifically Linux that doesn't surprise me. Very online tech people usually aren't that interested in sports.
i flipped the game on for a bit. one play, two commercials. i was done.
I searched "Superbowl 2025" and just refreshed that result every so often. Zero commercials, and the score and quarter time was up to date.
i went back later and basically did that once, saw the score partway through the 3rd. i had no doubt that the falcons collapse eight years ago would not be topped.
If your entire personality, beliefs, reactions, actions, debates, arguments and statements are all based on anger .... at one point nothing in this world will make you happy and you'll just be angry at everyone and everything.
Stay mad America .... we can't help you any more.
That Star Trek quote about and becoming comfortable like a leather glove still rings true
When one has been angry for a very long time, one gets used to it. And it becomes comfortable, like... like old leather. And finally... becomes so familiar that one can't ever remember feeling any other way.
Quote from Captain Jean Luc Picard from Star Trek .... wow, I've watched so much Star Trek in my life that stuff like this is probably ingrained in memory without me knowing it at this point. I watched all of TNG years ago and honestly, I don't remember much and hope to rewatch all of it again some day because of writing like this. Thanks for sharing this.
Did anyone else notice how weirdly X it was? Sure, "Gen X" but also dancing in the X, and the hand to heart then out to wave gestures. Really felt like trying to downplay what Elon did versus highlighting it for what it was. The whole performance was weird in that way, and I wish he would have make a stronger point with the stage he was given or something.
The X, O, square, triangle set was probably a reference to squid games, a show with a strong anti-oligarchy motif. The show had repeated American imagery like Samuel L Jackson and the flag. If you interpret thr lyrics at those points, the show was definitively anti-establishment. If you interpreted it any other way, I suggest you watch it again.
The opening was propaganda and the ads were propaganda. What do they have to complain about?
Yeah, I couldn't hear what they were singing though.
Bitches can stay mad.
I’m just mad he didn’t say the word “pedophile”
can't say that on tv!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I assumed it was because of the lawsuit that is already pending. I don’t think “pedophile” is a censored word
Depends on who owns the network
That's our word.