Ricky Gervais kicks off the Golden Globes telling Hollywood to f*** off

[DonFerrari]

tsogud said:

vivster said:

I do love Ricky, but that little rant is superficial, hypocritical and just plain stupid. It ignores how this world and humans work.

His heart is at the right place and people love it because he's mean to rich people, but it's very much misguided and attacking the wrong people.

Fun little side fact: 90% of what people call political topics are not political at all, but simply humanitarian issues. It's just that certain assholes make it political because they don't know what compassion is.

He specifically called out Apple, Amazon and Disney. The actors/actresses that work for them would be considered hypocrites if they got on their soap box and preached about humanitarian issues because they enable those companies to continue their unethical practices while also making a fortune off them.

The celebrities he called out are very much in the wrong because they have the money, prestige and freedom to do something substantial and/or just not work for unethical companies but instead they fake like they care and benefit off of said companies.

Yep and I are thorn between 2 hypothesis, they are dumb and don't know these companies that preach on the SJW agenda act exactly the opposite as corporation internally (the content is SJW, but the practices are worse than the worse offenders they demean publicly... like talk about tax break on the riches being bad, demanding corporations pay more tax but doing their best to avoid paying any) or if they also do pandering to agenda to earn fame and money while not believing and acting opposite in their private lives. I would say there are a good chunk on both camps, perhaps even 50/50.