The stupidest controversy ever
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Apparently 127MM watched the half time show, a little under 5MM watched TPUSA. Most Americans didn’t need a safe space. Nature is healing.
@jon-nyc said in The stupidest controversy ever:
Apparently 127MM watched the half time show, a little under 5MM watched TPUSA. Most Americans didn’t need a safe space. Nature is healing.
That doesn’t really say anything. For an alternative broadcast, that’s actually really good numbers. Compare it with any other broadcast or steaming at the same time.
Remember that every bar in the US had multiple TVs on the halftime show. They aren’t changing channels. And a lot of people had the halftime show on at home not because of a conscious effort to watch, but because they just weren’t paying attention.
The Brad
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I read this morning that the TPUSA thing was on their YouTube channel, so a household couldn't just flip to it, you'd have to find it and cast it to your TV.
For a group that presents itself as loving, reasoned and peaceful they sure are belligerent and intolerant. It's things like this that make me reconsider being a registered Republican. Disappointing.
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A list of non-American bands that have played the Superbowl:
U2 (Ireland): Performed in 2002.
The Rolling Stones (UK): Performed in 2006.
Coldplay (UK): Performed in 2016.
The Who (UK): Performed in 2010.
Shania Twain (Canada): Performed in 2003.
Phil Collins (UK): Performed in 2000.
The Weeknd (Canada): Performed in 2021.
Paul McCartney (UK): Performed in 2005.
Sting (UK): Performed in 2003.
Shakira (Colombia): Co-headlined in 2020.
Rihanna (Barbados): Performed in 2023.
J Balvin (Colombia): Appeared in 2020.Was there a lot of complaining when these folk played, or are the UK and Canada considered to be more "American" than Puerto Rico?
I was only joking
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The thing I thought of today, which makes it exponentially stupider, is Bunny is an American citizen from birth.
@Mik said in The stupidest controversy ever:
The thing I thought of today, which makes it exponentially stupider, is Bunny is an American citizen from birth.
Yeah but them Ricans need to learn how to speak and sing in the King's English. Try as I might, I could not understand a single SPanish word come out of his voice, because as you might know, A puerto rican speaking spanish might as well be a totally foreign language to a Mexican from Sonora. It's a vastly different dialect. I was happy the show moved through effortlessly with no crashes or wrong notes. And that is all one can pray for with their super bowl half time show.
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I thought the set was great. All those sugar cane plants were worn by a person, that's how they got such a huge set out there so fast. Opera-like subtitles would have been useful, but maybe they didn't want us Gringos to know what he was saying.
"You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell
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I enjoyed the music. I didn't expect it to be completely in Spanish, but I don't really understand the lyrics from rappers or other English-speaking artists, too.
If anything, this is a reminder of the massive and growing Latino-American population that will shape elections for a very long time.
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I thought the set was great. All those sugar cane plants were worn by a person, that's how they got such a huge set out there so fast. Opera-like subtitles would have been useful, but maybe they didn't want us Gringos to know what he was saying.
@Mik said in The stupidest controversy ever:
I thought the set was great. All those sugar cane plants were worn by a person, that's how they got such a huge set out there so fast. Opera-like subtitles would have been useful, but maybe they didn't want us Gringos to know what he was saying.
Yeah that was a cool set, for sure.
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@jon-nyc said in The stupidest controversy ever:
Apparently 127MM watched the half time show, a little under 5MM watched TPUSA. Most Americans didn’t need a safe space. Nature is healing.
That doesn’t really say anything. For an alternative broadcast, that’s actually really good numbers. Compare it with any other broadcast or steaming at the same time.
Remember that every bar in the US had multiple TVs on the halftime show. They aren’t changing channels. And a lot of people had the halftime show on at home not because of a conscious effort to watch, but because they just weren’t paying attention.
@LuFins-Dad said in The stupidest controversy ever:
@jon-nyc said in The stupidest controversy ever:
Apparently 127MM watched the half time show, a little under 5MM watched TPUSA. Most Americans didn’t need a safe space. Nature is healing.
That doesn’t really say anything. For an alternative broadcast, that’s actually really good numbers. Compare it with any other broadcast or steaming at the same time.
I wasn’t really evaluating it from the standpoint of
mere preference, many more than 5MM would have preferred the alternative music. I was looking more at the number of Americans who were in such desperate need of a safe space from the big bad bunny that they went to the trouble of seeking it out. It was a refreshingly low number.The whole reason we call them illegal aliens is because they’re subject to our laws.
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From my friends on FB it was only the far-right contingent that wanted to watch the TPUSA production. Most people, myself included, could not care less who or what the halftime show was. Actually, I found it more pro-American than Beyonce's show a couple years back.
It's all bread and circuses while the debt mounts and the SS trust fund dwindles. Keep arguing about things that don't matter, folks. Soon you will have real serious problems to worry about.
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@LuFins-Dad said in The stupidest controversy ever:
@jon-nyc said in The stupidest controversy ever:
Apparently 127MM watched the half time show, a little under 5MM watched TPUSA. Most Americans didn’t need a safe space. Nature is healing.
That doesn’t really say anything. For an alternative broadcast, that’s actually really good numbers. Compare it with any other broadcast or steaming at the same time.
I wasn’t really evaluating it from the standpoint of
mere preference, many more than 5MM would have preferred the alternative music. I was looking more at the number of Americans who were in such desperate need of a safe space from the big bad bunny that they went to the trouble of seeking it out. It was a refreshingly low number.@jon-nyc said in The stupidest controversy ever:
@LuFins-Dad said in The stupidest controversy ever:
@jon-nyc said in The stupidest controversy ever:
Apparently 127MM watched the half time show, a little under 5MM watched TPUSA. Most Americans didn’t need a safe space. Nature is healing.
That doesn’t really say anything. For an alternative broadcast, that’s actually really good numbers. Compare it with any other broadcast or steaming at the same time.
I wasn’t really evaluating it from the standpoint of
mere preference, many more than 5MM would have preferred the alternative music. I was looking more at the number of Americans who were in such desperate need of a safe space from the big bad bunny that they went to the trouble of seeking it out. It was a refreshingly low number.Certainly lower than the number of safe space seekers who find it emotionally taxing to watch their president give a speech.
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Easily the best part of all this is American Christian conservatives who typically clap on the freaking down beat enthusiastically promoting some faux rapper from Detroit who's been outspokenly in favour of sex with underage girls.
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A list of non-American bands that have played the Superbowl:
U2 (Ireland): Performed in 2002.
The Rolling Stones (UK): Performed in 2006.
Coldplay (UK): Performed in 2016.
The Who (UK): Performed in 2010.
Shania Twain (Canada): Performed in 2003.
Phil Collins (UK): Performed in 2000.
The Weeknd (Canada): Performed in 2021.
Paul McCartney (UK): Performed in 2005.
Sting (UK): Performed in 2003.
Shakira (Colombia): Co-headlined in 2020.
Rihanna (Barbados): Performed in 2023.
J Balvin (Colombia): Appeared in 2020.Was there a lot of complaining when these folk played, or are the UK and Canada considered to be more "American" than Puerto Rico?
Link to videoWas there a lot of complaining when these folk played, or are the UK and Canada considered to be more "American" than Puerto Rico?
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I’m sure we can all stipulate that everybody in the other tribe is a pedophile. But baw wit da baw and God Knows Why are still great.
@Horace said in The stupidest controversy ever:
I’m sure we can all stipulate that everybody in the other tribe is a pedophile. But baw wit da baw and God Knows Why are still great.
I'm afraid I disapprove enormously of this sexualization of traditional Christian rap music. Who can forget Joseph of Arimathea's "Nothing but a J thang in ma' Garden, biatch!", and the uplifting rhythm's of Lil' Saul-Paul's "Straight Outta Tarsus"?
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@Horace said in The stupidest controversy ever:
I’m sure we can all stipulate that everybody in the other tribe is a pedophile. But baw wit da baw and God Knows Why are still great.
I'm afraid I disapprove enormously of this sexualization of traditional Christian rap music. Who can forget Joseph of Arimathea's "Nothing but a J thang in ma' Garden, biatch!", and the uplifting rhythm's of Lil' Saul-Paul's "Straight Outta Tarsus"?
Who can forget Joseph of Arimathea's "Nothing but a J thang in ma' Garden, biatch!", and the uplifting rhythm's of Lil' Saul-Paul's "Straight Outta Tarsus"?
That last one is, after all these years, still one hell of a Saturday night toe tapper.
I think Mark Farner might have even done a cover of it back in the day.
