“Christians today have become the most vitriolic tribe,” said Ritchson, who himself identifies as a follower of Jesus. “It is so antithetical to what Jesus was calling us to be and to do.”
Fuck yeah good guy Thad
Funny how you can get away with talking shit about the Right in Hollywood, but not the Left…imagine if he had said “I support Trump and Biden is a senile old man!” Lol…his career would be over.
talking shit
Do you disagree Trump’s a rapist, because that was a court ruling, or do you just think that’s ok as long as no one talks about it?
Not only is this comment stupid, but it isn’t even remotely true. There are tons of famous, powerful individuals in all stretches of the public sphere that actively support Trump and the Republican party.
In Hollywood or the Entertainment industry? I mean, yea, maybe a couple…but let’s be honest here, the vast majority align with the Left because it’s “better” for their career…many of them even lie just to get that liberal support.
I highly recommend you watch this. Hollywood isn’t nearly as leftist or liberal as you think.
Some very powerful and very successful people in Hollywood/the entertainment industry are pretty conservative. And the industry really likes to pay lip service to left or liberal causes without actually doing shit.
Or take a look at all the Disney villains saying things like “imperialism is bad” and “maybe take care of poor people” or “the system is inherently corrupt”
Typically, supporting senile old rapist con men is a worse look than supporting senile old men.
We know it’s not even that…it’s literally if you support anything conservative, you’re black listed.
The reason for that is because conservative values are shit and sane people don’t like being covered in shit.
That’s just because you guys seem totally nuts, not from this world OR super evil.
We in Europe have to decide which one it is, yet. But we can see your shit from way over here. It’s really not rocket science to see the GOP is a filthy bunch of individuals, that are out of real answers as soon as you scratch the surface.
‘Hurr durr, MAGA!’ - yeah, that’s all you understand, huh?
It would be pathetic, but actually you guys are dangerous for everyone on this planet.
You’re spending too much time on Reddit/Lemmy. That’s like me saying all Democrats are nuts because they want to take away your guns, allow all illegal immigrants to enter the country, and allow homeless people to live on the streets and take drugs. Republicans are not “totally nuts.” They just question things more, especially when it comes to financing wars. I love how Lemmy/Reddit is always okay with the US government intervening in world conflicts/politics, when THEY agree with it…
Maybe they should take a shot at not being the actual worst for once.
Assholes Upset Nobody Likes Them.
Except Biden isn’t senile, and Trump is a rapist. So ya know, just try saying things that are true. It’s not that hard.
It’s amazing republicans even show their true face in public with all the persecution they endure.
They should hide themselves better or people might identify them as conservatives.
Like me? LOL…I’m literally the only Republican/Conservative around here and I get crucified all the time for my opinions. You know good old Lemmy/Reddit…it’s one way, or the highway!
Why do you use so many ellipses?
His brain is buffering.
If you’re the only one, could you please retire your other accounts? I don’t overly have a problem with you voicing your opinion, no matter how poorly thought out I may believe it to be, but I don’t need to see it from all these different accounts.
I only have this account.
Did you ever stop and think maybe your opinions are shit?
And that’s the problem, they only get persecuted by the left and democrats, they don’t really care about those as long as their base are donating to them they don’t care.
Only Trump can say those things about Trump
He said no lies here.
hE WEnT WoKe
GOP: “Oh shit Reacher can recognize reality too! Quick, call him woke while we look for someone else.”
Thad Castle keeps winning
TIL: Kevin “Thad” Castle is the tritagonist of Blue Mountain State. He is the ever inspiring team captain of the BMS football team. He is also the main protagonist of Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland. He was portrayed by Alan Ritchson.
Blue Mountain State is a show that was awesome when it came out, felt like it might be problematic a few years later, and now is awesome again
It’s possibly the peak of bro comedy. It’s fairly tongue-in-cheek and mocks it’s own hyper-macho characters enough that I think all the toxic masculinity works. As long as you watch it with that in mind it ages pretty decently.
Somewhere, Kid Rock and Ted Nugent are using Jack Reacher blu rays for target practice…
Which would be even funnier that it would be Tom Cruise’s version of Reacher since Alan’s version streams on Prime as a TV series.
I read Kid Rock as The Rock and was like ahhhh fuck, not him too.
I mean, the Rock Rock did just recently come out with his whole “yeah but both sides” cowardice. Apparently too many right-wingers buy his stupid energy drink and tequila for him to feel comfortable defending democracy in even the laziest, most minimal ways.
I’m absolutely convinced I read something about him regarding a controversy with China and Fast & Furious but I can’t find anything about it now. Am I just imagining it?
I know that a lot of celebrities like LeBron James have kowtowed to China while they openly commit crimes against humanity, so I wouldn’t be at all surprised. That film series is a big worldwide franchise of the type that stands to make a lot of money off Chinese release. But in that case, the studio may have tied his hands contractually on the matter. This situation is 100% him.
Had no idea. That’s a fucking shame.
In 2020 he publicly endorsed Biden.
This year, he did an interview with Fox News and said that he wouldn’t endorse anyone this year because his 2020 endorsement caused “division” that “tore him up in the guts”.
Because speaking out about a terrorist, traitorous, fascist, narcissistic, violent, fraudulent, rapist, criminal mob-boss who is running for POTUS is less important than being accepted by dangerous cultists.
What a fucking coward
Yeah, sorry. Hate to be the bearer of bad news. I’m mad too, because I’ve enjoyed a lot of his work.
Just a daily reminder that Ted Nugent is an admitted and proud pedophile.
waiting for kid rock to publicly join the right wing diddle train.
Knowing them they probably purchased the Tom Cruise versions because, let’s be honest, attention to detail and critical thinking are not their strong suits.
Alan Ritchson pls don’t stop giving me reasons to love you, lol.
This dude is definitely my favorite Hollywood rising star.
I’m impressed just by this. It isn’t often that you see a self professed Christian celebrity actually calling out the hypocrisy of evangelical Christians and pointing out they’ve become antithetical to Jesus’ teachings.
He’s using his platform in a way that’s been sorely missing in society. For evangelicalism to properly die, it needs to be defeated at both the polls and from within.
Every “real” Christian I know can’t stand Trump and all of this other garbage, it always seems to he the fake Christians who tell people that they should go to church while they themselves don’t, and similar folks who seem to love Trump and the prosperity gospel.
Don’t get me wrong, I know there are whole congregations of idiots, but I’m just saying the ones I know personally who are very into their religion yet retain their open mindedness seem to be the ones who are against this crap, meanwhile “religious types” like my own father who never go to church and constantly try to push religion on me and the rest of the family, always seem to be the Trumpers. (Also not surprising my dad is a retired LEO)
Yeah that’s my general experience too. “Real” Christians understand that they’re not supposed to judge, because they’re sinners like everyone else. They might not like abortion, but they don’t want to legislate their beliefs nor judge someone who does get one.
Jesus chose to hang out with prostitutes and poor people. He protected them from self righteous crowds, and fed the hungry and healed the sick. He even happily paid his taxes lmao. He didn’t go establish a theocracy or force people to do things. He told people to love each other, no matter who they were. The Good Samaritan is a parable against xenophobia and racism.
Biblical Jesus is actually a pretty cool dude. The WWJD crowd would do well to actually act like him.
I didn’t know his name before today, but now I think he’s awesome! I might even give his show a try.
He has three main shows that he’s part of, the first is Blue Mountain State, it’s a raunchy college football comedy, not that great, but Ritchson steals the show, the next is a comic book series, Titans, based on DC’s Teen Titans, he plays Hawk and as someone who read Hawk & Dove he plays Hawk near perfectly, so the third is Reacher, this is the first series where he’s the star, very good detective style series about a former Military Police Officer who headed a special investigations squad, but now lives a “Billy Jack/Rambo-esque” lifestyle of traveling and putting down villains.
All three are fantastic in their own way, Ritchson also has a few movies he’s been in as well.
Interesting. Thanks!
Blue mountain state is such a hilarious parody of US college sports culture.
Ritchson is always type-casted as a jock cool-guy because of his looks, but I think he has quite a decent acting breadth.
Reacher is fantastic television and I highly recommend it. Easily binge-able
Good to know. Appreciate it!
Alan Ritchson > The Rock
Pretty much everyone > The Rock
Even Hitler?
Why would you mention someone so awful in relation to hitler?
Wait, why does the Rock suck?
He suck to me because the big ego isn’t just an act. Dude literally thinks he is gods gift to the world. I don’t like people like that.
I tried to link to EvilBit’s comment but it didn’t work, here it is pasted from above: “I mean, the Rock Rock did just recently come out with his whole “yeah but both sides” cowardice. Apparently too many right-wingers buy his stupid energy drink and tequila for him to feel comfortable defending democracy in even the laziest, most minimal ways. “
That’s what capitalism does to us.
That’s what being a coward does more, I think.
If it wasnt based on money, there’d very likely be other social pressures.
Pond rock (mossy/hairy) vs River rock (completely bald and smooth)
My favorite Alan Ritchson bit is when he played young Scully on Brooklyn 99. Also he seems like a gentle giant.
Wrong, I think you’ll find “Thad” is your favorite character played by Alan R. (/s)
Officer Barbie is my favorite role of his.
Thad Castle is a hilarious character and Ritchson committed to it to the max. Wouldn’t have been the same without him.
After watching the new road house, gf and I noticed that shitbird Connor walks just like Thad in the cookie race
I remember when he was on Smallville. See him then to Reecher gotten buffed. Great actor glad to hear this from him.
Imagine if they brought him into the dcu as alternate universe Aquaman? That would be so good
I could never remember his name but he always stood out in every role i saw him. Not just because he’s soch a handsome big boy.
Seems is the keyword here.
I hope he is.
Read his response to the Fraternal Order of Police being their usual self-aggrandizing crybaby selves. He’s cool as hell so far.
Hilarious as micropenis guy from New Girl too
Hold on, he’s also a spy.
He’s on point. Christians have attached themselves and their religion to one of the most depraved celebrities alived
By their own criteria, trump is the antichrist.
But that’s why they latch on to him. They WANT to kick off the rapture so they can all get to ride the escalator to heaven while looking down on the world and say “told ya so.”
The number of contradictions between conservative Christian nationalists and the parables/stories/teachings/fiction of Jesus Christ is humongous.
doesn’t that part say they’re gonna follow him tho? still just doing as the bible says to.
Nahhhh he’s white couldn’t be.
/s of course. Lol
Thankfully you censored rapist.
Huh. TIL. I always read that word as ‘ropist’. My brother is one. Will talk for hours about sailing knots. Not joking, hours. Has different ropes at. the. ready. for demonstration. Not cool. Though way better word choice than the correct one. I understand that much.;
Family trauma so I do it automatically.
Not sure how censoring a word helps but more power to ya
A compassionate person will do things that actively avoid trauma triggers. (I.e. if you know a dog will gringe away from a raised hand due to being abused you tend not to raise your hand to continue to see the reaction.)
I’m asking this genuinely, because I don’t understand. Does the removal of the single letter of a word actually lessen the “triggering” the word can do? In my mind you’re reading it the same regardless, so I don’t get how it makes it actually better without more fully obfuscating what the word is.
But you still know it’s that word and read it as that word, all you did was replace the A with an asterisk. It’s odd that it is supposed to help prevent a trigger when the word is still there and very obvious what it is still. It’s not completely blacking the word out so you can’t see it anymore.
Good answer.
You also reminded me of something. A guy I knew had the happiest, friendliest, most well behaved dog you’ve ever seen (ironically named Grizzly). One day, he was carrying a magazine rolled up in his hand. Grizzly freaked out, which he had never done before.
Grizzly was a rescue dog. Apparently, his previous owner had beaten him. My friend was so, so pissed at Grizzly’s previous owner.
On the flip side, I’ve heard what seems like a reasonable theory that some people with these triggers will filter things by keyword. Granted, I’m not sure if Lemmy or any of its clients have that kind of functionality, but let’s say something does. By replacing a letter with a character or similar workaround (to which I echo the question of if that really has a significant effect when the meaning is still obvious) you’re bypassing that filter someone may have set.
This is entirely true. Censoring words you type like this is actively working against the main way people who are trying to avoid such triggers can take care of themselves.
You can set up a filter to block stuff containing a sensitive word, but your filter will fail against the countless ways there are to censor the word with asterisks or whatever. The censorship is well-meaning but misguided.
Oh look, a “we found some people on the internet tweeting their opinions” story.
The membership of Trump’s personality cult flip out at everything, all the time. It’s not really news worthy of report when it happens. Not even when their gary stu power fantasy icon’s actor makes them feel bad.
Oh no. Someone doesn’t like when opinions say what other people are saying to be heard. Because MAGAs don’t want to accept they are in fact electing a con man rapist. But keep dismissing it. It totally doesn’t come off as Trump support.
This is par for the Huffington Post, if you happened to notice the source. But yeah I’m with you that this probably shouldn’t qualify as news in the first place.
Some people hate those who see the world as it really is. The people who killed Jesus were just like that. The so called christians who are angry at this guy are just like the people who put Jesus up on that cross. The pathetic part is that they can’t see what they really are.
