No surprise. Fallon is barely even human. Just a hollow machine for propagating the system’s needs.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-banal-horror-of-jimmy-fallon
Fallon and every single person involved in lining up McGregor as a guest. Absolutely disgusting.
You can see it in his eyes, he’s dead inside.
I agree, and his smile is plastic. He looks pained every time he does it as if he’s counting in his head how long to hold the grin for the camera.
Makes me miss Alex Trebek on Jeopardy. I like Ken Jennings and he’s a good host but he sort of has that always smily, happy style like is required today in media. That might just be him being Mormon though. Alex had a great deadpan humor and definitely wasn’t always laughing, I don’t think you’re allowed on TV if you act like a real person anymore.
suey eyes
Thank you, I enjoyed that article.
As someone who has never seen the show outside of snippets posted as memes or whatever, that is a haunting description of something you’d use in a movie or video game to create uncanny horror.
Then the meta-horror hits that this is our world.
That was a solid read
every corporate spokesperson, every one of their public facing people. are not people.
just a replaceable part of a machine that is slowly killing us all.
after work, when at home, they are people. but at work they sell their personhood to be an avatar for those corporations.
Let’s not make excuses for these people.
Not making excuses. just stating that they dehumanise themselves willingly.
I would love to build a video game based on this concept. Not Fallon or a late night show, but the anti-gothic horror described in that peice, the desperate performative enthusiastic rejection of reality.
In January 2021, after prosecutors declined to prosecute McGregor for the 2018 alleged sexual assault, a civil claim for damages was launched in the High Court.
On 22 November 2024, the jury returned their verdict and found that McGregor had raped Hand. Accordingly, McGregor was ordered to pay Hand nearly €250,000 in damages.
What the fuck Ireland? You’re all okay with this dumbass justice system?
Once again the rich use the legal system to purchase some “rape time” for a paltry €250,00.00.
I would like to understand why, when ask these questions, which demand a sober, reflective response after some internal dialogue, we stop there, and seem to gloss over what I consider important follow ups:
- Why in the fuck do we have a thing called “Ultimate Fighting Champion” and still think men should be treated with any degree of seriousness?
- Have we considered that there is actually enough fighting already and being an ultimate champion of it is not the flex some think it is?
- Having considered the first 2, why would anyone care about/admire/wish to be seen in the vicinity of the winner of this thing, let alone any rando participant?
- Have we considered there might be a causal connection between his rapey-ness and his ultimate fighter champion-ness? Sex and violence do go to the same concerts a lot…
I can’t think of a single thing that would make my wish I had my time back more than spending 30 seconds watching this fucking drivel. It’s pig swill distilled into electromagnetic waves meant for things with a lot less folds in the cerebellum.
I’m not one to defend the UFC, I think Dana White is a piece of shit. But as someone who used to be into it, this just seems like a complete misunderstanding of MMA.
Also, women do it too fyi. So not sure why you think this only reflects on men.
Boxing has existed for literally thousands of years. Wrestling and Pankration even longer I believe. The latter was an event in the first Olympics, and it’s very similar to modern MMA.
This particular event was a travesty, but not because of mixed martial arts. You’re angry at the wrong people.
Appealing to history isn’t as strong as you might think, when we are talking about whether or not society should promote a social activity or not.
Yeah like the Greeks did have some super cool ideas (democracy good, though flawed a bit, and that’s some sweet beards y’all). But also a lot of fucking terrible ones. I’m not going to put wrestling on the same pillar as “we all get to decide who’s in charge”.
One is a more valuable contribution that is literally the opposite of “might makes right” and the other is…more or less a metaphor for it. I have to say that equivocation got a good belly laugh, along with the assertion that I didn’t “understand MMA” (as though bread and circus was a deep subject).
men should be treated with any degree of seriousness?
Regardless of gender, if you’re sexist you should never feel like you’re taken seriously.
On that note, LOL.
It’s a little funny you’re commenting this on a post where McGregor is clearly being taken seriously.
Ah yes, one man bad means all men bad. Good argument from OP and that other mouth breather.
You’re the only one resorting to name calling though.
No one said McGregor represents all men. You are the only one to conflate this man with all men.
That other commenter was very clearly attacking men as a gender when whining about the UFC. I don’t even like the UFC but it was blatantly sexist.
Regardless of gender, if you’re sexist you should never feel like you’re taken seriously.
And I was replying to this line directly.
McGregor is being taken seriously despite being sexist. And a rapist.
Why are you conflating that with me taking McGregor seriously? I think he should get hit by a bus and lose everything that makes him special.
He’s always been this way.
Said it before and I’ll say it again, I’m 100% convinced that Horatio Sanz took the fall for shit that he and Jimmy Fallon were both doing. But Jimmy was NBC’s golden boy, so they covered it up.
fallon is fucking scum… how this untalented clown has a career is beyond me. his whole schtick was him laughing like a fucking moron while breaking character and ruining skits
His whole job is effectively creating the pre-recorded sitcom laugh track for our society. He has never been funny, like you said, when working with actually funny people his only move was to “mess up” and ruin their good work.
His only talent is being charismatic enough (somehow) to make others think they should be laughing when they see him do it. It’s a laugh track, it’s literally just directly telling people “you’re having fun!”, and a bunch of us sadly responding with “gosh that guy sure is fun”. This man’s entire career.
Hes starting the media circuit to wash his image for his big return to the ufc.
Also IO Interactive gave this rapist a bag of money to have him in their Hitman game. Don’t buy that new 007 game or any of IOI’s work.
Sure but that cunt still keeps the money, money that basically came out of the players pockets.
He was very obvs an asshole before, granted.
But what do you want them to do? Sue him for damages after they kicked him? Maybe they should reconsider their contracts in the future and add clauses for “if it later becomes known you are the scum of the earth, this contracts is voided and you owe us the money + damages”, but would this stand up? Without looking further into it, they did all they could do. But maybe I’m too lenient.
Dude was already a known abuser before IOI gave him a bag of money not just an asshole, basically punching people that didn’t kiss his feet. He even punched an old man who refused a drink McGregor offered. I would have liked that they never gave him any money. Hence why I stopped buying their games, if they had a lapse of judgement before they might have it again in the future.
Aleight, I looked it up and the first case was brought way before the release of the DLC. Also, he appeared with the turd in chief, which I forgot about. Not buying hitman games in the future either, although they made it to my wishlist some weeks ago. Opinion changed, thanks!
noone would accept such a contract, its way to risky
I still don’t get the appeal of having celebrities in video games in the first place tbh. Screams to me “we have a lot of money to throw at this game but no idea how to use it to make a fun game so instead we’ll buy some name recognition”.
I mean, its Hitman, what if he was a “mission objective.”
He still got payed.
It’s still normalizing rape.
He was also in that rubbish Roadhouse remake, made by Amazon.
The billionaire class is locked in on rape.
It’s going to be all over the news soon if they can’t distract with war and economic ruin.
I might take flak for this, but I didn’t hate that movie lol.
Yeah, it’s a “bad movie,” for sure, but I was entertained.
MacGregor is easily the worst part about it.
Good for her. Television in the US is about the become (even more of) an absolute wasteland due to the continuing consolidation of media control, I would hope that some of these hosts/anchors/actors/artists would push back some seeing as how they are the ones people want to see. No one is watching TV for the ads despite what they would really like
It’s “programming” for reasons.
so my middle school band teacher and my sister’s piano teacher were propagandists? every recital would have a “program” that they would hand out for FREE!!!
Close your eyes and listen to one of your favorite middle school band tunes, and one of your sister’s band tunes. Notice how you breathe, the sensations arising and subsiding in your body. Do the same with your least favorites of the same.
I’ll just leave this here. https://youtu.be/g0MZSmfEeTY
And I’ll say, shaming Fallon is useless. Maybe shaming Questlove could work, but I’m beginning to have my doubts.
Jimmy Fallon would happily keep doing his latenight comedy show where he socializes with members of the ruling class even if we had gas chambers and mass executions.
What has become of the moral integrity of our…late night hosts?
if you elect a rapist president, you’re gonna have have rapist celebrities…
Conor McGregor is Irish.
Though I suppose I’m unaware if the president of Ireland is a rapist or not.
I’m unaware if the president of Ireland is a rapist or not.
They’re talking about him being on an American television show. He’s a celebrity in the eyes of Americans.
I was being tongue-in-cheek. He’s not only popular in the US.
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Conor McGregor raped a woman so brutally that the EMT who saw her commented on the severity of her bruising. She also had to have the tampon she was using when he raped her surgically removed, as it had been shoved so far inside her.
Why the ABSOLUTE FUCK is this piece of human garbage being given a platform on Jimmy Fallon’s show?
Shame on you, Jimmy.
Which rape is this? He’s raped many women.
This is the woman who sued him in civil court and won, Nikita Hand. Not before McGregor’s goons broke in and stabbed her boyfriend several times though.
What they broke in stabbed her boyfriend and raped her. Never go any jail time. WTF.
Yep. They were trying to intimidate her into not testifying.
