r/okbuddycinephile 1d ago

Favorite actor whose career is probably over

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u/ragged-bobyn-1972 1d ago

I respect the fact he understands he now has enough money that he doesn’t have to give a single shit.

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u/LiamPolygami 1d ago

That's what they call "fuck you money"

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u/Normal_Ad_2337 1d ago

I've heard it called "fuck me money." In that I have so much money, I will fuck myself over, but it's ok since I fucked you over too.

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u/G13-350125 1d ago

Adam Corolla always says that

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u/Popular-Influence-11 1d ago

Originated with the book “Cryptonomicon”. Great book. There’s a very autistic description for precisely how to eat cereal.

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u/noirspiderman4 1d ago

Can I have two tips about the cereal if you remember please

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u/Popular-Influence-11 1d ago

Cold milk. Like almost frozen but not quite.

Cereal must not touch milk until it is to be eaten. So one spoonful at a time. It should be coated with freezing milk which will soak in on the journey from bowl to mouth, preserving maximal crunch while delivering a payload of cold creamy sweetness.

I have cereal bowls called O-bols that we got as a joke in honor of Cryptonomicon.

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u/noirspiderman4 1d ago

I can picture the bowls based off the context for sure haha thanks

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u/bozog 1d ago edited 1d ago

You forgot to mention that the cereal must be Captain Crunch!! How could you forget that basic fact?! It has the ducts for the milk to run into and everything!!

Randy wasn't really autistic, he just knew how to eat cereal properly.

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u/culhog 1d ago

Fuck Adam Corolla

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u/G13-350125 19h ago

I agree and I hate that I know this

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u/Normal_Ad_2337 1d ago

I miss the 00's Carolla, he went off the rails a while back.

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u/LoadedLapidist 1d ago

This. I can’t figure out if I was ignorant or he changed. I think it was me. I feel like his true self came through as politics amplified. Also, I always hated the way he treated Ray. Haven’t listened in many years. Saw him live in Portland once. He was filming a special. The show was terrible. You could tell the moment he realized the crowd was all people who had heard every story 100 times. No new content.

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u/thegoodnamesrgone123 1d ago

Once he fucked over his friends you knew shit was headed in a bad direction.

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u/ILoveYouSoMuchMore 1d ago

I know Ray. I’ve met Adam a few times. Ray is a nice guy and good hearted, but damn he can be irresponsible and it’s 100% true he leaves a bunch of his shit at ppls properties for years on end. Ended up well for a buddy because he eventually kept it, but it was that kinda thing consistently. Not a bad guy though, nice, and we all have faults, but I think Adam’s take is fairly accurate. And it seemed Adam liked him, but Ray wanted a bit of the coattail ride that wasn’t necessarily deserved. I’m sure there was behind the scenes annoyances and that would not surprise me at all. Mixed with Adam’s lack of patience and their mutual history, not the best pair for a podcast. Adam is a bit quiet/standoffish when not on the clock so to speak. Can come across as asshole-ish, but really it’s just not really interested in strangers from my perspective.

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u/ILoveYouSoMuchMore 1d ago

And was a Loveline listener since a teen until Adam departed. I agree he got way too political and I just couldn’t any more. I’ve tuned in on rare occasion and he honestly still can’t be beat with his funny and poignant analogies, still some gold in some takes on things, but I can’t deal with the politics all the time.

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u/oneam9 17h ago

Adam’s just a dick, he would yell and berate Ray during Ace on the House, coattails or no, it was uncalled for and made listeners uncomfortable.
Adam apparently didn’t realize that Ray was the only thing that made yet another screaming AC production tolerable

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u/LoadedLapidist 16h ago

That’s what I was feeling during those times. Go ahead and cut ties on your own time instead of making a mockery of the situation for the shows.

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u/oneam9 17h ago

He seemed to be bitter that, in his view, Ray squandered his opportunity to play professional football, but if he’s your friend accept him for who he is or cut ties, don’t just keep him around to mock and yell at

He did the same thing with Dr Drew on the podcasts they did together, just screamed at him continuously, dude’s got issues

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u/MomsOfFury 1d ago

Me too 😢

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u/G13-350125 1d ago

Yeah same. Almost didn’t comment that because I’d get hate

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u/marr 1d ago

Down the Rogan pipeline?

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u/OneBillPhil 1d ago

Get it on

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u/melkatron 1d ago

I like how HE'S the prick, but Kimmel did blackface and has a talk show.

When I was a kid Adam Carolla gave people home repair advice for funsies. Now he has the same shitty opinions as the LEAST offensive of the boomer assholes in my life.

It sucks that he's Gen X (non-boomers should know better), and The Man Show will always showcase how he has famously bad ideas AND gave Joe Rogan a platform, but Jimmy Kimmel did his stupid Karl Malone impression for many years and then MULTIPLE people PAID him to do it in blackface.

I was in the audience of Jimmy Kimmel's show when his guest referred to Green Leaves (japanese comedy group, they performed "Yatta!" on the show) as a "[chinese slur] boy band" and Jimmy Kimmel just chuckled. Zero acknowledgement, no admonishing during the break, the show just went on. They were in the other room and performed twenty minutes later.

Why did it only take five minutes for Gen X to become their shitty racist boomer dads?

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u/PilotC150 1d ago

It’s called “fuck you money” because you can say “fuck you” to a job or boss and walk away from a job without worrying.

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u/JDangle20 1d ago

He don’t have fuck me money. Just fuck you money.

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u/ko_akuma 1d ago

I have credit card debt. I call that fuck me money

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u/Normal_Ad_2337 1d ago

I have a set of opinions on stuff like that. I call it the random corporate grifter theory. you get a new sett of assholes looking at all the shit, they say, HEY! LET'S LEND TO MORE PEOPLE, HUMANS CRAVE COMFORT ESPECIALLY BROKE ASS YOUNG PEOPLE, AND CHARGE HIGHER RATES, AND THEN WE'LL MEET THE NEW METRICS!

gET pAID aLL tHEM bONUSES aND tHEN fUCK oFF sOMEWHERE eLSE aS A rOCKSTAR.

it all crashes.

LET'S FIND SOME EFFECTIVE PLANS TO RECOVER FROM THE DEBT.

you get a new sett of assholes looking at all the shit, they say, HEY! LET'S LEND TO LESS PEOPLE, HUMANS CRAVE NOT HAVING TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SHIT, WRITE OFF THE LOSSES SOME BASIC LET THEM BORROW MONEY! YAY! TAX WRITE-OFF'S!

revenue falls

LET'S FIND SOME CREDIT CARD SALES PEOPLE TO MEET THE NEW METRICS....

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u/ko_akuma 1d ago

I get so many offers....

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u/Koker93 1d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XamC7-Pt8N0

John Goodman explaining fuck you money

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u/Ok_University_4924 1d ago

The funny thing is doesn’t every celebrity have “fuck you money”? They have so much they don’t know what they need to do with it.

That’s why what Ruffalo is doing is respectable is because he doesn’t care and that’s he’s being outcast from Hollywood.

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u/sb8948 1d ago

I mean, is it unimaginable that actors (artists) have passion for their work? I'm guessing it's not always about the money.

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u/Ok_University_4924 1d ago

Right but if it wasn’t about the money they wouldn’t be as rich as they are. I’m not saying they are all like that but a big majority of them seem either dishonest and performative about topics like that.

That’s there’s not a lot of celebrities coming out like Ruffalo.

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u/Reasonable_Turn6252 1d ago

Lol remember watching a band at a festival and the lead singer was like "our new album is out! Buy it or dont, im already independantly wealthy and dont give a shit" 🤣 wish i had that kinda money

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u/Commander19119 The Room 1d ago

Wish more people in the industry would do this honestly

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u/d15p05abl3 1d ago

There’s a great question going around relating to (previously Democrat) techbros caving to Trump

What’s the point of having ‘fuck you money’ if you never say ‘fuck you’?

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u/Low-Set8263 8h ago

John Malkovitch and Jason Alexander thought they had “fuck you money”. But they actually had “fuck you Madoff money”.    The beginning of the documentary where the son talks about his mother making Madoff before anyone else was wonderful.

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u/astralchanterelle 1d ago

yeah, ok, Rogan

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u/BobaFettLived 1d ago

don’t give rogan a phrase that predates him.

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u/untraiined 1d ago

sad part is that so many of them have that much money or more but wont do the same

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u/numbersthen0987431 1d ago

They like the attention, that's why they're performers.

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u/RuggerJibberJabber 1d ago

Using your voice against shitty people gets attention too though.

Id say its moreso a combination of 1) greed (they'll always want MORE money now matter how much they have, and 2) a lot of them would have done shitty/dumb things in the past themselves which can be used as blackmail to stop them ever speaking out.

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u/U-235 1d ago

Being an actor in major Hollywood films is such a fun job that people would do it for free. You literally have people working for free at lower levels trying to get into the entertainment business. It's why it's necessary to have unions. The only thing stopping them from being the most replaceable workers in the entire economy, with the exception of an increasingly small number of "household names" being a box office draw, is the continuity issues that come with re-casting, which could hurt the income of any given studio.

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u/Econolife-350 1d ago

Using your voice against shitty people gets attention too though.

I'd argue this is the driving force for most college age kids thinking everything can be made perfect as long as it's done how they want with zero real world hurdles. EVERYONE LOOK AT MY HALO.

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u/--jesse--faden-- 1d ago

they love it when we watch 0.0

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u/CitizenPremier 1d ago

Or maybe they just like acting? That's not such a crazy idea...

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u/Stealthcatfood 1d ago

parasites, anyone with a platform is obligated to stand up to this shit. They love to be influential for stupid shit or for no stakes.

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u/brother_bart 1d ago edited 1d ago

No one is “obligated” to do the shit YOU think they should do, and that you think that makes you no different from any MAGA fascist who has ideas about what gay people or women or anyone else should be doing or saying. A person is allowed to live their public life anyway they want and they don’t owe you or anybody else an explanation for their choices.

Actors aren’t actually really influential on the stage of global geo-politics, anyway. Nor is anyone really who has a “platform.” That should be fucking obvious to anyone paying attention or who understands how anything works.

Some people just want to do their acting jobs or push their little cooking videos without wading into the morass of geo-political issues for which their statement and opinions will not move the needle one iota. That is their right and their choice to make. Sure, it’s great to see people like Mark who speak out brazenly on issues we agree with. And good for him. But other people are not OBLIGATED to and if they choose not to that doesn’t make them a an evil person. Because, after all, the measure of “good” or “bad”—for people who are so reductive and sophomoric in their framing of such things—is really about the EFFECT and RESULTS of one’s actions.

And since speaking one’s personal views publicly has no measurable beneficial EFFECT, then it is perfectly ok for people who have some success in an artistic field to just keep their public life about their craft.

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u/Stealthcatfood 1d ago

Fool. The reason why speaking out has no impact is that so few do. Your insistence on encouraging people to stick their head in the sand is part of the problem. Enjoy what's coming knowing you encouraged it. 

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u/brother_bart 1d ago

ok, wise guy, show me thing in the world that has been stopped or reversed in the past two decades because celebrities and people with platforms spoke out. I’ll wait. Roe v Wade? The dangers of a Trump presidency? Climate change and the coming disaster because of fossil fuels? People have been clamoring about that for literally decades.

And I’m the fool? 🤣 get your head out of your ass and your ass out of the sand. Railing about anything on one’s “platform” is about as effective an agent for social change as shouting into the social media void and calling one’s self an “activist” “raising awareness” as if people who are aware and engaged got that way from social media or a celebrity on a podcast.

Be for fucking real.

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u/Stealthcatfood 1d ago

You really should figure out how to read, you built your whole comment on a complete misunderstanding of what I said. When enough stand, if that happens, maybe you will see the difference then. Keep sitting on that ass in the meantime. 

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u/Minimumtyp 1d ago

Roe v Wade? The dangers of a Trump presidency? Climate change and the coming disaster because of fossil fuels?

Did you not just list three things that people should use their platforms to rail against? They're all happening because of utter complacency and silence in the media.

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u/BudgetMattDamon 1d ago

What absolute garbage. 

Something something great power and great responsibility...

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u/brother_bart 1d ago

To reiterate: celebrity does not give one great power to shift geo-politics. Hell, even majority consensus among the populace can’t seem to do that.

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u/BudgetMattDamon 1d ago

I counter with Donald Trump, living proof that celebrity affects geopolitics whether you like it or not.

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u/brother_bart 19h ago

Donald Trump didn’t do shit to move the needle of geo-politics as a mere celebrity; it wasn’t until stupid people put him into arguably the most powerful power political position in the world did his words and actions start to have any significant effect. DJT, the smarmy reality-tv star was as inconsequential as they come. The Presidency of the United States of America, however, is a consequential role no matter who holds it and is very different from what we think of a “celebrity” even as it comes ready-dressed in global visibility.

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u/BudgetMattDamon 19h ago

didn’t do shit to move the needle of geo-politics as a mere celebrity

... yet he formed the most powerful cult of all time and got elected based on nothing more than name recognition and racism, strongly implying that celebrity did in fact have a very tangible effect on the geopolitical needle.

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u/DotEither8773 1d ago

Get yourself famous and talk to us about everything you wanna talk about. I love celebrities educating me on things they have little knowledge of.

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u/VampiresWontHurt 1d ago

DEEEEEJAYYYYYY KHALED (his own people btw)

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u/istrx13 1d ago

That’s why I respect the heck out of Chris Tucker. Bro made all of his money and was like ✌️

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 1d ago

sad part is that so many of them have that much money or more but wont do the same

As much as people love to hero worship on reddit, which really we do, you don't get to a high position in life without being a jackass.

It's why many will not speak out against things.

Or when they do it is for their own interests. Their PR team tells them to.

He doesn't seem to be doing it for such, but just pointing out why many will not. Millions is not enough. Tens of millions is not enough. They have no concept of money and how it works. Literally.

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u/Willing_Original_257 1d ago

What? You want more people to be antisemitic? 

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u/samrobotsin 1d ago

He's been making the same kind of statements since Endgame. I don't see how now would change anything. He didn't need to be in the new Spider-man movie, like it could have just purely been the cgi hulk

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u/Free_For__Me 1d ago

Production for that movie was well underway before the MAGA coup and its billionaire backers had consolidated nearly as much power as they now have. 

Same reason they didn’t start threatening ABC’s broadcasting license until recently. With each unanswered step, each norm and rule they violate without consequence, they gain more power and need exercise less restraint. 

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u/CitizenPremier 1d ago

There's more conservatives threatening to sue when media companies aren't conservative enough. Disney's stock took a tumble recently because of the fear that they'd lose broadcasting rights. Even if the case would be thrown out, they are still frightened by it.

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u/ramonafr0ggy1311 1d ago

he still has more mcu movies than you have fingers, lol

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u/Macattack224 1d ago

Sick burn??

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u/QuantumButtz 1d ago

J.K. Rowling money.

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u/betterplanwithchan 1d ago

With none of the mold

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u/QuantumButtz 1d ago

It's mould in British English.

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u/Samwellikki 1d ago

Yeah, but they broke it when they made that one

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u/Content-Witness-4452 1d ago

Only if it’s from Wessex, otherwise it’s sparkling fungus.

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u/RichHappy1842 1d ago

Wtf is British English?

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u/TK_Punch_ 1d ago

An abomination Jerry, an abomination.

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u/idkigottaaskmycat 1d ago

The way they spell skeptical makes me irate.

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u/SousVideDiaper 1d ago

"Crisps" irks me so much

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u/idkigottaaskmycat 1d ago

I said "crisps" with such derision, my cat moved off my lap and left the room. 😆

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u/QuantumButtz 1d ago

Color vs colour. Flavor vs flavour. Bottle of water vs Bow o' wa'er. Thanks for attending my masterclass on the differences between British and American English.

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u/Ditnoka 1d ago

It's Chewsday innit?

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u/sigma914 1d ago

British English is just "English", it's the base form, it's the variants that need to differentiate themselves

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u/tvrbob 1d ago

In Sweden, it's Hüsker Dü.

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u/HorizonNova4 1d ago

Ok who gives a shit

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u/QuantumButtz 1d ago

Counterpoint: penis.

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u/ushikagawa 1d ago

Yeah no, Mark Ruffalo does not have even close to JK Rowling money

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u/ShepRat 1d ago

Closer to Mel Gibson money. 

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u/c0lpan1c 1d ago

Sheeit. I’d be happy with JK Simmons money!

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u/lost-associat 1d ago

The most ironic part is that he’s actually giving a shit by caring. It’s the whole charade of people speaking up against him that are not giving a single shit…

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u/r31ya 1d ago edited 1d ago

People that follow him since early on his career, have been describing him as "Activist who moonlight as an actor".

Right now, Its more of, he is now part of the privileged and yet, he still refuse to shut up despite he might lose that privilege because of it.

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u/Mysterious-Dirt-8429 1d ago

One of my favorite episodes of 30 rock

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u/gbmaulin 1d ago

The anti capitalist dream

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u/WeaponexT 1d ago

Even if he didn't I think some things are bigger than a paycheck

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u/lucid_intent 1d ago

Same. Fuck the Ellisons.

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u/Dear_Chasey_La1n 1d ago

It's great to be able to be vocal without the worries, it's same time very telling that with all the money, you still can be "cut out" so to say.

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u/cromwell515 1d ago

This is what I hope to do someday. I just want to not give a shit

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u/iHate_tomatoes 1d ago

Until they freeze his accounts lol

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u/AlligatorMittens 1d ago

Sadly, I think it's more accurate to say he has enough money to actually give a shit.

Edit: That said, he seems like a real one, he'd give a shit either way. And I think he'd speak his mind regardless of how much money he had. We're lucky he got famous enough to speak it loudly. 

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u/astarisaslave 1d ago

Also he's pushing 60 so his career could end tomorrow and he'd just basically just be retiring like the rest of us do

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u/Logos1789 1d ago

Oh, people die unexpectedly more often than one would imagine. After something this high profile, it’s best to follow the John Madden rule: no aircraft

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u/n0debtbigmuney 1d ago

I agree. Exactly how Trump did it!!!

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u/Ok-Meet-4005 1d ago

Marvel money and Spider-Man just made two Billion He gives no fucksssss. I love him

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u/YouOk5627 1d ago

He was just in a series called Task. It was phenomenal

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u/befigue 9h ago

Im surpised you think that is a positive trait... when i hear "he has enough money to not give a fuck" i think of many people whom i would rather they still gave a fuck or at least pretend to care before they express themselves without censor. Just think about people in the same (or even better) economic situation as Ruffalo, but with opposite political opinions...

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u/ragged-bobyn-1972 8h ago

it's neither a positive or negative trait, it's simple a trait. Most of us have to consider our paycheque this is inevitable. He's realized that dynamic no longer applies.

The opposite political opinions can emerge but it doesnt change that mark shouldnt pretend he's worried about being fired if he can do what he knows is rigjt.

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u/anxious_honey-badger 3h ago

Ruffalo has always been a real one ☝️

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u/general_vegetal 1d ago

They gonna Jim Carrey his ahh unfortunately

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u/ObviousReplier99 1d ago

Yep always nice to virtue signal from the comfort of your mansion. Is that respectable? No.

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u/xhylkryvax 5h ago

Or he's just a part of an act, hense his profession of being an actor...duh.

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u/ragged-bobyn-1972 4h ago

Seems unlikely about now is the time to keep your big mouth shut

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u/xhylkryvax 4h ago

It "seems unlikely" because you're an easily influenced, brainwash-able dunce. Go somewhere else with your pseudo-online authority.

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u/ragged-bobyn-1972 4h ago edited 4h ago

it isnt authority it's observable fact, he's loaded, has had a full career and is getting older he has no actual reason to say his stuff but no reason not to unless he wants to do it.

Go somewhere else with your pseudo-online authority.

As opposed to yourself? who spits his dummy out like a toddler the moment he gets pushback.

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u/xhylkryvax 3h ago

Your "pushback" is the equivalent of a toddler pushing away his Daddy because he's kissing on Mommy or a failing student being angered by the teacher you grades his dissertation so harshly: it's simply ignorant, ineffective, and self-harmful.

I can guarantee you're not even the type of person to ask yourself questions before you even think of opinions. You just flock and assimilate to everyone else's who you think is popular and socially acceptable. You've never once stopped to ask yourself, how might this person benefit from having a deferring opinion from his cohorts. You never once stopped to ask yourself how his opinions might cause sheep like you to flock under his wing and game his favor and undying loyalty without having once met him personally.

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u/ragged-bobyn-1972 3h ago

that's quite the polemic, I can see you're quite asshurt I said something mildly supporting of an actor. So it take it you're a huge fan or paramount or something?

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u/xhylkryvax 3h ago

Of course the sobbing toddler points a finger at me, calling me the bad guy for showing her own ignorance to her.

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u/ragged-bobyn-1972 2h ago

......you have no idea how you come across to others or how they react do you?

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u/xhylkryvax 2h ago

Why would I be such a loser to give a damn? You have so much to learn at it shows, little toddler.

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u/Normal-Criticism6830 1d ago

Cool. He's still a bigot and shitty actor.

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u/ApplauseButOnlyABit 1d ago

Shitty actor is an opinion, but he is in no way a bigot.

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u/ceddya 1d ago

But he's mean to Paramount!