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
The peak of this banal nightmare arrived only recently when Sam Altman, the serene architect of our contemporary algorithmic enclosure, sat across from Fallon to discuss the most intimate of human labors: the rearing of a child, and how he simply couldn’t imagine raising his newborn baby without the “help” of ChatGPT. With the flat, bloodless affect of a man who has already priced in the end of the world, Altman described using ChatGPT as a parental surrogate. Unlike with Hilton, here the audience is deathly quiet. As Altman offers up the future of his own offspring to the black box of his company’s large language model, Fallon’s grin never wavers. It is the ultimate Gothic inversion: the living child is transformed into a data set to be optimized, while the host performs a pantomime of joy to mask the sound of a tomb clicking shut.
This article was a delight to read. It’s also pointing out a lot that needs to be pointed out to the average tv-consumer.
Fallon and every single person involved in lining up McGregor as a guest. Absolutely disgusting.
That’s a good point… there were loads of people who could have flagged this
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.
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.
He’s always been this way.
Man, if I ever watched Fallon, I’d be super pissed right now…
It’s ok, you can be pissed that a rapist is being platformed at all. Especially in mainstream media.
What I don’t get is, rape aside, asshole is a retired injured MMA fighter… what is he even doing on television AT ALL?
He’s doing one more fight with another
retiredold fighter. Also, he got popular enough that he’s trying to pivot to other things, kinda like Tyson.Connor McGregor is definitely a fucking asshole and not relevant as a human being, let alone as a fighter. But Max Holloway is not retired, even if he is “old” in fight miles. He’s in fact the current 4th ranked Lightweight in the UFC, and by all accounts a very decent human being (even if he does punch people for a living)
Apologies, I don’t follow mma too closely. Can’t wait to see Max sleep Connor.
No apology needed! I also don’t follow it very closely anymore. It’s hard to care, when it’s run by such absolute shitheads tbh. Oh for real, I can’t wait!
Honestly? Honestly? That was a better outcome than watching him get beat up. Just pure embarrassment and I’m here for it.
I get the feeling but isn’t it more of an issue that apparently its locked in he raped someone but is not in jail?
…yes?
That ship has sailed already though. They declined to push forward with prosecuting him. So his victim had to sue him in civil court.
All of the decisions and actions that led to this man getting a chance at rehabbing his image after violently raping a woman are the problem. All of them and all of the people making them.
Yeah just feels like so many problems are about wealth disparity and wealth privelege.
And so many Lemmings want to ignore gender issues in favor of class issues.
YEP
I certainly view wealth disparity as the driver of the majority of our societies problems.
That doesn’t erase the societal problems caused by the patriarchy.
Look at Cesar Chavez.
Cesar Chavez is the same issue. Power should not be centralized even in celebrity. Its the ideals and laws that are important.
Even the men who push for class solidarity are perpetrators of sexism. Because even in the working class, women are subjugated and pushed lower and treated as less than.
Men are inherently in a position of power within the patriarchy. They don’t need to have their power centralized in order to rape others, they already have.
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?
Fallon’s sterile loop of viral repetition comes the final victory of the commodity over human beings—a world where even our laughter is outsourced to the demands of the algorithm. You don’t even need jokes anymore. All you need is to say something that sounds like it could be a joke, and the hollow laughter will come. To watch Fallon is to stare at the face of a culture that has chosen the comfort of a rictus grin over the heavy, necessary terror of the truth. It serves as a grim warning: if we cannot reclaim our play, our politics, and our presence from this algorithmic void, we will be left with nothing but the echoes of a desk being slapped in an empty room, for an audience that has long since ceased to exist.
Re-read that last paragraph of the article and tell me if you still have a point you’re trying to make here.
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.
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.
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.
Text reads:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Who is McGregor? Never heard of him.
He’s a professional fighter, asshole, and violent rapist. I believe he fights for UFC.
Ah, that’s why. I’m blissfully unaware of all that “entertainment”.
Yeah apparently he’s been platformed for weeks now on UFC and other sports channels. The outrage only started when he did this interview with Fallon.
Not a single peep about this rapist until then. All those sports channels and UFC are fully embracing this piece of shit rapist.
I’m unaware if the president of Ireland is a rapist or not.
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!
I mean, its Hitman, what if he was a “mission objective.”
It’s still normalizing rape.
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.
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.
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.
How the fuck did.he end up in the remake of Roadhouse. Was that entire production and cast made up of right wingers and misogynists?
Did not a single person involved read his Wikipedia and ask “what the fuck are we doing?”
They read his Wikipedia and said “that’s our guy!”
