“There’s no diversity in the half time show. DEI only goes one direction and this horrible halftime show perfectly represents why DEI needs to die,” a user wrote.

  • hopesdead
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    1417 hours ago

    🤦‍♂️

    53% of the NFL identity as Black or African American. It is reasonably well known that the fan base is more affluent than other American sports. This is echos slavery. They complain only because the person they are paying to see perform isn’t performing the way they want.

    No one said they had to watch the halftime show let alone the game itself.

    • The Quuuuuill
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      1217 hours ago

      yup. not every goddamn moment needs to be about you, chuds. how many performers have done the SB that your average kendrick enjoyer woulda hated

      • hopesdead
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        15 hours ago

        Hell even The Rolling Stones have performed… and they aren’t even American.

        • The Quuuuuill
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          715 hours ago

          paul mccartney. fuckin paul mcartney. if you think paul mccartney had a better, more impactful show you can fuck right off. no his show wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t worthy of discussion. it was a consumable piece of content seen and then forgotten.

          meanwhile kendrick gave us something to talk about. he pushed the envelope. it was dope. he even had uncle sam l jackson straight up telling us the point: it’s better to make some people uncomfortable and say something real than to just placate the masses. like… idk. if you can’t handle 10 minutes of challenging art in the middle of 4 hours of pro hegemonic propaganda, i refuse to give a shit about you

  • @[email protected]
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    917 hours ago

    Next cornball middle aged white man in Carharts I hear whinging about their petty grievances with popular culture is getting an earful. I’m done with this asinine culture war garbage.

    It isn’t about traditional values versus whatever. It’s bigoted infantile adults versus people who don’t need to be remind to wear pants before they leave the house.

  • @[email protected]
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    When all the coaches for the Kansas City Chiefs were walking to the field, I thought someone opened the diabetic clinic.

  • @[email protected]
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    822 hours ago

    Look, I wasn’t a big fan of the half time show, either, but that’s because it was only one person and wasn’t a big spectacle. I think Kendrick absolutely crushed his performance, and the dancers and choreography were amazing; but it was like a really large music video and not a halftime show spectacle. If any other person had made a musical cameo besides the woman I didn’t know who sang two short lines, then it would have been better. The reason I say that is, in my unartistic opinion, Kendrick is a bit one-note; so adding another artist would have punched harder.

    I knew people would complain about the lack of diversity on stage, but I also think it was completely intentional to make a point. I loved that aspect of it.

  • @[email protected]
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    361 day ago

    How about how many black people were on the field playing? Were they okay with that, or are they just waiting for The Orange One’s comments on the subject?

  • Matengor
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    751 day ago

    So it’s a report on the reactions to the show on X. Who would have thought they wouldn’t like an all-black half time show?

    • @[email protected]
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      33 hours ago

      I looked the Irish star up, and it’s owned by the same company as the daily mirror and daily star. So my guess is it’s purpose is to amplify bots that complain about dei. Making those complaints seem more abundant than they are.

    • @[email protected]
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      491 day ago

      I’m actually thrilled that they’ve managed to ringfence themselves off into an increasingly toxic cesspool.

      Now we just need to get the people that write articles like this is correctly add that context and say “10 hilarious ways X users whine about Superbowl Halftime Show. Number 4 will make you piss yourself laughing.”

  • @[email protected]
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    531 day ago

    I’m sure these true warriors for diversity would complain equally vehemently if it was all white.

    • Flying Squid
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      201 day ago

      They for sure have problems with the lack of representation at Carrie Underwood concerts.

      • The Quuuuuill
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        51 day ago

        genuinely on some level they do. she doesn’t have a penis or testicles or present as male. they’ll tolerate female artists… for now

  • Cousin Mose
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    As a white person I couldn’t give one fuck whether performers at an overblown sporting event are white or not.

    People really have this kind of time? Also as someone who’s home constantly: get a life.

    • @[email protected]
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      131 day ago

      Agreed, Kendrick Lamar is of course going to have black stage dancers, his music is directly about and influenced by black culture after all.

    • @RamblingPanda
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      121 day ago

      Geez, I don’t even care who performs before and after the halftime show.

      • Flying Squid
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        As someone who lived in the U.S. for 47 years, I can’t even sum up enough effort to give a shit about the Super Bowl at all.

        Trump caring about it is an even bigger disincentive than watching people give themselves CTE for money.

        • @[email protected]
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          417 hours ago

          I don’t know why they interview the players post-game. They’re all punch-drunk and can barely string a sentence together. I’m sure there are some intelligent and eloquent speakers among them but no one is sounding bright after smacking skulls with another 300+ lbs dude for a few hours.

  • Flying Squid
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    381 day ago

    Everyone knows musical performances without white people being involved is racism!

    This is why I refuse to go see a single performance by Stevie Wonder or even Ladysmith Black Mombaso.

    I won’t even listen The Black Keys or Black Sabbath. You know, just in case.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 day ago

      You have to keep on your toes because they’ll try and trick you with Barry White and Frank Black.

    • d00phy
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      41 day ago

      White Stripes are probably ok though. Stripes indicate diversity, right?

  • Bakkoda
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    101 day ago

    I didn’t even make it that far because the commercials were fuckin horrific.

    • TheLowestStone
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      121 day ago

      I stopped watching the NFL in general several years ago when they went to split screen to show a commercial during gameplay. I can’t even imagine how much worse it has gotten.

      • Omega
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        61 day ago

        I’ve never seen them do split screen during gameplay. Maybe if they timed it wrong, but not that I can remember. But thet do have split screen during short timeouts or ref reviews

    • @[email protected]
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      21 day ago

      The commercials are the only part I might be interested in. Last year’s were definitely a mixed bag.

      • @[email protected]
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        222 hours ago

        This year’s commercials were unbelievably boring and/or bad. They were all somber and super serious, except for the Dodge Ram Fuck Yeah America ad.

      • Bakkoda
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        41 day ago

        I guess it’s been a while but it was just more commercials than game and every single commercial was just a celebrity fuck fest. I don’t see many ads.

        • @[email protected]
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          223 hours ago

          The only Superbowl commercial I remember from recent years was the Tide one, where Hopper keeps showing up and says “nope. It’s a Tide ad.”

          That and puppybabymonkey

          • @[email protected]
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            Puppymonkeybaby made a cameo in a new commercial last night. I had completely forgotten about puppymonkeybaby until I saw it.

  • @[email protected]
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    151 day ago

    I made the mistake of visiting this link on mobile with ad block disabled. Holy shit, have things gotten bad.

    • Cousin Mose
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      81 day ago

      Lately when I send links to family and friends I use Apple’s .webarchive format because I know they don’t have any blockers. I can’t in good conscience link someone to content that will profile them.