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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Says He Won’t Endorse Biden Again for President (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago

“The endorsement that I made years ago with Biden was one I thought was the best decision for me at that time,” he told Will Cain on Fox News in an interview posted online Friday. “I thought, ‘I’m in this position where I have some influence and I felt it was my job then to exercise my influence [and] share: This is who I’m going to endorse.’ I’m not going to do that. I was then, the most followed man in the world, and am today, and I appreciate that … but what that caused was something that tears me up in my guts — which is division. That got me. I didn’t realize that then, I just felt like there was a lot of unrest and I’d like things to calm down.”

Translation: I don't want to piss off the MAGA meatheads in my fanbase.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago

Well, thanks to Dwanye for becoming an arrogant coward at the exact time people need voices like his to help build up Democracy ideals.

His take is avoidance because he arrogantly thinks his previous endorsement of Biden caused division in America. That's wild.

The Audacity of This Bitch.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

wow, the hits just keep on coming. Has anyone heard from the Shamwow guy or maybe Rob Schneider? Their opinions are crucial.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well, Schneider is making content for daily wire now.. so his opinion should be obvious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I saw part of his comedy special... conservative comedy is just awful

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

"Can somebody please find Ja Rule, get a hold of this motherfucker so I can make sense of all this? Where is Ja?"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Well now he's dead to me. I thought he was a logical thinking human being. What an absolute moron. Not voting for Biden is a vote for the bad guys and fascism/monarchy

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

He probably will still vote for Biden but he doesn't want to endorse him because he wants that sweet sweet Maga bucks. I liked him too, fuck this greedy coward now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure only a vote for bad guys is a vote for bad guys. I don't think the election officials tally up non votes or votes for other people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The problem with your reply is that you're focusing on a single tree and missing the entire forest around it.

If you just take the words only at face value, then yes, I suppose you're right. However, apathy ABSOLUTELY loses people elections, which is what the spirit of my statement for all intents and purposes actually says. That's why we got suck with Trump in the first place - people were lukewarm on Hilary and mad that Bernie wasn't the candidate. They decided NOT to vote, and the crazy kook republicans always vote, so we got stuck with trump.

My comment stands and is accurate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

In this scenario, bidens a relatively neutral candidate other than Israel, his age and ICE, though he’s better than his presumptive opponent about all three (trumps in worse shape, even if he’s younger).

What if he were a much worse candidate? If Biden were exactly like trump in every way, except, say, he was super supportive of POWs, would it be our duty to vote for him?

This is not a gotcha, though I know it sounds like one. Obviously there’s a scenario in which the other side (assuming they hold their view earnestly) would vote for an okay, but not ideal candidate (for example, I know a bunch of anticapitalists who were ready to vote for Bernie in 2016, had that been an option, even though he does at his core seem to support a capitalist system with more guardrails in place), so it’s entirely reasonable for you to be generally okay for voting for the lesser of two evils and still have a line you won’t cross.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good candidates don't build voter apathy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Good voters don't get apathetic, they understand what's truly at stake because they see the forest, not just a single tree.

It's our duty to vote, even if we have to vote for the lesser of two evils.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

@kmartburrito @PP_BOY_ I agree

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Good voters don't vote against their principles or self-interests. Ironically, you are breaking democracy by trying to force people to vote for candidates they don't like; in a democracy, you vote for someone, not against them.

Any democracy that forces people to choose between a genocide-enabler and a rapist genocide-enabler isn't a democracy worth saving. It's the logical conclusion to the "experiment" and hopefully future generations can learn something from it, but you're kidding yourself if you think that this is the election that will decide things once and for all, rather than just postponing things back another 4 years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

You're wrong, mate, and I hope you realize that before it's time to go to the urns.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

isn't a democracy worth saving

I hope you will take a bit of time to really think through this part of your comment. If you truly think this, then I have nothing more to discuss with you. This is part of the larger problem.

We're forced due to our shitty first-past-the-post voting system to vote one of two ways, vote against the worst guy in your opinion, or abstain from voting and not contribute at all.

We're voting between

an extremely old guy who hasn't been everyone's favorite in many areas, but arguably has done a LOT of good things in his time as President - and
an extremely old guy who is a rapist, racketeering liar and a con man who only cares about self preservation, and fleecing you for every buck you're worth to bankroll his court costs for running up (so far) nearly 100 state and federal felonies. He also is fiercely delaying his trials so he can corruptly make it go away so that Justice isn't carried out, because he should be King and completely above the law. Not to mention his party ACTUALLY cheats at election through intimidation, voter suppression, gerrymandering, and misinformation campaigns.

How could someone even think that's not a no-brainer decision? I'm not forcing anyone to do anything, what I'm saying is that I believe people that aren't making the obvious right choice here are part of the problem. Bad guys standing next to bad guys, ignorant/brainless/brainwashed Republicans and abstinent voters. Might as well be the same person if you're not helping to remedy this clear issue with your vote.

Just my opinion, but I know it's shared with many that clearly align with doing the right thing this November.

I'm challenging the collective "you" to do the right thing, regardless of your political affiliation. The game has two participants and only one can be the winner. Don't inject extra complexity here. Do the right thing. That's it. Should be a super easy choice.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

I've just smelled what the Rock is cooking.

It smells like rancid asshole.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

More importantly, has anyone asked Ja Rule who he's endorsing?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Who the fuck cares? Fuck what the rock thinks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THE ROCK THINKS!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

So he's a piece of shit coward more interested in making money than helping his country, got it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT THE ROCK THINKS!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

IT ONLY MATTERS WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKING!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

It sure would be nice if the political opinions of an actor wasn't important enough to report on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

He is complaining about wokeness. Gee, I wonder who he is voting for?

[–] FigMcLargeHuge 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I am just shocked that he isn't running for president.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm saving mine for Dwayne...
Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho.

[–] FigMcLargeHuge 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

He has my vote any and every day! Brought to you by Carl's Jr.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

If you ever cared what that absolue cunt is rhinking i feel bad for you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

He's no different than millions of us that see another geriatric corporate owned genocide enabling POS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Asked if he was happy with the state of America right now, Johnson replied, “No.”

“Today’s cancel culture, woke culture, division, etcetera — that really bugs me,” he added.

Yeah. That woke culture. terrible. The division. Imagine singling people out for being fascists.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

“The endorsement that I made years ago with Biden was one I thought was the best decision for me at that time,” he told Will Cain on Fox News in an interview posted online Friday. “I thought, ‘I’m in this position where I have some influence and I felt it was my job then to exercise my influence [and] share: This is who I’m going to endorse.’ I’m not going to do that. I was then, the most followed man in the world, and am today, and I appreciate that … but what that caused was something that tears me up in my guts — which is division. That got me. I didn’t realize that then, I just felt like there was a lot of unrest and I’d like things to calm down.”

He's saying he won't endorse Biden because he knows it's a divisive topic, not because he's a right-wing asshole like the others. Also, I think it's a good example of being self-aware enough to realize he has this massive following and a lot of power, and being responsible enough to consider that merely his opinions can sway a lot of people at once. It's an uplifting perspective from a celebrity, imho.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)

“Democracy is under attack but I’ve got a lot of influence so I should just stay quiet and use it to sell energy drinks instead.”

Cool take.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

And he makes all his money on young impressionable males who care A LOT about their physique. I wonder which political demographic that affects...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It’s an uplifting perspective from a celebrity, imho.

Goddamn that bar must be underground... but no, this is Dwayne Johnson showing he cares more about being a business entity than a man. There's nothing admirable about it from a business perspective, it's just business, but from a human perspective it's kind of cowardly.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not taking a stance because that stance would be divisive is not a good argument.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

People keep saying this, but I think you're all impossible to please. There are three general positions he could take

Endorse Biden
Don't endorse anybody (The Rock's current position)
Endorse Trump (Rob Schneider is here)

Somehow, for so many armchair political scientists on Lemmy, the 2nd and 3rd positions are indistinguishable from each other. And then the 1st position is an endorsement of genocide Joe. Democracy matters and genocide is bad therefore Biden is a bad candidate. And if you're not for Biden, then you're for Trump. But if you're not explicitly for Biden, then you're for also Trump. But if really cared about democracy and civility then must be for Biden, and openly, because Trump is just worse. But fuck Biden because genocide is bad.

This is nonsensical and impossible. What the hell is an acceptable stance on these issues?

Actually, I couldn't care less. Go square that circle with someone else. The Rock is as right as he's going to be by not explicitly supporting Biden or Trump because he doesn't want to cause division.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I did not equate endorsing nobody to endorsing Trump, so you can fuck off with that in a reply to me.

[+] [email protected] -16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I notice the peanut gallery constantly throwing out the "GJ" nickname never say "Genocide Bibi".

Or place the blame where it belongs.
Or have any understanding of the Israel-United States military relationship and how we have at least one important military base there
Or acknowledge that the US also gets weapons from Israel
Or realize that there are a lot of pro-Israel folks in the US that will get pissed off if he was more "take a side" which would ultimately benefit Trump (who has vowed to "finish the job").
Or realize there's any nuance to the situation at all. Nope, totally a black and white situation.
Or that he's been calling for cease fire for months
Or realize that it's not just flicking a switch to "off"

Funny how all that doesn't fit your narrative. It's also suspiciously convenient that the entire plight can be blamed on one person (cough not the person doing the bad stuff cough), in an election season, with a childish nickname likely cooked up by a right-wing think tank and/or foreign troll farm (insert "they're [mostly] the same picture" meme here). Nope, not suspicious at all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

As opposed to you, an intellectual.