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Alan Ritchson pls don't stop giving me reasons to love you, lol.
This dude is definitely my favorite Hollywood rising star.
I didn’t know his name before today, but now I think he’s awesome! I might even give his show a try.
I'm impressed just by this. It isn't often that you see a self professed Christian celebrity actually calling out the hypocrisy of evangelical Christians and pointing out they've become antithetical to Jesus' teachings.
He's using his platform in a way that's been sorely missing in society. For evangelicalism to properly die, it needs to be defeated at both the polls and from within.
He's on point. Christians have attached themselves and their religion to one of the most depraved celebrities alived
I’ve read a couple Ritchson interviews. He seems like a good dude. I watched Reacher and figured him for just some muscle that looks good on screen, but he’s had to work pretty hard and been through a bit to make it to where he is. Most commentary by him seems pretty good, even if I don’t necessarily appreciate religion, and I hope he stays on the rails for a good career.
My favorite Alan Ritchson bit is when he played young Scully on Brooklyn 99. Also he seems like a gentle giant.
Wrong, I think you'll find "Thad" is your favorite character played by Alan R. (/s)
Well, he's not wrong.
Not only is he not wrong, he's right!
Some people don't live in reality. Crazy how effective propoganda these days can be
I wish more Trump Supporters were media literate so that these words might reach them.
I wish more Trump Supporters were ~~media~~ literate so that these words might reach them.
Went to a family friend's pool party and one of the guests was a full MAGA chud. She bounced between singing Trump's praises as this immaculate saint figure and slapping shoulders because he was such a big swinging dick who loved snatching the poon.
The Trump crowd doesn't even strictly disagree with Ritchson. They're just mad at the phrasing. If he'd made some cavalier remark about how Trump can fuck any woman in America if he feels like it and you should be honored when he grabs your pussy, they'd be singing his praises. If he's joked about how Trump can pull the wool over every one of those idiot liberals' eyes cause he's just so wily, they'd cheer.
The words do reach them. They don't care. They have their iconic superhero of a President. He's living the life they want, sexual assault and financial dirty tricks and all.
If right wingers can watch two seasons of Reacher and be fans until this moment then they're just too dumb for life.
Literally both seasons baddies were stereotypical right wing criminals.
You don't end up in the right wing thanks to your political awareness
But they are so happy the show is "anti-woke" with its lead being a yoked-up hobo manly Mary Sue male fantasy.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy it for the light entertainment but I find it hilarious that conservatives get mad when a slender woman beats up a whole bunch of strong men but find it perfectly normal for a guy who never works out, eats exclusively fast food to have a bodybuilder's body, be more or less unbeatable, get the ladies and know all the things he needs.
damn - you just connected some obvious dots for me. The reacher character is their gravy seals fantasy personified.
He's the ultimate "lone wolf"/"alpha male". Zero attachments, no daily grind, on the road, yoked, badass, solves all the cases, never afraid, no fucks given, plays by his own rules.
I find it highly entertaining but he's as realistic as the Black Widow character from Marvel. Lee Childs was in talks to write James Bond books and when the deal fell through, he made his own ultra-macho superhero fantasy.
Ritchson should totally play the lead in a Wolfenstein adaptation. Have him smash Nazis and make closet-Nazi conservatives angry.
But the hero also engages in vigilante behavior in order to get the bad guys, and they're all for that, so I can see the confusion.
Almost nothing Reacher does is laudable in real life, no more than Bauer in 24. It would be a poor morality play...if that's what you thought it was.
Thad Castle keeps winning
TIL: Kevin "Thad" Castle is the tritagonist of Blue Mountain State. He is the ever inspiring team captain of the BMS football team. He is also the main protagonist of Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland. He was portrayed by Alan Ritchson.
Blue Mountain State is a show that was awesome when it came out, felt like it might be problematic a few years later, and now is awesome again
It's possibly the peak of bro comedy. It's fairly tongue-in-cheek and mocks it's own hyper-macho characters enough that I think all the toxic masculinity works. As long as you watch it with that in mind it ages pretty decently.
Somewhere, Kid Rock and Ted Nugent are using Jack Reacher blu rays for target practice..
Right wing Reacher fan? Has he actually read the books?
It's just the woke mind virus getting to everyone. You know, like that Rage Against the Machine band suddenly becoming all political.
Those Maga people unironically dancing to killing in the name of is my favourite piece of real life comedy, up there with the curb your enthusiasm inspired press conference at a gardening company.
Of course not. The bible isnt for reading, its just for bludgeoning others with.
I wouldn't be surprised if these are the same guys with punisher emblems on the back of their truck along with their blue lives matter flags...or for bonus points, a mashup of those 2 things
Some people hate those who see the world as it really is. The people who killed Jesus were just like that. The so called christians who are angry at this guy are just like the people who put Jesus up on that cross. The pathetic part is that they can't see what they really are.
I wonder how many ultra conservative Reacher fans realize that the author is British. Probably very few, which is entertaining for the irony although doesn't really matter much in general.
He said no lies here.
Alan Ritchson is quite likeable and I say that as an atheist. He's one of the good ones :)
If Christians followed the teachings of Jesus then I don't think we would have as many/ any problems with Christians.
If Reacher is your first introduction to this man's acting capabilities, allow me to take the pleasure of introducing you to Blue Mountain State. All hail Thad.
Can't believe he'd say that about Home Alone 2 star and friend of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump.
Fuck yeah good guy Thad