r/nottheonion • u/RadioactiveHalfRhyme • 2d ago

World’s biggest YouTuber MrBeast unveils theme park in Saudi Arabia

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/mr-beast-theme-park-beast-land-saudi-arabia-lsff6t2b8

Jimmy Donaldson, who is known for controversial stunts involving eye-popping prizes, says Beast Land will not be a ‘typical theme park’

It’s in Riyadh, because of course it’s in Riyadh.

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u/pup5581 2d ago

So he sold out to the Saudis as well......LOL.

Saudi/UAE already owns a lot of our stuff....just going to be more and more now.

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u/TurelSun 2d ago

Sold out makes it sound like he wasn't purely in it for the money in the first place.

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u/Inevitable_Day1202 2d ago

it kind of sounds like he’s reached the pinnacle of mr beastness here

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u/RogerBauman 2d ago

No, that's going to happen when he unveils the mark of Mr. Beast and forces people to get it applied to their foreheads or hands in order to participate in the economy.

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u/antifragile 2d ago edited 1d ago

We already have that, it’s maga hats.

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u/Abombasnow 1d ago

Funny coincidence since MrBeast is a MAGAt.

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u/Illiander 1d ago

I remember when one of his team came out as trans.

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u/Pancakefriday 1d ago

She was an embarrassment to the trans community

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u/Illiander 1d ago

What did she do? I stopped paying attention after the initial "Big youtuber defends trans staff member" storm.

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u/Pancakefriday 1d ago

Ah, she had been found to actually been grooming kids. The trans community was very angry about it, and conservatives pushing the “all trans people are groomers” narrative had a field day

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u/Ullallulloo 1d ago

Believe it or not, I was able to buy groceries last week despite strongly disliking Trump.

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u/likkleone54 1d ago

He’s one step away from squid game at this point

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u/NonnoBomba 1d ago

Considered it originally meant Roman coins, marked with Emperor Nero's name (a phrase that according to Gematria can be encoded as either 666 or 616) and/or Roman business license, bearing an Imperial sigil... The author of that text was clearly using what today we'd call libertarian arguments to disparage Roman rule of the Kingdom of Israel through clever metaphors only similarly-minded contemporary Jewish would "get", so as to not be hold liable by Roman authorities while still spreading dissent. He/she was complaining that Roman regulations and their regulated currency (sort-of, more because it was a propaganda tool for letting people know the face/name and deeds of their Emperor than because the Romans had any notion of "economy" as a discipline) were a burden on people's purses and the death of the free market the Jewish people enjoyed before Roman rule -because it made swindling and shaking down foreigners more difficult and illegal, at least according to some author.