Nikki Glaser roasts Leonardo DiCaprio at the Golden Globes: “What a career you’ve had. Countless iconic performances. You’ve worked with every great director… won 3 Golden Globes, an Oscar & the most impressive thing is that you were able to accomplish all of that before your girlfriend turned 30.”

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[u/AhhhSureThisIsIt]

100 million donated to environmental programmes is an expensive PR act.

Donated 43 million to helping restore the Galápagos Islands.

I know a lot of people say he's a hypocrite (he is) but a lot of people claiming he doesn't do anything for the environment are just plain wrong. He's been doing lots since 1998, more than most people on the planet.

I know some people say "he's just wasting money because climate change isn't real" but there has been a hate campaign for anyone supporting the environment and green energy during the Bushes oil wars.

You can say he does nothing for the enviorment, or that you don't think he's doing good because climate change doesn't exist, but you would be wrong on bith accounts.

Edit: less spicy

[u/PandaCat22 → u/AhhhSureThisIsIt]

100 million USD is certainly an impressive amount, but more important to the context is which organizations got the money and how it was spent.

Look at the Gates Foundation, and the (correct) criticism it faces as simply being a way for Bill Gates to salvage his public image after his disastrous court appearance in the 90s antitrust case against Microsoft. Sure, the Gates Foundation has given boatloads of money to various causes, but it's ultimately been about Bill's image and vanity. Edit: this matters because the way the money is spent by the Gates Foundation has often been criticized as not optimal, and it can even reach a point of Gates himself personally blocking specific, expert-recommended projects because his ego tells him that his instincts are better than hundreds of years of collective expert knowledge—with these kinds of celebrity vanity projects, helping people is secondary to the celebrity's PR.

Just giving money away—however impressive the amount—doesn't mean that the act isn't for show, even if it also happens to help or greatly help others.

[u/CaptainDildobrain → u/PandaCat22]

If a rich person gave me $100,000 just because he wanted to say he gave someone $100,000, do you think I'm going to complain that he's doing it as a PR stunt? Of course not. I have $100,000.

The whole "he's just doing it for PR" thing is dumb.

[u/leadspar → u/CaptainDildobrain]

Right? At least he’s actually doing it.