I have no problem with Bad Bunny’s music or entertainment even if its not something I seek out regularly. However, I’ve never seen Bad Bunny work against free and fair elections in the United States or foment insurrection when he didn’t get elected President, so just by those measures, Bad Bunny is a much better representation of American values than trump.

With respect to Mr. Bunny, this is not saying much. Think about it, how many random picks would it take to find someone who better embodies those values than the orange baboon?

Depending on whether you’re looking at the values America represents, or the values America says it represents, either could be true.

As a Canadian, what I saw in that half time show and the few things I’ve seen him say elsewhere indicate he has displayed the values and mentality that I was told while growing up that America is all about. These values are not what I see perpetuated by a large portion of the American population.

After all this shit is over, the America I want to remember (as a non-American), is the America of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, of Albert Einstein, WEB Du Bois, of John Brown, of Tupac, of the creation and heights of new arts and sciences. For being the first truly fully modern nation on earth. Where the ideals of the new age first became law. For fighting for freedom and the wellbeing of every individual.

But when Trump was first elected, I remember feeling “damn he is the most American guy ever huh”. And he is. He’s a grifter and a scammer, a heir failson who fell upwards in life due to his evilness. And that’s America as well. It’s also Rockefeller, Carnagie, Mellon, Morgan all the robber barons, Joseph Smith, Roy Cohn, Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lanski, the Dulles brothers. Of eugenics and “enhanced interrogations”. Of forced sterilizations and experiments on unwilling subjects.

America was founded on genocide, conquest and slavery. And it rewarded the people that most embodied the ideals necessary for that up until this day.

The world can only be free when the empire falls, and America is returned to the natives and reparations are made to all descendants of enslaved people. When we all face the reality that no nation can exist founded on the principles of white supremacy and simply “reform”.

But after that, I’ll remember America for all the good that it was. Not for being the most evil nation on earth. I hope.

The country’s values consist of slavery (although now limited to incarcerated), money inequality, war, racism, narcissism and abuse of power. I think Donny does a great job showing the country’s values. Although they make me sick to my stomach.

Bunny has better values I’m sure and Americans might want to believe he represented them but personally I think Trump pretty accurately represents Americans values. He just says the quiet part out loud and in an inelegant way.

I don’t know who Bunny is and why he’s bad, but I believe a steaming pile of faeces embodies America’s value better than Trump.

I watched Bad Bunny’s performance. He was entertaining, he danced well, and the sets were nice. There were no subtitles so I could not tell what he was saying. I still felt like I understood him when he named off all the countries in North and South America. I understood that he was saying everyone in those countries is American and should be united. I can’t say for certain though, but that was the message I received.

Meanwhile, not only is Trump going after brown people, but his thugs executed a woman on the spot for what she saw. No trial, just straight to execution. Then they executed a protester. Trump said they were both terrorists. If Ms Good was a terrorist for what she saw that day (we will never know exactly what she saw that warranted her immediate execution), what does that make the rest of us who see this kind of thing day in and day out on the news?

Apple and Google have both advertised products which will translate speech in real time. They’ve never said anything about music. But maybe one day we will live in a world where it won’t matter what language a person uses, whether speaking or singing, we will be able to understand them, at least to some extent. (I’ve tried Apple’s solution with music. It works, but it struggles to keep up. So you get one line and maybe another a minute or so later. It is definitely not ready for prime time. Also, I used a Japanese song, and Japanese and English are the most foreign to one another, so Spanish might have yielded better results.)

What are US values? Imperialism, corruption, racism, intimidation, doing whatever you want if you have enough power…?

It’d be hilarious if bad bunny ran for president.

and the dancing is disgusting, especially for young children

The USA’s aversion to the human body is so strange to me. Is there a tangible negative to children occasionally seeing thicc booty once in a while? And don’t even get me started on nudity. As long as parents are present to provide guidance, as they should be in all things, seeing different bodies can be a valuable learning experience and a boost to body image. That said, if the only women your child ever sees are mommy and twerking latinas, you’re in for a bad time.

If the comparison is Trump, King George III passes; and we literally fought a war to not be under his rule.