I've noticed that every time Mark Ruffalo appears on my screen, I get a sense of exhaustion. I don't think he's a terrible actor, and I often think the roles he plays are well done, or at least as well as they can be.
It's that Ruffalo has become so insufferable in his real life that it's bled over into everything he's done, sometimes unintentionally, sometimes very intentionally. If he had a basic principle that made sense and actually stuck to, it wouldn't be so bad. What makes Ruffalo so awful is the fact that he has no principles, just a guiding star of ideological adherence, and he seems to think that this adherence is what makes him a better person than most people.
At the end of the day, Ruffalo's loyalty to the cause is all that matters to him to satiate his conscience, and it doesn't matter if the cause is incredibly evil or demonstrably wrong. If it advances Ruffalo's radical leftist ideals, then it's good. Full stop. No need to question it further.
Not every single leftist is unprincipled. Bill Maher is a leftist, and I find a lot of his opinions annoyingly shallow and often based on ignorance-based grudges he's held for decades, but at least Maher's principles don't shift dramatically to approve of the narrative the Left deals out that day. He can often find common ground with right-leaning people and have productive conversations with them because his principles are often steady and allow for realistic opinions based on facts. He might reach a different conclusion than I, but at least he doesn't delude himself about what he's seeing in front of him. At least not lately.
Ruffalo does this dismissal trick to an extreme, and I'll give you a perfect example.
Here is Mark Ruffalo at the Golden Globes. He wore a white pin on his jacket that said "Be Good" in reference to Renee Good, who was shot after she tried to run over an ICE agent and became a martyr for the radical Left. Ruffalo couldn't wait to talk about his pin to the media, but as he did, the guy soon went into throwing "Orange Mad Bad" narratives around, including the lie that Trump is a "convicted rapist" and that "he's a pedophile."
Mark Ruffalo defamed President Trump at the Golden Globes by falsely saying “he’s a convicted r*pist, he’s a ped*phile.”
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) January 13, 2026
Trump needs to sue Ruffalo for everything he’s got.pic.twitter.com/obetTwh64k
Trump is not a convicted rapist, and no evidence says he's a pedophile either. Ruffalo is lying and could potentially put himself into the crosshairs of a defamation lawsuit, but what's crazy about this is that Ruffalo's disgust of Trump over these made-up accusations doesn't seem to be bad when someone useful to his cause is actually guilty of the same thing.
Let's take the "pedophile" accusation, for instance.
Ruffalo throws that descriptor around for Trump in a way that makes Ruffalo seem like he himself is beyond disgusted by that kind of thing and that no one who does it should be celebrated, much less empowered.
Yet, back in 2019, Ruffalo took to Twitter to mourn the loss of "JoJo," from Kenosha, Wisconsin, where Ruffalo is also from.
Who was JoJo?
JoJo is more popularly known as Joseph Rosenbaum, the man who attacked Kyle Rittenhouse during a Black Lives Matter movement, forcing Rittenhouse to defend himself and shoot Rosenbaum dead. It was later revealed that Ruffalo's poor little JoJo was a convicted child molester who served 14 years in prison over it.
It'd be one thing if Ruffalo walked back his support of Rosenbaum after learning about how evil he was, but Ruffalo didn't back down. In fact, the post he put on Twitter is still up right now.
We come together to mourn the lives lost to the same racist system that devalues Black lives and devalued the lives of Anthony and JoJo. #ReimagineKenosha
— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) November 19, 2021
So Ruffalo doesn't actually care about pedophilia. What he cares about is whether or not he can use the accusation to damage someone with whom he disagrees on an ideological level. The children be damned, there's a culture war to win.
The cognitive dissonance Ruffalo consistently forces upon himself, thanks to his unwillingness to embrace reality in the name of the cause, also makes him look like a much greater idiot.
For instance, Ruffalo is an unapologetic socialist. He's campaigned for Bernie Sanders, is consistently shouting that we need to eat the rich, and thinks that America's problems begin, as any socialist does, with the "billionaires."
But Ruffalo is, in every regard, a champagne socialist. He's worth an estimated $35 million. He owns various properties in areas you'll never be able to afford, such as his $4 million townhome in the West Village of NYC, and a compound in upstate New York he's turned into a farm complete with livestock and a private lake.
But thanks to the man's schedule as a movie star and activist, he seems to get around a lot. Does he travel on private jets? I can't confirm that, but I think it's interesting that no one seems to have a story about him flying commercially, except for one post discussing an unconfirmed claim on Reddit about him being seen on a flight from Turks and Caicos to NYC.
That's funny because you'd figure that the guy who said “Yes, we are… actors shouldn’t be flying around in private jets. We don’t have to do that" during an interview with the Independent would have a lot more sightings of him on commercial flights from the proletariat. There are certainly some of him being caught by professional photographers in airports, but I haven't seen many from everyday people. They just seem to be moments where Ruffalo just happens to be in an airport, and the paparazzi just happen to be there.
Do with that information what you will.
Not that it matters. The man who rails against the oil and gas industry as "enemy number one" sure does rely on it a lot to get around for his shoots, whether it's to portray a big green guy for one of the largest corporations in the world or be seen virtue signaling in front of a camera on a red carpet or political soapbox.
Oh, and the farm I mentioned earlier. He leases some of the land out of the 50 acres he owns to other farmers for haying. Why does that matter? Because a climate warrior like Ruffalo thinks that we consume too much beef and need to "cut down," yet here he is leasing out his land to assist the industry that environmentalists claim is killing the planet one fart at a time.
Oh, and if he's such a socialist, why isn't he sharing his land for free?
Then, of course, he's very selective about throwing his weight behind who is getting slaughtered overseas.
In 2021, Ruffalo, ever obeying the body politic, accused Israel of genocide during the Israel-Hamas conflict. In other words, he accused Israel of trying to intentionally exterminate everyone in the Gaza Strip. Days later, Ruffalo would walk it back and apologize for using the word genocide and even acknowledged the antisemitism behind the word.
To drive the point home, Ruffalo retweeted a finger wag from Beauty and the Beast star and fellow White Guy for Harris actor Josh Gad about how easily antisemitism comes to many.
But if you thought Ruffalo would've shut up and walked away, he turned around and began calling for sanctions on Israel via a signed petition, which accused Israel of committing apartheid against Palestinians, which is an accusation leveled against Israel by people who also shout "From the river to the sea," which is an entirely antisemitic phrase that means wiping out Israel and the Jewish people from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
Speaking of which, here's Ruffalo in 2021 tweeting out "'Equality, human rights, and prosperity for all from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.' The fight for equality happening here in the USA should be the guiding principle of our values in the Middle East and for our allies abroad."
“Equality, human rights, and prosperity for all from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.” The fight for equality happening here in the USA should be the guiding principle of our values in the Middle East and for our allies abroad.
— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) May 20, 2021
You'd be hard-pressed to side with Ruffalo on this issue because, no matter where your opinion falls, Ruffalo can't seem to be honest about which side he's on either. His thoughts on Israel and Palestine seem to change based on what's good for Ruffalo.
And apparently, the actual freedom and human rights movement happening in Iran doesn't seem to be worth his time. However, celebrating a woman who attempted to run over a law enforcement officer who was just doing the job of enforcing a law that was agreed upon by everyone just over a decade ago definitely is.
Ruffalo may very well be one of the most insufferable people in Hollywood, not because he has leftist principles, but because he has none while peacocking about them every chance he gets. He doesn't seem concerned about upholding principles because they don't really mean anything to him unless he can use them to make his ideological opponents look awful compared to his "compassion" and "care," and he'll clearly ditch them off-screen if it benefits him.
Moreover, he likes to talk as if he's part of the rabble. He's just like you and me, but he's so wealthy and elitist that even when he's finger-wagging at everyone from his high horse, he's demonstrating just how ignorant he is.
Remember the induction stove virtue signal of 2023. It was one of his most ridiculous moments.
Oh, and the tweet is still live for that too.
Read: Mark Ruffalo Has Out-of-Touch 'Let Them Eat Cake' Moment About Gas Stoves
Ruffalo is simply not a good person, and yet he seems to be up to his eyeballs in work. Studios seem to love him, and the only thing I can think is that they love him because Hollywood is Mark Ruffalo.
Self-aggrandizing, preachy, virtueless, out of touch, but beyond confident in their ignorance.
