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From this video by right-populist and noted loser Dimmy Jore

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They don't have a theory of mind. We aren't part of the audience, we're more like wildlife or scenery. NPCs, y'know?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's quite telling how popular "simulation theory" and especially "dae everyone I don't like NPCs" beliefs are among billionaires.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I met a guy practicing to be an NPC on Friday. Straight up lead with "I've been practicing my animatronic wave!" >.>

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Mmmm ice cream so good!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Talking down to an audience they hate

I love when CHUDs see shit like the She-Hulk scene mocking sexist fans and go "waaaaaah they hate their audience"

My Brother in Christ if you feel seen by scenes like that that is 100% on you. The rest of us do not feel alienated by TV shows calling out sexists.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The entitled manchildren are here to explain why not pandering to a hateful minority is alienating their audience

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

As far as he's fallen these days, MovieBob once pointing out in a very old video, from when he still worked for the Escapist, that white male nerds are getting angry that they aren't the only target audience for nerd media anymore was a formative moment for me. Probably helped stop me from going down the wrong path.

Like thats what a LOT of this rage is about. White male nerds are no longer the most special wonderful target audience and are no longer being exclusively catered too and that makes them fucking FURIOUS. And they are reacting like the spoiled brats they are.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My Brother in Christ if you feel seen by scenes like that that is 100% on you.

Remember when MAGA chuds told on themselves by seeing the Galactic Empire being negatively portrayed in Rogue One and calling it anti-Trump propaganda? trump-anguish

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I missed that one but thats hilarious. I do remember that reaction to other things though like Wolfeinstein and Farcry uh... 6? The one with the southern cult leader.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Far Cry 5 is like the most cowardly game ever made. Ubisoft could have easily made the cult into overt white supremacists, which is how they're coded, and yet they aren't. They even don't identify as Christians. (There's a scene where a cultist slaps a Bible out of a preacher's hands and replaces it with their cult book)

And the good guys are all cops, small business owners, and little militia groups in the mountains that also wave American flags. Game is pretty fun though and has some cool moments.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of my irl friends played and loved it and felt it qave cathartic for her religious trauma. Also considers "keep your rifle h by your side" a jam.

Isnt there a dlc or midquel or something that makes the cult leader the good guy tho lol?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah I actually do like the game, but also I'll never forgive it for failing to have a concrete political message. It vaguely gestures towards the idea that you're fighting American fascists. Like a white supremacist militia, except it goes out of its way to say you're not. They're more like a Japanese doomsday cult than an American one. The enemies have much more in common with Aum Shinrikyo or the Falun Gong than any American Christian cults.

Other than how the leader will say Bible verses and they have a kind of rural American aesthetic to them. They're also kinda similar to utopian hippies

And yeah the sequel has the cult leader basically repent himself, admit he was wrong to exploit people, and it's actually a pretty neat story arc all things considered. The cult turns into woodland primitivists in a mad max world. I dug it. Pretty ok little experience.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah you thinking of far cry 5. 6 is where you're a guerrilla revolutionary working with farmers, workers, anarchists and old communists to overthrow a Dictator who overthrew a communist government (a shit one since the libs can't make a good game)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds so cool on paper rho

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It was fun to play with my critical thinking turned off

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Are chuds aware they’re not the only ones who watch movies

What do they care? They want total hegemony of content that caters to and enforces their hostile, exclusive world view.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is he suggesting Zack Snyder or cop show writers do not shoehorn their politics into shows?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's two kinds of thing: "thing I agree with" and "political"

Race? White and political. Gender? Male and political. Sexuality? Straight and political. etc etc

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I would love to sit down and tease apart how this line of thought came to be

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

cracker main character syndrome

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The pervasiveness of US propaganda is not to be underestimated.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's called status quo. Political is when you change status quo. I don't believe it's any more complicated than that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think that's accurate, but don't think it explains the origins of the meaning. Like, were people using the word that way in the 1920s?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

It's only politics if it makes the consumer uncomfortable.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

cop show writers

Seriously watch any random episode of Blue Bloods.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would probably ask them to point to an apolitical show, mostly out of curiosity. I don't think I'm convincing anyone with this line of thought though

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If the history of chuds being asked this question tells me anything they are going to answer the singe most political show in the history of television. Remember, these are the people who did this: https://nitter.net/9_volt_/status/827887491738894337?lang=en (I will never stop bringing this up).

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I would call their mind childlike but It would be an insult to children to call chuds minds childlike.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. Ive worked with kids. Kids are much more curious and open minded then these people.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel the same way.

I have said "manchild" to describe people like melon-musk but I think that's a disservice to actual children who are a lot more curious, creative, earnest, and capable of learning than an aging billionaire creep is.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly there isn't a child on the planet who doesn't contribute more net good to the world in a single day then Elon Musk has in his entire adult life. And I'd rather spend a whole year looking after the least pleasant children I worked with all by myself then spend 5 seconds in Musk's presence.

So yes, I agree, describing Musk as a "manchild" is an insult to children.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Some people do have negative value to society, such as derivatives managers. The person mopping the floor in the office has positive value that the derivative manager wants to nullify to public perception by lobbying and propagandizing how little worth the floor mopper is.

Similar deal with my-hero hoarding the metaphorical toys and having actual contempt for children, including his own.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Hahaha yes beautiful I do not get tired of seeing it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"political content"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

imagine how low your standards must be to think AI scripts will be watchable, much less not any worse than whatever's happening now

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Chuds be telling me they support the working man and then say anti strike shit like this

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

By "support the working man" they mean "hate queer people".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Coastal elite, woke cabal fake working class: Writers making starvation wages (they wrote a black character once)

Real, hardworking proletariat: Millionaire “farmers” (rural = working class)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The funny thing is, I'm a non-binary vegan commie with a silly haircut, and I've worked in manual labor and physical farm jobs more than any anti-woke right-wing tool I've met.

I also come from a family of electricians, builders, farm hands and carpenters. I'm as fucking working class as it gets.

In contrast, every IRL right-winger I've met has been a higher-up office worker

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ain't that the truth. The majority of the working class people I know don't really give a shit about politics. Like only management, pencil-pushers, and like a handful of real cranks even really talk Maga hog shit. The workers I talk to are a mix of vague conservative, liberal, proto-socialist, etc. Thoughts who haven't really spent a lot of time thinking about it beyond vibes because there's a material disconnect between politics and the material concerns of their daily lives.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

"I support blue collar workers"

blue collar workers go on strike

"GET BACK IN THERE AND MAKE MY TREATS YOU FUCKING COMMIE FUCKS" frothingfash

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol is Dore anti-union now? Is he still claiming to be "on the left"?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

His fans certainly are. He’s just a bog standard garden variety conservative talk show grifter now. What other conclusion can you come to when all he does is JAQ himself off with crank antivaxx shit, hours long meltdowns over the existence of trans people, platform other conservative grifters and bloviate about how republicans are the true working class working against the globalist woke cabal or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh we know he's a right-winger, I was just wondering if he himself had realized that yet or if he somehow thinks he's still on the left.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It's this new/old trend of using left wing rhetoric to communicate right wing themes. I'm so sick of it and we aren't even into the election year.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

not political: robocop

political: superhero show with one (1) side character who is hinted at maybe being gay

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Jimmy Dore losers deserve to be talked down to because they are lower than pond scum lol

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

They're the nonpolitical common sense consumers without an agenda or a narrative so they are the only consumers that matter. frothingfash

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Pretty phenomenal case of "If people tell you who they are, believe them"

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