edit: now it's a meme and we can all hug in the comments.

    • @trafguy@midwest.social
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      9 months ago

      You're welcome to dislike something, but that doesn't mean you need to discourage someone else from liking that thing. You can share an opinion without making it sound like it's a sin against nature to disagree with that opinion.

      • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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        9 months ago

        I can discourage or encourage whatever I want. I didn’t elect you king of the discourse or agree to your rules

        • autismdragon [he/him, comrade/them]
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          9 months ago

          Criticizing things is fine but there is in fact a line where you become the asshole for doing it too hard or in a bad faith way. Or targeting individual people (particularly minors). The PSL thing is a good example because while we can criticize the comedication of it, some of the discourse around it is really misogynistic.

                • autismdragon [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  9 months ago

                  I wasn't accusing you of it. We aren't in DMs right now. It was a general statement about something I think is true, that people can use "criticizing things' as a guise for assholishness and even bigotry. Not saying you're doing that.

                  • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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                    9 months ago

                    I don't think assholishness is necessarily a bad thing, it's value-neutral. I would simply not be bigoted in my critiques, and bigotry is a separate issue entirely that can be addressed directly, and has nothing to do with the "let people enjoy things" poptimism ethos that pervades much of the internet which I think is disgusting. I dont believe anybody has a "right" to not hear criticisms of their favorite things, and mostly people have an issue with it because they've made consumption their identity and feel personally attacked by critiques on what they consume. They need to separate their identity from the commodity, not get mad at the messenger.

        • @trafguy@midwest.social
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          4
          9 months ago

          Nor did I elect you king of what I'm allowed to enjoy. Go ahead and police people's thoughts if you insist, but don't expect to be included by people you willfully offend.

          • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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            9 months ago

            Go ahead and police people's thoughts if you insist, but don't expect to be included by people you willfully offend.

            I will, and you can't exclude me lmao. Deal with it, you have to deal with critiques and disagreements, how terrible for you

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            5
            9 months ago

            people you willfully offend.

            Lmao anyone offended because someone criticised their latest marvel slop or videogame deserves to be their head shoved in a toilet.

      • @InputZero@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        Then how else am I supposed to feel superior compared to everyone else if I don't impose my standards on them? I'm just trying to help them. It's like you want to live in a world where people don't know they're loosers. That's dumb, you're dumb. /s

          • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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            9 months ago

            These people want a perfect protected treat echo chamber where they can consoom disney shit endlessly without anyone troubling them with "critiques" or "disagreement"

              • Awoo [she/her]
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                9 months ago

                And you should be able to say that as loudly and as often as you like!

                • autismdragon [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  9 months ago

                  Eh that depends. The reactionary ragebait Youtubers who do this should all be thrown into a pit together and I'm suspicious of anyone echoing certain talking points about certain media because of them.

                  • Awoo [she/her]
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                    9 months ago

                    I think there's a difference between "Disney is releasing shit" and "THE WOKE MIND VIRUSSSSS frothingfash "

                    But you're right, Disney today doesn't feel any different to Disney of 25 years ago. Their new movies are pretty much the same as their old ones. So it really does deserve deeper investigation to check the reasoning.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Sorry but I like [thing] and therefore [thing] must be held inviolate from even the mildest criticism.

        • @rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml
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          9 months ago

          PSLs are gross, overly sugarladen drinks and emblematic of both crass consumerism and America's obsession with unhealthy food. Halloween decorations are gaudy and an eyesore and also emblematic of crass consumerism, while also representing a non-trivial amount of non-biodegradable plastic waste that just winds up buried in landfills every year.

          • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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            9 months ago

            Ahh yes, the classic emblem of America's crass consumerism checks notes flavored coffee.

            PSLs and Halloween decorations are bourgeois decadance, clearly.

            • @rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml
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              9 months ago

              No, not flavored coffee. PSLs. Different things. It's like saying "pork sandwiches" when someone brings up the McRib. It's not that simple. Food has a cultural component tied to its manufacture and identification. And, similar to the McRib, Starbucks style PSLs are food that probably shouldn't exist and which only does as a byproduct of market capitalism. They're the Lacanian 'object a' - an empty, manufactured falseness. We don't desire the thing itself, but the thing whose absence it symbolizes. What you're really consuming when you drink a PSL or a McRib is its innate mechanical predictability.

              • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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                9 months ago

                Have you considered the possibility that some people like the taste of pumpkin spice lattes? Or do you just get to dismiss everything you personally dislike as "The Lacanian 'object a?'" You could substitute literally any food or drink for PSLs in what you said, it's completely meaningless.

                It's just empty words and phrases for you to feel superior to others based on what treats you enjoy or don't enjoy.