The consumption is the point. They just want candy not a meal. They want fucking marvelslop not Cinema.

Inb4 let people enjoy things, the mindset on display is a perfect member of capitalist society. A mindless consumption machine.

  • GaveUp [she/her]
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    8 months ago

    Please be fucking normalllll and yes let people enjoy things

    Don't hate on fans and Marvel's popularity because the movies lack cinematic sophistry or is artistically stagnant

    Hate because it's propaganda and infests people with brainworms

      • Bassword
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        8 months ago

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        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          Let people enjoy critiquing the people critiquing the people who critique people who enjoy things. sicko-speeeeen

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              8 months ago

              which is people insulting randos over random shit

              Unlike your very different action of totally not insulting me here.

              The difference between insulting people and insulting media is like super clear and conflating the two is really stupid???

              https://hexbear.net/comment/4232675

              This is not “treat defense”.

              No, it is. Your treat was criticized and you're blowing up all over this thread about it.

                • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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                  8 months ago

                  IF HAVING FUCKING EMPATHY, EVEN FOR RANDOM FUCKERS WHO LIKE SHOWS I HATE, MAKES ME A TREAT DEFENDER, THEN I’LL BE A TREAT DEFENDER AS MUCH AS I FUCKING WANT, AND YOU’LL FUCKING DEAL WITH IT

                  New tagline just dropped

                • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                  8 months ago

                  I already directly quoted and linked your own words. I actually don't know which specific treat myself but you certainly went in guns blazing over it. I assumed it was MCU-related because of the thread's starting post, but maybe not.

                  https://hexbear.net/comment/4232675

        • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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          8 months ago

          Honestly, it does seem everyone in this stupid fucking "discourse" as a certain "point past legitimacy" that they hold. The thing enjoyers think any criticism of the thing they enjoy is illegitimate. The enjoyers of criticizing the things thing enjoyers enjoy think any counter-criticism to their criticism are illegitimate. The enjoyers of criticizing the enjoyers of criticizing things the thing enjoyers enjoy think any counter-counter-criticism is illegitimate...

          Everyone seems to think the buck stops exactly right wherever they are and everyone beyond needs to shut up. But that's not really how discussions of media work is it? Everyone it constantly making argument and counter arguments that lead into other arguments.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          The difference between insulting people and insulting media is like super clear and conflating the two is really stupid???

          So your answer is apparently to call me "really stupid" for doing that with three question marks, all while presuming I was insulting you, all because you apparently feel so defensive about your treats that criticisms of those treats (or maybe even the bad parts of their fandom) are taken like personal attacks.

          It isn’t “thought policing” to tell someone to not shit on someone for doing something completely innocuous that probably 90% of people here have done because their friends and family are still obsessed with it

          Actually it kind of is here, especially how you frame it with such excessively ungenerous presumptive portrayal, and declared what you think I thought was "really stupid" with three question marks. You don't want me to share what I think here, and maybe even don't want me to think it at all. In other words, you apparently do want my thoughts policed.

          I didn't make the edited comic, or that "when thought policing backfires" title for it. But considering how you just reacted to it, maybe it's on to something.

            • Venus [she/her]
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              8 months ago

              I have literally not watched a single marvel movie in what is likely a year

              I have never watched a marvel movie pathetic

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              8 months ago

              You are the one acting defensive about having a treat criticized.

              I wasn't even talking to you whatsoever until you started by calling me "really stupid."

              https://hexbear.net/comment/4232675

              and again I am really sorry about how rude I have been

              If you were actually sorry you wouldn't have included "totally didn't insult you in excessive reactive defensiveness over a treat, just called you 'really stupid' in the first reply which totally doesn't count" in this very same reply.

              I'm not even going to address the rest because you can't even own up to what you already did from the start here.

                • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                  8 months ago

                  So much for the tired and going to bed announcement.

                  I’m trying to be open here

                  Then stop dodging labels and denying what you have already directly done in this thread.

                  I know I was hostile. That wasn’t ok. But I was scared, I was angry, and I don’t really know what else to say

                  Owning up to it is good and a good start and I sincerely respect that. Yes, that is what I tend to call treat defense and the way you blew up at me from the start seemed like a textbook example of it. It's not a fatal error and I think it's best to just accept that you did react the way you did and just back down from that from there.

                  I really don’t want to make you hate me for a prolonged period. I am willing to do anything to try and make it up to you, legitimately. I will delete all of my comments on this post if you want that. I don’t want to be an annoying debate-bro, I just want a community I can feel safe in

                  Things are fine. I don't hate you. I actually respect you quite a bit now for the vulnerability you've just shown. That takes courage.

        • GinAndJuche
          hexagon
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          8 months ago

          Being a hater is incredibly target rich as a Leftist. It’s like being an American in a school.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        It is pretty scary just how many easy to consume slop works are about the nonpolitical concept of very special people that are born with a unique epic destiny that must (sometimes secretly) police over and rule over the unwashed unruly masses to maintain the status quo against bad people that want to change it, or for the Vincent Adultmen, how common it is to present the Adults In The Room Making The Hard Decisions and Getting Shit (atrocities, usually) Done.

      • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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        8 months ago

        I hear what you're saying but like Garfield > art by any of the ninja turtles; there's a lot of it and the characters talk too so you know what the cat is trying to say, just saying.

      • GaveUp [she/her]
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        8 months ago

        Okay yea it sucks so much. I should've said don't hate on fans for that though

        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          I’ll hate on whoever I want. You will never get me to believe it’s ok that society’s culture revolves around marvelbrained baby slop. It’s a sign of deep, deep problems with that society

          • GaveUp [she/her]
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            8 months ago

            I highly respect that as a hater in recovery myself

            • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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              8 months ago

              Your hate was never pure enough if you have allowed yourself to regress back into accepting this dreck

              • GinAndJuche
                hexagon
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                8 months ago

                It’s like Rumspringa

          • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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            8 months ago

            You will never get me to believe it’s ok that society’s culture revolves around marvelbrained baby slop.

            You're a Thanos to our Avengers; HEXBEARS ASSEMBLE!

            • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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              8 months ago

              Do you really think these individual, random fuckers have any power over what kind of content they are really exposed to, what kind of media is socially acceptable?

              Nope. Nobody has any power over what conditions they arise in, doesn't change the end results of what they are. I wouldn't spare a nazi the wall because of the conditions of 20th century Germany molded them, and I would condemn a zionist even if they were born in Israel and brainwashed into it. You can critique individual symptoms and representations of the odious whole. Obviously those are much more serious crimes, but the same logic applies.

              But the random individuals that make it up aren’t deserving of actual hatred or mockery for enjoying it.

              Yeah they are, sure. Why are you so defensive about this and not the other 1000 things we mock and hate people for on hexbear dot net?

                • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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                  8 months ago

                  turning all of the art of film into artless fascist dreck is not harmless, and it's turned a generation of adults into blithering children. It's as contemptible as adults who still frame their worldview in harry potter. It's childish and obscene and reflective of deep problems in society, as I said.

                  I said the severity of the crimes is not the same.

                  • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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                    8 months ago

                    it's turned a generation of adults into blithering children.

                    Think think blaming this exclusively on Marvel movies seems more than a bit reductive.

                    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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                      8 months ago

                      Ooh reductive eh? My shitpost was reductive? You want me to write a Marxist thesis every time I critique some dumb lib shit in our society?

                      Very telling that as soon as treat critiques come up half of hexbear shitposters who have no problem throwing around insults and reductive statements in every other scenario get very serious and somber and demand a thesis. It’s like when family members of cops or troops demand very serious Marxist analysis before we mock da troops. No. I don’t care about your hang ups

                      • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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                        8 months ago

                        Dragging treats is truly the treats of this site. You make the mildest of treat-sympathetic statement and the reaction is far more over the top than what you get from the typical treat chaser.

                        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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                          8 months ago

                          Treat chaser quotes in this very thread:

                          WHAT TREAT!??? WHAT TREAT!??? I HAVE NO CONNECTION TO MARVEL, I’VE SAID THAT SO MANY TIMES? WHAT FUCKING TREAT AM I DEFENDING?? BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IT LOOKS LIKE THE ONLY “TREAT” IM DEFENDING IS MY OWN FUCKING DESIRE FOR INNOCENT RANDOM PEOPLE NOT TO BE INSULTED AND IF THAT MAKES ME A TREAT DEFENDER THAN IM FUCKING PROUD OF IT IF HAVING FUCKING EMPATHY, EVEN FOR RANDOM FUCKERS WHO LIKE SHOWS I HATE, MAKES ME A TREAT DEFENDER, THEN I’LL BE A TREAT DEFENDER AS MUCH AS I FUCKING WANT, AND YOU’LL FUCKING DEAL WITH IT

                          • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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                            8 months ago

                            I wasn't even defending treats bro, I fucking hate marvel movies (except Spider-Man, I'll admit I like Spider-Man), was just saying you were being reductive, which even you admitted was true you just got pissy at me for pointing it out.

        • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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          8 months ago

          Dorks can have exactly one (1) artistically bankrupt mega franchise that they enjoy, mostly because it made an impression on them as a child.

          I'm stuck with Star Wars, and I'll have to live with hoping something like Andor season 1 to happen again for the rest of my life.

          • GinAndJuche
            hexagon
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            8 months ago

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    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      "Be normal" as a motto in such a diseased society is, uh, not good leftism whatever your podcast papa tells you

      • Bassword
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        8 months ago

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        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          Media choices aren’t harmless and if insulting media insults your identity that’s a you problem