• gayhobbes [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    certain things are just cringey

    Like what?

    To be embarrassed you have to care what others think, generally, and I'm honestly too old to give any fucks.

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      Idk like most campaign ads are pretty cringey. Corporate cooptation of cool or woke rhetoric. White people making comedic rap songs. Hamilton. That "Imagine" video. TED talks. Just a few examples off the top of my head

      • gayhobbes [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I guess when you call those things embarrassing, you'd have to assume they have a sense of shame. To be embarrassed they have to think what they're doing is worthy of embarrassment. That stuff doesn't tend to make me cringe, it's just pointless to me.

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          I feel like a lack of self-awareness is kind of a defining feature of what I'm talking about?

          A few other things that I would define as "cringe" specifically in the context of online leftists, which is probably more relevant here:

          • tankie vs anarkiddy shit
          • "look at me owning this chud" posts
          • definitive, scolding proclamations about what other leftists must or must not do (not that this is what you're doing but I have seen some of it here)
          • overuse of Soviet imagery and the word "comrade" (I acknowledge this is a controversial take)
          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            Uhh in my country comrade is a mainstream word used to refer to either party members or close people. Is America really so fucked by anti communist propaganda that the word comrade is considered "cringy"

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              Is America really so fucked by anti communist propaganda that the word comrade is considered “cringy”

              Yes, America is that fucked by anti communist and anti-Russian propaganda. To the vast majority of Americans, the word "comrade" would sound very distinctly and self-consciously Soviet.

              • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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                4 years ago

                Okay as a non American that is really weird, many African countries use the word comrade a lot for example. It has almost no Soviet association here

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              Is America really so fucked by anti communist propaganda that the word comrade is considered “cringy”

              Yes. Anything left of radlib gets labeled tankie.

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              100% its akin to m’lady larpers but instead of medieval chivalry its 1920s revolutionary speak

          • gayhobbes [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Don't take this the wrong way but how old are you?

            • okay [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              Not gonna say my age but probably older than you. The things I listed feel very high-school to me tbh. Maybe it's mean to be annoyed by harmless kids and I don't really care enough to attack people over it but hey you brought it up.

                  • gayhobbes [he/him]
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                    4 years ago

                    You don't have to answer, man, I don't know why this is such a big deal though.

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                    4 years ago

                    i used to be cagey about my age on the internet before too (40 btw) but that was when I still cared what teens thought of me.

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      Like what?

      Like chillin in cedar rapids

      • gayhobbes [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        It's just implying that cringe is objective rather than subjective. I just found her statement to be very awkward but I wouldn't have classified it as cringe.

        • HKBFG [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Did anyone not find the cedar rapids thing embarrassing?

          How about "call me your abuela?"

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            ok, every single person finds those things embarrassing, now what will you do with this info?