• loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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      6 months ago

      Even besides the plastic aspect I don't get why people like it so much. Even if you like the IP that the figurines are of they look like shit.

      • Big_Bob [any]
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        6 months ago

        The "gamer" identity is purely based on mindless consumption regardless of the product's use value.

        You can buy overpriced chairs labeled for gamers. Powdered sugar, called G-fuel. Gamer shades, gamer branded clothes, fucking blue dyed mac and cheese with a picture of fucking Sonic the Hedgehog.

        A Gamer will drop his cash on the most random shit as long as it's marketed for gamers.

        You could literally slap a gaming label on a bucket of dogshit and some hyperconsumerist gamerbrained troglodyte will squeal and fork over his lifesavings so he can validate his fake identity as a "gamer."

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        6 months ago

        Using the same labour and materials they could produce normal looking figures instead of those deformed abominations, which would be actually pretty fine, having so many different ones in the same scale and series.

        Show

      • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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        6 months ago

        It's crazy how they found a way to sell toys little useless plastic things to adults. Capitalism is all about expanding the markets and finding new consumers, like how they found a way to market cigarettes to children.

        Edited toys out because actual toys one can play with can be cool.

  • bloubz@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 months ago

    You prefer having plastic toys (that actually don't do anything) over having humans live decently and be happy and free. Nothing else to add

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      6 months ago

      While this post is funny the person(s) on that account I believe have started dabbling in patsoc shit.

    • big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml
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      6 months ago

      you prefer having plastic toys over having humans live decently and be happy and free

      why do you think they hate socialism? you can't hoard plastic crap in communism!

      • SadArtemis🏳️‍⚧️@lemmygrad.ml
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        6 months ago

        Funny thing is 99% of the "plastic crap" is literally built in a communist country, which outcompetes the west, and is increasingly doing so in all fields, and produces more ethically (though that is also a matter of the world system we live in), efficiently, and environmentally than the west.

        The Chinese proles are increasingly eating better, living better, having better stuff at cheaper prices, having better homes (in contrast to the west where home ownership is out of sight for an increasingly large share of the population), and it's all thanks to communism, to the dictatorship of the proletariat being upheld, and delivering such wondrous results for its people.

        • GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml
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          6 months ago

          Gamers : "I am being exploited by Chinese capitalism!" (Buys another Funko Pop to keep on the shelf still in original packaging)

  • Tiocfaidhcaisarla [he/him, comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    I worked at Amazon over a decade ago, when these were new, it was the first time I saw these things and all I could think was how ugly they were and why would anyone buy them. I'm still thinking that but stricken with the fact that they still exist against all rational thought

  • cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 months ago

    I think that account is affiliated with or a member of the "PatSoc"/MAGA-Communism "movement"

    That being said, and I realize the humor in this meme, but funko pops are literally made and sold in China

    • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
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      6 months ago

      They seem to be progressive, don't know where you get that

      https://x.com/PamphletsY/status/1795296437544337777

      https://x.com/PamphletsY/status/1796120869640741201

      They are vocally anti-Trump as well

      https://x.com/PamphletsY/status/1795872924475195810

      But I get you, I'm always checking if a communist account isn't secretly PatSoc, I'm still sad about MidWesternMarx and MangoPress

      • cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml
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        6 months ago

        I thought Pamphlets was anti-LGBT? I swear I remember seeing tweets of theirs that came off that way.

        I like those tweets you linked though

        • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
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          6 months ago

          There's also this one. This is even better proof they are pro-LGBT I think

          https://x.com/PamphletsY/status/1792260171215020081

        • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
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          6 months ago

          Yup, sadly. I didn't know it at first but saw more signs and then it became indiscutable. They used the word ret@rded in one of their Telegram posts and when I called them out of it they said I was pushing American identity politics on them. Another time they called a politician a f@ggot, but edited it quickly. Another time they shouted out a Taiwanese rapper's telegram page, in which that rapper called themself a MAGAcommunist, and when I called them out of it they deflected and said that they were just showing support to a friend. Another time they showed supprt for Dutch farmers protests even though those protests were by farm owners who were mad they had to follow environmental regulations. And when Cuba passed their family code referendum, they didn't make a post about it, even though it was the biggest story of the day, and from a communist country. Sorry for the wall of text, I wanted to rant.

  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    I saw a couple of this accounts posts over the last few days and was unsure if I should follow, but I am now.

  • SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 months ago

    I follow Pamphlets and they are so weird. Like, sometimes I can like their posts no problem but other times i just have to scroll because… yeah.