I feel like MLs have a tendency to do this.

Espeically when it comes to the topic of "liberals" and "AOC."

  • premier_zabrinoff [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Please don't say anything about my capeshit or overproduced Mattel commercial guys. I'm totally a leftist but I get annoyed as if people insulted my family when I take the slightest criticism of it.

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      • premier_zabrinoff [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I feel like we have to expand on the idea of "you're annoying" here. I feel the annoyance comes from criticism, not the attitude. We have regularly annoying people all around us for every possible discussion, but they come into consideration only when the topic is these very interesting forms of media.

        Also, as a rule of a thumb I don't ever accept the point of "you should see it first". You don't have to do that for anything, and this is coming from someone who has seen the capeshit and the Barbie. We all discuss the terrible aspects of many terrible things, but now we have to take part in those activities to do so? When the shit bits are the whole point of the movie, you can obviously see through the charade without even watching it.

        I haven't seen Top Gun, but I can directly say it's a "cool American pilots" movie. I have seen Avengers, and Captain America is the "Big Brother USA" person. Why is my first opinion invalid all of a sudden?

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        • StewartCopelandsDad [he/him]
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          I haven't seen Top Gun, but I can directly say it's a "cool American pilots" movie. I have seen Avengers, and Captain America is the "Big Brother USA" person. Why is my first opinion invalid all of a sudden?

          both opinions are correct but whether a secondhand opinion is valid depends on how surprising it is. it's universally accepted that Top Gun is a "cool American pilots" movie. If you claim that it's a subversive and erotic Marxist noir masterpiece that would be ridiculous and you'd need to back it up by having seen it and being able to give specific examples and stuff. I haven't seen it but I think there's a fairly large audience that just likes Barbie unreservedly so to criticize it effectively you need to have seen it.

      • chair [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah bro noone that's watched a marvel film could possibly dislike it lol

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    • mittens [he/him]
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      I think people will definitely annoy if they pretend that not partaking in popular culture is some sort of virtue, like some sort of buddhist cleansing of the soul. I understand and even empathize with people who are unable to, and I certainly love to be a hater of popular stuff. But if you're some sort of Morrisey-type hipster that has to change the lyrics from Satellite of Love and mess up the metric and the concept of a lovely song just so you can cram "I cannot stand the TV" because that's just who you are now and the words "I love to watch things on TV" can't escape your lips anymore without them threatening your brand identity, then you're a bit annoying.