• FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    5 days ago

    99 sure is an amazing percentage, but y'know what's an even higher percentage? The odds that he or other chud grifters bought up tickets just to game that system

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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      5 days ago

      If there’s one thing I think leftists are kind of good at, is that we tend to hatewatch things a LOT less.

      Look at Velma, it attracted loads of fascists who hatewatched a show that DARED to make the usual potshots they make at minorities right back at white men. We weren’t all rushing to see Mr. Birchum just to hatewatch it. We learned our lesson from stonetoss.

      Now, the few times I see any leftists discussing CHUD media is if it’s decades old and we’re examining it to understand CHUD psychology. Like a copy of Mein Kampf but full of historians pointing out when Hitler is bullshitting the reader.

      • MiraculousMM [he/him, any]
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        5 days ago

        we tend to hatewatch things a LOT less

        Tbf dunk_tank and by extension this comm are both basically hatewatching for social media posts. I'm not making a value judgment on that (I mod dunk_tank lol) but leftists absolutely have the same proclivity for ragebait, I think most terminally online people do, we're just not as publicly frothing as reactionaries are because leftists generally don't try to make careers/money off it

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
          hexagon
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          5 days ago

          Dunking on shitty tweets from shitty people is like 90% of The_Dunk_Tank by volume (I should know, I contribute a lot of it). I think that's still easier to do and less exhausting per item than hatewatching an entire movie or show.

      • Gay_Tomato [they/them, it/its]
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        5 days ago

        Morbius flopping twice is a good example of how hatewatching like this is exclusively a chud phenonmenon.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
          hexagon
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          5 days ago

          It was way more fun to make Morbin' Time jokes than to actually watch the damn thing.

        • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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          5 days ago

          I haven't seen that movie and the amount of memes over it made me question what was even real. The early use of deepfakes to turn the memes into realistic looking edits didn't help.

          Like I don't know if Jared Leto actually said "It's morbin' time!" because I've seen clips of him using that line before morbing all over the place and killing 20 goons or whatever.

      • cosecantphi [he/him]
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        5 days ago

        In order to stay pure, our hatred requires only for us to continuously bear witness to the capitalist class brutalizing nature and destroying endless lives in pursuit of greed.

        Chuds aren't principled, they are very frivolous in their hatred. If they didn't constantly doomscroll 4chan and twitter while sinking progressively deeper into reactionary black holes within the youtube algorithm, they'd very quickly forget who they're even supposed to hate and why.

        • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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          5 days ago

          Facts. I don’t need to hatewatch anything. I’m forced to hatelive this life in hellworld every day.

        • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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          5 days ago

          Chud propaganda is like those negative-space pictures, it traces a perfect outline of capitalism by telling them to hate anything and everything except capitalism.

        • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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          5 days ago

          It's called the immortal science for a reason. I'm jealous chuds have to go out of their way to find material they hate/get offended by. You can't consume any media in the English-speaking world without being exposed to capitalist brainworms. I wish my Spanish was better or that I spoke Korean and Mandarin so I could watch commie movies 😞

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
        hexagon
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        5 days ago

        Look at Velma, it attracted loads of fascists who hatewatched a show that DARED to make the usual potshots they make at minorities right back at white men.

        I tried to hatewatch Velma, but I got tired and stopped.

        Unlike Gambo or even Richard and Mortimer, there was no monolithic cultural pressure that kept re-exposing me to the product, so I saved myself the trouble and stopped paying any attention to the Velma trash until the Velma trash-maker declared that good-morning was Khaleesi(tm). I got the context and I cringed into next week.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      5 days ago

      Worth your 100% dollars. -Albert Einstein, the not woke version