Mine is loving dumb pop-culture shit.
MCU specifically, I LOVE that shit, LOVE it.
Every lefty on my TL is making fun of those movies and labeling people who enjoy them as mindless consumers or whatever, while I'm like "FUCK YEAH THREE INCARNATIONS OF SPIDER-MAN & DAREDEVIL ARE IN THE NEXT SPIDER-MAN MOVIE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO."
Like, I know it's dumb, but it really brings me that immense childish joy that I get nowhere else.
Anyone else? Or do you have some other dumb shit you love?
Hand-wringing over media consumption is the 69th form of liberalism.
Doing marxist analysis of media however is almost like reading theory. I promise.
Don't get me wrong, I love media critique. The lib shit is when people act like consuming media with problematic elements is inherently immoral. If ethical consumption exists, then let's hand-wring about things that actually materially matter, like the conflict minerals in the devices we're all using to browse this site. Anyone who thinks I'm a bad person for liking The X-Files but not for buying a smartphone from Samsung is a lib.
(to be clear, I'm not advocating for hand-wringing over phones either. we need revolutions in the countries where they extract these minerals, not better consumer choices.)
At least you can pirate media for the most part, so you don’t actively contribute to its reactionary parts or whatever.
I'm gonna invent a new type of leftist take that's something like "actually the most leftist praxis you can do is purposefully watch reactionary media"
That's just Hasanabi