this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2025
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[–] piggy@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The liberal culture at large loves having these gigantic problems to point to so that individuals can complain about how the biggest victim in relation to these gigantic problems is themselves for having to essentially know about them or suffering relatively minor effects in their day to day life.

This happens in TV shows a lot (noticed it most recenlty in Apple TV's Shrinking with the lib neighbor) and everyone had an annoying friend who had a significant life event between 2020 and 2022 and was talking about how COVID was the worst for them specifically. The whole "I'm so sick of hearing about politics" shit from libs is just a continuation of treatler culture. The abstract value of a girlboss president is simply a cultural treat. It's she Hulk twerking on the desk.

BTW my favorite show that skewers this stuff especially how it comes into cohesion with 20th century gerontocracy values is Adult Swim's Bird Girl which was unfairly cancelled and has a ridiculously catchy theme song. There's an episode where Bird Girl has to go into her father's executive training simulator (to learn how to fire someone) which is just an office sexual harassment game and she at first is icky about it but then achieves a high score anyway declaring herself simultaneously the victor on her father's shitty terrain but simultaneously not a bad person. She ends up firing a woman who essentially was holding up the productivity of the company by making sure everyone had their treats. It's a very well written show.

The Pilot is skewering her real life persona Judy having imposter syndrome about her super hero persona of Bird Girl because her father named Bird Girl his successor and not Judy. Show's crazy good.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We could have had a competent girlboss grinding the poor to mush under her designer shoe heel, but nooooo, you wanted an uncouth barbarian to do the violence instead.

[–] Civility@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago
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[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Shut up, Mark Dziak... even Mexico beat y'all to the punch when it comes to the first female president

It's not about the girl part, but the BOSSING part. (and unfortunately, she inherited that from Biden, regarding Falastin, socio-economic situation and so forth)

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago

Thank white Jesus for bluesky, finger-wag-posting is back baby! It's like we never had to leave obama-era twitter!

[–] MaxOS@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Everyone owes mark an apology

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

So many liberals are just failed grillman

I’m sure if you dropped them in Canada, they’d drop the whole pretenses and call themselves apolitical.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A different Saturday morning coffee post - it's the first post of a thread.

Every Saturday morning I go and have coffee at my parents' house. These coffees often involve my parents bringing up news and current events and, over the past few years, our discussions have gravitated toward me helping them make sense of a world they find to be increasingly complicated.

https://subium.com/profile/craigcalcaterra.bsky.social/post/3lh4fzycq222m

[–] blunder@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Haven't read any more than what you wrote here but God my parents' understanding of the world and politics is just abysmal. They hear something on TV news, accept it at face value, and just move on. Totally incurious people with so much casual, programmed bigotry and bile.