Someone told me I needed to watch Roseanne Barr's latest show because Nicole Shanahan (of RFK Jr.'s VP Pick fame) was going to be on there, and how she said some amazing things, and I agreed to watch it and oh no, now I need to wash my mind with bleach.
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Someone told me I needed to watch Roseanne Barr's latest show because Nicole Shanahan (of RFK Jr.'s VP Pick fame) was going to be on there, and how she said some amazing things, and I agreed to watch it and oh no, now I need to wash my mind with bleach.
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to Oliphantom Menace last edited by
It was worse than I expected. Just cryptofascism everywhere under the guise of, "Just moms concerned about our country that's why we're backing Trump because he truly cares about us" and oh my god that's not even the worst part.
They portray us as being in a brainwashed cult and "something happened in 2016" and you're absolutely right, something did happen in 2016, maybe you'll have an idea of what it was.
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to Oliphantom Menace last edited by [email protected]
The paternalism about black people or just the erasure of them was probably the worst thing.
Black people aren't people of agency in their offhanded portrayal, it's just a bunch of "elites" that are manipulating black people for votes and George Soros is involved and I'm like are you fucking kidding me this is textbook right now....
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to Oliphantom Menace last edited by
They traffic in generalities and "this is how the world is right now" and it's corporations and there's poison in the water, and there's a lot and I mean a lot of "what about our children?" And just this miasma of negativity and Roseanne is there, every time her guest says something about how things are bad, to explain how it's the Democrats that are doing it, that they are the real evil demons here, and Trump is practically a child of love by comparison.
It's just baffling and infuriating. The gaslighting, the complete lack of any mention about mass deportations being a goddamned platform....
They didn't mention abortion once. Just "Moms are waking up to what's happening" and going after Moms, Moms, don't you want choice for your kids? They are trying to control your children, Moms, that's why we're backing Donald Trump, it's a "big tent" party....
This is just psychopathic.
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to Oliphantom Menace last edited by
I'm honestly disturbed by it, like this is why I don't watch shit like this. It's not because there's "valuable information" I'm lacking, it's not that there are important insights, it's because I already know what's coming, I've seen through their entire act and it's literally just "Oh no, those people over there are scary, let's stop them" and that's all it's every been and "those people" are not white rich people, they are scary "others" who aren't "real Americans" and I'm sure we've been hearing this enough over the past several decades/centuries that it's old hat by now.
But they're constantly, and I mean constantly repackaging, and re-selling it.
As "freedom."
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to Oliphantom Menace last edited by
No, as a parent I am literally NOT CONCERNED AT ALL with how some parents, somewhere, choose to raise their children. This shit is hard enough. We're just making it up as we go along. Our "civilization" is wrong, broken, whatever, and they are growing up within it. There's one short life, and I hope you live it to your fullest without some paternalistic (or maternalistic) asshole telling you how you should raise your kids, or what you should teach them, or any other such bullshit.
The absolute gall of assuming you know a family--some family you don't even know--you know their story. You're going to tell them what should be acceptable, what kinds of books their kids are allowed to read at school, whether "dangerous ideas about gender" should be censored--
Get the fuck out of here with that. The planet is burning, we're destroying it, federal abortion protections are dead, the EPA can't regulate anything anymore, there's a million bigger issues than how some people raise their kids somewhere.
What an insidious shitpile of horrible entitlement this is. It's a religion for Karens.
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to Oliphantom Menace last edited by
They literally can't go more than a minute or two without masturbating about how awesome they are, and how they really care, and how "those others" don't really care, and "those others" is left nebulous and vague (when Roseanne isn't calling them 'Democrats' which can mean everything)....
Though it doesn't help when they every so often actually make a good point.
Dick Cheney and a bunch of neocons backing Kamala Harris and it's like, "Yeah, you fucking see what happens when you accept endorsements from people we all fucking hate? You see how the other side gets to use that against you? You see that?"
But alas....
You won't miss much in this episode, or any episode of Roseanne. It's just ad-funded propaganda for the Republican party, and Trump specifically.
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A Scape Of Goatsreplied to Oliphantom Menace last edited by
this is how fascists waste peoples' time.
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to A Scape Of Goats last edited by
@diedofheartbreak I kept thinking I would have rather been doing literally anything else, anything else at all.