“Oh your boss threatening to fire you is ‘like communism’”
“I listen to guys who are forced to work on weekends say that it’s like communism”
“Is your giant multinational company communist?”
[audience laughs]
“Does your CEO have a portrait of Stalin in his office? Do your kids read Karl Marx in school”
[laughter]
“I mean, really, are we [pause] not living in a capitalist country?”
“People keep pointing out child poverty here and say it’s like North Korea. Have you been to the DPRK? Can you really say that the stuff you see daily is going on in the competing social system you know nothing about?”
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During the height of the pandemic, I heard a coworker complaining about the mask mandates. She said (to a security guard, no less);
“You know what they’re doing? They’re trying to take away our human rights! Like they do in Russia! Or wherever it is The Communists are these days.”
She was our union steward.
Grim.
I’m a contractor, but I worked heavily with a Union Steward at my last place (unrelated to union affairs) and she was heavy into Q-anon stuff. Adrenochrome and the whole 9 yards, all day was just constant commentary from her various telegram groups. She retired during the covid layoffs, the whole warehouse breathed a sigh of relief.
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Ya Seinfeld is a gross human being, and I’m happy when people get reminders that the rich are soulless scum. Post on.
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Honestly the brains behind the most of the comedy in Seinfeld is Larry David, who either wrote about his own personal experiences getting into absurd situations he finds himself in, as an extremely wealthy and privileged guy that I’m 99% certain is an undiagnosed autistic - hence the constant social faux pas, or he’s exaggerating those experiences and writing about what he would do in hypothetical situations and the fallout from his inevitable gaffes.
If you’ve ever watched Curb Your Enthusiasm, starring David himself, it’s like a more mature version of Seinfeld except that he’s a combination of the Seinfeld and George characters.
I would say that Julia Louis-Dreyfus was probably ahead of her time as an actress on that show in a lot of ways. I grew up with Sienfield in some capacity or another, never really got it as a show until I watched it stoned and then it was kind of funny but I was stoned. The fact that none of the characters are meant to be likeable, I can see where it could be seen as being a parody show or maybe a meta-sitcom, so to speak, since it was “a show about nothing”.
W-what? The Seinfeld bits weren’t parodies?
It’s humour for the ultra privileged, where a dude pressing the lift button twice or having to make random small talk is the worst thing imaginable.
This is just a shot in the dark, but I’m getting Woody Allen “OMG it’s hard to be rich and creepy in NY” vibes from the show.
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In the grand scheme, it almost doesn’t register. Dude was at least seriously dating her, rather than just perving on teenagers working at a strip club or outright raping them on some private airplane.
Its almost quaint to imagine this as scandalous given the bar for celebrities.
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They don’t make anything. Why do they own everything?
Motherfucker I literally heard some idiot small business tyrant say something is ‘like communism’ in the last hour.
And this isn’t the first time this happened for me on hexbear! I think of something or something happens to me, then boom it’s on hexbear.
Have you fuckers bugged my phone? :owl-pissed:
It was me I put a grasshopper on your phone
I KNEW IT, THAT’S WHY I SMELLED URINE
@Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net broke into my apt and shit on the carpet last night too.
our carpet, comrade
*crapet
Yes. Only think positive thoughts about Enver Hoxha.
Hmmm. Maybe Wisconscom should make a comeback, that would be pretty funny.
magical thinking is undialectical
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon on the other hand, is dialectically and Rote Armee Fraktion-approved
:this:
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No, see. When a capitalist country does something shitty, and it’s something that nearly all capitalist countries do poorly, it’s socialism. For example: low wages, hunger, mass depression and suicide, environmental devastation, these are all clear examples of Karl Marx’s grand design. But when it’s something that your country does sorta well but socialist states do way better, that is capitalism. I’m thinking of state hospitals, schooling, scientific research, protection of minority peoples, and women’s rights. These are things that are so capitalist that they would make Stalin shake with rage.
Lmao were basically 4 capitalist monopolies in a trench coat
People love to say “democratic socialist” but we have way to many far right provinces and plutocrats in power
Because it is easy comedy for an American audience. I knew the second that the Washington Redactedskins changed their name to the Washington Commanders there would be a million ‘Commie’ jokes, and I was not disappointed. The worst part about them is that they aren’t even good, just the same joke over and over and over again.
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A huge % of Americans are basically NPCs who haven’t had an independent thought since childhood. The education system, media, culture is all designed around getting people to think as little as possible.
Top tier reddit moment [gone wrong]
I have nothing to contribute but wanted to say I dig this format lol
Actually more people commenting on a post makes it show up more, so you’re doing your part.
Hey, what’s your favourite sports team?
Rofl! I actually don’t like sports. Horror movies or Deathcore bands are more my thing lol.
What do you think of the Scream reboot? Personally, I love it. Scream 1 and 2 are movies I’m always willing to watch, and the latest two fit right in with that.
I actually haven’t gotten around watching the newer ones but they are on my list. Actually I might do a marathon now that I think about it.
Wife and I did a Scream marathon a while back, really fun time. The movies all sort of tie into each other as well so that’s fun. Our Halloween movie marathon was fun for different reasons, lol, and much more of a slog. 13 films vs 6 and a much different philosophy for sequels.
Your previous comment actually reminded me we need to start on our Halloween list for this year. All 6 Screams are on it now. My wife okied a B horror and a camp block this year so yay!
That’s awesome. Do you like to watch these films with the lights off, late at night and shit? Do you invite friends over to get creeped out together?
I mostly watch them by myself but I have gotten my wife into some of the tamer stuff. And I watch them basically whenever. I don’t have many irl friends but at the beginning of the pandemic I did join a discord server that was pretty actively watching movies. I actually joined the nexbear crew when they watched The Host and Train to Busan a few weeks ago. And I’m pretty much down for any subgenre. From crappy b-horror all the way to gore golore stuff lol.
That’s cool. My gf is really into horror films. Personally they weren’t my thing, but the feeling of being terrified together, and grabbing onto each other in fear, is kinda cool.
The hexbear movie thing is so rad. I’m glad we do it.
cut to Newman and Kramer in Ushankas
“That’s right. We’ve been reading theory. And before long the petite bourgeoisie will tremble at our footsteps, Jerry. For he who controls the post, controls the cosmos!”
What was it about those jokes that made you want to put [laughter] after them
OP is leaning into the Seinfeld opening format
People say those things because they don’t understand what’s happening around them. They see [bad thing] = [communism] and don’t think any further than that. Why would they think about why [bad thing] happens when they can point at something and feel better about themselves?
