I met a trans lesbian socialist who does a lot of pro-Palestine organizing recently.
She also really likes Rick and Morty.
i think in general online leftists care too much about the media someone else consumes. like…oh you watch rick and morty?? cool i guess, not really for me. i don’t really think it invalidates their politics lol
I think everyone not pirating is sus inherently, and harboring bourgeois tendencies
Watch whatever you want to watch as long as you stole it
i think even having qualifications on whether or not it is ‘sus’ is pretty damn dumb lmao. do you think that if someone who turns on Adult Swim at like 10pm and falls asleep has given financial support to Justin Roiland or something by letting it play on their TV.
I don’t watch R&M btw but like I said, online leftists care way too much about the TV or movies others consume when at the end of the day, 90% of people are not going into a movie or starting a show to take political opinions from it or otherwise
It’s a blanket statement on piracy, people watching ads or willingly paying big corpos are on their way to being brain broken. Sure there are exceptions, like some old ladies and whatnot, but majority don’t survive successfully treats delivery system.
If you don’t bother with big nas shenanigans, usb stick to save couple of seasons of office or friends or rick and morty is still cheaper than a month of slopscription.
Yeah I dont admit it much, but smoking a joint and watching Rick and Morty with my partner is a guilty pleasure. Some of it’s horribly cringe, some just horrible, of course, but when I’m high I can just ignore it and laugh at funny gags
Happens like once every 6 months, but I do look forward to it when we plan a high night tbh
But I don’t necessarily think this reflects on my politics much at all.
online leftists
That’s just being a liberal with extra steps.
spoiler
See what I did there?
i care too much about people ‘consuming’ media… reading that phrase makes my blood boil for a reason i can’t quite understand
who fucking cares
This is the only proper response.
Agreed. We don’t need gatekeeping to be leftist enough. I don’t care about someone’s taste in comedy, music, etc. I care about their political/social opinions and actions.
Legitimately, the only reason Rick and Morty is “bad” is because it’s so good that a lot of people got into it to an embarrassing degree.
If it were a show with no baggage attached, nobody here would have a problem with it
And the creators.
Yeah, the show itself doesn’t really have egregiously bad politics. It’s not South Park.
The art sucks
Yeah, I guess so. Animation is hard.
Idk everything after season 2 for me has been very hit or miss leaning heavily into the miss. I still think the shows ok though
eh, my coworker made me watch half an episode and i really hated that cruel asshole of an alcoholic grandfather. really, i hated all the characters.
Half the place likes cumtown here
And the other half love it
(I’ve never listened to cumtown, but once I thought of a bit and someone accused me of lifting it straight from an ep, so I’ve sworn never to give it the time kf day
This happens more often to hexbears than one might imagine.The only bits safe from accusation are about
Not too surprising, Nick Mullen was the president of DSA after all
sounds like her IQ is pretty high
She did seem pretty cool
I mean, it’s not exactly like there’s an eco system of communist media in this hell scape
I mean, there’s always old Soviet stuff, but it’s certainly harder to find since the war and the resulting anti Russia freakouts, because of the way Westerners view the two entities interchangeably.
hey at least it’s not south park
both Futurama and the Simpsons (earlier seasons) are liberal and I really like them
im a massive fking liberal and i love disco elysium
You’re not a liberal, CliffordBigRedDog. Get the fuck out of here.He smiles warmly.
A liberal on Hexbear, ooh!
Go read some theory. Burn that useless liberalism out of you and fill the hole with a political framework that actually works.
Rick and Morty is a legitimately good show. They also got rid of Roiland the sex pest and are independent of him now.
yeah like a lot of things the cringe of the fandoms affect people’s views of the underlying media
cries in Steven Universe
Are we not supposed to like that show or something?
Yes.
Or at least say you only like the early seasons.
Idk I kinda like it when rock goes to therapy and slowly works on his many obvious issues
Legit and unironically, I really think the show gets better as it goes on, insofar that women actually enter the writer’s room. Like, the therapist scene deconstructing Rick is incredible (given the show up to that point) and the fans that hate that scene are a shibboleth for the chuds among us
The scene is both great and bad because it is basically the writers turning to the camera and saying “you shouldn’t worship or idolise Rick, or even like him, he’s an awful person because he refuses to put the work in to be better.”
It’s terrible from a writing standpoint because it is so on the nose, but it is great because it is exactly what the worst fans of that show needed to hear.
See also the final episode of Seinfeld
And the last season of The Sopranos
Is that the pickle Rick episode? I think that’s the latest I’ve seen.
Morty’s Mind Blowers (S03E08) also reveals Rick to be a piece of shit who will erase a person’s memory simply to save himself the embarrassment of having mispronounced a word.
Yeah, like it said he has issues. He’s still a piece of shit, even after he starts to confront them. Nobody in the show is a good person, but they don’t have to be moral paragons to be funny.
A show with perfect characters would be boring.
Doofus Rick was pretty good natured, but he eats his own shit
This is interesting to me because all the chuds who like Rick and Morty also say only the early seasons were good
The latest season is my favorite. What now?
I know many anarchists who like Star Trek.
Fucking same! All the anarchists i know like startrek in some way shape or form, but all of them hate the federation.
hello comrades i am here to explain to you why the borg is actually ideal anarchist society and everyone should be borg for anarchist reasons
no i am not the borg why do you ask
The captains are usually in conflict with the higher ups of the federation, so it’s a fair point.
Yeah, I’m exposed here.
I like star trek, but I hate the misogyny that went on behind the scenes :(
You present the idea that media consumption should match a person’s political actions. You say that you know a political organizer who does a lot of good activism work, and that person also watches a cartoon with reddit humor and a problematic creator. Your observed reality contradicts your preconceived expectation.
Are you confused because your expectation was wrong? I don’t really know why every person chooses to watch whatever they watch. There are a lot of progressive people who seem to watch South Park, which is way more problematic than Rick and Morty. People will resent you if you scold them for what they watch.
Aren’t you like a huge fan of cumtown? You post about it all the time. Many people consider cumtown to have problematic humor and a problematic creator. Do you want people to judge you based on your media consumption?
I’m a communist and i like old James Bond, and The Mines of King Solomon and all those orientalist movies that were basically travel agency ads for british boomers.
I actually really like Cold War era spy films and action movies. The kind of shit where the villain is the Soviet Union every damn time. They try not to make commies look badass and fail every time.
(I also like the trope subversion of both the earlier “bad guys are always from Nazi Germany” trope and the “bad guys are always Soviets” trope, that tends to occur with late Cold War stuff where the villain’s German but they never explicitly state East or West. Or when they’re self aware enough to essentially use old as shit Nazi bad guy tropes and then say the guy’s West German. Pretty funny.)
“Looks at user name being a mass murdering bourgeois royalty” I owe you no explanation
Liking any media not produced in USSR before Khrushchev’s secret speech is sus
/s
Good communists only watch highly ideological Soviet films that end with Stalin looking into the camera stating “and that is why Marxism-Leninism is true and correct!”
looks at you pointedly. I know what tumblr post you took this from
I do seem to remember seeing a post along those lines…
By the way, I like your shoelaces.
