• Comp4 [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    25·
    13 days ago

    More like “The Based” sans-troll

    (Yes I know its lib but it doesnt get much better than this as far as mainstream libstuff goes)

    let me have this little tasty treat

  • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    13 days ago

    Possible spoilers ahead I watched 2.5 seasons so far

    Look I can honestly say that’s possibly what you can take away from the series as an illiterate reactionary. The “”“based”“” character is bad and the others are the good guys.

    But the show is lib as fuck (though good for a mainstream corporate produced TV show).

    Acknowledging the CIA is bad and involved in selling drugs to black communities in one scene? Really good

    Making the CIA the good guys because the more fash fascists are even worse than the American empire? Bad.

    If “radlib Snyder” is too far left for these people, then they might be beyond saving.

    • TheDrink [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      13 days ago

      The only thing I know about The Boys is that, as it went on, the writers didn’t like chuds latching onto Homelander in a “Tyler Durden” kind of way, so the longer the series goes the more overt and explicit the politics get until I think Season 4 where they finally reached the point at which chuds realized they were the ones being made fun of.

  • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    13 days ago

    I enjoy the victory lap on the chuds and all, but I’m also very tired of the creators of media that chuds like immediately going “this is not for you fuck you I’m going to make you so mad oh yeah”. It doesn’t make for good media, and it doesn’t even make for good propaganda. It’s 4chan ragebait culture with million dollar budgets. We can make chuds angry much more cheaply, and use those savings to make something else.

    FD signifier really broke it down very well in one of his more recent videos.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    13 days ago

    Maybe there’s something to the characterization that communist ideas have taken root in media.

    I would suppose that there are two contextual aspects of this. One is that they are loose fragments, instead of being synthesized into a coherent model and all about a critique, which capitalism retains the ability to subsume into itself. The second is that the companies making the media realize that it would be bland and unrelateable without at least a tiny bit of them.