• Silverseren
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    1832 months ago

    The Boys has a lot of super creepy right-wingers who idolize the fascist characters in the show, totally oblivious that the show is making fun of them and those characters.

    It’s super weird that they’re that dumb, but combined with that is just how weird and disturbing they are as people because of that.

    • Suspiciousbrowsing
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      542 months ago

      That’s actually incredible. It was extremely obvious they were taking the piss out of the right… Kind of alarming if that wasn’t picked up on by some

      • @[email protected]
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        522 months ago

        These are the same folk who think the Colbert Report wasn’t satire or get upset that wolfenstein’s Twitter account promoted a new game about killing Nazis (all the wolfenstein games are about killing nazis).

      • @[email protected]
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        362 months ago

        Being oblivious to reality is a feature of Republicanism.

        Take rights away from 50% of the population, be surprised that the vast majority of women don’t like rights being taken away.

      • Silverseren
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        132 months ago

        No, they really don’t see it. And they instead idolize Homelander and think he’s the one that’s correct in the show and doing what’s right and what they want to do.

    • @[email protected]
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      322 months ago

      As a matter of fact, satire does not work. Fascists will idolize the fascists in satire, always. It feels like satire only works with people who already have an education about the dangers of fascism.

      In the broken mind of a fascist, satire is actually a kind of utopia. It’s how the world is supposed to be in their twisted ideals.

    • @[email protected]
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      262 months ago

      Star Trek has a similar subset of fans that are all like “When did Star Trek get all woke? More pew pew!”

      Try 1966

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        72 months ago

        I mean it’s not like they outright say “HEY RIGHT WINGERS, YOU ARE DUMB” but I’d argue it’s pretty damn obvious.

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        It’s a show about superheroes masquerading as icons of peace while behind closed doors they’re rapists, murderers, liars, and just all around pieces of shit.

        Sounds a lot like most fascist ideologies and right wing politics.

        • baduhai
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          32 months ago

          The irony is in there. Somewhere. Maybe.

    • LustyArgonian
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      22 months ago

      That’s because telling people what NOT to do is pretty much never going to work. “Don’t think of a bear.” It’s better to focus on what to do and real solutions instead of criticizing alone. The Boys doesn’t offer anything in way of solutions except perhaps violence. It maligns fascists and antifascists and horseshoe theories them together.

      What I’m most curious about is how much insider info related to celebrities is being released through these episodes and characters. Because THAT is actually accurate and interesting.

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          22 months ago

          I mean that, reading between the lines, the character storylines are likely based on real life Hollywood rumors. I think that’s the point and why there are so many references. That implies that there really is a celebrity that had sex with an Octopus or other animal. There’s actually a (really unsubstantiated) rumor about Tom Cruise and a fish, and since the Deep is sort of made to be Tom Cruise in the Scientology cult… I think there are a lot of Easter eggs like this in the show. It’s a warning.

      • @[email protected]
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        82 months ago

        The push to get trump on the GOP ballot started as the largest troll in 4chan history.

        Halfway through, the ones in on the joke got swarmed by morons who thought it was serious.

        But man, literally the everest of trolls, was almost beautiful to watch.