At this point, anything they call "the left" just seems like normal, rational, human-being stuff. Did nobody share their cookie with them in kindergarten? Are they still angry about that?
This is what happens once conservative politics has degenerated to literally “I’m an asshole, and there’s nothing you can do about it”, to crude dominance displays, performative cruelty and rolling coal. Not that it was much better, but at least the assholery used to need some sort of high-minded, principled rationalisation, rather than being self-justifying.
Self-justified assholery, or at least not caring if you're being an asshole, would be an improvement, at least it's a consistent world view based on self interest (see: Max Stirner and egoism). They'd still be assholes, but I can at least respect the owning up to it.
When you think you're justified in being an asshole because you're not actually an asshole you're great actually it's those scary people who are coming here to attack you and your sacred way of life, that is definitely not made up and you're entitled to, who are wrong, you're just defending yourself and your people (you're a hero actually), that's when you start buying alpha male supplements and yelling at cartoon dogs.
Have you ever seen a line which is immediately apparent as pure, distilled truth? homeschooling being a common tactic among conservatives to indoctrinate their children into Christian nationalism fits the bill.
Can confirm. Was Christian homeschooled. Learned nothing useful outside of the Bible and a weirdly curated list of other topics. Physics, but not biology. And exclusively America/Christian centric history.
Can also confirm, was 'homeschooled' which meant those terrible books the homeschool book companies would send you all about how Noah's ark was on mount Arrerrat (sp?) And how supply side Jesus was the best. Did read the Bible cover to cover 3 times for something to do, lotta weird shit in there...
Amazing self-own admitting that the internet and public schools are your ideological enemies:
According to Boreing: “Kids go to school for 40 hours a week and then they engage in pop culture for 40 more hours every week. That means for 80 hours of a child’s week, you are turning them over to the left. A good parent might spend 15 minutes a day in meaningful conversation with their kids … A great parent might take their kid to church for one hour, or two hours, or three hours a week. The other 80, they’re watching Disney … they’re online … they’re in public schools.”
Even their non-political statements are political. I hate that some people don’t see through this shit:
In a video statement on Monday marking Bentkey’s launch, Boreing said: “Bentkey isn’t about teaching kids politics, it’s about childhood and wonder and adventure. It’s about values and all of the things on which politics are built later.”
Amazing self-own admitting that the internet and public schools are your ideological enemies
I mean, it's totally a self own. The thing is though, republicans as a whole are putting forth a decades long concentrated effort to villify schools and schooling. They know that public exposure and education leads to left leaning opinions, even for kids raised in strictly right households, and even through the young adult phase into college.
The conversation has been so warped for republicans and their conservative base that what sounds like a self own to a regular person is just another truth. It doesn't even sound strange to them.
So while it is a self own to anyone with a shred of sense, it's also a terrifying sign of the times and a serious foundational threat for our young generation.
Rob Schneider, the guy who starred in an entire movie with the plot being him having swapped minds with a woman and being stuck in her body? That Rob Schneider?
I wonder how successful these counter mainstream efforts will be. There's a market for crazy Christian movies etc, I imagine there will be a similar one for parents terrified of reality.
Yeah, but Bluey? That's like being terrified of Mr. Rogers. This is a failure for the same reason it would be a failure if you decided Mr. Rogers wasn't mean enough so you made your own show with a similar guy but mean.
Oh if Mr Rogers was current he would have been seen as incredibly "woke". This is the man who during the civil rights discourse decided that kids needed to see black people as less scary and capable of authority so they implemented the character of Officer Clemmons. There is a famous clip of him offering Officer Clemmons a chance to cool his feet in the same wading pool he's using because out in the world there was a massive push to keep public pools segregate and conservative nutjobs were throwing caustics into pools that didn't comply and telling their kids that black people were dirty.
They would have been screaming for an end to Rogers " woke SJW tyranny".
I think the biggest thing is these people feel threatened. Blueys parents are better parents than they ever will be. All i can think k about is the episode Flatpack where bandit says, “I’m not taking advice from a cartoon dog”.
His parents are definitely better than me. There's no way I can devote that much energy to parenting while holding a full time job. I wish I could, but that's not the world we live in.
this reminds me of when my parents got us mail order vhs tapes from feature films for families and came across a movie called the buttercream gang and was supposed to hate the kid pete who joined a gang in chicago (lol not too obvious, especially since he was latino) and basically thought he was the coolest and i wanted to be his friend so much :P
Opening the link in Chromium with no ad blockers, I get a "you're using an ad blocker" popup that prevents me from seeing the article and can't be closed (and, ironically, an ad loads behind the ad blocker message). Opening the link in Firefox with an ad blocker, I get no messages and I can read the article without ads. Genius.
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“kids go to school for 40 hours a week and then they engage in pop culture for 40 more hours every week. That means for 80 hours of a child’s week, you are turning them over to the left.”
Huh... It's exactly the same argument I heard from a left winger about the right wing. I'm wondering if it's all bs and everyone is wrong and we should all just love one another and respect each other. Huh...
E: I just watched a couple minutes on YouTube. This show [the knock off one] has THE worst voice acting I think I've ever seen (even on children's shows). The writing is also crap, which doesn't help. Maybe it was just the clip and not the whole show, but I don't think so. The makers of this show should be ashamed of themselves for publishing this. Cocomelon looks like Shakespeare when compared to chinchilla. Wth
E: this was the couple-minute clip I watched, if anyone's interested.