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[-] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 244 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Recently had an argument with my conservative father, he's always been big into Trek and Wars, and I had just started really watching Trek again, never watched a lot of the shows all the way through. So this father of mine started going on about how woke Trek was now, and I just lost it on him, I just get so tired of the "anti-woke" nonsense and he just finds some way to insert it into every conversation. So I was like "oh no, not woke Star Trek, the series about a socialist utopia, the series that holds the title of "the American show with the first interracial kiss", the show where Kirk throws his dick at every species with a quim, the show that had a Ruskie character in the middle of the f'n Red Scare." Star Trek was always woke, and my father was always too dumb, racially biased, and narcissistic to pick up on the lessons that they were trying to teach us when he watched it as a child in the 60's.

I have not even tried to bring up Star Wars since the Disney acquisition, I'm sure my father has an insufferable take on that series now as well.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 148 points 8 months ago

I have met conservative Trek fans. I think some people really do watch stuff without ever thinking about it beyond its superficial spectacle.

[-] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 95 points 8 months ago

It’s like conservative Always Sunny fans.

[-] wsweg@lemmy.world 69 points 8 months ago

It’s like conservatives with [insert 99% of media they consume, excluding Fox “news”]

[-] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 18 points 8 months ago
[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 49 points 8 months ago

They thought Colbert wasn’t playing an absurd caricature of a right wing pundit when he was doing the Report

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 14 points 8 months ago

It is worth noting that the rapist Bill O'Reilly knew, because it was so blindly obviously a parody of him, and whatever else you might say of him he isn't outright stupid.

The interesting bit is Ol Rapey Bill has quotes about Jan 6th saying his Fox would never have downplayed or enabled it, and yet, he's now supporting Trump in 2024.

It's almost like the actual truth doesn't matter to them. Like they just want a comfortable lie that benefits them personally, some kind of "Truthiness" perhaps.

[-] Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Any echo chamber can produce illusory truth effect. Repeated exposure to misinformation can result in a person failing to identify it as a lie, and begin to register it as fact and the lie gets amplified.

[-] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Except the only real echo chamber is the one between their ears.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago
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[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

It's like he's writing trumps speeches for him there!

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[-] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I appreciate you!

[-] Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

They view the show as a documentary, not a comedy.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

IASP is a pretty funny show. Even the most recent season was gold, covering inflation during covid.

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