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this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2024
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Yeah, usually the actions being defended are things like "This lib had a very lib take" and not actual fucked up shit that I've seen defended or "rationalised" elsewhere.
Hot take: I think this impulse we have here to try and make sure everyone and everything we like is sufficiently "leftist" is silly and a waste of time. Liberalism is the dominant ideology of the day, most people are Libs. I've just accepted a lot of people I like are Libs. I don't get the need to scour the social media of every random video game reviewer or whatever I like to make sure they've never had a Lib take and then post here when I inevitably find one. Just enjoy their video on why Stardew Valley is good and focus on more productive shit.
Yeah, I just don't pretend streamers I watch are personal friends, I treat them they same way I would any other entertainer. It doesn't seem hard, but for some reason people get really personally attached to them and defend them like they're people they know in real life.
Even if they WERE my friends, I have plenty of friends who are Libs, I wouldn't have any friends where I live if I insisted only only befriending people as left as me. You don't have to defend their Lib takes, just accept their Libs and move on.
Yeah, exactly. If you want friends, you need to tolerate lib bullshit, I was stuck listening to a half hour conversation about the new live action avatar recently, and they kept talking about fan theories and stuff and my libbest friend shared their performative lib ideas about Sokka not having an arc where he stops being sexist being a good thing because it removes "controversy." It was so damn mind-numbing.
But they're my libs and I love them.
There were a few people on this site parroting that same opinion so idk if that's an exclusively Lib take
Oh, this was a very lib version of the take though, very much "removing controversy is good. Full Stop." kind of thing. 0 analysis, 0 understanding, just "This thing bad, so it should be gone forever and always."
I still think it is a lib take. Acting like characters in fiction have to be completely flawless from the get go just results in really dull, boring characters. Real people are assholes, and characters in fiction should be assholes too, as long as it is seen as a bad thing by the text. But libs have that whole "this exists in your fiction, which means you must approve of it." complete lack of media analysis.