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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ButtBidet@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

"Oh your boss threatening to fire you is 'like communism'"

"I listen to guys who are forced to work on weekends say that it's like communism"

"Is your giant multinational company communist?"

[audience laughs]

"Does your CEO have a portrait of Stalin in his office? Do your kids read Karl Marx in school"

[laughter]

"I mean, really, are we [pause] not living in a capitalist country?"

"People keep pointing out child poverty here and say it's like North Korea. Have you been to the DPRK? Can you really say that the stuff you see daily is going on in the competing social system you know nothing about?"

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[-] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

During the height of the pandemic, I heard a coworker complaining about the mask mandates. She said (to a security guard, no less);

"You know what they're doing? They're trying to take away our human rights! Like they do in Russia! Or wherever it is The Communists are these days."

She was our union steward.

[-] charlie@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I’m a contractor, but I worked heavily with a Union Steward at my last place (unrelated to union affairs) and she was heavy into Q-anon stuff. Adrenochrome and the whole 9 yards, all day was just constant commentary from her various telegram groups. She retired during the covid layoffs, the whole warehouse breathed a sigh of relief.

[-] MCU_H8ER2@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

I've been looking for an opportunity to post this old screenshot.

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Ya Seinfeld is a gross human being, and I'm happy when people get reminders that the rich are soulless scum. Post on.

[-] MCU_H8ER2@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Also he's never been funny. I have seen posts from younger people that thought his Seinfeld bits in the show were parodies of bad 90s comedy.

I should add that a lot of Seinfeld is funny, but that's due to people who aren't Seinfeld.

[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly the brains behind the most of the comedy in Seinfeld is Larry David, who either wrote about his own personal experiences getting into absurd situations he finds himself in, as an extremely wealthy and privileged guy that I'm 99% certain is an undiagnosed autistic - hence the constant social faux pas, or he's exaggerating those experiences and writing about what he would do in hypothetical situations and the fallout from his inevitable gaffes.

If you've ever watched Curb Your Enthusiasm, starring David himself, it's like a more mature version of Seinfeld except that he's a combination of the Seinfeld and George characters.

[-] roux@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago

I would say that Julia Louis-Dreyfus was probably ahead of her time as an actress on that show in a lot of ways. I grew up with Sienfield in some capacity or another, never really got it as a show until I watched it stoned and then it was kind of funny but I was stoned. The fact that none of the characters are meant to be likeable, I can see where it could be seen as being a parody show or maybe a meta-sitcom, so to speak, since it was "a show about nothing".

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

W-what? The Seinfeld bits weren't parodies?

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

It's humour for the ultra privileged, where a dude pressing the lift button twice or having to make random small talk is the worst thing imaginable.

This is just a shot in the dark, but I'm getting Woody Allen "OMG it's hard to be rich and creepy in NY" vibes from the show.

[-] MCU_H8ER2@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I admittedly haven't watched it in a very long time.

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

In the grand scheme, it almost doesn't register. Dude was at least seriously dating her, rather than just perving on teenagers working at a strip club or outright raping them on some private airplane.

Its almost quaint to imagine this as scandalous given the bar for celebrities.

[-] MCU_H8ER2@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

what's the deal with the bourgeoisie?

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

They don't make anything. Why do they own everything?

[-] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 year ago

Motherfucker I literally heard some idiot small business tyrant say something is 'like communism' in the last hour.

And this isn't the first time this happened for me on hexbear! I think of something or something happens to me, then boom it's on hexbear.

Have you fuckers bugged my phone? :owl-pissed:

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

It was me I put a grasshopper on your phone owl-wink

[-] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago

I KNEW IT, THAT'S WHY I SMELLED URINE

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

@Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net broke into my apt and shit on the carpet last night too.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago
[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago
[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Yes. Only think positive thoughts about Enver Hoxha.

[-] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Hmmm. Maybe Wisconscom should make a comeback, that would be pretty funny.

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Because it is easy comedy for an American audience. I knew the second that the Washington Redactedskins changed their name to the Washington Commanders there would be a million 'Commie' jokes, and I was not disappointed. The worst part about them is that they aren't even good, just the same joke over and over and over again.

[-] MCU_H8ER2@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

The worst part about them is that they aren't even good, just the same joke over and over and over again.

A huge % of Americans are basically NPCs who haven't had an independent thought since childhood. The education system, media, culture is all designed around getting people to think as little as possible.

[-] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

A huge % of Americans are basically NPCs who haven't had an independent thought since childhood. The education system, media, culture is all designed around getting people to think as little as possible.

Top tier reddit moment [gone wrong]

[-] roux@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago

I have nothing to contribute but wanted to say I dig this format lol

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Actually more people commenting on a post makes it show up more, so you're doing your part.

Hey, what's your favourite sports team?

[-] roux@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Rofl! I actually don't like sports. Horror movies or Deathcore bands are more my thing lol.

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

That's awesome. Do you like to watch these films with the lights off, late at night and shit? Do you invite friends over to get creeped out together?

[-] roux@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I mostly watch them by myself but I have gotten my wife into some of the tamer stuff. And I watch them basically whenever. I don't have many irl friends but at the beginning of the pandemic I did join a discord server that was pretty actively watching movies. I actually joined the nexbear crew when they watched The Host and Train to Busan a few weeks ago. And I'm pretty much down for any subgenre. From crappy b-horror all the way to gore golore stuff lol.

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

That's cool. My gf is really into horror films. Personally they weren't my thing, but the feeling of being terrified together, and grabbing onto each other in fear, is kinda cool.

The hexbear movie thing is so rad. I'm glad we do it.

[-] charlie@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

What do you think of the Scream reboot? Personally, I love it. Scream 1 and 2 are movies I’m always willing to watch, and the latest two fit right in with that.

[-] roux@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I actually haven't gotten around watching the newer ones but they are on my list. Actually I might do a marathon now that I think about it.

[-] charlie@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Wife and I did a Scream marathon a while back, really fun time. The movies all sort of tie into each other as well so that’s fun. Our Halloween movie marathon was fun for different reasons, lol, and much more of a slog. 13 films vs 6 and a much different philosophy for sequels.

[-] roux@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Your previous comment actually reminded me we need to start on our Halloween list for this year. All 6 Screams are on it now. My wife okied a B horror and a camp block this year so yay!

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

cut to Newman and Kramer in Ushankas

"That's right. We've been reading theory. And before long the petite bourgeoisie will tremble at our footsteps, Jerry. For he who controls the post, controls the cosmos!"

[-] MiguelParenti@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What was it about those jokes that made you want to put [laughter] after them

OP is leaning into the Seinfeld opening format

[-] hexthismess@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

People say those things because they don't understand what's happening around them. They see [bad thing] = [communism] and don't think any further than that. Why would they think about why [bad thing] happens when they can point at something and feel better about themselves?

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